AI NewsWaveOct. 20 AI Briefing: U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removal and AI Companies Race for Funding
Key points
- U.S. orders DeepSeek removal as AI security debate spreads
- OpenAI and Anthropic compete for funding and computing capacity
- In Korea, AX partnerships in healthcare and talent continue
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered all federal civilian agencies to remove the Chinese AI company DeepSeek's products from their IT systems. According to Digital Daily, the order came on Oct. 19 (U.S. time), and Digital Today reported that third-party services using DeepSeek are also subject to removal.
OpenAI is speeding up a new fundraising of about $30 billion ahead of Anthropic's initial public offering (IPO). Digital Daily reported that the corporate value being discussed as a target exceeds $1.4 trillion, and Digital Today, citing Cryptopolitan, put the valuation at $1.4 trillion. Digital Daily pointed out that the two companies are competing for the same institutional investors' money.
Anthropic is negotiating a computing supply contract with British AI cloud company Nscale. AI Times reported that it is an additional contract worth $45 billion (about 59.751 trillion won) and that, if concluded, it would bring the total to about $90 billion together with the existing contract. EBN reported that the talks involve up to $45 billion (about 65 trillion won), so the won conversions differ.
Microsoft defined autonomous AI agents deployed inside companies as "Agentic Insiders." According to Boannews, it introduced a new security approach that tracks and controls behavioral risk in real time, and Hellot reported that it is an approach for continuously supervising and protecting them.
Korea entered the top group of AI leaders in BCG's AI maturity assessment for the first time. TechM reported that it was included along with the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada, and Digital Daily reported that public investment in developing proprietary AI models and computing infrastructure was credited.
KT will jointly pursue a medical AX project with medical AI firm Acryl. Digital Today reported that the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at Acryl's headquarters in Seolleung, Seoul, and IT Chosun reported that they will cooperate from hospital data standardization through AI service development and validation.
Salesforce will introduce Partner FDE, a program for developing AI agent specialists, in Korea for the first time. VentureSquare reported that 44 people from 11 domestic partner firms took part in the Seoul workshop, and TechM introduced a plan to train 100 or more domestic experts by 2027.