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Mistral-ASML: A Glimmer Of Hope For Europe In The Battle For AI’s Future

ASML, the Dutch heavyweight in European technology, is investing 1.3 billion euros in French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral, making it the continent’s leading AI company and saving it from being taken over by an American investor.

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Future

Le Chat, Say What? French AI Giant Mistral Shares Similar Biases As U.S. Rivals

After ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini, philosopher Sami Biasoni has tested the conversational tool from French company Mistral AI, trying to understand its potential ideological biases.

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Food / Travel Global Gourmet

A Russian Farmer’s Sharp Response To French Cheese Embargo

A Russian embargo bans imports of French cheese and other Western products. But one farmer has the answer: bring in French cheesemakers to teach him to make his own.

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Migrants Stuck At Sea, Farewell B.B. King, Kiwi Emblems

MIGRANT CRISIS WORSENS IN SE ASIA “Out at sea with nowhere to go,” reads today’s front-page headline in Malaysian daily The Star, alongside a photo of Rohingya migrants, a persecuted minority, waiting on a boat adrift off the coast of Thailand. According to the UN, about 6,000 refugees fleeing Myanmar (also known as Burma) and […]

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Economy Geopolitics

Shame Of A Nation, If France Delivers Warships To Russia

Defying U.S. and NATO pressure to cancel its $1.6 billion sale of two Mistral warships to Russia, French President François Hollande has said that the first will be delivered in October, while the delivery of the second would “depend on Russia’s attitude.” -OpEd- PARIS — France simply cannot deliver two Mistral warships to Russia. Doing […]

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