The Académie Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir from the first selection for France’s top literary prize. In a statement on Friday, the academy cited plagiarism by the author and analyses showing that AI had most likely …
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul on 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organisers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition r…
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul from 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organizers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition…
The EU’s special envoy for industrial AI has told the EU’s top officials to focus on using AI to lift Europe’s slow productivity. Racing to build the best models matters less, he told them. Zoya Sheftalovich reported the story for Politico. Jim Hageman…
The EU won’t vote on Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on October 6. The draft agenda for the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) meeting lists only a 25-minute “continuation of discussions” on the Dutch request to extend its FSD approv…
Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a “useful idiot” for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope’s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner on the MD Meets podcast, released on Thu…
Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6…
The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases be…
Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” broke the speed limit in 55% of the 30 km/h segments a Belgian road safety group tested in Brussels, averaging 44 km/h where the legal limit is 30 km/h.
The results land less than two weeks before EU member s…
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will …