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🤖Open Source is yet another buzzword in AI circles, with Big Tech companies such as Meta and Elon Musk’s Grok AI model stating open source is “good for the world". But no one can agree on what open source actually AI means. Pascale Davies reports. ⤵️

UPDATE-The postponement of today’s decision on Várhelyi’s approval changes everything: MEP's go-ahead on the Hungarian is now directly tied to the fates of the Commission’s VPs, who will face questioning by MEPs tomorrow. Here’s a 🧵 on the power dynamics at play.

"We need to get our act together." During her confirmation hearing, Kaja Kallas says that, in view of Donald Trump's election, the EU has to "do more to produce more defence capabilities and do more ourselves to defend Ukraine."

Scientists studying Arctic ice unlock link between lead pollution and lower IQs in ancient Rome Via euronews by Scoville Fellow '16 Lauren Chadwick. euronews.com/health/2025/01…

18 countries call on the European Investment Bank to increase defence industry financing, including 🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇧🇪🇳🇱

🇫🇷“Plug, baby, plug,” French President Emmanuel Macron urged at the Paris AI summit on Monday. “Here, there is no need to drill, it's just ‘plug baby plug’. Electricity is available.”

Super interesting read on an abortion case in the US and doctors providing abortion pills to states with near-total bans.

Reporters at the White House are assembling to cover President Trump signing of executive orders in the Oval Office. An AP reporter attempted to join the pool. “No, sorry,” a White House official said, barring the news organization once again. Via pooler Dan Diamond

So let's talk a bit about US-Russia talks in Riyadh. First, the Russians are represented by a much stronger team than when they talked peace with the Ukrainians in Belarus and later in Istanbul. We have here the old war horse Lavrov and Putin's foreign policy aide Ushakov.

How has Ukraine's health system fared after three years of war? With Gaby Galvin, we spoke to doctors, NGOs, academics, and more. Here's what we found: euronews.com/health/2025/02…

French President Emmanuel Macron corrects President Trump. Trump: "Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back." Macron: "No, in fact. To be frank we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort."

🚨 Just in: Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled the "Rearm Europe Plan" to mobilise up to €800 billion in defence investment across the bloc. "We're living in the most momentum and dangerous of times," she says. "We are in an era of rearmament." "This is the moment for Europe."

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

Lagging vaccination rates, online conspiracies, and a legacy of dysfunction in the health sector laid the groundwork for Romania's measles outbreak -- the biggest in Europe. But other countries shouldn't write it off. euronews.com/health/2025/03…

President Trump and President Bukele both made clear in the Oval Office today that they do not intend to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the U.S. following the Supreme Court's ruling. "How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it.

Trump tells Kit Maher that Iranian intermediaries have told his admin that they want to deescalate Trump said: "They'd like to talk, but they should have done that before" "I'd say Iran is not winning this war ... and they should talk immediately, before it's too late"

Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.