Transport, AI, Technology
216 storiesAMD CEO Lisa Su to visit Korea Oct. 7 for Gamer Day; AI chip talks expected
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su will visit Korea on Oct. 7, about seven months after her March trip, to attend an “AMD Gamer Day” event at 2 p.m. at Dragon City in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, AMD said. Su and senior vice president Jack Huynh will attend, …
Musk confirms Terafab-TSMC talks; Intel shares fall, TSMC hits record
Elon Musk confirmed on X that his chip project Terafab and Taiwan's TSMC are holding talks, saying it is “just discussions” but that something may come of it. TSMC has not issued an official position. After the reports, Intel shares fell wh…
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…
South Korea opens AI Festa 26 at Seoul's COEX, running Oct. 6-8
AI Festa 26, South Korea's national AI exhibition, opened on Oct. 6 at COEX in Seoul and runs through Oct. 8, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The event features AI foundation models from LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage, al…
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…
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…
Hisatsu Orange Railway to resume full service Oct. 13 after Kumamoto quake
Hisatsu Orange Railway said on Oct. 6 that it will run trains across its whole line from the first service on Oct. 13, reopening the Yatsushiro–Higo Tanoura section in Kumamoto Prefecture that the July earthquake forced it to close. Replace…
Samsung to launch Galaxy Tab S12 series and SmartTag3 in Korea on Oct 7
Samsung Electronics said it will launch the Galaxy Tab S12 series tablets and the Galaxy SmartTag3 tracking device in Korea on Oct 7. The tablets offer up to 23 hours of video playback, run large-screen Galaxy AI features and are the first …
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, open-weight model to rival Chinese models
Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that the New York-based startup says matches leading Chinese open models like Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 at lower compute cost. The Nvidia-backed company says Beam is in final sa…
MakinaRocks installs on-device AI assistant on Navy frigate Pohang
MakinaRocks said it has installed an “equipment operation AI assistant” on the Pohang frigate of the Navy’s First Fleet Command and begun trial operation. The system runs on the company’s own Runway AI operating system as a lightweight on-d…
OpenAI to add text watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex output in EU
OpenAI said it will introduce a text watermarking technology called Textgrain to mark AI-generated writing, applying it to ChatGPT and Codex output in the European Union within weeks to meet the EU AI Act’s transparency rules. The company s…
South Korea to spend 4.7 trillion won on frontier AI while keeping Dokpamo
The government plans to invest 4.7 trillion won next year in developing frontier AI models while continuing its Dokpamo independent AI foundation model project on a separate track. Dokpamo's third evaluation in February 2027 will still sele…
Apple and LG co-develop smart home devices including doorbell, lock and thermostat
Bloomberg reports that Apple and LG have co-developed a line of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, smart deadbolt lock, indoor and outdoor security cameras and a floodlight camera. The products are expected to carry…
OpenAI to add invisible text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex in the EU
OpenAI said it will add an invisible watermark, called textGrain, to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union, rolling out over the coming weeks to eligible users on all plans. API customers worldwide can opt in for select …
Abu Dhabi AI council reviews progress on UAE-US AI campus and AI-native government plan
Abu Dhabi’s Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council met on 6 October, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the presence of Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed. The council reviewed progress on the UA…
Moscow metro Zamoskvoretskaya line intervals increased for infrastructure check
Train intervals were increased on Moscow metro’s Zamoskvoretskaya line on 6 October for an infrastructure check, TASS reported. Interfax later reported that the increase affected the central section of the line and that service returned to …
Wikimedia Foundation finds unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation said it found unauthorized activity by OpenAI's AI agents on the Wikipedia platform, and believes service disruptions there in May were triggered by agents scraping millions of pages and querying hundreds of thousan…
Delta jet's wingtip clips Air Canada plane on LAX tarmac; FAA investigating
A Delta Air Lines Airbus A350 taxiing for takeoff at Los Angeles International Airport hit an Air Canada jet with its left wingtip on Tuesday morning, clipping the smaller plane's tail. The FAA is investigating and no injuries were reported…
MTS builds geopositioning network for Yandex autonomous transport on four highways
MTS has built a high-precision geopositioning infrastructure for managing Yandex’s autonomous transport, TASS and CNews reported, launched on the M-11 “Neva”, M4 “Don”, M-12 “Vostok” and Central Ring Road highways and in Moscow, St Petersbu…
China cross-regional trips total 303.6m on Oct. 3, down 0.4% year on year
China's Ministry of Transport reported 303.568 million cross-regional passenger trips on Oct. 3, 2026, the third day of the National Day holiday, down 0.6% from the previous day and 0.4% below the same day in 2025. Rail volume rose 6.1% yea…