[U.S.오픈 豫選]姜성훈,金성현 通過..[페덱스컵 랭킹]6位:安병훈,26位:金施遇,29位:임성재,79位:金주형,90:李경훈,93:金성현,190:盧승열,205:姜성훈,225:裵상문 (2024)

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[U.S.오픈 豫選]姜성훈,金성현 通過..[페덱스컵 랭킹]6位:安병훈,26位:金施遇,29位:임성재,79位:金주형,90:李경훈,93:金성현,190:盧승열,205:姜성훈,225:裵상문

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安寧 하십니까? 2024年 5月 21日, 火, 午後 2時 3分입니다.

오늘은 여섯 時間半을 일하고 돌아왔습니다. 今年들어 가장 더운 날입니다. 金성현이 블루에서 69打, 姜성훈이 골드에서 70打를 치며 合計 139打 (3언더), T6으로 11자리가 주어지는 U.S.오픈 最終豫選을 通過하였습니다. 祝賀합니다!!! (2:14) Erka"ltungen sind in diesen Winter weit verbreitet (이번 겨울에 독감이 극심이다), Das ist ein ha"ufiger Fehler (다스 이스틴 호피거 필러, 일반적인/자주 하는 실수다), Bitte beeilen Sie sich (서둘러), Ich gehe jetzt (나는 떠나), Erza"hlen Sie mir davon! (에어질렌지 미어 다폰, 그것에 對해 말해줘), Sie machen wohl Witze! (농담이지!), Ich kenne das Gefu"hl (이히 케너 다스 게푸어, 그 심정 내가 알지), Bringen Sie das bitte in Ordnung (이걸 해결해), Bedauerst du es? (비더다아우에 두에스, 후회하니?), Das klappt nicht (되지가 않네)

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FedEx Cup points list standings

golfdigest.com, May 20, 2024

The race for the 2024 FedEx Cup title is more than halfway over with two majors in the books. The season-long FedEx Cup points standings will help determine who keeps their PGA Tour cards and who’ll be eligible for the FedEx Cup Playoffs come August.

The 2024 season includes 35 regular-season events before the start of the three-event playoff series that ends at the Tour Championship Aug. 29-Sept. 1. For standard regular-season PGA Tour events, 500 FedEx Cups are awarded to the winner, with points also being earned by every player making the cut. For the tour’s eight signature events, 700 points goes to the winner, while 750 points are given to the champion of the four majors and the Players. Lastly, 300 points are given to the winner of any event played in the same week as a major or signature event.

Here is latest edition of FedEx Cup points list after Xander Schauffele's win at the PGA Championship. All players inside the top 70 at the end of the season earn their PGA Tour cards for the 2024 season and get into the playoffs. All players in the top 50 after the first playoff event (St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis) are expected to qualify for PGA Tour signature events in 2025. All players in the top 30 after the second playoff event (BMW Championship at Castle Pines GC in Colorado) qualify for the Tour Championship and the chance to win the first-place FedEx Cup prize of $25 million from the overall bonus pool of $100 million.

RANK: PLAYER, POINTS

1: Scottie Scheffler, 4106.25

2: Xander Schauffele, 2688.58

3: Wyndham Clark, 1906.02

4: Rory McIlroy, 1807.80

5: Sahith Theegala, 1661.12

6: Byeong Hun An, 1540.10

7: Ludvig Åberg, 1509.67

8: Collin Morikawa, 1436.05

9: Hideki Matsuyama, 1348.84

10: Shane Lowry, 1279.63

11: Chris Kirk, 1215.00

12: Matthieu Pavon, 1145.31

13: Jason Day, 1130.20

14: Justin Thomas, 1123.42

15: Patrick Cantlay, 1117.36

16: Max Homa, 1087.02

17: Stephan Jaeger, 1086.80

18: Russell Henley, 1068.04

19: Brian Harman, 1045.33

20: Thomas Detry, 1009.64

21: Tom Hoge, 1007.85

22: J.T. Poston, 991.363

23: Will Zalatoris, 981.618

24: Akshay Bhatia, 959.774

25: Sepp Straka, 952.281

26: Si Woo Kim, 940.943

27: Harris English, 914.275

28: Jake Knapp, 910.593

29: Sungjae Im, 896.025

30: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 895.33

31: Nick Taylor, 892.85

32: Taylor Pendrith, 889.031

33: Cameron Young, 880.032

34: Austin Eckroat, 879.54

35: Denny McCarthy, 829.732

36: Tommy Fleetwood, 824.107

37: Sam Burns, 808.88

38: Grayson Murray, 801.9

39: Alex Noren, 786.266

40: Billy Horschel, 764.375

41: Matt Fitzpatrick, 743.741

42: Tony Finau, 742.754

43: Peter Malnati, 740.783

44: Adam Hadwin, 725.292

45: Mackenzie Hughes, 724.139

46: Keegan Bradley, 720.152

47: Erik van Rooyen, 699.227

48: Patrick Rodgers, 693.325

49: Corey Conners, 686.169

50: Taylor Moore, 672.716

51: Mark Hubbard, 650.297

52: Jordan Spieth, 648.4

53: Viktor Hovland, 636.344

54: Eric Cole, 634.7

55: Luke List, 598.005

56: Adam Schenk, 568.417

57: Emiliano Grillo, 550.027

58: Brendon Todd, 536.353

59: Andrew Putnam, 524.875

60: Maverick McNealy, 495.889

61: Lucas Glover, 484.931

62: Min Woo Lee, 479.783

63: Justin Rose, 477.6

64: Lee Hodges, 477.451

65: Nicolai Højgaard, 477.25

66: Brice Garnett, 463.638

67: Adam Scott, 460.018

68: Seamus Power, 456.425

69: Cam Davis, 448.534

70: Kurt Kitayama, 436.875

71: Ben Kohles, 435.91

72: Charley Hoffman, 434.714

73: Robert MacIntyre, 410.812

74: Keith Mitchell, 406.623

75: Chris Gotterup, 399.131

76: Beau Hossler, 394.899

77: Doug Ghim, 390.697

78: Kevin Yu, 388.74

79: Joohyung Kim, 372.032

80: Justin Lower, 368.419

81: Davis Thompson, 357.132

82: Ben Griffin, 342.586

83: Sami Valimaki, 342.183

84: Aaron Rai, 336.164

85: Nate Lashley, 334.379

86: Ryo Hisatsune, 316.63

87: Taylor Montgomery, 312.918

88: Nico Echavarria, 309.579

89: Andrew Novak, 306.132

90: K.H. Lee, 300.381

91: Chan Kim, 289.571

92: Sam Stevens, 279.455

93: S.H. Kim, 279.056

94: Adam Svensson, 275.228

95: Chandler Phillips, 269.873

96: Chad Ramey, 256.917

97: David Skinns, 255.362

98: Matt Wallace, 247.461

99: Michael Kim, 246.038

100: Greyson Sigg, 245.333

101: Erik Barnes, 244.202

102: Rickie Fowler, 238.328

103: Kevin Tway, 237.133

104: Max Greyserman, 234.675

105: Sam Ryder, 234.16

106: Carl Yuan, 231.666

107: Dylan Wu, 230.005

108: Alejandro Tosti, 217.502

109: Matti Schmid, 213.718

110: Jimmy Stanger, 213.227

111: C.T. Pan, 213.129

112: Martin Trainer, 210.825

113: Victor Perez, 209.217

114: Ben Silverman, 206.528

115: Joel Dahmen, 201.737

116: Ryan Fox, 189.792

Arrives in a groove. Exceptional week of ball-striking at the PGA Championship yielded a career-best T12 in any major. That piggybacked a T24 at the Wells Fargo Championship where his putting made noise. Also 2-for-2 at Colonial.

Adam Schenk

Back to avenge his playoff loss last year in his seventh appearance at Colonial. At 32 years of age, he’s in the sweet spot to take this title but he’s still winless on TOUR, so history is against him (more below). Five top 20s in 2024.

Sungjae Im

SOUTH KOREA

The good news of missing the cut at the PGA Championship is that he’s rested for his sixth consecutive appearance at Colonial where both paydays were top 15s. Recently went T12-Win-T4 from Harbour Town to South Korea to Quail Hollow.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Big stages of the majors can upset consistency, but failure to perform can be dismissed. Prior to missing the cut at the PGA Championship, he went 7-for-7 worldwide with five top 25s. T15-T21 at Colonial since 2022.

Mark Hubbard

Perfect in 14 starts this season and refusing to take extended breaks. That’s how to get it done in one’s prime. The 34-year-old can’t complain about a thing as he looks to go 6-for-6 at Colonial. Last year’s T9 is his personal-best finish.

Jordan Spieth

The native of the metroplex is making his 12th straight appearance at Colonial. He’s won once (2016), finished second thrice and recorded another four top 10s. Hung in at the PGA Championship for three rounds; co-led in par-5 scoring.

Austin Eckroat

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The 25-year-old has come into his own. Emboldened by his breakthrough victory at PGA National in early March, he’s added top 20s in three of his last four starts, including a T18 at the PGA Championship. T16 in Colonial debut a year ago.

Thomas Detry

BELGIUM

Among the hottest of 2024 without a PGA TOUR victory. A T4 at the PGA Championship was his third top-four finish on his own ball. He relies heavily on touch around and on greens, and it works. T21 in his debut here last year.

Justin Rose

ENGLAND

The ageless Brit did it again at the PGA Championship. Thanks to strong putting, his T6 was his fifth consecutive top-15 finish in the major. His overall record at Colonial is similar. In six editions since his 2018 victory, he’s totaled four top 20s.

Max Homa

Winner at the other Hogan’s Alley, The Riviera CC in 2021, he’s forward-facing with his affinity for classic tracks. His learning curve at Colonial has led to a T23 in 2022 and a T9 last year. Consistently strong throughout this season.

Harris English

The top-25 machine has eight this season, including a T18 at the PGA Championship. He also has four top 20s at Colonial with a T12 last year. In his prime at 34 and playing like it throughout his bag. The archetype for success here.

Tony Finau

Steady as he goes. Last week’s T18 was his sixth top-20 of the season. As usual, his irons were on point, so it’s simply a matter of getting putts to drop. Prior to last year’s missed cut at Colonial, he was 7-for-7 with two top fives.

Collin Morikawa

Came this close to resetting the clock at Colonial in his debut in 2020 when he lost in a playoff. Since a T3 at the Masters six weeks ago, he’s reemerged as a persistent force with three top 10s and another two top 25s upon arrival.

Scottie Scheffler

Of course, he’s No. 1. It’s his slot for just about every measurement that matters. Despite an understandably heavy experience at Valhalla GC, he still managed to gallop to the finish line with a 65 for a T8. P2-T3 here since 2022.

Once upon a time in the 21st century, it’d have been a default zinger to say that Colonial CC has been Grillo-proofed. That’s because the legendary track also known as Hogan’s Alley – Ben Hogan, a legend himself, prevailed here five times – isn’t the same test that Emiliano Grillo aced en route to his victory in a playoff with Adam Schenk a year ago. The Argentine can’t share the answers with his fraternity brothers who haven’t seen it yet.

At first glance, it’s fair to wonder why architects Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, and everyone else who got their hands dirty in the sacred ground even bothered. Not only was Grillo’s 72-hole score of 8-under 272 the highest aggregate in decades, but the par 70 stood up to a scoring average of 70.734. It was the hardest par 70 in a non-major in a single season in 21 years. And it wasn’t like the omnipresent winds of Texas were howling. They weren’t. They weren’t even gusty.

Still, it was time. In fact, the renovation had been delayed a year due to challenges in the supply chain, so this week’s reveal isn’t a tongue-in-cheek response to giving the defending champion something new to consider inasmuch as Grillo survived its previous iteration.

There isn’t a component to the course that wasn’t touched in some capacity. Everything concerning the next phase of its life has been brought into the third decade of the third millennium.

Every hole has a new official yardage. While still a stock par 70 with one par 5 on each side, the course is 80 yards longer and now tips at 7,289 yards. Scoring on the par 5s – Nos. 1 and 11 – traditionally is difficult and new locations for the greens at the par-3 eighth and 16th holes have zero course history, but the introduction of new bentgrass greens steps forward as the most intriguing component to help even the playing field of 132, and that’s what could disrupt a long trend.

Sergio Garcia in 2001 remains the most recent first-time participant to prevail at Colonial. He’s also the last to break through for his first PGA TOUR victory in the tournament. The latter fact is in part due to the construct of the field in an invitational, but even the usually stingy Augusta National has served for coronations in the interim, most recently in 2016 when Danny Willett recorded his breakthrough title.

This week’s field is all but promised classic Texas breezes from a southerly direction. Gusts north of 20 mph will be felt by all until things calm for Sunday’s final round, and they’ll push wayward drives into primary rough allowed to grow to 2 1/2 inches. After a seasonable opener during which the daytime high should eclipse 80 degrees, readings in the low 90s will be the norm for the remainder. The best chance for rain and perhaps a delay will be on Thursday, but with ample daylight hours in the second half of May, there will be time to wait it out, adjust and finish the tournament as scheduled.

Patrick Reed withdraws from US Open qualifier to end streak of playing majors

Justin Rose waves after making a putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the PGA Championship at the Valhalla GC, Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

Adam Scott waves after making a putt on the fifth hole during the second round of the PGA Championship at the Valhalla GC, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

DALLAS (AP) — Patrick Reed withdrew from U.S. Open qualifying on Monday to end his streak of playing every major since the 2014 Masters. Sergio Garcia made two big mistakes late that cost him advancing to his 25th straight U.S. Open.

Garcia, who made it through 36-hole qualifying last year, was poised to get one of the 11 spots at Dallas Athletic Club until taking a double bogey on the par-5 16th of the Gold course. He finished with two pars for a 71 and was forced into a seven-man playoff for six spots.

Everyone else made par or birdie. Garcia made a bogey on the first hole of the Gold course and had to settle for first alternate, keeping his hopes alive to be at Pinehurst No. 2 on June 13-16.

Both play for LIV Golf, which does not get world ranking points. Reed has no other avenue to earn a spot at Pinehurst. The USGA said when a player withdraws from a qualifier, he cannot enter another one at a later date.

Reed did well enough in the Masters (tie for 12th) to move enough into the top 100 in the world, and the PGA Championship gave him an invitation to play last week at Valhalla.

The U.S. Open took the top 60 in the world from this week’s ranking. Reed is at No. 92 — he would have needed third place at Valhalla to crack the top 60, and he finished in a tie for 53rd.

The Dallas qualifier, the first of 11 in North America, had nine players from LIV Golf. Eugenio Chacarra was the only one to get through. He will be playing his first major.

The other 10 qualifiers are June 3.

Monday was another step toward filling the field for the U.S. Open on June 15-18 with 52 players added to the 156-man field — 21 from the top 60 in the world and 23 of them through 36-hole qualifiers in Dallas, Japan and England.

Justin Rose, whose 10-year exemption from winning the U.S. Open at Merion expired last year, tied for sixth at the PGA Championship and moved up 12 spots to No. 56 to avoid qualifying. Among those falling out of the top 60 was Adam Scott.

Billy Horschel, who won in the Dominican Republic, Valspar Championship winner Peter Malnati and Mackenzie Hughes were among the leading five players in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings not already eligible for the U.S. Open who were added to the field. The U.S. Open exempted three others from the European tour’s Race to Dubai — two from last year who didn’t otherwise qualify and the leading player this year not already in.

Ryo Ishikawa led the three qualifiers in Japan, while the nine players who qualified in England included Robert Rock and Matteo Manassero.

Adela Cernousek of Texas A&M wins NCAA individual golf title for first collegiate win

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Adela Cernousek of Texas A&M got her first collegiate win on the biggest stage, cruising to a three-shot victory at La Costa on Monday to win the NCAA individual title.

Cernousek, a junior from France, entered the final round with a six-shot lead over Lottie Woad of Florida State, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion. Cernousek was never seriously threatened as she closed with an even-par 72 to finish at 12-under 276 and help the Aggies finish third in the team standings, three shots behind Stanford and LSU.

Woad shot 69 and was the runner-up. Paula Martin Sampedro of Stanford (70) finished third at 6 under, leading the Cardinal to a 2-over par finish that matched the Tigers.

The other schools to advance to the match-play portion of the team competition were Southern California, Clemson, UCLA, Oregon and Auburn. The team champion will be crowned on Wednesday.

Cernousek was the first Texas A&M player to win the individual title. She began the tournament with three consecutive rounds of 68 to build her big lead and move the Aggies to the top of the team leaderboard.

LSU’s Ingrid Lindblad, No. 1 in the women’s amateur ranking, shot a second-round 81 and finished in a tie for 65th at 15 over.

Auburn’s top player, former Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion Anna Davis, rebounded from a third-round 80 with a 1-under 71 to help the Tigers grab the eighth and final spot in match play, two shots better than Wake Forest.

Bank of Korea to hold rates on May 23, first cut pushed to Q4 - Reuters poll

By Anant Chandak

BENGALURU, May 21 (Reuters) - The Bank of Korea will keep its key policy rate unchanged for an 11th straight meeting on Thursday and through next quarter, followed by a half point cut in Q4 after the likely start of policy easing from many global peers, a Reuters poll found.

South Korea's economy grew at the fastest pace in over two years last quarter thanks to strong exports, suggesting the economy may not need an immediate rate cut from the central bank.

Bolstering the higher-for-longer rate view was elevated inflation and a weak currency.

Already down nearly 5% for the year, any further weakening of the won , would likely drive up import costs and exacerbate inflationary pressures.

All 43 economists in the May 14-20 Reuters poll expected the central bank to leave the base rate (KROCRT=ECI) on hold at 3.50% on May 23.

Median forecasts showed interest rates remaining unchanged through the third quarter before a 50 basis-point cut by end-2024. In an April survey, the consensus view predicted 25 basis-point cuts in Q3 and Q4.

"Considering the uncertainty of the timing of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut and the higher dollar exchange rate level, the monetary policy committee will also maintain its cautious stance in lowering interest rates," said Jihee Min, fixed income analyst at Mirae Asset Securities.

The BOK, among the first to kick-off its policy tightening cycle in August 2021, was expected to lag its global peers on the timing of the first cut.

The European Central Bank and the Fed were expected to ease in June and September, respectively.

Although median forecasts showed interest rates on hold until end-Q3, a strong minority of 17 of 39 economists forecast a cut to 3.25% by the end of next quarter.

Among those who provided forecasts until end-2024, a slim majority, or 19 of 37, expected interest rates at 3.00%, while the rest said 3.25%.

"The BOK is likely to signal that a rate cut is unlikely in the next three months but still possible by the end of 2024," noted Bum Ki Son, analyst at Barclays.

"Growth momentum remains two-tiered with strong net exports, versus a still-soft domestic outlook. The soft domestic demand growth outlook and relatively muted perceived growth still suggest that the next move will be a cut."

Last month the BOK said the economy could grow at a faster pace this year than its earlier projection of 2.1%. A separate Reuters poll in April showed the economy expanding 2.2% in 2024.

South Korea, UK to host AI summit in Seoul as risks mount

By Joyce Lee

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during the closing press conference on the second day of the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, Britain November 2, 2023.

SEOUL, May 20 (Reuters) - South Korea and Britain will host a global AI summit in Seoul this week, as the breathtaking pace of innovation since the first AI summit in November last year leaves governments scrambling to keep up with a growing array of risks.

"Risks such as large-scale labour market impacts, AI-enabled hacking or biological attacks, and society losing control over general-purpose AI could emerge," although there is debate about the likelihood, a global AI safety report

, opens new tab, backed by experts in more than 30 countries, said on Friday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will oversee a virtual summit on Tuesday, amid calls for better regulation of artificial intelligence despite disagreements over how the technology may affect humanity.

"Although positive efforts have been made to shape global AI governance, significant gaps still remain," Sunak and Yoon said in an opinion article published in Britain's i newspaper and South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo, entitled "Only global AI standards can stop a race to the bottom."

The scope of challenges has expanded since the November event, billed as the AI Safety Summit.

The meetings beginning Tuesday for the AI Seoul Summit will discuss three priorities - AI safety, innovation and inclusion, according to the summit's website Yoon's office said participating leaders would adopt an agreement after discussing governance associated with AI use.

Leaders of Group of Seven (G7) major powers, Singapore and Australia have been invited, and China will attend the summit's ministerial session, a South Korean presidential official said.

"It will be the decisions of societies and governments that will determine the future of AI," said the AI safety report released on Friday.

The report acknowledges a widening front of risks from the rapidly evolving technology - not only existential risks to humanity, but AI inequality, data scarcity, use of copyright material, and the environmental impact due to the vast amount of electricity used by AI data centres.

At the November summit, Tesla's Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with some of their fiercest critics, while China co-signed the "Bletchley Declaration

, opens new tab" on collectively managing AI risks alongside the United States and others.

"Looking forward to this," Musk said in a post on his social media platform X, responding to Yoon's posting on the upcoming summit. It was not clear whether Musk would join the summit.

World leaders plan new agreement on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by South Korea, UK

A screen shows an announcement of the AI Seoul Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation.

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunk, center, speaks during a plenary session at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England, on Nov. 2, 2023. South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain in 2023 that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials.

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation.

The AI Seoul Summit is a follow-up to November’s inaugural AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom, where participating countries agreed to work together to contain the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by galloping advances in AI.

The two-day meeting -- co-hosted by the South Korean and U.K. governments -- also comes as major tech companies like Meta, OpenAI and Google roll out the latest versions of their AI models.

On Tuesday evening, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are to meet other world leaders, industry leaders and heads of international organizations for a virtual conference. The online summit will be followed by an in-person meeting of digital ministers, experts and others on Wednesday, according to organizers.

“It is just six months since world leaders met at Bletchley, but even in this short space of time, the landscape of AI has changed dramatically,” Yoon and Sunak said in a joint article published in South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper and the U.K.’s online inews site on Monday. “The pace of change will only continue to accelerate, so our work must accelerate too.”

While the U.K. meeting centered on AI safety issues, the agenda for this week’s gathering was expanded to also include “innovation and inclusivity,” Wang Yun-jong, a deputy director of national security in South Korea, told reporters Monday.

Wang said participants will subsequently “discuss not only the risks posed by AI but also its positive aspects and how it can contribute to humanity in a balanced manner.”

The AI agreement will include the outcomes of discussions on safety, innovation and inclusivity. according to Park Sang-wook, senior presidential adviser for science and technology for President Yoon.

The leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies -- the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain – were invited to the virtual summit, along with leaders of Australia and Singapore and representatives from the U.N., the EU, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and Samsung, according to South Korea’s presidential office.

China doesn’t plan to participate in the virtual summit though it will send a representative to Wednesday’s in-person meeting, the South Korean presidential office said. China took part in the U.K. summit.

In their article, Yoon and Sunak said they plan to ask companies to do more to show how they assess and respond to risks within their organizations.

“We know that, as with any new technology, AI brings new risks, including deliberate misuse from those who mean to do us harm,” they said. “However, with new models being released almost every week, we are still learning where these risks may emerge, and the best ways to manage them proportionately.”

The Seoul meeting has been billed as a mini virtual summit, serving as an interim meeting until a full-fledged in-person edition that France has pledged to hold.

Governments around the world have been scrambling to formulate regulations for AI even as the technology makes rapid advances and is poised to transform many aspects of daily life, from education and the workplace to copyrights and privacy. There are concerns that advances in AI could take away jobs, trick people and spread disinformation.

Developers of the most powerful AI systems are also banding together to set their own shared approach to setting AI safety standards. Facebook parent company Meta Platforms and Amazon announced Monday they’re joining the Frontier Model Forum, a group founded last year by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

In March, the U.N. General Assembly approved its first resolution on the safe use of AI systems. Earlier in May, the U.S. and China held their first high-level talks on artificial intelligence in Geneva to discuss how to address the risks of the fast-evolving technology and set shared standards to manage it.

Samsung picks veteran executive to tackle 'chip crisis' amid AI boom

By Heekyong Yang and Ju-min Park

The Samsung logo is pictured during the inauguration of the Samsung Galaxy innovation space on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, April 29, 2024.

SEOUL, May 21 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has replaced the chief of its semiconductor division in a bid to overcome a "chip crisis", amid a booming market for AI chips where the world's biggest memory chipmaker has lagged peers.

The South Korean manufacturer on Tuesday said it has appointed Young Hyun Jun effective immediately, shifting him from the role as head of its future business planning unit.

The move is likely aimed at catching up in the market for top-end chips used in artificial intelligence such as high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, an area where Samsung has fallen behind rivals such as SK Hynix (000660.KS), analysts said.

"This is a preemptive measure to strengthen future competitiveness by renewing the atmosphere internally and externally," Samsung said in a statement.

Samsung's market share in DRAM chips used in tech devices reached 45.5% in the fourth quarter last year, according to data provider TrendForce. It lags, however, in the niche but increasingly important HBM chips segment where SK Hynix controls more than 90% of the mainstream HBM3 market.

HBM3 is a fourth-generation HBM standard currently the most used for AI chipsets like those made by industry leader Nvidia (NVDA.O) Jun, 63, had led Samsung's memory chip business from 2014 to 2017 after working on the development of DRAM and flash memory chips. He was also the CEO of battery arm Samsung SDI (006400.KS) from 2017 to 2022, overseeing a U.S. electric vehicle battery joint venture with automaker Stellantis (STLAM.MI)

"We expect him to overcome the chip crisis with his management know-how he has accumulated," Samsung said.

Kye Hyun Kyung, who had led the semiconductor division since 2022, will swap into Jun's prior role as head of its future business planning unit.

Replacing such a high-ranking position in the middle of the year is unusual given most personnel changes at Samsung typically take place in the beginning of the year, analysts said.

CHIP DIVISION SEEN LAGGING

Samsung was late to respond to rapidly rising demand for memory chips used in AI chipsets, analysts said, with the specialised products being priced significantly higher, albeit making up a smaller portion of the DRAM market by shipments.

"The chip division has been lagging in competitiveness on various fronts, on high-density DRAM, its NAND products are no longer ahead of competition, and in foundry compared to TSMC," said analyst Lee Min-hee at BNK Investment & Securities, referring to Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW), the world's top contract chipmaker.

"It also missed a lot of the global AI upward trend," Lee added.

At Samsung's annual meeting in March, the former chip division head Kyung had insisted the manufacturer going forward could avoid making similar missteps in the HBM market.

"We're better prepared to prevent that from happening again in the future", said Kyung, when answering a shareholder question on Samsung's recent setbacks in this area.

China embassy in South Korea says it opposes lawmakers visiting Taiwan

Printed Chinese and South Korean flags are seen in this illustration, July 21, 2022.

BEIJING, May 21 (Reuters) - China's embassy in South Korea on Tuesday said it resolutely opposes and condemns South Korean lawmakers visiting Taiwan to attend the so-called "inauguration ceremony of the leader".

A spokesperson for the embassy said the move runs counter to the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership.

Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan's new president on Monday, in footage shown live on television from the presidential office.

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