South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT and Ministry of Health and Welfare have appointed Park Jang-hwan (박장환), an emeritus professor at Hanyang University, as the second head of the pan-ministerial Regenerative Medicine Technology Development Programme. The programme runs from 2021 to 2030 and will invest 595.5 billion won, including 542.3 billion won in government funds and 53.2 billion won from the private sector, to secure core and fundamental technologies in regenerative medicine.

KAIST said on Monday a research team led by professor Eui-jong Hwang developed a system that automatically evaluates and diagnoses large language models\' time reasoning, in joint research with Microsoft Research. The team introduced temporal database design theory to AI evaluation, enabling a database to automatically generate 13 types of complex time-based questions and automate the process from answer derivation to verification. It also introduced a metric to validate dates and periods, improving detection of temporal hallucinations by 21.7 percent on average.