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By Euronews Published on 30/07/2025 – 14:56 GMT+2 ChatGPT is launching a “Study Mode” to promote responsible academic use of the chatbot, amid concerns over the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools and universities. Designed to help students do homework, prepare for exams, and learn new topics, the feature allows users to learn in an interactive, step-by-step, classroom-like manner. The goal is to help students understand and analyse the material, rather than relying on ready-made solutions, according to OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. In one example, a user asked for help understanding Bayes’ theorem. The chatbot responded with questions about…
At the beginning of July 2025, 29,044 companies owned by Ukrainians were recorded in the Polish National Court Register. Of this number, 13,014 companies were opened after February 2022, i.e. after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in around one million refugees from Ukraine settling in Poland. Gremi Personal’s analytical centre highlights that approximately 6% of all new companies registered in Poland in the last 3.5 years are owned by Ukrainians, and the total capital of companies established after the outbreak of war exceeds PLN 533 million (approximately €125 million). In 2024, Ukrainian entrepreneurs and employees paid almost PLN…
The Commission wrote in a statement on Wednesday that the following countries expressed an interest in taking the loans: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Croatia, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Romania, France and Italy. In their request to the Commission, countries set out a minimum and maximum amount they will formally request to borrow later in the year. This paves the way for the EU executive to tap financial markets and borrow on behalf of its 27 member countries. The Commission did not report the figures for each country, but Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister…
“The Commission is a reflection of national sensibilities,” Ribera said in an interview on Spain’s Cadena Ser radio network. “Institutionally it shouldn’t be so, it is supposed to be independent and represent the interests of the EU, but the truth is that everyone comes with their cultural context, their beliefs.” Ribera herself hails from Spain, one of the EU’s most vocal critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, and was serving as the country’s deputy prime minister when Madrid recognized Palestinian statehood last year. The Commission vice president said that EU ambassadors’ refusal to back Brussels’ proposal to curtail Israel’s access…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot called on more countries to recognize Palestinian statehood. “In New York with 14 other countries, France launches a collective call: We express our desire to recognize the State of Palestine and invite those who have not yet done so to join us,” Barrot wrote in a post on X, accompanied by a joint statement of foreign ministers made at a United Nations conference in New York. The statement was signed by the foreign ministers of Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia and Spain.
Bruce said the measure “gives one group hope” and incentivizes bad actors to not cooperate with diplomatic channels. “In any other normal environment where someone was so utterly defeated, they would surrender. In this case, that just does not occur,” said Bruce. Bruce added that Hamas relied on “the hope that they receive on how long the suffering lasts, how much that pushes the world to acquiesce to their arguments.” Calls for recognition in the U.K. grew across the political divide after images surfaced of the scale of starvation in Gaza. Starmer told his Cabinet Tuesday “now was the right…
Bamboo scaffolding has long been a defining feature of the city’s skyline, prized for its flexibility, lightness, and adaptability in tight urban spaces. The technique has been used for centuries across Asia and remains common on city buildings. Daisy Pak, one of the few women in the trade, describes the centuries-old craft as both art and tradition. But despite its cultural value, officials say metal scaffolds are increasingly standard. The government says it has no plans to ban bamboo but views the shift to metal as an “inevitable trend” amid concerns, including 23 related deaths since 2018. With around 2,500…
Average monthly earnings of employees in Cyprus increased by 5.4% in 2024, compared to 2023. According to preliminary data from the Cyprus Statistical Service, the average gross monthly earnings of employees in the first quarter of 2025 are estimated at around €2,500 compared to €2,382 in the first quarter of 2024. The average monthly remuneration of employees includes the basic salary, the index-linked bonus, overtime pay, the Central Holiday Fund, any allowances received by employees during the reporting period, as well as retroactive payments. Allowances include both fixed and non-fixed payments (13th salary, 14th salary, bonuses, etc.). Additional sources •…
They use artificial intelligence tools to go through public data and hunt for savings with a focus on fraud, procurement and areas of spending which Reform views as a waste of public cash. Think taxis to take children to school, money for asylum seekers and spending on management consultants, which Yusuf calls a “gravy train.” “Most of these people have not been politically active,” Yusuf says of the DOGE team. “It’s patriotism. It’s people who can see the way the state is being run has gotten worse and felt quite helpless to be able to do anything about it. For…
The case became a flashpoint for transparency activists who said it demonstrated the lack of accountability in von der Leyen’s Commission ― and for people who opposed the use of the vaccine in the first place. No-confidence vote The deadline for the EU executive to contest the decision in the EU’s top-tier Court of Justice passed earlier this month without the Commission appealing, a spokesperson for the EU courts confirmed. At the beginning of July, von der Leyen faced a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament over the case, triggered by right-wing Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.…