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279 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…
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…
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 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 …
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…
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…
Abu Dhabi launches AiNative programme to train 20,000 government employees in AI
Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement launched AiNative, an AI training programme, at the Ai Everything conference in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. The programme aims to train 20,000 government employees by the end of 2026 and is part o…
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…
UAE ranks first globally in citizen satisfaction with government digital services
The UAE ranked first globally in citizen satisfaction with government digital services, with 89% of respondents rating them highly, according to Boston Consulting Group’s 2026 Digital Government Citizen Survey Report. The survey, covering 4…
Un petrolero se incendia en el mar Negro cerca de Sochi; cierran las playas de Sirius
Un petrolero se incendió en el mar Negro cerca de Sochi, según medios estatales y económicos rusos. El jefe de la administración del territorio federal de Sirius, Dmitri Plishkin, dijo que sus playas se cerrarán temporalmente y que la calid…
SpaceX in talks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips, reports say
SpaceX is negotiating to raise about $40 billion in debt to buy Nvidia chips and expand its AI computing infrastructure, according to Financial Times and Bloomberg reports cited by Russian outlets. About $10 billion would come as bank loans…
Russian presidential administration uses AI services, Oreshkin says
Maxim Oreshkin, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, said the administration uses all available artificial intelligence services, including Gigachat, speaking at the plenary session of the Digital Solutions forum. He adde…
Fire at Ustuu-Khuree Buddhist monastery complex in Tuva put out; no injuries
A fire broke out on 7 October at the Ustuu-Khuree Buddhist monastery complex in Tuva, about 5 km from the town of Chadan. Emergency services localized the blaze and later extinguished it; the MChS reported an area of 468 sq m, while earlier…
Altman says AI benefits justify risks as Florida criticism and OpenAI lawsuit surface
Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, says the benefits of artificial intelligence justify the risks and negative events that come with it, but he is not prepared to accept “truly catastrophic risks” including losing control of AI, according to RBC, …
China emite alerta amarilla por inundaciones repentinas para partes de Jilin, Heilongjiang y Sichuan
El Ministerio de Recursos Hídricos y la Administración Meteorológica de China emitieron conjuntamente una alerta amarilla por inundaciones repentinas a las 18:00 del 4 de octubre, válida desde las 20:00 de ese día hasta las 20:00 del 5 de o…
Boy falls into Lake Biwa at Nagahama Port, taken to hospital in cardiopulmonary arrest
A boy fell into Lake Biwa at Nagahama Port in Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture, on the afternoon of October 7 and was taken to hospital in cardiopulmonary arrest, police and fire officials said. One outlet reported he was a 12-year-old first…