Morning edition — Monday 9 November 2026

LG AI Research said on 9 November that the API for K-EXAONE 2.5, its proprietary foundation model, is available free of charge through its EXAONE API Platform. Developers, start-ups, companies and research institutions can use it for service development and research by obtaining an API key, the lab said.

LG describes K-EXAONE 2.5 as a technical validation model with additional training on top of the version it released in August. Digital Today reported that the announcement was made at Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026 and that LG wants to test the model's performance and usability in real services.

LG claims, from internal evaluations on public datasets, scores of 59.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, 78.0 on BrowseComp, 74.6 on AutomationBench-Openset and 77.3 on Claw-Eval, and says the model is competitive with DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3 on agentic tasks. It pitches the model for code generation, debugging, refactoring and test writing.

President Donald Trump said the risks posed by artificial intelligence can be managed but signalled openness to safeguards, telling CBS's 60 Minutes that he "doesn't mind guardrails", Reuters reported on Sunday night.

Asked whether the United States should accept the risks of AI to stay ahead of China, Trump said the dangers were manageable and expressed openness to working with Democrats on safeguards, according to Reuters. He added that he did not want regulation to leave the United States in "a deep second position" behind China, which he said had no such restrictions.

Reuters noted that Trump has previously favoured letting technology companies police themselves rather than imposing sweeping government restrictions, and that it remains unclear what level of safeguards he would accept.

Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing affiliate of Kakao Corp., said on Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nvidia to develop a Level 4 autonomous driving system, Yonhap reported. The deal was signed in Seoul on the sidelines of Nvidia AI Day, a two-day event that opened on 9 November.

The companies plan to combine Kakao's own driving AI models with Nvidia's computing platform, and Kakao Mobility will use Nvidia Halos, Nvidia's integrated safety system, to develop and validate the technology, Yonhap said. Seoul Economic Daily reported that the system is to be applied first to Kia's purpose-built vehicles. Level 4 means a car drives itself without a driver within set conditions and areas.

In a keynote at the same event, Nvidia's robotics vice-president Deepu Talla described work with Hyundai, Doosan Robotics, LG Electronics and SK hynix on factory digital twins, robot polishing and appliance-assembly robots, Chosun Biz reported. Nvidia said AI agents can cut the time to build robot simulation environments from several months to about a week.

Opinion pieces placed in local US newspapers arguing against the robotaxi company Waymo were written with significant AI input, and none disclosed it, Semafor reported on Sunday evening US time. The AI-detection service Pangram scored pieces in the Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Times of San Diego as between 68% and 95% AI-written, according to Semafor.

Ira Goldstein, former head of New York's Black Car Fund, told Semafor that a public relations firm drafted his Daily News op-ed and that he edited it and stands by every word; he said the firm later dropped the campaign to work for Waymo. A spokesperson for the Dallas lawyer Amy Witherite said her communications firm sometimes uses AI for initial drafts, which are then reviewed and approved by her.

Editors gave different answers: the Dallas Morning News said it does not accept pieces generated entirely by AI, the Chronicle said it asks writers to disclose AI use, and the Daily News said it aims to tighten its guardrails, citing its lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI.