Artificial intelligence in some shape or form has been a part of everyday life for years, but the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and the resulting aggressive development pace of conversational and generative AI models is, for the first time ever, putting the…
Anger in the National Assembly, violence in the streets and the Bordeaux town hall on fire. Macron’s pension reform may have passed in the National Assembly following the Borne government’s use of Article 49-3 of the constitution, but a large part of t…
In most countries, the average effective labor market exit age is lower than the official full pension age. In the European Union, for example, the majority of Member States have set the legal retirement age at around 65 (62 to 67), but as the most rec…
If there has been one consistent theme in Jerome Powell’s statements throughout the inflation crisis, it’s been this: we’re not done yet. Whenever he was asked about future rate hikes, he repeated the same mantra of doing whatever is necessary to rein …
There is a huge disparity in labor force participation among over 65-year-olds across different OECD countries. According to data from the organization, Japan and Korea are the places where those aged 65 and over are making up the biggest share of the …
Protests and strikes that have disrupted France for weeks are expected to grow more intense as the government yesterday decided to force through a controversial reform raising the minimum standard retirement age from 62 to 64. The change has been in th…
This Friday, March 17, is World Sleep Day, an annual celebration that aims to raise awareness of the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. This year’s campaign tagline is “Sleep is essential for health.” According to a study by the American Colle…
Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling about the new engine’s results in performing a variety of tasks, s…
English football commentator Gary Lineker will be returning to the BBC’s landmark Match of the Day programme, after a weekend-long dispute with the news organization. Lineker was asked to step back from his role on Friday after he tweeted on his privat…
After a string of fires caused by batteries of electric scooters and bicycles, lithium-ion batteries have come under scrutiny once again. The batteries, which power many everyday products such as laptops, phones and cameras, are generally considered sa…