Paris hospitality sector faces tourism slump ahead of Olympics
• Jul 2, 2024, 10:34 AM
1 min de lecture
Hotel occupancy rates in the French capital are well below average, as bad weather combines with Olympics-related transport hassles and price hikes to keep summer tourists away. Also, President Emmanuel Macron's planned unemployment insurance reform becomes the latest casualty of France's political upheaval – we take a closer look.
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French AI lab claims world's fastest voice bot, beating GPT-4o to the punch
• 3:32 PM
1 min
A French AI lab has released a demo of a voice chatbot with practically immediate response times. OpenAI, the world's third most valuable start-up, has been teasing a similar feature for its own voice bot since mid-May.
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A deep dive into capitalism with Scene on Radio podcast co-host John Biewen
• 8:00 AM
1 min
Scene on Radio, the Peabody-nominated podcast series produced by The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, has dedicated its latest season to exploring the history, failures and future of capitalism over the course of 13 episodes. John Biewen, c
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