'And so it goes': Macron attempts to re-center govt, albeit 'in a fairly hamfisted, very clumsy way'

French President Emmanuel Macron came out fighting a day after a historic no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes at the National Assembly left France without a functioning government. He slammed his opponents on the far right for bringing down Barnier’s government and choosing “disorder.” For deeper insight and perspective on the president’s condemnation of the … Read more

Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried

Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions. Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in photos. “PaliGemma 2 generates detailed, contextually relevant captions for images,” Google wrote in … Read more

Head of South Korea’s ruling party says ‘immediate suspension’ of president’s duties is warranted

South Korea’s ruling party chief showed support Friday for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law this week, in a bombshell reversal that makes Yoon’s impeachment more likely. Opposition parties are pushing for a parliamentary vote on Yoon’s impeachment on Saturday, calling his short-lived martial law declaration an “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion or coup.” … Read more

‘Indian Digital Services members, not gig workers’: Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar on Uber driver earning Rs 80k per month

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma says he prefers to use the term  Indian Digital Services members, and not “gig workers” to describe individuals who pick up independent, temporary, online or part-time work. Sharma’s statement was put up on social media, along with the video of an Uber rider who claimed to earn Rs 80-85,000 per … Read more