AFP photographer Mahmud Hams wins top prize for Gaza coverage

Palestinian AFP photographer Mahmud Hams has won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza, the Visa pour l'image Association announced Saturday.

Palestinian AFP photographer Mahmud Hams has won the prestigious Visa d'Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza, the Visa pour l'image Association announced Saturday.
07/29/2025 13:27
AQNEURSA® (levacetylleucine) Recommended for EU Approval by the CHMP to Treat Niemann-Pick Disease Type C

IntraBio Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for rare neurological diseases, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of AQNEURSA® (levacetylleucine) for the treatment of Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC). "This positive CHMP opinion represents another important milestone in expanding access to AQNEURSA to the global NPC community," said Dr....

AFP held fact-checking trainings before the 2025 International Fact-Checking Day

Four AFP journalists from the digital investigation department travelled to Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest, in March and April 2025 to provide fact-checking training to journalists and journalism students.

Four AFP journalists from the digital investigation department travelled to Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest, in March and April 2025 to provide fact-checking training to journalists and journalism students.
07/24/2025 13:00
Anchorage Digital Partners with Ethena Labs to Launch the First GENIUS-Compliant; Federally Regulated Stablecoin

Anchorage Digital, home to the first and only federally chartered crypto bank, today announced a strategic partnership with Ethena Labs, the creator of USDe and USDtb, to bring USDtb to the U.S. as the first-ever stablecoin with a clear pathway to becoming compliant with the recently enacted GENIUS Act—America’s new law to regulate issuance of stablecoins. The launch will be the first to leverage Anchorage Digital’s stablecoin issuance platform—a turnkey solution for institutions to launch an...

07/24/2025 13:05
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Demonstrate That LLMs Can Autonomously Plan and Execute Real-World Cyberattacks

In a major advance in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Anthropic, have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can autonomously plan and execute sophisticated cyberattacks on enterprise-grade network environments without human intervention. The study, led by Ph.D. candidate Brian Singer from Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, reveals that LLMs, when structured wi...

Newsflare joins AFP's partner video collections

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.

AFP announces a partnership with video agency Newsflare, which specialises in collecting, verifying and licensing UGC videos.
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