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The amendments to the AI Basic Act and the Data Industry Act, intended to establish national AI data management, were approved without changes at the State Council meeting on October 13. Both bills passed the National Assembly plenary on October 1 and were transferred to the government eight days later. Promulgation is scheduled for October 20.
Google has unveiled its new fitness tracker, the Fitbit Edge, officially claiming up to 7 days of battery life. The official release is slated for October 27, meaning real-world performance has not yet been verified.
The Gwangju-headquartered Gwangju Health Authority (GHA) announced on October 13 that it has acquired the AI Ethics Compliance Institution confirmation mark. The mark is issued under the AI ethics compliance institution system introduced in 2024 by the National Information Society Agency (NIA), which is under the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Field demonstrations of 20 humanoid robots submitted by five companies including RoboStar were approved on October 13 under the regulatory sandbox verification special exemption, targeting semiconductor, automotive, shipbuilding and logistics sites. This is the first case conditionally opening factory deployment of humanoid robots, which had been blocked outright by the mandatory safety fence requirement.
Amid expanded foreign selling behind the plunge in domestic semiconductor stocks, Samsung Electronics disclosed its preliminary Q3 results on October 13. However, SK hynix had not yet reported earnings as of that day, so interpretations that the two companies posted record results at the same time are inaccurate.
The KOSPI barely defended the 6,000 level on October 13, dropping sharply in a single day, while foreigners net sold 4,519.8 billion won that day alone. The trigger was China's CXMT unveiling server DRAM, but the decline also compounded an ongoing correction and a plunge in US memory stocks.
On October 13, ASM International shares fell 6.30% from the previous close, leading a plunge in the European semiconductor equipment sector. Measured from the day's opening price, the drop was limited to 3.62%, indicating much of the decline came from a gap-down rather than intraday selling — a stark contrast with its record earnings.
The Paris Motor Show put the spotlight on models that cannot be purchased in the United States, with European-exclusive lineups from Renault, Volkswagen and other automakers. Details of the coverage were not provided.
Denmark's national AI supercomputer Gefion, based on Nvidia semiconductors, is in operation. On June 11, 2025, Nvidia announced collaboration on new drug development with Danish AI company DCAI and Novo Nordisk. Ownership and operation of the facility are handled by the Danish joint venture DCAI, with Nvidia's role described only in part in the source material.
KT has marked a December official launch for 'AI for Everyone' (Moduui AI), and the existence of the business itself is backed by a government notice. However, the December timing rests on KT's press release and reports on the operator's schedule, while government documents express it only as a launch 'within the year,' leaving a discrepancy in the timeline.