Economy

Saab's sales

Thailand considers Gripen purchase for 5.6 billion  

 

Thailand's air force plans to ask the country's government for the equivalent of SEK 5.6 billion to buy new fighter jets, reports Bloomberg.  

 

Air Force Chief Punpakdee Pattanakul states that a committee will evaluate the purchase of either Saab's Gripen E or the F-16 Block 70 from American Lockheed Martin.  

 

As the budget is limited, the air force will try to achieve positive effects for the country's economy in connection with the deal, says Pattanakul.  

 

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50,000 Toyota owners are warned – airbags can explode  

 

Toyota issued a warning to 50,000 car owners of older US models on Monday, calling for urgent repairs and driving bans, writes Reuters. The cars' airbags are equipped with an inflator that has been shown to explode and scatter metal fragments. 

 

More than 30 deaths since 2009, including 26 in the United States, have been linked to the Takata model inflator. 

 

More than 100 million Takata inflators have been recalled over the past decade, making the recall the largest in history. 

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Elon Musk's Neuralink  

Neuralink technology still years from an approval  

 

Elon Musk stated on Monday evening that an implant from Neuralink had been operated on a human for the first time - and that the procedure had been successful. According to Musk, the result shows that signals from the brain have been picked up.  

 

But despite the breakthrough, a commercial launch could be several years away, writes Bloomberg.  

 

The company's adviser Jaime Henderson, a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University, said in an interview last week that he was "hopeful" about the technology but that a brain implant on the market is not imminent.  

 

- I think there is a risk in overestimating the progress, he said according to the news agency.