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Published on 30/09/2025 – 12:30 GMT+2 The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has launched its latest experimental model, which claims to handle a large amount of data and costs less than its previous models. The company sparked a frenzy in January when it came onto the scene with R1, an AI model and chatbot that the company claimed was cheaper and performed just as well as OpenAI’s rival ChatGPT model.  However, some countries banned government agencies from using DeepSeek, including Italy, the United States, and South Korea, citing national security concerns.  On Monday, the company unveiled DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, which is…

Prosecutors alleged Guo was secretly employed by a Chinese spy agency and passed on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament, collected personal information on AfD leadership and spied on Chinese opposition figures and dissidents. They also accused him of being the handler for a second spy, a Chinese national identified by authorities as Yaqi X., who did not work for Krah. Prosecutors requested seven-and-a-half years in jail. Krah, who is no longer an MEP and serves as a lawmaker in the German Bundestag, has long maintained his ignorance about the allegations against Guo and testified in court…

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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was imposing 10% tariffs on imported timber and lumber and a 25% rate on kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and certain upholstered furniture, including sofas and armchairs. In his announcement on Monday, Trump said that an investigation came to the conclusion that “wood products are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States”. According to the statement, the wood industry in the US has ample raw material, but imports have weakened domestic manufacturing capacity to…

On numerous occasions, he has threatened sanctions against Russia, but these threats have turned out to be hollow. Deadlines have come and gone without consequence, and Putin has been skillful at throwing Trump a bone just juicy enough to avoid punishment — though without any real meat. Now, Trump is conditioning new sanctions and tariffs against Russia on Hungary and Slovakia halting their imports of Russian gas. But while this may usefully firm up Europe’s posture toward Russia, it seems more like a diversion for Trump to avoid imposing new sanctions. In all of this, Moscow has, of course, taken…

It’s speech day for the prime minister but will it do the job, and can he convince conference he is the man to fix Britain? Sam and Anne look ahead to Sir Keir Starmer’s critical address and his argument of a choice between renewal or decline. The pair also reflect on the chancellor’s speech and her strongest indication yet that tax rises could be on the horizon for the November budget. And away from Liverpool, Donald Trump has announced a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza – which includes the involvement of former Labour prime minister Sir Tony…

Published on 30/09/2025 – 9:39 GMT+2 Online users are falsely alleging that anyone seeking to run for president of Ireland requires government backing and that the government actively tried to block those it disagrees with. Ireland’s presidential election is due to take place on 24 October 2025, with three candidates seeking to succeed outgoing president Michael D Higgins: Catherine Connolly, Jim Gavin and Heather Humphreys. This is the smallest number of candidates since the 1990 election. One video, which has been seen more than 100,000 times on X, claims that the ballot list could have been longer had the government…

Reform’s teams in Scotland and the U.K. don’t expect to form the next Scottish government, but their strength in polling, and the chance they could win a potentially crucial cluster of seats, adds uncertainty and a smack of chaos to the election campaign. The race was expected to be between Labour and the SNP — but would turbocharge Reform’s hopes of entering No. 10 Downing Street if they can demonstrate momentum and strength.  “We’re aiming for second,” said one senior Reform UK figure, granted anonymity to speak frankly like others in this article. “But that’s with a view on becoming closer…

The episode adds to growing criticism among journalists in Brussels of the Commission’s communications service. Complaints range from mixed messaging on policies to questions over transparency. Ribera, a prominent Spanish Socialist, has occasionally voiced opposition to the official line of the Commission, which is dominated by commissioners from von der Leyen’s center-right European People’s Party, in particular on green issues and on Israel. In an interview with POLITICO, Ribera said she had been sitting in her office in the Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels at the time the press conference would have taken place. Instead of the commissioner taking the…

However, as Watkins observed, its place in mainstream politics has now given way to a new “consensus” among Labour, the Conservatives and Reform UK that “the U.K. should be stepping back from global leadership on poverty reduction.” Defense on the march The contrast with the mood among defense suppliers — who have at times been regarded with suspicion in Labour circles — could hardly be more marked.  Andrew Kinniburgh, director general of manufacturers’ body Make UK, said: “Certainly the message we get [from the government] is that defense is really at the heart of what they’re doing, and it’s probably…