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K-Moonshot project stumbles at start as AI scientist program director offers to resign

South Korea\'s K-Moonshot project, aimed at applying AI to science and technology to solve national challenges, faces an early setback after a mission program director offered to resign. The science ministry said the resignation came for personal reasons and is expected to be accepted after the deputy prime minister returns from an overseas trip. The ministry plans to proceed without recruiting a successor and has outlined governance and conflict-of-interest controls for program directors.

AI & Enterprise

Five trends to watch in the future of AI data centers

As AI spreads rapidly across daily life and business, the need for energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable AI data centres is growing. IDC forecasts 22 percent annual growth in the Asia-Pacific data centre market excluding Japan from 2024 to 2029, driven by surging AI, cloud and digital services demand. Vertiv’s latest report highlights five trends: advanced power infrastructure, more distributed AI, faster energy strategies including on-site generation, wider use of digital twins and evolving adaptive liquid cooling.

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MSIT to expand climate response technology development with 3.4 trillion won investment

South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT said on Wednesday it is accelerating technology development to respond to climate change to implement government policy tasks and meet its 2035 greenhouse gas reduction target. The ministry has drawn up a 2026 implementation plan under its first basic plan for climate response technology development. It plans to invest 3.42 trillion won this year across emissions cuts, adaptation and an innovation ecosystem, up 14.1 percent from a year earlier.