SKM
SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
NYSE · Communication Services · Telecommunications Services · KR
$32.30
+1.06%Sep 30, 2026, 08:20 UTC
South Korea's SK Telecom established two new entities, SK Hyper and SK Horizon, in quick succession as part of an AI-focused reorganization.
Source:Sep 28, 2026, 16:00 UTC
Samsung Electronics announced it is the sole vendor providing private 5G network solutions for a smart office at Hana Financial Group's new headquarters in Incheon, South Korea, the first such deployment in the country's financial sector.
Source:Sep 23, 2026, 15:45 UTC
Samsung Electronics signed contracts with KT Corp. and SK Telecom to serve as vendor for their private AI-RAN network projects under South Korea's Hyper AI Network initiative, with deployments set to begin in October 2026.
Source:Sep 23, 2026, 15:45 UTC
Samsung Electronics is validating physical AI services with SK Telecom at SK Incheon Petrochem, including an autonomous patrol robot for hazardous areas.
Source:Sep 23, 2026, 01:45 UTC
Tuas, the Australian-listed parent of Simba Telecom, reported full-year net profit of about S$26 million for the year ended Jul 31, up 277 per cent, on revenue of S$187.6 million.
Source:Sep 21, 2026, 07:53 UTC
South Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions expanded its neural processing units across four commercial SK Telecom services, now processing about 14 million real-time requests and more than 4 billion tokens a day.
Source:Sep 4, 2026, 07:30 UTC
South Korea announced a government programme called 'AI for All' to provide free generative AI services to its entire population, with a public beta starting in September 2026 and a nationwide rollout later that year.
Source:Aug 31, 2026, 09:11 UTC
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT selected three consortia led by SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao to operate a national free generative AI service under the 'AI for All' program, with beta testing starting in September and full launch planned by end of 2026.
Source:Aug 28, 2026, 10:40 UTC
South Korea announced a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, treating AI like a public utility.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 09:50 UTC
KKR announced that SK Telecom will retain 51% of SK Horizon, with KKR holding 29% and IMM holding 20%.
Aug 27, 2026, 08:29 UTC
SK Telecom announced that its subsidiary SK Broadband will spin off its data center and other businesses to form a new company named SK Horizon.
Aug 27, 2026, 08:25 UTC
SK Telecom announced it will sell SK Hynix shares worth 1.9 trillion Korean won.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 06:45 UTC
Nvidia expanded Korea's AI factory ecosystem through strategic partnerships with SK Telecom, NAVER and Brookfield to support sovereign AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale.
Source:Aug 20, 2026, 02:00 UTC
BitGo Korea received VASP registration acceptance from South Korean authorities, becoming the first newly established Korean entity of a global digital asset company to enter the South Korean market.
Aug 12, 2026, 18:45 UTC
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency opened a bidding process for a government-backed cybersecurity AI foundation model project, with LG CNS forming an LG Consortium with LG AI Research and LG Uplus to bid, and the application window closing on August 21.
Source:Aug 11, 2026, 19:45 UTC
SK Telecom announced that its A.X K2 AI model achieved a gold-medal-level score on the 2026 International Mathematical Olympiad and tied for first place on the Hugging Face MathArena AIME 2026 leaderboard.
Source:Aug 9, 2026, 06:06 UTC
SK Telecom reported its second-quarter 2026 consolidated revenue of KRW 4.36 trillion, up 0.5% year over year, and consolidated operating income of KRW 566 billion, up 67.3% year over year.
Aug 7, 2026, 23:45 UTC
SK Telecom and AI chipmaker Rebellions are expanding their partnership to build an AI inference infrastructure ecosystem using domestically developed South Korean semiconductors, aiming to compete with Nvidia's dominance.
Source:Aug 5, 2026, 02:45 UTC
Ericsson announced it has been selected as the sole global technology partner in the SK Telecom-led consortium for the Hyper-AI Network Infrastructure Demonstration Project, a government-backed initiative led by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency, to build and validate AI-RAN pilot networks for Korea's AI Highway agenda and 6G innovation.
Source:Jul 29, 2026, 01:27 UTC
The South Korean government announced the Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project (K-AI), a national AI project with a total investment of 530 billion KRW ($0.36 billion) until 2027, funding four companies with periodic evaluations.
Jul 29, 2026, 01:27 UTC
SKT released the A.X-K2 family of AI foundation models, including A.X-K2, A.X-K2-ALM, and A.X-K2-Raon-Speech-21B-A3B, on Hugging Face.
Source:Jul 25, 2026, 05:30 UTC
SK Telecom will pursue investment cooperation with Anthropic on a gigawatt-scale AI data center project in South Korea.
Source:Jul 24, 2026, 23:38 UTC
SK Telecom announces plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI data center, which will use Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix HBM4 memory.
Source:Jul 5, 2026, 00:29 UTC
SK Telecom announced plans to build an AI data center of up to 15GW in Ulsan, aiming to become Asia's AI infrastructure hub.
Jul 1, 2026, 15:15 UTC
South Korea's antitrust regulator, the Korea Fair Trade Commission, alleged that Google abused its dominant position in the Android app marketplace and will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty.
Jun 26, 2026, 12:15 UTC
SK Telecom agreed to purchase a 0.9% stake in SK hynix NAND Product Solutions for $481 million.
Source:Jun 17, 2026, 22:52 UTC
The White House ordered Anthropic to revoke SK Telecom's access to Claude Mythos over alleged ties to China.
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