The actual big story seems to be that centre right have entrenched and greens are down. The far right don’t look like they will actually achieve much. The question, and it needs to be asked hard, is do those on the right that tout their centrism work with the left and greens or with the nutsacks?
Also: French parliamentary election called as the centre right Macron got hit at the polls. Now that is a worrying possibility. The not actual gains of the fascists in the European Parliament isn’t.
ETA
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis have joined forces to deliver a high-stakes warning to world leaders: Dive headfirst into AI without thinking about ethics, and you’re essentially inviting disaster.
The dynamic duo’s alliance, months in the making, will culminate on Friday when the pontiff, taking a break from his usual heavenly duties, jets off to the G7 summit in southern Italy at Meloni’s behest, The Times reports. His mission? To school the bigwigs on the impending doom AI could unleash.
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Okay, who had “Neo fascists and The Pope save us from AI” on their bingo card?
Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy.
Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Omar Al Olama, said American officials had good reason to be concerned about the region.
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I mean… he’s not wrong on that! 
OOF
A thread on the French elections and the political meltdown that this has induced.
