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U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement as he is joined by executives and cabinet members during a meeting on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House.
Fenced in
Donald Trump’s untenable strategy for AI
The president’s desire to unleash the technology is running into political reality
A protester holds a placard reading generation 6 7 does a May 68 during a demonstration in solidarity with high-school students near the Paris Institute of Political Studies in Paris, France on October 7th 2026
Student protests
Arson at the school gate and tear gas on the streets
French pupils are angry and the country is tense
Illustration of a calculator with an OpenAI button.
Number crunch
OpenAI claims to have solved hundreds of long-standing maths problems
It is judgment day for mathematics