New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have reignited a long-running debate. Could advanced AI escape human control and threaten humanity’s survival, and are the companies building it doing enough to stop that from happening?

The oil market spent Monday morning pricing in a weekend of bad news from the Gulf.

More than 48,000 EU residents died as a result of intentional self-harm in 2023, according to the latest Eurostat data — a number that has been slowly dropping over the past decade.

Europeans already use national digital systems or private-company apps, like Apple or Google Wallet, to store boarding passes or access social security benefits. The EU wants to simplify citizens’ administrative tasks with an EU-wide digital space usable across borders.

Marine Le Pen put housing and the cost-of-living crisis at the heart of her presidential campaign on Sunday, using her first major speech in the former northern mining town of Hénin-Beaumont to promise French citizens that they would come “first in their own country” — regardless of skin colour, religion or origin.

It is a special moment when the doors of one of the world’s largest laser-fusion fuel laboratories swing open: scientists slip on blue full-body protective suits, mechanics tinker with precision milling machines, and laboratory technicians peer through high-powered microscopes at fuel pellets just four millimetres in size.