South Korea is treating AI like public infrastructure: a free, unlimited assistant for every citizen. That could change how people handle taxes, benefits, schoolwork, and small-business admin—without paying a subscription. On Aug 29, the government picked SK Telecom, Kakao, and KT to build and operate the nationwide assistants. It’s a huge access shift, but it also raises the hard questions: privacy, logging, political neutrality, and whether a state-backed assistant crowds out private options. Watch to see what “AI as a utility” really means, and what safeguards would make you trust it. New AI news every weekday — subscribe so you don't miss tomorrow's story.

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Guardian coverage of Loss of Control Observatory report
Anthropic: Model Hardware Standard research preview
OpenAI update: DALL‑E GPT retirement notice
Alibaba Cloud: Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next preview

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