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The recognition is notable because Macron has sought to use his leadership to push AI safety on the global stage, and because the French president is months away from leaving office. After two terms as president, Macron is barred from running in the next election in April 2027. The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is leading in the polls, is advocating a policy of deregulation on AI, three senior party officials told POLITICO. Le Pen’s National Rally party also wants to become less dependent on foreign tech companies and is considering reviving a proposal for a sovereign wealth fund…
Incidents were reported outside schools in France on Monday morning, a day before a major action called by the Union syndicale lycéenne (USL), a high-school students’ union. Students have been protesting over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Among the schools hit on Monday was the Vauquelin secondary school in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, where “around ten hooded and masked young people came up to the entrance”, according to headteacher Carole Zerbib. They “brought bins and inflammable items” to the doorway and then set them alight, she told French news channel BFMTV. As a result, the school will remain closed…
The remains of Czar Samuel, a medieval Bulgarian ruler, were flown to Sofia on Saturday under a military flypast. Honour guards then carried the coffin in a state procession to the Church of St Sophia, where crowds queued to pay their respects. Samuel spent his reign fighting the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom, and he died in 1014. His bones were found in a Greek border area 60 years ago, and Bulgaria has negotiated with Athens for decades to bring them home. Saturday’s handover follows an agreement this week between the Bulgarian and Greek culture ministers. Under it, Bulgaria…
Published on 05/10/2026 – 13:04 GMT+2 Schneider Electric, one of Europe’s most valuable companies, saw its shares plunge after confirming an agreement to buy US-based industrial design software company PTC. The deal is expected to be the largest acquisition in Schneider Electric’s history, as the company seeks to expand its industrial AI capabilities using product and engineering data. The French energy technology group will pay $205 per share for 100% of PTC’s shares in cash, valuing its equity at $22.6bn (€20.1bn) and the business, including debt, at $23.7bn (€21.1bn). The deal “creates a leading, scaled, open and interoperable industrial software…
The year is 2029: the AI system “Skynet” has broken loose and wiped out most of humanity in a nuclear war. Autonomous killer robots are trying to finish off the survivors. That is the plot of the 1984 film “Terminator”, which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name and a global action star. But how realistic is it that artificial intelligence could slip beyond human control and trigger catastrophic consequences? With the kind of performance these systems could have, that cannot be ruled out, says Reinhard Karger of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in an interview with Euronews. “The…
Published on 05/10/2026 – 12:41 GMT+2 It was a big swing, and it has turned out to be a huge miss. What was supposed to be the awards season heavyweight to finally get Tom Cruise to the Oscar podium has ended up as one of the biggest box office flops of the actor’s career. Worse, early indicators strongly suggest that Digger is on track to lose between $150-200 million. Those are John Carter numbers. The movie, starring Tom Cruise as a powerful oil tycoon who has triggered an environmental disaster, made just $8 million in the US and $20 million…
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Israel has barred the leader of Britain’s Green Party Zack Polanski from entering the country after the party’s members voted to define Zionism as racism. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar took the decision on Sunday evening, hours after the vote at the left-wing party’s annual conference, Israel’s foreign ministry said. It called the resolution “a clear antisemitic text” and described the ban on Polanski as a “first step”. “The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle,” the ministry said. Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, called the…
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Despite attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, crude oil exports from the Middle East Gulf region, excluding Iran, returned to pre-war levels in September, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. The recovery followed changes to the region’s export routes. “At least 16.5 mbd (million barrels a day) left the region between 1 and 28 September, matching the pre-war average excluding Iran. That is 10.5 mbd above March’s monthly average,” said the firm. However, 40% of those exports now bypass the Strait of Hormuz, compared with 17% before the war, with pipelines in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab…