The Nvidia GTC conference in Berlin featured live demonstrations of robotics, facial recognition and the latest AI hardware, including the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and the modular Vera Rubin DSK Pod data center. Jensen Huang spoke to roughly 3,000 developers, analysts and journalists about the company's plans to bring AI into European industry.
Meta's third-quarter revenue grew 26% to $64.6 billion, exceeding analysts' expectations. Headcount fell 12% to about 66,000 after summer layoffs affecting roughly 10% of staff. The company raised the lower end of its capital expenditure guidance to $135 billion and announced the issuance of Class C shares in January 2027.
China's CSI 300 stock index fell roughly 20% from its June high during Thursday trading, entering 'bear market' territory. The decline followed ten straight weeks of losses. Among the cited reasons are concerns over corporate profits, excess production capacity, a prolonged crisis in the real estate sector, weak consumer demand, and doubts about the returns on AI investments.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's conference in Berlin that warnings that AI could destroy humanity are 'fabricated' and 'cheap' attempts to get headlines. He called for developing AI with 'responsible optimism,' whereas the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI had previously advocated slowing down development.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, according to Bloomberg, raised about $15 billion (100 billion yuan) — one of the largest rounds in the country. Potential investors reportedly include CATL and Tencent. The round came two days after a US order to remove DeepSeek technology from civilian federal agencies' systems.
In an article for Gazeta, expert Bekhzodkhon Alikhanov (Harvard University) analyzes Uzbekistan's chances of attracting large AI data centers. Power shortages and local resistance in the US are pushing investors toward new regions. Uzbekistan has incentives (Presidential Decree UP-189, TMFC, Enterprise Uzbekistan), but lacks ready-made sites, while its neighbors — Armenia and Kazakhstan — have already signed multi-billion-dollar deals.
Asian and European stock markets fell significantly on October 22, 2026 after mixed reports from Meta and Tesla. AI-related stocks continued to decline from their June record highs amid concerns over investment volumes and the cost of debt financing. Additional pressure came from oil prices rising by more than three percent after attacks by Yemen's Houthis on facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Studio Ghibli President Kenichi Yoda, who took over the studio on June 22, 2026, gave an interview to Euronews two days before receiving the Princess of Asturias Award in Communication and Humanities. He spoke about the studio's pacifism, Miyazaki's attitude toward AI, and the fact that Ghibli is not engaged in 'soft diplomacy'.
Associate Professor at RUDN Nikita Stolyarov told RT that artificial intelligence can solve staffing problems only locally — for example, in customer support. In his view, the main causes of the staff shortage are working conditions, not the absence of specialists. The greatest shortage is observed in agriculture, electric power, and water supply.
State corporation Rostec reported that the introduction of artificial intelligence into the fire control system of the Tsitadel anti-aircraft missile system has raised the probability of target destruction to 99%. The system 'learns' during combat, correcting misses, and is capable of destroying FPV drones, heavy unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missiles.
Flapping Airplanes, a startup founded a year ago, raised $1 billion in a Series A round co-led by Index and Lux at a $6 billion valuation. The company is developing a 'megakernel' framework for training large models with less data.
On October 21, the Canadian publisher Les Éditions du Boréal announced that new evidence confirms the use of AI in writing Thélisson Aurélien's novel, contrary to his earlier assurances. The publisher has abandoned the reprinting of the book and further cooperation with the author. The scandal began after accusations from the “Balance ton Claude” account on X.
Elon Musk, in Walter Isaacson's podcast, suggested that with the development of AI and robotics, conventional money may become unnecessary, and its value will be measured in physical quantities — mass, power, and energy. Space exploration, in his assessment, could expand the economy a millionfold.
An investigation by De Groene Amsterdammer and Investico found that 68 of 150 members of the lower house of the Dutch parliament used AI tools, including ChatGPT and Claude, when preparing speeches. The analysis was conducted using the Pangram detector; texts with AI content below 50% were excluded, so the actual number could be higher.
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk believes the US can solve its record national debt problem only with the help of AI and robots. According to him, the Earth's economy could grow a millionfold, and money would come to be measured in power, mass, and energy. The US national debt, according to the Treasury Department, has approached $40.4 trillion.
Two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, rated 9.2 out of 10), hidden for more than a decade, have been found in the PHP programming language, which powers about 70% of websites. They were discovered by the companies Calif and Wiz using AI models from OpenAI and Google. Emergency patches were released on Wednesday, but due to a leak of information about the bugs, the governments of the US, Europe, Japan and Australia recommended taking websites offline until updates are installed. Wikipedia, government resources of Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, France and others. Two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, rated 9.2 out of 10), hidden for more than a decade, have been found in the PHP programming language, which powers about 70% of websites. They were discovered by the companies Calif and Wiz using AI models from OpenAI and Google. Emergency patches were released on Wednesday, but due to a leak of information about the bugs, governments of the US, Europe, Japan and Australia recommended taking sites offline until updates are installed. Wikipedia, government resources of Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, France and others
Irina Shulzhenko, director of the organizational development department at Roskachestvo, told Gazeta.Ru that over the next five years automation will reduce the need for some tasks of cashiers, reference service operators, document processing specialists, and administrative workers. In her view, the professions will not disappear entirely, but the content of the work will change.
Chairperson of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis Tanzila Narbaeva led the Uzbekistan delegation at the 15th plenary session of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking States (TURKPA) in Bishkek. She delivered a speech on artificial intelligence, met with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov and Speaker of the Zhogorku Kenesh Marlen Abdrakhmanov.