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AI Payment Errors… Who Is Liable?

‘AI agents’ exhibiting abnormal behaviorOpenAI ‘halts training’ over unexpected behavior The payments industry, including global banks, raises concerns “May buy the wrong thing or spend too much” U.S. and Europe place heavier responsibility on developersAs generative artificial intelligence (AI) evolves beyond chatbots that answer questions into ‘AI agents’ that make payments and send emails on their own, debate is intensifying over who is responsible when things go wrong.Because once ...

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As the school-age population declines… why Japanese women-only universities are declaring to ‘maintain the women-only model’

As the global decline in births reduces the number of incoming university students, the question of whether women's universities should continue is deepening. While cases of institutions in various countries switching to coeducation or halting freshman recruitment are following one after another, in Japan universities are instead declaring that “women-only education is still necessary” and are opting to maintain the women's-college model. They are presenting women-only spaces not as an outda...

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Trump “Additional talks with Iran this week”…shifts pressure from the Strait of Hormuz to ‘nuclear concessions’

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected the Iranian ‘seven-day plan’ to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he said there would be additional talks with Iran. However, as Trump, who is confident that the maritime blockade against Iran is taking effect, seeks to shift the focus of negotiations from the Strait of Hormuz to the Iranian nuclear issue, strong pushback from Iran is expected.On the 27th (local time), in a phone interview with Axios, Trump said, “The United States negotiating team...

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‘AI subscription’ sales near 1 trillion won…Samsung Electronics, to expand services

Samsung Electronics, marking the second anniversary of its artificial intelligence (AI) home appliance subscription service, decided to expand its customer base to newlyweds, seniors, and businesses. Within a year since the appliance subscription business ramped up, sales are approaching 1 trillion won, showing an upward trajectory. Samsung Electronics stated that, regarding the refrigerator unresponsive incident that occurred during a software update ahead of the Chuseok holiday period, measu...

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The military “Testimony indicates a North Korean plastic anti-personnel mine was found…corresponding measures upon final determination”

The military authorities stated, regarding the presumed land-mine explosion that occurred on the western front of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the 21st, that “it is assessed to be highly likely a North Korean mine.” They also said that if the final investigation determines the cause was a North Korean mine, they will “implement appropriate and corresponding measures.”Lt. Gen. Kwon Dae-won, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and head of the Joint Field Investigation Task Fo...

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Spraying water with pumps to drive ‘Bukang-i’ away

Work to send the shark ‘Bukang-i’, which has become an attraction at North Port Waterside Park in Dong-gu, Busan, back to the open sea will begin on the 29th. The City of Busan and other agencies decided to first use water pumps to push it out, and if that proves difficult, to use nets as well.The City of Busan held a ‘Response meeting on the North Port shark (Bukang-i)’ with the Busan Port Authority, the Coast Guard, the Busan Facilities Corporation, the National Institute of Fisheries Scie...

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Hangang Bus to raise weekend·holiday fares… Reviewing a shift from the current across-the-board 3,000 won to tiered pricing

Seoul City is overhauling the Hangang Bus fare system. To minimize the burden on users, it plans to keep the base fare at 3,000 won while introducing a tiered pricing system that differentiates fares by weekends and public holidays, and by advance reservation, among other factors. Fares under review for weekends·public holidays are said to be in the 5,000~10,000 won range.The city announced on the 28th that it will hold a ‘Public Hearing on the Reform of the Hangang Bus Fare System’ on the ...

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The 14th test launch of the largest launch vehicle ever built, ‘Starship,’… succeeds in orbital insertion and satellite deployment

On the 28th (local time), the 14th test launch of ‘Starship’, the largest and most powerful space launch vehicle built by humankind and developed by the U.S. private space company SpaceX, was conducted. This Starship entered an ‘orbital flight’ trajectory for the first time in the history of its test launches, circling around Earth for hours instead of falling back to the surface right after liftoff. It also succeeded in deploying commercial satellites for Starlink into space. Commercializ...

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Crushing loss to Uruguay, early optimism for Moreno ‘collapses’···the ‘bare face’ of Korean football unchanged

Robert Moreno, head coach of the Korea national football team, suffered a harsh thrashing in front of a crowd of more than 48,000 at Sangam. Fans who came to the stadium with expectations for a fresh start by the national team could only sigh in disappointment.Korea were beaten 1-4 by Uruguay, ranked 20th by FIFA, in a friendly at Seoul World Cup Stadium on the 28th. After a 3-0 debut win over Ecuador on the 24th, coach Moreno met a stronger opponent in his second match, and the true state ...

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Service member at DMZ accident site “Saw a mine resembling a wooden-box mine in shape”

On the 21st, at the time of the landmine explosion in the western front Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), it was confirmed that a military service member who was at the scene testified to the effect that ‘he saw a mine near the accident point that resembled a wooden-box mine in shape’. Wooden-box mines are not used by the South Korean military; they are used by the North Korean military. However, because there are also statements that could point to another type of mine, the military authorities plan...

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