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KT on October 27 launched Token Factory, an enterprise service for selecting AI models, saying it has secured more than 500 connectable AI models. The company noted the 500 figure refers to the scale of a catalog being connected from November, not the number of models available at launch. Its claim of 25% token savings remains a company announcement.
KT will launch its unified AI model platform, KT Token Factory, on the 30th, announcing that connections to more than 500 model types have been secured. The company clarified that the 500 figure is a catalog-based metric, separate from the initial onboarding scale, which begins with 73 models at launch.
US healthcare stocks have risen 22.8% since late April, ranking first among the S&P 500's 11 sectors. With the broader index up 6.49% over the same period, the sector has outpaced the overall market by more than three times.
On October 27, KT unveiled Token Factory, an enterprise AI service featuring an automatic routing structure that selects among multiple large language models based on task type and difficulty. The company says the approach can cut token costs by up to 25%, though the figure has not been independently verified.
US President Donald Trump argued in a September 22 UN speech that the term artificial intelligence (AI) should be retired in favor of 'superintelligence' (SI). The White House elevated the label to official administration terminology on September 29 by registering a 'Superintelligence Luncheon' in its official event gallery.
President Donald Trump said on October 27, 2026, that he would ban the term artificial intelligence (AI). The pledge remains at the rhetoric stage; measures already in effect are limited to substitution of the term in federal documents under an executive order.
Yongin Special City Mayor Lee Sang-il is on an official 7-night, 9-day visit to the Netherlands and Italy from the 27th through next month's 4th. The trip aims to build cooperation with European partners as the city prepares a semiconductor cluster and an art museum.
Apple on October 27 revealed a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac equipped with its new M6 chip. The key change is boosted AI processing performance, and by launching the two products together Apple is targeting the market for AI-oriented personal computers.
Supermicro on October 21 unveiled a fully liquid-cooled rack equipped with 256 Nvidia Vera CPUs. The company is positioning the system as server infrastructure for large-scale agentic AI workloads, marking the start of competition in this server category.
In a survey commissioned for the AI City Forum, 82.6% of respondents in their 30s forecast that AI adoption will widen income and asset gaps. The sample was 154 people with a margin of error of ±8.5–9.2 percentage points. Meanwhile, public institution research has so far only characterized the widening gap as a 'risk.'