South Korea\'s foreign and science ministries said they will hold the sixth Quantum Development Group meeting in Seoul on Oct. 13-14 with 13 countries including the United States, Japan and Britain. Participants will share activities since the fifth meeting in London and discuss cooperation in protection, investment and standardisation. An industry-linked event will be held on Oct. 14 with South Korean and overseas companies and associations. Officials called for stronger cooperation and links among countries and firms.

Competition in the tech industry is being reshaped around AI agents, and security is increasingly moving with it. Companies including Snowflake are expanding into AI while stepping up security capabilities and governance. Microsoft unveiled an AI agent-based platform for automatically detecting software vulnerabilities and added automated device isolation to its endpoint security product. Workday introduced an independent verification feature for agent deployment, while Cisco strengthened security and governance for local AI agents.