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High-profile raids spotlight India's food-safety struggles
Recent raids at luxury hotels and a wider crackdown on food companies have renewed the debate about food-safety standards and enforcement in India.
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Catalonia’s New Generation Raises Its Game as Ambition, Scale and Genre Drive Bolder Arthouse and Crossover Titles
Over 2019-25, annual Catalan government general cinema funding soared from €12.5 million ($14.4 million) in 2019 to €30.2 million ($34.8 million) in just specific support lines. Now, however, the films that are being made are also getting bigger, as a new generation of filmmakers and TV creatives emerged over the last decade raise their game […]
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Catalonia: A Dozen Highlights at San Sebastián, From a Time-Loop Thriller to a Singular Heist Tale and a Potential Arthouse Sleeper
Barcelona’s soccer players packed out Spain’s FIFA World Cup winning team. Now Catalonia, the northeast region of Spain counting on Barcelona as its capital, accounts for a very significant chunk of the Spanish films playing this year’s San Sebastián Festival, one of its principal draws. Some 150 Catalan companies, no less, will be in San […]
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Intent not malicious, it's indifference: Thousands, if not millions, of books sent to AI woodchipper
François Picard is pleased to welcome investigative journalist Emanuel Maiberg, Co-founder of 404 Media. As we embark on AI's uncharted waters, Maiberg has made a most unexpected discovery:: the mass acquisition, dismemberment and scanning of rare books for use as training data. His investigation reveals a globalised and deliberately opaque supply chain in which books purchased through anonymous marketplaces can ultimately arrive at large-scale scanning facilities, where their bindings are removed so that pages can be processed at great speed.