All members of South Korea’s delegations won medals at the International Biology Olympiad and the International Chemistry Olympiad. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity said four South Korean students won gold at the biology Olympiad in Vilnius, Lithuania. At the chemistry Olympiad in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, South Korea’s team won 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Nvidia said it will shift competition in AI semiconductors from chip specifications to end-to-end efficiency across pre-training, post-training, inference and agents. It also disclosed measured results showing Blackwell-based GPUs deliver 55 times faster mixture-of-experts inference than the prior Hopper generation. Nvidia highlighted efficiency gains from a new numeric format and software advances, and introduced curriculum-based post-training results for its Nemotron 3 Nano model. It also said Korean partners are participating and unveiled a Korean-focused synthetic dataset.