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286 storiesBoston Dynamics names former Amazon AI executive Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics, described by Korean outlets as Hyundai Motor Group's robot affiliate, said it has appointed Rohit Prasad, a former Amazon executive who led work on the Alexa voice assistant, as its new chief executive. The company said the…
Nanjing Massacre survivor Guo Xiulan dies at 94; 20 registered survivors remain
Guo Xiulan, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, died at her home at about 10 a.m. on Oct 7 at the age of 94, according to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. She was five when Japanese troops occupied …
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…
Hongjing Technology denies overseas media reports, says AI computing equipment bought via compliant channels
Hongjing Technology said on October 7 that it had seen “inaccurate reports” in some overseas media about its business activities. In a statement, the company said all of its computing power equipment is procured through compliant commercial…
Actress Jun Won-ju, 87, says she gifted half her assets to prevent inheritance dispute
Actress Jun Won-ju, 87, said she gifted half of her assets to her two sons and their wives in advance so they would not fight over her estate, speaking on MBC’s “PD수첩” episode “2026 Inheritance War: Time of the Family Left Behind,” which ai…
KCTU to vote Oct 7 on return to social dialogue; council ready to talk
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (민주노총) will hold its 85th temporary delegate conference at 1 p.m. on Oct 7 at KINTEX in Goyang to vote on joining the Economic, Social and Labor Council (경사노위), which would end a 27-year absence from…
SpaceX seeks $40bn Apollo-led financing to buy Nvidia chips, reports say
SpaceX is seeking about $40bn in financing, led by Apollo Global Management, to buy Nvidia chips, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter. The company plans roughly $10bn in bank loans and $30bn in investment-grade bonds…
Badminton's An Se-young, professor Kim Do-hyung win Pony Chung Young Leader Award
The Pony Chung Foundation said on Oct. 7 it has selected badminton national team player An Se-young and Kim Do-hyung, a professor of chemistry and biomolecular engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, as winners of the 7th Pony Chung …
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…
NC's Aion 2 tops 400,000 concurrent players on global launch day
NC began global service for its MMORPG Aion 2 on 5 October through Steam and its own Purple platform, and the company said peak concurrent players passed 400,000 on the first day. Early access had run from 30 September for five days for buy…
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…
Trump announces “Super Intelligence Force” AI task force led by Jay Clayton
President Donald Trump announced Sunday the creation of a “Super Intelligence Force,” a federal task force he said will coordinate government efforts to keep the United States leading in artificial intelligence, which he has directed the fe…
Hanwha's AI energy management system named to Fast Company's 2026 tech list
Fast Company named Energy Fluo, an AI-based energy management system developed by TransGrid Energy, a Hanwha FutureProof subsidiary, in the Applied AI category of its 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list. The company says the system analyses p…
Anthropic expands access to advanced AI models for vetted cyber testing
Anthropic said it is working with the US government to widen access to its most advanced AI models, letting a group of vetted institutions test its cutting-edge cyber capabilities. Approved organisations will be able to use Claude Opus 5.5,…
DigitalX launches app with generative AI chatbot, a first for a Korean crypto exchange
DigitalX, Mirae Asset's digital asset platform, launched a redesigned app on Oct 6 with a built-in generative AI chatbot, which the company says is the first among domestic crypto exchanges. The app adds conversational ordering with a user-…
France school protests draw 250,000 nationwide as clashes and arrests continue
High school students and supporters demonstrated across France on Oct 6 against teacher shortages and run-down school buildings. The interior ministry put nationwide participation at about 250,000, with one outlet citing about 256,000, and …
OpenAI CEO Altman says some AI risks must be accepted, drawing line with Anthropic
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Politico’s technology podcast “Decoded” that society must accept some negative outcomes to secure the benefits of artificial intelligence and keep humans in control. He described O…
TwelveLabs launches Pegasus 1.6 to turn first-person video into robot training data
Korean video-understanding AI company TwelveLabs said on Oct 7 it released Pegasus 1.6, a vision-language model that structures egocentric — first-person — video into data robots can learn from. The company says the model automates action s…
Nvidia-backed AI cloud firm Lambda seeks up to $4bn pre-IPO funding at $14.5bn valuation
Lambda, an AI cloud provider, is raising up to $4 billion in what is described as its final funding round before a planned initial public offering. The round is led by Blackstone and Coatue Management and values the company at $14.5 billion…
Missing 80s dementia patient found in Busan after 22-hour mountain search
An 80-something dementia patient reported missing on Eomgwang Mountain in Busan on the evening of Sept. 30 was found about 22 hours later after a search involving some 300 police and fire personnel. Police said the discovery followed a tip …