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However, Vestager told historian and author Morten Møller — who has followed the commissioner during the final days of her mandate for the new biography — that she has “no plans to run for office” in Copenhagen. She made a failed bid for the presidency of the European Investment Bank at the end of 2023, and resumed her duties as commissioner after a three-month campaign. In September, the Technical University of Denmark announced that Vestager would become chair of their board of governors from January 2025. Johanna Sahlberg contributed to this report.
IBM is rolling out new AI models, which it claims outperforms other popular large language models (LLMs). IBM has released the latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) models for businesses that will help the technology giant in the race towards AI agents. The company on Monday announced its Granite 3.0 AI models, which are open source and tailored for enterprise use cases such as customer service, IT automation, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), application development and cybersecurity.The company claims it outperforms AI models from Meta, Anthropic and Mistral AI and is tougher to jailbreak. The Granite models were trained on 12 trillion…
Julian Assange’s father expressed gratitude to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview released Oct. 20 with Russian state-owned news agency Ria Novosti.“Your President Putin in 2012 was the first head of state to defend Julian’s interests as a publisher and a citizen at a time when Julian was receiving every smearing lie and calumny that the institutions of state and those hangers-on in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia could deliver upon his head,” said John Shipton, extending his affection to Putin for playing that role. Shipton, co-founder of Australia’s now-defunct WikiLeaks libertarian political party, is in…
A new survey shows how Europeans have little faith in AI being used in elections. The vast majority of Europeans fear artificial intelligence (AI) manipulation in elections but trust the technology when used by police and military for surveillance, according to a new report released on Monday.The “European Tech Insights” study by IE University in Spain surveyed more than 3,000 people in 10 European countries. It found that two in three Europeans (67 per cent) fear hackers could alter election results and that more than 30 per cent of those surveyed believe AI has already influenced their voting decisions.The countries with…
BRUSSELS — Brussels South Charleroi Airport canceled all flights departing on Tuesday due to a strike by security staff, the airport announced on Monday. “All arrivals at Charleroi airport will be maintained,” the airport added, inviting passengers “to contact their airline to confirm their flight.” The airport ascribed the cancellation of all departures on Tuesday to the security sector action and subsequent “lack of staff to ensure security operations,” noting that safety could not be guaranteed.
The news comes as the COP16 biodiversity conference kicks off in Colombia. The UK is one of the “most nature-depleted countries on Earth”, with one in six species at risk of extinction.To combat this, the country’s new Labour government has appointed a Special Representative for Nature.As the UK’s first envoy for nature, Ruth Davis – one of the country’s leading environmental policy experts – will be charged with halting environmental collapse and putting nature at the heart of UK domestic and foreign policy. “We depend on nature in every aspect of our lives – it underpins our economy, health and society…
Mayor Benoît Payan says he wants to stop holiday rental owners from “wanting to make money off the people of Marseille”. While the debate surrounding overtourism rages across Europe, one French mayor has announced a novel plan to tackle the problem. In Marseille, says he wants to make landlords who rent properties on Airbnb ‘buy back’ another property to put up for long-term rental to increase housing supply.Speaking to the franceinfo radio station, Payan claimed that up to 75 per cent of property developers in the city were “not from Marseille”. He also suggested that the majority were renting out…
“There weren’t so many disagreements, but we didn’t come with the purpose of seeking agreements. The meeting was not intended to be conclusive,” the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with French professional norms, added. Retailleau, a hard-line figure in the conservative Les Républicains party, has faced criticism from Macron and his centrist allies over his tough stance on immigration, a top issue for the interior minister. After losing control of the lower house in this summer’s snap election, Macron struck a deal with Les Républicains to form a fragile minority government. This alliance allowed Macron…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his appeal for air-defence systems after Russian strikes injured dozens across the country. Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least four and injured dozens more on Monday, according to local authorities. The Ukrainian Air Force said they shot down 49 of 116 Shahed-type drones launched by Russia overnight. Moscow also attacked Ukraine with ballistic and guided aerial missiles. Attack drones were also launched overnight on the country’s capital of Kyiv. City officials said that all were destroyed, with one man suffering facial burns. Two people in their 70s were found dead under rubble after Russia attacked the…
The pledge by SpaceX, Tesla and X mogul has raised legal concerns, with experts suggesting that offering cash incentives tied to voter registration could violate election laws. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, has pledged to give away $1 million (around €921,000) a day to voters who sign his political action committee’s petition. The petition, tied to Musk’s backing of the Republican candidate Donald Trump’s White House campaign, claims to support the US constitution’s first and second amendments. Musk has already committed at least $70 million (€64,5m) to help Trump. However, questions have emerged over…