The Loop  ·  Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Korea

  1. · News

    From the ban to the fleet — Samsung Electronics now hands ChatGPT and Codex to every Korean employee and every DX worker worldwide, three years after the source-code leak that put the tools on the blocked list

    On June 22, 2026 OpenAI and Samsung named the deal — ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex go to every Samsung employee in Korea and the DX division worldwide. The same company banned ChatGPT in March 2023 after engineers leaked source code through it.

    Jun 22, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  2. · News

    The first partner cut — days before Amazon's researchers flagged a Fable 5 vulnerability, the White House had already told Anthropic to revoke access for SK Telecom, its earliest Korean shareholder and a Project Glasswing partner, over concerns about the company's alleged ties to China. Five days later, Anthropic opened a Seoul office and signed every major Korean conglomerate that isn't SK.

    The Washington Post and WIRED reported the shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 did not begin with Amazon's vulnerability finding. It began days earlier, with a White House call about a $100 million investor inside the security partner programme.

    Jun 19, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor