
AI, South Korea: Chip boom fills government coffers with taxes
Some call it a bubble, others a revolution. Meanwhile, South Korea is already counting real money: an unexpected windfall.
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Some call it a bubble, others a revolution. Meanwhile, South Korea is already counting real money: an unexpected windfall.

Finding public funding is a bureaucratic nightmare. But in South Korea, a GitHub project promises to simplify life for businesses, using artificial intelligence.

After some bureaucratic back and forth, OpenAI's latest model is finally here. Get ready, because GPT-5.6 is now cleared for public use.

The US stops waiting and invests directly: $250 million to I-Pulse Inc. to produce domestic chips and cut reliance on foreign supply chains. The technology independence battle just shifted gear.
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Who'd have thought governments would poke their nose in? OpenAI apparently tweaked its models before public release.

Imagine throwing away thousands of perfectly functional electronic devices. This happened in Australia, where the government ordered the disposal of perfectly good routers.
OpenAI slowed GPT-5.6's rollout after a government request, and they're not happy about it. The company argues that restricting access to top-tier AI models from developers and enterprises shouldn't become the standard playbook.
The Trump administration is tightening the screws on Anthropic, and while everyone's trying to figure out what actually triggered it, somewhere in the AI sector someone's already popping champagne. But here's the thing nobody's asking: when you pick a fight like this, who really comes out ahead?

Picture this: you hand money to someone who keeps breaking the rules, and you hope it works out this time. That's basically what's happening right now. The Trump administration has pumped cash into at least three coal plants that have already been cited—multiple times—for environmental violations.

When authorities decide to ban you for national security reasons, that's usually not good news. But in Anthropic's case, that move might just be turning into the best accidental marketing in recent memory.

The US government just told power grid operators: «When an AI data center knocks, roll out the red carpet.» Problem is, nobody remembered to deal with the slight issue of not having enough electricity.