Naver and Kakao will hold regular shareholder meetings on March 23 and 26 to reshuffle their boards and formalise artificial intelligence businesses. Naver plans to appoint CFO Kim Hee-cheol as an inside director, revise bylaws to add shareholders to directors’ duty of loyalty and raise the directors’ pay cap. Kakao is expected to confirm CEO Jeong Shin-a for a second term, cut board size and add AI-related business purposes to its charter.

Microsoft has unveiled Rho-alpha, a physical AI robotics model built on its Phi series vision-language models. It aims to help physical systems adapt more flexibly. The company said vision-language-action models can support robots to perceive, reason and act autonomously with humans in less structured environments. Rho-alpha converts natural-language commands into control signals for bimanual manipulation and expands sensing and learning. Microsoft is also launching an early access program for partners.