SK Telecom has passed a second-stage evaluation of the government’s project for a proprietary AI foundation model. The assessment reflected industrial applicability and impact on South Korea’s AI ecosystem. SKT plans to expand its technology scope in the next evaluation to models with up to trillion-level parameters and to multimodal and AI agent areas. It has developed the A.X K1 and expanded to A.X K2, and it is building derived vision and speech models and applying them in manufacturing and defence.

The New York City Council has launched an investigation into marketing practices by prediction market service companies. It is examining whether prediction market platforms used false or deceptive influencer marketing aimed at young people. Council Speaker Adrienne Adams sent letters to Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Gemini Titan to begin the inquiry. The council plans to assess whether abusive marketing occurred and, if needed, consider legislative, education and enforcement measures.