Musk said SpaceX's Starship is expected to conduct its 15th test flight next month.

Huawei engineers have been based at DeepSeek for an extended period, incorporating large-model training requirements into next‑generation chip design — including compute-task allocation and inter-processor data transfer. The partnership is moving beyond software adaptation into chip-level co-design. DeepSeek plans to begin large-scale pretraining on Huawei's Ascend 950DT as early as year-end; tests are ongoing and the schedule may change. DeepSeek has previously run models and performed fine‑tuning on Huawei chips.

On Oct. 20 Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said there is no bilateral arms‑control dialogue between Russia and the United States; contacts occur only sporadically on the margins of international events such as disarmament talks, the UN General Assembly First Committee and UNGA sessions. He said he does not rule out new contacts if France, as P5 coordinator, helps concretize an agenda, but any contacts would still take place on the margins of international meetings.