Author: France 24

After the Paris AI Action Summit wrapped up earlier this week, we look at the future of AI governance and its impact on the global economy. In a bid to make up for lost time, Europe and France have pledged significant boosts in artificial intelligence investments and promised to keep regulations from stifling innovation. FRANCE 24’s Charles Pellegrin speaks to Sasha Rubel, European head of generative AI policy at Amazon Web Services, and Alexandre Zapolsky, the president and co-founder of Linagora, a French open-source software editor and creator of the Lucie chatbot, which has made quite a few headlines in…

In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed US President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, saying that “ethnic cleansing is not acceptable in our world”. 

Juliette Binoche, one of France’s most celebrated actors, was named on Tuesday as jury president at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in May. She succeeds director Greta Gerwig in what is only the second time in the festival’s history that two women have presided over the jury in a row. 

World number one tennis player Jannik Sinner agreed to a three-month ban from tennis on Saturday, bringing an end to a doping scandal that has dogged the Italian tennis player for months. Sinner has twice tested positive for traces of the banned substance clostebol.

A French human rights NGO has filed a lawsuit in Paris against Apple, alleging massive collection and processing of voice recordings via the tech giant’s Siri assistant, without user consent. It comes as a California court is set to rule on a similar case, where Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in settlements, without admitting wrongdoing. FRANCE 24’s Tech Editor Peter O’Brien tells us more.

More than 25 people have been arrested in Lebanon after a convoy carrying United Nations peacekeepers came under attack on Friday. The force’s outgoing deputy commander and a Nepalese soldier were both wounded after the vehicle they were travelling in was set on fire.

The Kansas City Chiefs seek to make history on Sunday with a third consecutive Super Bowl victory as they face the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. With President Donald Trump and pop superstar Taylor Swift attending, America’s greatest annual sporting event will be set against heightened security and a charged political backdrop.

A few concepts arguably dominated remarks at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this February: inclusivity, ethics and deregulation. Debates about these themes, complimentary for some but conflicting for others, will have a significant impact on whether the technology can or will be used to address societal ills, including gender inequality. While the French government highlighted its pursuit of inclusive, open and safe AI, some of the world’s biggest leaders in technology, including the US and the UK, refused to sign the joint declaration vowing to do the same. With the White House both ideologically opposed to such objectives and even linking them to stifled innovation,…

As a teenager in the 1960s, he was told there was no such thing as a Black photographer. Today, the work of Dennis Morris includes some of the most iconic music portraits of our time. Official photographer for the likes of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols, his images defined music history. Now, his full collection is on display in the “Music + Life” exhibition at the MEP photography space in Paris. Dennis speaks to Culture Editor Eve Jackson about how it all began – as a teenager bunking off school to meet his hero.

US President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of the Gaza Strip and clear out Palestinians has drawn international condemnation. Western and Arab governments, the United Nations and human rights groups were all quick to say it was tantamount to ethnic cleansing. But many media outlets in the US and France did not make the same connection. Why? Was it poor taste, bad judgment or something else? Our guests are Thomas Fenton, head of FRANCE 24’s English channel; Kethevane Gorjestani, foreign editor and former White House correspondent; and Arno Pedram, co-founder of the anti-racist journalist organisation AJAR.