According to the Financial Times, NVIDIA is in early-stage talks to acquire US startup Reflection AI or increase its investment, people familiar with the matter said. Reflection AI develops open-weight models. Talks could take multiple forms, including a talent acquisition — hiring staff and licensing technology — to avoid lengthy regulatory review. NVIDIA is already one of Reflection’s largest shareholders and could instead deepen ties via further equity or by supplying more chips and compute.

Hainan held a provincial executive meeting on Oct. 10 to approve measures boosting vocational talent and port safety. The province will implement a five-year "skills free-trade port" action to expand international cooperation, strengthen skills competitions and high‑skilled talent awards, enhance youth skills education, and better align industry demand, training, assessment and employment services. The meeting also ordered end-to-end safety supervision for hazardous goods and port operations: tighter oversight of hazardous chemicals, a cross‑department reporting mechanism for suspected violations, expanded social supervision of production safety and upgrades to port safety regulation and enforcement.

US President Trump said his peace record is unprecedented and that he was not boasting, only seeking to highlight how dark he believes the Nobel process to be.