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591 noticiasSpaceX 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…
AMD'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.…
Trump signs order allowing tax-free red-dyed diesel on highways
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday temporarily allowing off-road red-dyed diesel to be used for highway driving and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of 2026 without interest or penalties.…
Defense minister: arts, sports military service exemption to be cut and abolished
South Korea's defense minister said on Oct 7 that the goal is to gradually reduce the arts and sports military service exemption and ultimately abolish it, after controversy over remarks by Asian Games football gold medallists about the exe…
Apple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, a smart door lock, a security camera and a smart temperature sensor and thermostat — to be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomber…
South Korea unveils 1,000 trillion won green transition plan to 2035
South Korea announced a “Korean-style Green Transition” (K-GX) strategy on Oct 7, pledging about 1,000 trillion won over ten years to 2035 — 200 trillion won in fiscal support and more than 790 trillion won in climate finance through five p…
US presses Russia to disclose details of suspected plague pathogen leak at Irkutsk lab
The Trump administration is urging Russia to release more information about a suspected plague pathogen leak at a research institute in Irkutsk, saying it cannot set its response level without the facts. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sa…
Hoban Construction develops AI design tech to auto-apply per-unit buyer options
Hoban Construction said it developed AI-based design technology that automatically reflects apartment buyers’ option contract choices in each unit’s building information model (BIM). The technology was developed jointly with building and in…
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…
Japan PM Takaichi asked Trump to press Kim on a Japan-North Korea summit
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi asked US President Donald Trump, at their September meeting, to urge North Korea's Kim Jong Un to accept a Japan-North Korea summit if a US-North Korea summit takes place. She described the request to families …
Turkey's Aselsan announces Astralink network of 198 low-orbit satellites
Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol said at the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya that Turkey is building Astralink, a low-orbit satellite constellation of 198 spacecraft, with the first launch planned within two years. Akyol said work be…
Lee de Corea del Sur ordena reiniciar desde cero las conversaciones sobre el CPTPP en medio de preocupaciones agrícolas
El presidente Lee Jae-myung instruyó en una reunión de gabinete el 6 de octubre que el gobierno no fije una conclusión sobre la adhesión al CPTPP y que “reinicie el diálogo desde el principio”, diciendo que el valor estratégico del pacto se…
EU ambassadors agree 22nd sanctions package targeting over 1,500 Russian entities
EU ambassadors agreed on a 22nd sanctions package against Russia that adds more than 1,500 individuals and legal entities to the bloc's lists, according to European media cited by Interfax and TASS. Interfax said the bulk of the measures ta…
Reflection AI, respaldada por Nvidia, presenta Beam, un modelo de pesos abiertos para rivalizar con los modelos chinos
Reflection AI presentó Beam, un modelo de IA de pesos abiertos de 501.000 millones de parámetros que, según la startup con sede en Nueva York, iguala a modelos abiertos chinos líderes como GLM-5.2 de Z.ai con un menor coste computacional. L…
Trump says a phone call with Putin is planned “very soon”
US President Donald Trump said a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin is planned and will take place “very soon”. Trump gave no date or agenda. Russian outlets carried the announcement without reporting any Kremlin comment o…
South Korea: North Korean mines south of MDL breached armistice, minefield cleared
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded that a Sept. 21 landmine explosion on the western DMZ was caused by a North Korean mine placed about 10 metres south of the Military Demarcation Line, an armistice violation, and the military re…
NATO Military Committee members hold talks in Kyiv, Russian outlets report
Members of the NATO Military Committee held talks in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to reports carried by Russian outlets citing the Italian agency ANSA. TASS said the committee “secretly” visited Ukraine, and that its chairman, Italian Admir…
FT: EU weighs universal corporate levy to raise taxes on US tech giants
The European Commission is considering a new mechanism to raise more tax revenue from large US technology companies without singling them out as a separate category, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Under discussion is …
Un estudio del Ejército halló que los guantes de descarga eléctrica de ICE causan dolor, obediencia y miedo, informa AP
Un estudio del Ejército no divulgado previamente encontró que los guantes de descarga eléctrica que ahora compra el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) causaron dolor intenso, obediencia inmediata y miedo a …
Russia says no current plans for Russia-US-Ukraine trilateral meeting
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said there are currently no plans for a trilateral meeting between Russia, the United States and Ukraine, adding that further steps do not depend on Moscow. Ryabkov said no pause had occurred i…