It's a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump. Emmanuel Macron, president of France, discussed AI's risks at the G7 Summit. Earlier this month I attended Vivatech, a huge tech conference in Paris. One fear dominated the discussions: the prospect of ending up stuck using American AI, trained on American values. While the US and China are locked in an AI arms race, France and Germany, which consider their engineering talent second to none, feel boxed out.

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The issue stemmed from the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) taking excessive time to shut down properly. Users must manually install this optional update to immediately benefit from faster shutdowns and improved Bluetooth functionality. If you've been a Windows user for many years and always shut down your PC properly, you'll no doubt have a sense of how quickly this process should actually take. Recently, however, some Windows 11 users have noticed that shutting down takes a few seconds longer than usual. This isn't an individual problem with your system, but a bug that can affect many users. Microsoft has now officially confirmed the issue, with June's optional update KB5095093 intended to fix it. According to the update's support page, Microsoft has identified a fault in the Windows BITS service, which transfers files in the background and automatically resumes downloads if they're interrupted.

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OpenAI had been working with the US government over a preview of the GPT 5.6 model. OpenAI had been working with the US government over a preview of the GPT 5.6 model. Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic's Mythos OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from the US government, in a move echoing the launch of Anthropic's Mythos product. Sam Altman, the chief executive of the company behind ChatGPT, told staff this week that GPT 5.6 would be released in a limited preview to a small group of partners, according to the tech publication The Information. Altman said the federal government had asked for a staggered release.

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