South Korea\'s National Assembly Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee begins second-half activities after ruling and opposition parties completed member assignments. The panel is expected to focus on securing budgets and setting investment priorities for government AI projects, ensuring power supply for AI data centres and chip plants, and overhauling broadcasting and telecom rules. It is also set to debate regulation of false and manipulated information, follow-up work on the AI basic law and media fund financing.

Upstage will provide the Daum portal’s AI Summary service, operated by its subsidiary AXZ, using its Solar large language model and FuriosaAI’s Renegade neural processing unit. At a meeting, executives from the three companies called it the first case linking AI infrastructure, models and services with domestic technology. AXZ said AI Summary handles 20 percent of total queries and plans to expand into vertical services. FuriosaAI said the NPU cuts inference costs by more than 50 percent.