🇦🇱 The woman fighting to reclaim her face from Albania's 'AI minister
In early 2025, Albanian actress Anila Bisha agreed to lend her face and voice to a virtual assistant for an online government services portal — aimed at helping people navigate bureaucracy.
"Incompatible avec les valeurs démocratiques" : la start-up américaine Anthropic refuse à l'armée américaine une utilisation sans restriction de son IA l.franceinfo.fr/FPb
🇫🇷 Quatre nouveaux ministres font leur entrée au gouvernement, dont Catherine Pégard, conseillère d'Emmanuel Macron, à la Culture en remplacement de Rachida Dati partie pour faire campagne pour la mairie de Paris, a annoncé jeudi l'Elysée dans un communiqué.
As the Japanese media franchise Pokemon marks its 30th anniversary, high prices of some its most prized trading cards have attracted criminals and a spate of robberies valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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🇧🇷 Deadly floods in southeast Brazil cause devastation
Dozens of people have been killed in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba in southeast Brazil after torrential rains unleashed flooding and landslides. More than 5,000 people have been forced to flee their homes while rescuers and residents are still searching for the missing
🤖 Le programmeur français Sammy Azdoufal voulait trouver une solution pour manœuvrer son aspirateur robot avec une manette PlayStation. Quelques lignes de code plus tard, il avait eu accès malgré lui à 7.000 appareils à l'insu de leurs propriétaires.
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US government accused of major 'cover-up' over Trump sex abuse claims.
Democrats accuse Trump's administration of the "largest government cover-up in modern history" over reports that it withheld documents relating to allegations that the Republican leader sexually abused a minor
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Images shared online appearing to show former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte with Jeffrey Epstein are fabricated. Our analysis found they bore errors indicative of AI u.afp.com/S6Fn
AI robot monk offers spiritual advice in Japan.
Japanese researchers have unveiled a robot monk powered by AI that they say can dispense spiritual advice and maybe one day ease shortages of its human counterparts
Torrential rains in southeastern Brazil have left at least 25 people dead and 43 missing as a river burst its banks and a wall of mud swept away houses in the middle of the night, officials said Tuesday.
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The city of Guadalajara erupted with cartel violence this past weekend, alongside other parts of Mexico, after an army raid left a notorious drug lord dead.
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🇺🇸 Donald Trump essaiera ce mardi soir au Capitole de convaincre des Américains moroses et des républicains fébriles que l'"âge d'or" qu'il leur a promis est à portée de main. Qu'attendre de ce discours ? Explications avec Salima Belhadj du bureau de l'AFP à Washington ⤵️
Polymarket, Kalshi... Le nombre de visiteurs français sur les plateformes de marchés de prédiction, interdites dans le pays, est passé de 200 000 à 800 000 en quelques mois l.franceinfo.fr/V1i
🇫🇷 La présidente du Louvre Laurence des Cars a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée en saluant un "acte de responsabilité". Le musée, secoué notamment par un cambriolage survenu le 19 octobre, a "besoin" d'une "nouvelle impulsion", a indiqué mardi l'Elysée.
🇵🇭 ⚖️ Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte personally drew up "death lists" and boasted about murders committed during his "war on drugs", an International Criminal Court prosecutor alleged on Tuesday at a crimes against humanity hearing ➡️ u.afp.com/S6Hw
Gisèle Pelicot, figure mondiale de la lutte contre les violences sexuelles, présente ses mémoires au Royaume-Uni. Elle a été reçue lundi par la reine Camilla dans sa résidence londonienne ⤵️
London police released former ambassador Peter Mandelson on bail in the early hours of Tuesday, in a probe into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, only days after ex-prince Andrew was arrested
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