The summit comes as worries about the artificial intelligence's global impact mount and Europe seeks a role in its development and regulation.
It is the recurring theme of every speech at the COP summits: the urgent need to act in the face of increasingly frequent climate disasters. Yet this year’s conference in Turkey seems to have little ambition, as reflected in the low turnout and the host country’s own contradictions. Morgan Ayre has the story.
What began as an investigation into the now former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is turning into what could be shaping up to be a "national security crisis", says France 24's correspondent in Los Angeles Wassim Cornet, after US lawmakers called on Huang to face their questions in December. Huang resigned as head of the chip giant over extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. The scandal has wiped almost half a trillion dollars off Nvidia's market valuation.
An outage of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot that began on Thursday continued to cause disruption to users around the world on Friday as the tech giant struggled to fix server problems it blamed for the problems. France 24’s tech correspondent Peter O’Brien takes a look at what we know about the outage which, given its scale and duration, makes it one of the “biggest ever”, he says.
Discussions will look at how AI in Europe can compete with the US and China, as well as other key issues such as funding, security and red tape. Read more: EU leaders set for Dublin artificial intelligence summit
Heavy rain and strong winds have also caused disruption across British Columbia, Canada, over the last week Storm Charles has brought destructive weather to the Iberian peninusla this week, particularly in Portugal and the far south of Spain. Heavy rain and strong south-westerly winds arrived first in the Portuguese island of Madeira, before the system headed towards the mainland on 11 November. A wind gust of 84.5mph (136 km/h) was recorded at Funchal airport, alongside rainfall totals reach...
Dancing humanoid robots and robotic dogs stole the show at Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon. The technology conference has generated nearly €2.5 billion for Portugal's economy over the past decade, according to a study.
After Microsoft 365 services went down on 12 November, affecting millions of users worldwide, here is how you can keep using Outlook while the issue is fixed.
Air France-KLM's Flying Blue was crowned the best frequent flyer scheme globally thanks to how easy it is to earn and spend miles. The British Airways Club and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club also ranked high.
Equity markets mostly fell on Friday, following losses on Wall Street as investors weighed what Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia could mean for the AI industry. Oil prices rose after US President Donald Trump said Washington did not need a deal with Iran.
The TFFF rainforest fund aims to make forest conservation more profitable than deforestation. But a lack of money may prevent it from getting off the ground.
In this week’s newsletter: The climate summit has a new floor-filler to ‘bring down the heat’, but it may struggle to get countries to sing a different environmental tune • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The UN’s annual climate summit is known for being arcane, long-winded and frustrating. On Wednesday, however, Turkey brought a dash of Eurovision-style glamour to proceedings. The hosts of the talks, held in the historic Mediterranean city of Antalya, decided to...
“Solar is the fuel, the battery is the power plant. The whole system only becomes cheaper if these work in harmony with one another.”
EU leaders meet in Dublin on Friday for their first AI discussion, with Mistral’s Arthur Mensch and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton as guests. But the row over who should speak for Europe in Ukraine peace talks is set to dominate.
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