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Nvidia chief faces inquiry after disclosing affair with suspected Chinese agent

Jensen Huang, CEO of tech giant Nvidia, has publicly admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. The company is one of the most valuable in the world and is at the centre of China's AI race, producing the most advanced AI chips ever seen.

Apple’s 20th Anniversary iPhone to Skip Action Button for Camera Control Integration

Apple is reportedly planning to remove the dedicated Action Button from its upcoming 20th anniversary iPhone, according to a new leak. The tipster suggests that the functionality will be merged with the existing Camera Control button, which would handle both camera operations and action triggers through different press durations.

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Samsung expects 780% quarterly operating profit jump on AI boom

Samsung Electronics forecast Thursday a more than 780 percent leap in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, buoyed by high memory chip prices as AI fuels a global supply shortage.

IROS 2026|PaXini Showcases Full-Stack Tactile Strategy for Physical AI

PITTSBURGH, PA / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2026 / As global researchers and industry leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for IROS 2026 (Sep. 27-Oct. 1) to tackle the scaling of Physical AI, PaXini AI took center stage, showcasing its full-stack products from chips to humanoid robots and hosting GEEN 2026 · IROS, the Global Embodied Ecosystem Night. The event was not merely an exchange, but an industry gathering focused on the deployment of embodied intelligence.

Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop

Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than $2,500, the company announced Wednesday.

From 1800s to modern pharma: a Nobel-winning chemistry quest

Wednesday's Nobel chemistry prize crowned a series of advances that started in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs for modern pharmaceutical manufacturing.

HSBC 'consults' over UK unit job cuts amid AI adoption

HSBC said Wednesday consultations were underway, after the Financial Times reported that hundreds of jobs were at risk from the bank's adoption of artificial intelligence.

French-Japanese duo wins chemistry Nobel for solving molecular 'mystery'

France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the mystery of why only one form of certain molecules appears in nature, a discovery decisive for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Loar Holdings Inc. Announces Date and Time for Third Quarter 2026 Earnings and Conference Call

WHITE PLAINS, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2026 / Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR) will report Q3 2026 earnings before the market opens on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

PostSig Expands Enterprise Platform for Financial and Operational Control

New capabilities connect governing commitments to spend, inventory, products and vendors across complex commercial relationships

Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over

Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades -- but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserable," he admits.

Neutrinos: space particles that change our view of universe

Miniscule but packed with energy, neutrinos charge to Earth from outer space, bringing valuable data on the cosmos, according to research that won this year's Nobel physics prize.

Nobel physics prize hails 'ghostly messengers' from space

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel physics prize for groundbreaking work using Antarctic ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos, providing insight into the far reaches of space.

American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain

Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.

AI borrowing binge rattles US markets

The world's richest companies can no longer rely on their massive cash piles alone to stay in the artificial intelligence race and have suddenly started borrowing massively in a shift that is sending repercussions across the world.

Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments. But like many US universities, his institution is shunning AI detection software.

ComplianceQuest and Zolon PCS Selected to Modernize U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Enterprise Quality Management System

ComplianceQuest's AI-powered Connected Quality, Risk and Compliance (QRC) platform to be delivered across FDA under Zolon PCS's five-year Cloud Quality Management System BPA

Norway eyes partial ban of smart glasses

Norway's government said Monday it wants a temporary ban on the use of smart glasses in certain public places, citing privacy concerns, notably recording images without the knowledge of those filmed.

US-German trio wins medicine Nobel for work on optogenetics

The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work in the field of optogenetics.

Zuckerberg skewered again on screen in 'The Social Reckoning'

Sixteen years after being portrayed as a power-hungry start-upper in "The Social Network" film, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set for another damning on-screen depiction, this time as a ruthless Silicon Valley overlord.

Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history

The sun had barely risen, but diving volunteer Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-thriving city have lain submerged for centuries.

Research into weight-loss drugs tipped for Nobel as award week opens

Research into hormones that regulate appetite is on everybody's lips for the Nobel medicine prize, to be announced on Monday when the 2026 Nobel season kicks off.

Securitas Technology Releases 2027 Global Technology Outlook Report

New report highlights how AI, cloud platforms and connected security ecosystems are reshaping the future of security

Spy chief Clayton, the Trump loyalist tech bosses trust on AI

Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's pick for AI czar, is the nation's top spy, and a rare figure trusted by both the president and the tech bosses determined to keep the AI boom roaring.

Not-so-brave new world: virtual taekwondo makes Asian Games debut

Taekwondo dates back more than 2,000 years, but on Friday at the Asian Games the Korean martial art stepped into a not-so-brave future where nobody gets hurt: virtual taekwondo.

Four-member crew docks at International Space Station

Four new crew members for the International Space Station docked Thursday at the orbiting laboratory where they will stay for approximately six months.

Datavault AI CEO to Present "Operating System for Tokenized Assets" at XRP Seoul 2026

Session to debut the first official XRP Seoul commemorative token, powered by ADIO® tone-to-token technology, and demonstrate unified valuation, credentialing, and verified metadata for real-world assets

Four-member crew blasts off for International Space Station

Four new crew members for the International Space Station blasted off Thursday for the orbital laboratory where they will stay for approximately six months.

Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands

In a soggy field between Amsterdam and The Hague, farmer Sander Roeleveld ploughs a small white combine harvester into his crops, gathering a grain never before harvested in the Netherlands: rice.

UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir's health service deal

The UK government is facing mounting pressure to end a £330-million contract between the National Health Service and AI giant Palantir, as doctors, lawmakers and campaigners warn of ethical risks.

GA-ASI Demonstrates Disaster Relief Comms System With SoftBank Corp.

Japanese Supplier Working With GA-ASI on Communications Payload for MQ-9B

Transoft Solutions Launches InSTRATO

The new web-based design platform for transportation professionals

ID TECH and SFEY Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Payment Solutions for Europe's Self-Service and Unattended Markets

Partnership combines ID TECH's unattended payment hardware portfolio with SFEY's payment platform and certification expertise to accelerate deployment across Europe.

Google restricts access to new AI model over safety concerns

Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers.

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