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Kakao on Tuesday unveiled an artificial intelligence assistant for its flagship messaging app KakaoTalk as part of a broader push to transform the service into a platform that can handle everyday tasks, from schedule management to shopping and making reservations. "We want to move from graphical interfaces, where people have to find and tap menus, to language-based interfaces, where they can express what they want and get things done quickly," CEO Chung Shin-a said Tuesday at the company’s annua
Samsung Electronics has spent seven years developing the Galaxy Z Fold from an experimental device into one of the world’s best-known foldable smartphones. Next month, for the first time, it will face an iPhone built around the same book-style idea and priced almost directly against it in the US. Apple surprised the market last week by setting the 256-gigabyte iPhone Duo at $1,999, well below prelaunch estimates of around $2,500. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 launched at $1,899.99. That leaves only a
Samsung Electronics and Verizon have tested technology that turns mobile networks into real-time crowd sensors, demonstrating a potential 6G application in a live environment. The companies deployed artificial intelligence-powered integrated sensing and communication, or ISAC, at a major international soccer fan event in Dallas in July. Samsung said it was the industry’s first AI-based ISAC field trial conducted over a virtualized radio access network. ISAC is being developed as a key component
Samsung Electronics greeted Apple’s long-awaited entry into foldable smartphones with a playful publicity campaign highlighting the Korean company’s seven-year head start in the category. Minutes after Apple unveiled its $1,999 iPhone Duo on Wednesday, Samsung’s US mobile account posted a series of tongue-in-cheek messages on X. “Let us know when you’re done reheating our leftovers,” one read. Another declared: “So far, so same.” Samsung also teased Apple for introducing the foldable late in its
Apple spent years waiting for foldable phones to become good enough for an iPhone. When it finally moved, however, it reportedly put the part that makes the phone fold in the hands of a single supplier: Samsung Display. That gives iPhone Duo, unveiled Wednesday at a starting price of $1,999, an unusual supply-chain profile. Apple still sources major components from around the world. But the part most closely tied to its new form factor is also one of the hardest to replace outside Korea. "With t
Apple is preparing to challenge Samsung Electronics in one of the few smartphone segments that is still growing. Entering foldables seven years behind its Korean rival, its ability to catch up may hinge on pricing. Apple has scheduled a special event at its California headquarters for Sept. 9. Industry watchers expect the company to unveil its first foldable iPhone, widely dubbed the iPhone Ultra, alongside its iPhone 18 Pro lineup. The foldable is expected to have passport-like proportions, sim
NC is expanding its worldwide reach at two of the world’s biggest gaming exhibitions in the second half of the year with Aion 2, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and Astrae Oratio, a sub-culture RPG. According to the Korean game company on Thursday, it will participate in Gamescom 2026 in Germany in August and Tokyo Game Show 2026 in Japan in September, highlighting region-specific titles aimed at Western and Japanese audiences, respectively. Held annually in Cologne, Germany, G
As South Korea’s foreign resident population continues to grow, KT Corp. is expanding support for overseas customers through multilingual AI services and dedicated stores designed to make telecom services more accessible. The telecom carrier held its fourth Customer Listening Forum on Wednesday in Seoul, inviting 14 foreign residents and naturalized citizens from 10 countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, the Philippines and Mongolia, to gather feedback on challenges they face while usi
Krafton on Wednesday reported record revenue and operating profit for the first half of this year on the back of continued performances by its megahit PUBG franchise, a battle-royale-style shooter, and the early success of Subnautica 2, an underwater survival adventure. According to the company’s preliminary earnings, Krafton logged 2.66 trillion won ($1.84 billion) in sales and 972.5 billion won in operating profit in the first six months of 2026, up 73.3 percent and 38.3 percent, respectively,
Krafton on Wednesday released its new audio foundation model, A.X K2 Raon-Speech, on global AI platform Hugging Face. The company is part of SK Telecom’s consortium participating in the Ministry of Science and ICT’s Independent AI Foundation Model project, where it leads research on next-generation multimodal models. A.X K2 Raon-Speech builds on Krafton’s existing Raon-Speech model. It combines the company’s proprietary voice encoder and audio codec with a compact language model based on SK Tele
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