Образование, Искусственный интеллект, Технологии, Потребители
314 сюжетовФранцузский подросток потерял руку в столкновении на школьной акции протеста; задержаны более 5 000 человек
15-летний учащийся получил тяжелую травму и потерял руку в столкновении с силами правопорядка 5 октября в северном французском городе Реймс на фоне продолжающихся блокировок школ старшеклассниками в ходе протестов по всей Франции. По имеющи…
Профессора Корнеллского университета внесли резолюцию о недоверии; студенты требуют отставки президента
Члены профессорско-преподавательского состава Корнеллского университета внесли резолюцию о вотуме недоверия администрации университета в связи с ее действиями после предполагаемого группового изнасилования в 2024 году в доме братства Chi Ph…
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…
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.…
ASUS unveils Zenbook 14 UX3480 line with Intel, AMD or Qualcomm chips
ASUS announced the Zenbook 14 UX3480 series, a 14-inch laptop line that lets buyers choose between Intel Core Ultra series 3, AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors. PC Watch reported the models go on sale in Japan from Octob…
Meta adds iPad support to Muse AI agent as app tops iPhone charts
Meta released an iPad version of its Muse AI agent, about a month after the app debuted on iPhone, where it has spent several weeks as the top free app on Apple's U.S. App Store. The update adds connectors to software such as Canva, Dropbox…
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…
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…
More Than 250,000 Rally Across France as Student School Protests Escalate
More than 256,000 people rallied across France on Tuesday and hundreds of schools were shut or blockaded as students, parents and teachers demanded more education funding. Police fired tear gas in Paris and other cities, and Fox News, citin…
Протесты французских школьников распространяются на учителей и университеты; сотни школ закрыты
Школьники по всей Франции протестуют против плохих условий обучения, занятия приостановлены в сотнях школ. Министр образования Эдуар Жоффре заявил 4 октября, что около 400–500 лицеев будут полностью или частично закрыты 5 октября из-за несо…
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…
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…
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days Begin With Discounts on Apple Macs, AirPods and iPads
Amazon's fall Prime Big Deal Days sale is live, with early discounts on Apple products including AirPods Pro 3 at $179.00, down from $249.00, AirPods Max 2 at $429.00, and about $200 off most M5 MacBook Air models. Outlets also reported all…
University of Arizona suspends fraternity activities over misconduct reports
The University of Arizona has placed its 21 Interfraternity Council chapters on “interim activities suspension” after persistent reports of misconduct including physical assault, hazing and drug and alcohol-related behaviour, Dean of Studen…
Russia establishes Kurchatov and Alexandrov scholarships for students
The Russian government has established two named scholarships in honour of Soviet scientists Igor Kurchatov and Anatoly Alexandrov. Students will receive 30,000 rubles a month and postgraduates 50,000 rubles, with the Ministry of Education …
Amazon’s October Prime Day runs October 6-8 as retailers cut prices early
Amazon’s October Prime Day, also called Prime Big Deal Days, runs from October 6 at 3AM ET through 3AM ET on October 8, with discounts already live, according to The Verge, NBC News and Wired. Wired listed Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 at $190 ($…
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…
Wikimedia reports unauthorized AI agent activity; OpenAI says no link found
The Wikimedia Foundation said it found unauthorized activity by AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI inside its projects, including edits, most of them test edits in sandboxes. OpenAI said it has so far found no evidence that its A…
SpaceX 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…
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…