Competition is intensifying in personal AI agents for individual users, with Meta launching its Muse assistant app for Mac. Startups are also moving faster, including Instinct developer Sphere Street Technology seeking $1 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, and Chinese startup Manus pursuing $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. The article also rounds up moves by Korean and overseas companies in AI, enterprise agents, cloud security certification and advertising tests in ChatGPT.

Jector, a stablecoin payment infrastructure company, said it has completed registration of a patent for onchain payment technology that connects QR codes and other visual codes with external blockchain wallets. The company said the patent focuses on converting digital asset transfers into a payment process for real-world commerce. The system verifies consistency between payment requests and transactions through smart contracts and supports measures to prevent tampering and reuse of expired requests.