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417 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.…
Se inaugura en un museo de Incheon la exposición del centenario del braille coreano Hunmaengjeongeum
Una exposición especial que conmemora los 100 años del Hunmaengjeongeum, el sistema de braille coreano creado por Songam Park Doo-sung, se inaugura el 7 de octubre en el Museo Nacional de Escrituras del Mundo, en Incheon. La muestra, organi…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
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…
Michelle Yeoh attends Busan film festival, receives Asian Filmmaker award
Actor Michelle Yeoh visited the Busan International Film Festival, receiving the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award at the opening ceremony and speaking at a press conference at the Busan Cinema Center on Oct 7. She said she and the festival…
Korean trainer Yang Chi-seung says gym fraud losses reached nearly 2 billion won
Trainer Yang Chi-seung said he lost nearly 2 billion won in the fallout of a 기부채납 (donation-for-public-use) fraud case involving the gym he ran for years, up from earlier reports of about 1.5 billion won. He disclosed the figure and his emo…
Kim Jong-min, de Koyote, será padre; su esposa está embarazada de 17 semanas
Kim Jong-min, de 47 años, integrante de Koyote y presentador de televisión, dijo que su esposa está embarazada de 17 semanas y que será padre. Su agencia, Jizistar, dijo que la pareja se prepara para el nacimiento y que los detalles, inclui…
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …
Police begin protection for actor Yoo Hae-jin amid ‘Assassin(s)’ controversy
Seongbuk Police Station in Seoul began safety measures for actor Yoo Hae-jin on Oct 6 after his agency requested protection, issuing him a smartwatch, registering him in the 112 emergency system and strengthening patrols near his home. The …
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…
El Nobel de Química recae en el japonés Soai Kenso y el francés Henri Kagan
La Real Academia Sueca de las Ciencias anunció el 7 de octubre que el Premio Nobel de Química de 2026 recae en Soai Kenso, de 76 años, profesor emérito de la Universidad de Ciencias de Tokio, y en el francés Henri Kagan, por el descubrimien…
Busan International Film Festival opens 31st edition with 247 invited films
The 31st Busan International Film Festival opened on the evening of Oct. 6 at the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae district and runs through Oct. 15. Organisers invited 247 films from 59 countries, with 316 screenings in all including the co…
El cohete Nuri despega en su quinto vuelo con un récord de 15 satélites
El cohete Nuri de Corea del Sur fue lanzado a las 12:25 p.m. del 7 de octubre desde el Centro Espacial Naro en Goheung, después de que el comité de gestión del lanzamiento confirmara la hora esa mañana. El cohete transporta 15 satélites —ci…
Culture minister: creativity must not be constrained amid 'Assassin(s)' dispute
Culture minister Choi Hwi-young told a National Assembly audit of his ministry on Oct 7 that “imagination and creation should not be constrained,” saying the question of historical distortion in the film “Assassin(s)” was for audiences to j…
Henri Kagan y Kenso Soai ganan el Premio Nobel de Química 2026
Henri B. Kagan y Kenso Soai ganaron el Premio Nobel de Química 2026, anunciado el miércoles en la Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias en Estocolmo, por sus trabajos sobre moléculas que existen como imágenes especulares entre sí. Kagan demostró …
El Nobel de Medicina va para tres investigadores por la optogenética
El Instituto Karolinska anunció el 5 de octubre que el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina de 2026 es para Karl Deisseroth, de la Universidad de Stanford; Peter Hegemann, de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín, y Georg Nagel, de la Universi…
Nuri rocket lifts off at 12:25 with 15 satellites on fifth flight
South Korea's Nuri launch vehicle lifted off at 12:25 local time on Oct 7 from the second pad of the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying five ultra-small cluster satellites and 10 cubesats. Kerosene and liquid oxygen loading was complete…
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…
Nobel physics prize goes to IceCube neutrino researcher Francis Halzen
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 6 October that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery…