AI & Enterprise

GS Retail fined 12.8 billion won over personal data leak affecting 79,128 people

South Korea\'s Personal Information Protection Commission said it imposed a total of 12.95 billion won in penalties and 10.2 million won in fines on GS Retail and three other operators for violating privacy rules. It also ordered corrective measures to prevent recurrence and voted to publish the results on the operators\' websites. The commission said inadequate security measures led to data leaks across the operators\' systems.

AI & Enterprise

AIBIX Lab releases Korea’s first AI brand competitiveness index

AIBIX Lab on Wednesday released AIBIX, a Korean index that measures AI brand competitiveness across 715 brands in 30 F&B and franchise categories. The index analyzes how often brands appear in repeated questions to four generative AI models, their share of mentions and whether official sources are cited. Results showed market leaders were not always top in AI rankings and winners differed by AI. Official brand materials were rarely cited.