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167 storiesAMD's Lisa Su visits Korea, agrees AI chip cooperation with local firms
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su visited Korea on Oct. 7, about seven months after her March trip, meeting Second Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong of the Science and ICT Ministry and a roundtable of Korean AI semiconductor and infrastructure companies.…
Abu Dhabi's AI Everything opens with 400 exhibitors alongside Global Food Week
AI Everything 2026 opened on 6 October at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi and runs to 7 October, with WAM reporting 400 exhibitors and 180 speakers, and Economy Middle East reporting more than 400 companies, 200-plus investors managing about $10…
SpaceX seeks $40 billion in borrowing to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40 billion to fund a purchase of Nvidia chips, according to a Financial Times report cited by Reuters and MarketWatch. Bloomberg said it understands the financing would be among the biggest-ever debt financings…
Dubai launches Create AI Agents Championship with prizes over Dh2.5m
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, launched the Create AI Agents Championship at an awards ceremony in Dubai on Wednesday, with total prize money exceeding Dh2.5 million. The competition accepts ideas, prototypes and minimum…
Wikimedia reports unauthorized AI agent activity; OpenAI says no link found
The Wikimedia Foundation said it found unauthorized activity by AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI inside its projects, including edits, most of them test edits in sandboxes. OpenAI said it has so far found no evidence that its A…
Google opens SynthID AI-content detector to users worldwide
Google has opened its SynthID Detector to users worldwide, letting them check whether images, video or audio were generated by AI. The tool recognises watermarks from Google models and from partners including OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao, with …
OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math manuscripts, sparking ethics debate
OpenAI has published 722 mathematics manuscripts, grouped into 372 result groups, produced by an unreleased internal frontier model, saying they solve or make substantive progress on hundreds of long-open problems. The release on GitHub inc…
Abu Dhabi launches AiNative programme to train 20,000 government employees in AI
Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement launched AiNative, an AI training programme, at the Ai Everything conference in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. The programme aims to train 20,000 government employees by the end of 2026 and is part o…
UAE ranks first globally in citizen satisfaction with government digital services
The UAE ranked first globally in citizen satisfaction with government digital services, with 89% of respondents rating them highly, according to Boston Consulting Group’s 2026 Digital Government Citizen Survey Report. The survey, covering 4…
DeepSeek funding round nears 100 billion yuan, valuation seen at 500 billion
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek is expected to raise close to 100 billion yuan (about 20 trillion won) in its current funding round, with CATL and Tencent committing the largest amounts, according to Yonhap, citing Bloomberg. The round, which…
Japan farm ministry orders Fukui seafood firm over mislabeled Echizen crab gifts
Japan's agriculture ministry issued a measures order on Oct 6 against Fukumaru Foods, a seafood processor in Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture, for labeling products as Echizen crab while using mizugani, a crab not counted as Echizen crab. The…
Nine crested ibis released in Ishikawa, second such release on Honshu
Nine crested ibis were released on Oct. 7 in Nakanoto Town, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the second release of the birds on Japan's main island of Honshu. Organisers used the “soft release” method, opening a temporary cage in the Haruki district…
SpaceX in talks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips, reports say
SpaceX is negotiating to raise about $40 billion in debt to buy Nvidia chips and expand its AI computing infrastructure, according to Financial Times and Bloomberg reports cited by Russian outlets. About $10 billion would come as bank loans…
Russian presidential administration uses AI services, Oreshkin says
Maxim Oreshkin, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, said the administration uses all available artificial intelligence services, including Gigachat, speaking at the plenary session of the Digital Solutions forum. He adde…
Altman says AI benefits justify risks as Florida criticism and OpenAI lawsuit surface
Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, says the benefits of artificial intelligence justify the risks and negative events that come with it, but he is not prepared to accept “truly catastrophic risks” including losing control of AI, according to RBC, …
Meta adds iPad support to Muse AI agent as app tops iPhone charts
Meta released an iPad version of its Muse AI agent, about a month after the app debuted on iPhone, where it has spent several weeks as the top free app on Apple's U.S. App Store. The update adds connectors to software such as Canva, Dropbox…
Intel to stay in Musk's Terafab chip venture; Musk rejects TSMC takeover talk
Intel will remain part of Elon Musk's Terafab chipmaking project, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told reporters, and MarketWatch said the news lifted the chipmaker's shares. Musk said Terafab will build and run its fab itself, rejecting rumors that T…
France's Mistral releases largest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4
France's Mistral released Mistral Large 4, its largest open-weight AI model, nicknamed “Chonk”, on Oct 6 foreign local time, with general availability set for Oct 27. Users can download the parameters, or weights, and customize the model on…
Google launches Playground, an AI platform for creating games from text prompts
Google announced Playground, a browser-based experimental platform where users create games by typing prompts, available in the US to users 18 and older. Games can be kept private, shared by link or published to a Playground Explore gallery…
California signs first US law requiring human review of AI firing decisions
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act (SB 947) on September 30, barring companies from firing or disciplining workers based only on automated decision systems and requiring human review. The law follows cases in whi…