Baidu, once the leader in China’s AI development with its ERNIE model, went open-source a few months ago to catch up with ...

Under South Korean law, explicit consent from the user is needed to share their personal information with a third party. The PIPC has sent a formal inquiry to DeepSeek seeking clarification on the ...

The country’s new leftwing president Lee Jae Myung has declared his ambition for South Korea to emerge as a “top three AI powerhouse” behind the US and China, pledging more than $70bn in investment ...

South Korea's data protection regulator has stated that the DeepSeek chatbot was sending user data from the country to the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance. In response, DeepSeek expressed its ...

During DeepSeek's presence in South Korea, it transferred user data to several firms in China and the U.S. without obtaining the necessary consent from users or disclosing the practice, the PIPC said.

In February, South Korea's data agency suspended new downloads of the DeepSeek app in the country after it said DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency's rules on ...

South Korea has become the latest country to introduce a ban of the popular Chinese AI app DeepSeek over data protection concerns. It follows significant pushback against the chatbot, which ...