Beeban Kidron joins calls against PM’s AI tsar over tech-firm interests

Director and peer decries government’s ‘shameful’ copyright rules policy and role of tech investor Matt Clifford

Beeban Kidron, the film director who is campaigning against government plans to overhaul copyright …

Source: The Guardian

U.S. in standoff with Ukraine and Europe over competing U.N. resolutions about Russia-Ukraine war

The U.S. is lobbying countries around the world to oppose a resolution brought forward at the U.N. General Assembly by Ukraine and European countries.

Source: NBC News

DeepSeek has stoked a rotation out of India stocks into Chinese equities — but experts advise caution

Chinese stocks, led by a tech rally, have been on a tear since the release of DeepSeek's R1 model that challenged the U.S.-led AI ecosystem on costs and performance.

Source: CNBC

US backs Russia at UN, further breaking from Ukraine, EU

In another sign of US President Donald Trump's shift away from Ukraine and its European allies, the US pushed through its own Security Council resolution, which refuses to frame Russia …

Source: France 24

First Thing: Zelenskyy hails ‘three years of resistance’ on anniversary of Russian invasion

It follows Russia’s biggest ever aerial attack on Ukraine. Plus, far-right AfD doubles support in German election

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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, hailed “three years of resistance …

Source: The Guardian

Claude 3.7 Sonnet debuts with “extended thinking” to tackle complex problems

Anthropic's first simulated reasoning model is a beast at coding tasks.

Source: Ars Technica

Ukrainians in New York commemorate anniversary of Russia’s invasion: ‘three years of our resistance’

City officials at flag raising ceremony gave speeches in support of Ukraine and Zelenskyy after his spat with Trump

New York City officials, foreign dignitaries and members of the city’s …

Source: The Guardian

How AI is speeding the mining of valuable metals needed to power the clean economy

Source: CNBC

'We paid': Macron corrects Trump when he suggests Europe is offering Ukraine a loan

During a meeting in the Oval Office, French President Emmanuel Macron corrected President Donald Trump when he suggested that Europe offered a loan to Ukraine. Macron responded by correcting Trump, …

Source: NBC News

France plagued by 'major impunity' of child sexual abuse crimes, campaigner says

A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what …

Source: France 24

Google's Gemini AI might soon back up Siri on your iPhone - just like ChatGPT

Given Siri's limitations and lack of AI abilities, Apple aims to give its users an easy and seamless way to work with a true AI bot.

Source: ZDNet

Need a Windows 10 alternative? Still miss XP? This Linux distro is for you - and it's free

Free10 is a repacking of the Q40S Linux distribution and it makes an outstanding option for anyone looking to migrate from Windows to Linux.

Source: ZDNet