AFP Asia-Pacific welcomes Michael Mainville as its new regional director

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is pleased to announce that Michael Mainville has taken up his role as the new Asia-Pacific Regional Director as of April 3rd, 2023.

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Ukrainian news agency trains in fact-checking with AFP and APA

After training with journalists from Agence France-Presse and the Austrian news agency APA, Ukraine’s largest news agency Ukrinform has started writing its own fact-check articles in an effort to confront a wave of war-related disinformation.


It is the first major Ukrainian media outlet to be trained in fact-checking, a crucial step as Russia’s conflict in Ukraine has entered its second year.

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AFP auctions off 10 NFT of archive photos selected by the public

AFP and the Web3 art platform LaCollection have announced that a second collection of digital editions (NFT) of press photos from the agency's archives will go on sale in April 2023.


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The fight against disinformation: the German-Austrian Digital Media Observatory (GADMO) launches its website

The widest alliance between German-speaking digital investigators and researchers, known as GADMO, has launched its website in a further step in the battle against online falsehoods.


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Ukraine - a year of unprecedented coverage by AFP

Exactly one year ago, AFP reported live from Kyiv’s central Maidan Square that the Russian offensive had begun against Ukraine. Since then, the agency has deployed unprecedented resources to cover this war in the heart of Europe and its consequences for the daily lives of Ukrainians, Russians and people in the rest of the world.


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AFP's fact-checks cited as benchmark by German study

Germany’s respected Grimme institute has just published a comparative analysis of fact-checking organisations in the country, which highlights the quality of Agence France-Presse’s digital verification production.

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05/29/2025 06:13
Diagnostics.ai Launches Industry's First CE-IVDR Certified Transparent AI Platform for Molecular Diagnostics as Regulatory Deadlines take Effect

Revolutionary Platform Sets New Benchmark for Transparency and Compliance in Diagnostic AI As the May 26th CE-IVDR compliance deadline comes into effect, Diagnostics.ai launches the industry’s first fully-transparent machine learning platform for clinical real-time PCR diagnostics – demonstrating exactly how each result was achieved, a first for molecular-testing machine learning. The technology is backed by over 15 years of experience and millions of successfully processed samples with >9...

05/14/2025 06:05
Reply Presents “App to the Future”: A New AI-Scape Room Experience Powered by Microsoft AI and Low-Code Solutions

Reply, a global systems integrator and technology consulting firm, introduces “App to the Future” an immersive “AI-Scape Room” an immersive escape room experience powered by Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and Power Platform, designed to explore the full potential of AI and low-code tools in a unique and engaging way. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250513072546/en/The experience builds on Reply’s AI-Scape Room focused on...

05/14/2025 06:14
GSK to acquire efimosfermin, a phase III-ready potential best-in-class specialty medicine to treat and prevent progression of steatotic liver disease (SLD)

GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) and Boston Pharmaceuticals, a leading clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing highly targeted therapies for patients with serious liver diseases, today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which GSK will acquire Boston Pharmaceuticals’ lead asset, efimosfermin alfa. Efimosfermin is a phase III-ready, potential best-in-class, investigational specialty medicine to treat and prevent progression of steatotic liver disease (SLD). Under the agre...

04/30/2025 22:00
Carl Haney, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation and Research & Development to Depart The Estée Lauder Companies

Today, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) announced that Carl Haney, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation and Research & Development (R&D), will depart the company effective June 30, 2025 to pursue new opportunities. With Carl’s transition, the company intends to bring in new external talent to drive the next era of transformative innovation in line with its strategic vision of becoming the best, most consumer-centric, prestige beauty company in the world. “Over the past...