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French economy to get Olympics boost: central bank
French economy to get Olympics boost: central bank
by  AFP

The French central bank said Friday that the nation's economy should get a considerable bump from the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympic Games officially opened in late July and the Paralympic Games finish in September.

X halts using personal data of Europeans to train AI
X halts using personal data of Europeans to train AI
by  AFP

Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticised use of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. That came after Ireland's Data Protection Commission said Thursday the social platform had agreed to suspend use of personal data contained in the public posts of X's users in Europe to train Grok.

China launches appeal at WTO over EU electric vehicle tariffs
China launches appeal at WTO over EU electric vehicle tariffs
by  AFP

Beijing said Friday it had filed an appeal with the World Trade Organization over the European Union's imposition of additional tariffs on imports of electric vehicles from China. "On August 9, China appealed to the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism over the EU's temporary anti-subsidy measures on EVs," a spokesperson for the country's commerce ministry said in a statement.

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