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382 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…
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…
Tropical Depression Nine forecast to become Hurricane Isaias, threaten Gulf Coast
Tropical Depression Nine formed in the southwestern Gulf with 35 mph winds and is forecast to become Tropical Storm Isaias and then a hurricane on Thursday, CNN reported. It is expected to reach Category 2 strength with 100 mph winds as it …
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.…
Thailand flood death toll reaches 60; Bangkok and 27 provinces affected
Thailand's Interior Ministry disaster agency said on Oct 7 that flooding has killed 60 people and affected more than 1.48 million households, or 4.19 million people. The country has seen repeated heavy rain and widespread flooding since Sep…
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…
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…
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 …
El tifón n.º 27 avanza hacia el norte cerca de Ogasawara mientras se forman los tifones n.º 28 y n.º 29
El tifón n.º 27, descrito por la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón como grande y muy fuerte, avanzó hacia el norte sobre aguas cercanas a las islas Ogasawara y se preveía que se acercara a las islas con intensidad muy fuerte desde la tarde del…
La tormenta tropical Isaias se forma frente a México y se pronostica que azotará la costa del Golfo de Estados Unidos como huracán
La tormenta tropical Isaias se formó la madrugada del miércoles en aguas cálidas frente al este de México con vientos máximos sostenidos de 40 mph, y el Centro Nacional de Huracanes dijo que se espera que se fortalezca hasta convertirse en …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tres tifones activos cerca de Japón mientras el tifón 27 avanza hacia el norte, según la JMA
La Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA) anunció el 5 de octubre que se habían formado el tifón 28 (Nolo) y el tifón 29 (Koguma), con lo que hay tres tifones activos cerca de Japón junto con el tifón 27 (Choi-wan). El tifón 27 era grande y m…
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…