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OpenAI in talks with Google to buy its TPU chips and expand its computing capacity
OpenAI is negotiating with Google to buy its TPU processors to expand its computing resources, according to The Information. Sam Altman's lab has been renting chips from Google since 2025, and its data centers, run with partners such as Oracle, SoftBank and CoreWeave, rely on Nvidia chips. In late August it unveiled Jalapeño, its own chip optimized for inference. The deal aims to reduce its dependence on Nvidia GPUs, which are costly and whose availability fluctuates due to TSMC's difficulty meeting demand.
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Impress secures 40 million EIB loan for its clinical AI
Spanish start-up Impress, specialized in invisible orthodontics and medical technology, signed a 40 million euro venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funds will boost its artificial intelligence platform across its network of more than 110 clinics and accelerate its expansion in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. With this injection, the company founded in 2019 has raised 290 million in total. Over the past year it posted positive EBITDA and 32% revenue growth, to 103 million euros.
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Marie Perrin, 28, develops a method to recover europium from used lamps
Marie Perrin, a 28-year-old chemist born in Houston to French parents, developed a technology to recover rare earths, especially europium, from waste such as used fluorescent bulbs and neon tubes, which can contain up to twenty times more europium than natural minerals. The European Patent Office describes it as "faster, cleaner and more sustainable." Perrin founded the startup Reecover with her best friend from chemistry preparatory classes and with Victor Mougel, her former thesis supervisor at ETH Zurich, to scale it industrially.
TechnologyInternationalFutura, le média qui explore le mondeOct 28AI
Apple unveils its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and brings back the illuminated logo
Apple introduced new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with a touch-enabled main display, the first in Mac history. The devices debut PROLED XDR panels with tandem OLED architecture, up to 2,000 nits of brightness, 10,000,000:1 contrast and 120 Hz, plus Dynamic Island. macOS 27 adds features to control the computer with fingers. They run on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with up to 128 GB of memory and 16 TB of storage. In Spain they start at 3,349 euros and pre-orders are open.
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Ukraine dismantles military scheme that stole drones and resold them to the Army itself
Ukraine's Prosecutor's Office dismantled a scheme inside the Armed Forces that took drones from its own arsenal, erased their serial numbers and altered brands and QR codes at a workshop in Dnipropetrovsk to resell them to the Army as new. Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalski reported 600 drones recovered and 16 suspects detained, including the ringleader, a former soldier. The scheme cost the state about 16 million hryvnias.
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Apple unveils its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display
Apple announced the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, the first Mac with touch control. It comes in 14 and 16 inches with a tandem OLED panel, Dynamic Island instead of a notch, a thinner and lighter body and macOS adapted for finger use. It uses the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Pre-orders are open now, it reaches stores on November 6 and starts at 3,349 euros for the 14-inch model and 3,949 euros for the 16-inch.
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Boox unveils the Palma 3, an e-ink device that looks like a phone
Boox presented the Palma 3, a device with a 6.1-inch e-ink display and rectangular format that looks like a phone or a mini tablet, without cellular connectivity. It runs Android 16 and has an eight-core chip, 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, a 16-megapixel camera, a 3950 mAh battery and support for a special stylus. Its international price is 320 dollars. TIME also named the Xteink X4 Pro reader, with a 4.3-inch screen and a 99-dollar price, among the tech products of 2026.
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Anthropic designs a voting structure to keep founders in control after its IPO
Anthropic, an AI lab incorporated in 2021 as a Public Benefit Corporation, plans to go public in mid-November. Its seven co-founders, including Dario and Daniela Amodei, have designed a structure to retain control: a Founder LLC will receive a single Class F share that will hold 50.1% of the voting power on certain shareholder decisions, separating administrative control from economic ownership, a mechanism similar to Palantir's.
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Red Intercable and Tuenti discuss how to scale in the new digital economy
At the panel "Scaling and creating value in the new digital economy" during the Jornadas Internacionales, Lucio Gamaleri, president of Red Intercable, described the challenges facing its operators: costs that cannot be fully passed on to prices, shorter deadlines to migrate to fiber and satellite competitors under different rules. Ezequiel Sambucetti, of Metrotel, presented the move into mass consumer market with Tuenti after buying about six million mobile customers for USD 450 million. Eduardo Rossetti shared his experience in Chile and Spain.
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Google: how to enable AI Mode and return to traditional search
Google's AI Mode is a conversational search experience that splits a question into subtopics, runs related queries and combines the information into an answer. It is accessed from the Google app or Chrome on Android, from the app or Safari on iPhone, or at google.com/ai, with no separate app or subscription required. To return to traditional results, users select the All tab; automatic AI summaries cannot be permanently disabled, but the Web filter shows only text links.
TechnologyInternationalRevista MercadoOct 28AI
LZB safety system failure: the technology under renewal on the Madrid-Seville line
The rail accident that left dozens dead in the province of Toledo, Spain, raised questions about the safety of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line. Before the collision, a fault put the LZB system out of service, a German technology used since 1992 that monitors speed and can brake automatically. Adif had awarded its replacement by ERTMS Level 2 in September 2021, with contracts exceeding 136 million euros and completion scheduled for 2026. The investigation remains open.
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Artificial intelligence, drones and forensic science: topics of an international congress in Manizales
The Escuela de Carabineros Alejandro Gutiérrez in Manizales will host on Thursday and Friday the XII International Congress on Criminal Science and Criminalistics and the XVI International Congress on Transnational Crime and Criminal Investigation. Experts from Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Mexico and Argentina will take part. There will be workshops on forensic lights, drones and fingerprinting, plus thematic tracks on artificial intelligence, neuroscience, human rights and forensic science. The virtual opening lecture will be given by Argentine jurist Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni.
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Movistar and Orange clarify what to do if you have a router affected by the Broadcom security flaw
Researcher Quentin Kaiser found, with the help of a cybersecurity-focused AI model, a vulnerability in the firmware of a Broadcom WiFi chip present in home routers from several operators. The flaw allows root access and copying the WiFi network key from RAM remotely and without authentication. Movistar and Orange confirmed to Xataka that they are already working on protective measures and that no device has been compromised to date.
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Technology monitoring cut speeding events by 90% in an operation with 1,420 drivers
According to preliminary figures from the National Road Safety Agency, 4,751 people died in road crashes in the first half of 2026, 20% more than in the same period of 2025. In that context, Infotrack supported a corporate operation with 1,420 active drivers in which reported speeding events fell from about 70,000 to 7,000 in six months, a 90% decrease. The company says technology monitoring, combined with feedback to drivers, supports prevention decisions.
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Chinese researchers seek to cut silver use in conductive pastes for photovoltaics
Researchers at Central South University in China studied how the surface bump density of silver-coated copper (Cu@Ag) powder particles affects the rheology and conductivity of conductive pastes. With pastes containing just 17% silver by weight, they achieved higher viscosity, better thixotropic recovery and lower volume resistivity, down to 0.72 × 10⁻⁴ Ω·cm, without adding silver nanoparticles. The approach could reduce silver consumption and costs in photovoltaic metallization.
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Alphabet and Microsoft report earnings with AI and cloud in focus
Alphabet and Microsoft report quarterly results on Wednesday after the Wall Street close, with artificial intelligence in focus. Consensus expects Alphabet revenue near US$128 billion and Google Cloud sales of about US$29.15 billion; for Microsoft, revenue of US$90.6 billion and Azure growth of 44% to 45% in constant currency. The market is watching margins and cash generation: in the quarter ended in June, Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of US$5.855 billion, while Microsoft kept a positive balance of US$19.639 billion.
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Latin America must "rethink" its education investment amid technological change, says incoming OEI secretary general
Andrés Delich, incoming secretary general of the OEI, told EFE that Latin America must "rethink" how it invests and spends on education to adapt its systems to the dynamics driven by technology and artificial intelligence. Delich, who will replace Mariano Jabonero in January, said resources are lacking and spending quality must improve, and anticipated that states will close school sections due to falling student numbers. He also backed micro-credentials as a shorter, more flexible training format.
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Amazon refreshes its Echo lineup with on-device AI, built-in eero router and a smart alarm clock
Amazon unveiled a new generation of smart devices compatible with Alexa+, featuring a more capable processor, AI functions running on-device and integrated connectivity. The Echo Dot costs 104.99 euros (kids version 114.99), includes the AZ3 chip, a smart-home controller and works as an eero network extender with up to 93 square meters of additional coverage. The Echo Studio with camera sells for 225.99 euros and the Echo Time, an alarm clock with a 3.2-inch touchscreen and sleep sensors, for 214.99 euros.
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Interactive map from University of Chicago projects 373,000 additional heat deaths from super El Niño
A team of researchers linked to the University of Chicago launched the El Niño Heat Mortality Tracker, an interactive map from the Climate Impact Lab that projects about 373,000 additional deaths from extreme heat between October and March 2027 worldwide. The tool provides data by state or province and is updated monthly. The lab initially estimated 857,400 additional deaths between June 2026 and March 2027, of which about 484,500 may already have occurred. For Chile it projects close to 200 deaths through March 2027.
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Discord to let messages from public servers appear on Google starting in November
Discord announced that messages from its public servers (Discoverable Servers, with at least 1,000 members) will be viewable on the web and may appear in search engines. Pages will be accessible from November 16 and some messages will reach search results in mid-December. The feature will be on by default for adults in much of the world, except in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Users can turn it off under Data & Privacy.
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