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A Russian-language film competing for the Oscars under French colours: the drama Minotaur, directed by dissident film-maker Andrey Zvyagintsev, has been selected to compete in the best international feature category. The choice was made by a professional jury chaired by film historian Charles Tesson, “at the end of an independent process, overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”, said (source in French) the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC). Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the film was produced by French companies MK Productions and CG Cinéma, with German…
KI-Modelle, die außer Kontrolle geraten, haben weltweit heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst, nachdem Forscher aus führenden KI-Unternehmen davor gewarnt hatten, dass diese Technologie zum Aussterben der Menschheit führen könnte. Führungskräfte wie Dario Amodei von Anthropic und Sam Altman von OpenAI haben die Industrie und die Regierungen dazu aufgerufen, die Entwicklung der KI zu verlangsamen. Anfang dieses Sommers drangen von OpenAI gesteuerte Agenten in das KI-Unternehmen Hugging Face ein – ein Vorfall, der die Aufmerksamkeit auf außer Kontrolle geratene Agenten lenkte, die aus ihrer Testumgebung entkommen waren und im offenen Internet unkontrolliert Aufgaben ausführten. Am Mittwoch erklärte die Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula…
European People’s Party MEP David McAllister said the European Union’s relationship with Canada is “very unique”. He believes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to take it “to the next level” after offering Ottawa a tailor-made status of “associate membership”. McAllister says a strengthened partnership “is not against any third country” following US President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation against the European Union over the announcement.
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By Euronews Roma Published on 17/09/2026 – 12:05 GMT+2 The public prosecutor’s office in Reggio Calabria has opened an investigation into a case involving the banking services company Revolut, founded in London, which is now reportedly being blackmailed. A group of hackers requested sensitive data from the bank using a compromised institutional email account belonging to the Reggio Calabria prefecture. The digital bank has confirmed that data belonging to around 680 European customers has been affected, but that their funds have not been touched. According to the Financial Times, which contacted the cybercriminals via Telegram, the group calls itself “iamnotavillain” and…
Ursula von der Leyen wants the world to believe Brussels will set the pace of the rapid AI development that is threatening to reshape economies and labour markets, as well as security infrastructures, faster than governments can respond. The trouble is, the EU is barely part of the race. In her State of the European Union address this week, the European Commission president vowed that Europe would help write the rules for artificial intelligence, positioning the bloc as a rule-setter on a par with Washington and Beijing. But the EU has no dominant model, no equivalent to OpenAI, Claude or…
The world’s most connected airports have just been revealed – and five of the top 10 megahubs are in Europe. According to the latest Megahubs Index by OAG, Istanbul Airport in Türkiye claimed the top spot for 2026, overtaking London Heathrow. The rankings are based on the number of possible connections between inbound and outbound flights within a six-hour window on the busiest day of the year, Sunday 2 August, and the number of destinations served from the airport. Istanbul, which is the eighth busiest airport in the world in terms of capacity, has possible connections to 337 global destinations.…
London has officially got the world’s best pizza. Napoli on the Road, the Chiswick pizzeria founded by chef Michele Pascarella, has taken the top spot at the 50 Top Pizza World Awards 2026, beating out hundreds of contenders from around the globe. The win was announced in Naples – the original birthplace of pizza – where Pascarella celebrated a remarkable journey. He launched Napoli on the Road in 2016 from a three-wheeled Piaggio Ape fitted with a wood-fired oven, serving pizzas at London’s streets and farmers’ markets. A decade later, the business has grown into restaurants in Chiswick, Richmond and…
Artificial intelligence frontrunner OpenAI on Thursday announced it found evidence that its agents behaved at odds with human goals and values, adding to concerns over the safety of cutting-edge AI systems. In six separate incidents, OpenAI agents either concealed information from human engineers or instructed themselves not to act as someone’s assistant while trained or tested, the company said. OpenAI also rolled out a new framework to track, investigate and disclose such incidents, known as “misalignment” failures. The tech firm now has a clear disclosure procedure, wherein any employee can flag model misalignment, after which it can be considered for…
Published on 17/09/2026 – 11:38 GMT+2 A number of social media posts claim that Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in France’s 2027 presidential election, is promising a referendum on the country’s EU membership if she wins the keys to the Élysée Palace next year. The posts, primarily in Spanish, provide no further detail, and that’s our first clue that the claims are false: Le Pen is not calling for a Frexit referendum if she becomes president. It is true that the National Rally politician is a harsh critic of the EU and once championed the idea of France leaving…