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Here is your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, January 23rd. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

South Korea has enacted the world's first comprehensive set of laws governing artificial

intelligence. Among other things, the AI Basic Act requires watermarks on AI generated

content that could be mistaken for real life and says that companies must enable

humans to be able to intervene in AI decision-making. Violations can result in fines of up to

$20,000 and in order to correct the offending behavior. The government has given a grace period of

at least one year to fine-tune the rules. The act drew backlash from some local

startups, which called the rules vague and said they could stymie innovation.

We are exclusively reporting that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation

into allegations that HR company Deal recruited a spy inside a rival firm, Rippling. An Ireland-based Rippling employee

alleged in an affidavit filed in April that Deal's chief executive recruited and gave him

instructions for what information to take from Rippling. A spokeswoman for Deal said the

company isn't aware of a criminal investigation, but is willing to cooperate with

authorities. A round of funding announced in October, several months after the alleged spying was

made public, marked up deals valuation to $17.3 billion from an earlier $12 billion, suggesting

its business has continued to grow in the wake of the allegations.

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