France pledges to build one gigawatt of new nuclear to speed up its AI ambitions

It's France's turn to get in on the AI boom. On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron announced private investments into the country's AI ecosystem totaling €109 billion ($112.5 billion). [...]

Netflix signs deal to host live TV channels in France

Everything old is new again. Netflix just inked a deal to air live television broadcasts in France, turning the streaming giant into, well, regular TV. The platform will host five traditional broadcas [...]

France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

The last decade or so has seen schools and governments alike working on a substantial question: To what degree should students be allowed access to their phones? France has been among those leading th [...]

France might seek restrictions on VPN use in campaign to keep minors off social media

France may take additional steps to prevent minors from accessing social media platforms. As its government advances a proposed ban on social media use for anyone under age 15, some leaders are alread [...]

Mistral's Small 4 consolidates reasoning, vision and coding into one model — at a fraction of the inference cost

Enterprises that have been juggling separate models for reasoning, multimodal tasks, and agentic coding may be able to simplify their stack: Mistral’s new Small 4 brings all three into a single open [...]

France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law conve [...]

The most beautiful beach towns in Spain, according to Travel + Leisure

From San Sebastián's Michelin-starred pintxo bars to a Costa Brava fishing village where Dalí painted for decades, Spain's best beach towns [...]

How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

25 small towns in America worth a weekend trip

From coastal Maine to the Texas Hill Country, these 25 small towns offer genuine character, good food, and scenery worth the drive [...]