he supported tougher restrictions on foreign investment in sensitive technology, as well as export controls on those goods, but he stopped short of imposing specific restrictions on china. in the ft, entertainment giant, walt disney, won the us government's blessing for its $71 billion acquisition of 21st century fox's movie studio and cable channels. on the mashable website, microsoft founder, bill gates, expressed his admiration for technology tycoon elon musk‘s artificial intelligence research company, open ai. mr gates hailed the development of artificial robots trained to work together and defeat humans at video games as a big deal, because their victory required teamwork and collaboration, a huge milestone in advancing artificial intelligence. the sun's headline takes a swipe at german football fans who were left traumatised following their 2—0 defeat against south korea in the world cup by giving the english dictionary meaning of the word "schadenfreude." while germany's sueddeutsche zeitung takes an unsurprisingly more sympathetic view of germany's loss with a picture of the crestfallen german team visibly upset at the realisation their world cup

has come to an end. i tweeted this headline because i wa nted i tweeted this headline because i wanted to get your views. with me is priya lakhani, who's founder and ceo of century tech, a uk—based education technology platform. you won an award! fresh from the ceremony. the enterprise award. a public sector finalist. overwhelming. congratulations!m

public sector finalist. overwhelming. congratulations! it is down to my team. ijust make stuff up down to my team. ijust make stuff up every day and they build it. let's get to ai. donald tusk, the european council president, talking about the fact... he is saying prepare for the worst in terms of relations with the us and president donald trump. it is a surprise, he has said this and done that and now he is doing this... the eu need to get ducks in a row in case no deal is done on trade and tariffs go on uk goods. donald trump is adamant this will happen. america first. that is what he said. mid-term elections are coming up. it'll be interesting terms of consequences.

and the newjudge, he will put nominations forward. nafta and mexico. the paris climate change agreements, stepping away from that. trade wars globally. donald trump is showing it is about america first and they should prepare for the worst. after the g7, europe is aware of this. in your industry, working all over the world and having meetings in many parts of the middle east as well, to what extent are people talking about is? umm, it is interesting. i work with entrepreneurs. we are not necessarily talking about donald trump. we have supply chains. my previous company was an fmcg. a fast—moving consumer goods company. you may have products all over the world. there is a real threat there

because of trade wars and tariffs and brexit, custom unions. we are drowning in it. new policies. and brexit in europe as well. theresa may not getting what she wants. then you have issues with the government. it is all unstable at the moment. this is about carrying on and preparing for coping with things changing. is the worst case scenario is the outcome. yes. the business section of the gulf news. it is i'm backing the story i was talking to you about earlier in the business briefing. this rhetoric from the us. you were saying it was getting more and more difficult by the day trying to figure out what this means in real terms for china and the us and technology companies in china doing business in the us. it is not clear

yet. donald trump is focusing on the ip of the technology. europe is doing the same thing. intellectual property. germany is talking about the same. in 2016 there was more chinese investment in europe than the previous four years combined. it is about making sure we retain intellectual property and look at national security threats with chinese companies like zte. it is a confusing message. these extended powers with the committee on foreign investment in the us will allow reviews to take place of any potential investment. this is global, notjust potential investment. this is global, not just about potential investment. this is global, notjust about china. talking about disney now. upping its bid for 21st century fox, showing it is really serious despite that really attractive offer from comcast, $65 billion in cash. disney managed to up its bid, which can

defer century fox is liking and it looks like it could get cleared with a few conditions. —— 21st. looks like it could get cleared with a few conditions. -- 21st. just making sure they risk healthy competition in the markets. —— there is. this is about programming in certain countries. comcast are already talking to advisers and are likely to come back. it is not the last we have heard of this. really interesting. how high will they go and how prized are these assets? and they want to get sky for £22 billion. it is interesting. the media industry is changing massively. mashable. bill gates is impressed by ai

massively. mashable. bill gates is impressed by a! that beats humans at video games. kind of scary. they are getting more clever by the minute. they have a team of five new neural networks. they play strategy games. when they first got tasked with the game they wanted to win themselves. so they have been trained to care for each other. imagine five neural network bots caring for each other. the end outcome is as a team they win. that could be seen as quite dangerous if they just want to take over the world, like stephen hawking was talking about. was he in on this? absolutely. he was sceptical about it. we can see the dangers of this. but openai, they are not for

profit and want to build good ai. someone might be building bad ai out there. if it gets in the wrong hands, which it might at some point, and with hackers, hacking systems and with hackers, hacking systems and getting personal data, wejust have to derisk it. what is happening to our data is important. absolutely. it is interesting. what if the bot cares about the humans? if they care about how we feel, it is interesting. bill gates is impressed. so many movies in my head, hollywood movies. it is a different issue when it is good. this is where the business i build is about education, building a! for good, increasing social mobility. quick word on the football. are you watching? are you not bothered? my children, six and eight, they loved it. they have charts. is it an

unfair headline it is great. a great talking point. the point is... everyone is talking about it. some people are saying we are disappointed they left early because they are such a great team. do you remember when leicester city got the premier league victory? anything can happen! look at... you know, south korea. they basically celebrated as if they won the championship. let's see what happens. i think it is exciting. so exciting, definitely. thank you for coming in and congratulations again to be thank you for your company as well. i'll see you soon. goodbye. —— again. hello there.

it's a bit of a case of deja vu with the weather forecast at the moment. day—on—day, we're seeing those temperatures building. lots of sunny and dry weather. during wednesday, top temperatures reached 32 celsius at porthmadog in north wales. and we could see a similar story, i think, during the day on thursday. so high pressure well and truly driving our weather, keeping things dry and settled, with generally gentle breezes around. this was the picture in workington, cumbria during the day on wednesday. not a cloud in the sky there. i think we will have one or two areas of cloud around through thursday, particularly around the east, so parts of lincolnshire, down towards east anglia, a bit of cloud around the coast, which should thin and break during the day, but anywhere you could see fairweather cloud. as we draw in the breeze from the north—east, it's looking a little bit cooler around those eastern coasts. but, for central and western parts of the country, temperatures widely in the high 20s. some of us seeing top temperatures of 30 or 31 degrees, particularly for central scotland, but those temperatures could just kick off one or two isolated showers. if you do catch one, could be a bit pokey, but most places will avoid any of those isolated showers through central parts of scotland.

hot again for northern ireland, england and wales having a decent, dry and bright day. lots of sunshine, just that gentle breeze coming in, keeping things a little bit cooler around the east. now, moving through into friday, high pressure still with us, just drifting a little bit further northwards, so a similar sort of day again on friday. i think the best of the sunshine will be to the north and west. most places seeing clear blue skies, but in the east, with that breeze coming off the sea, it will be a little bit cooler, and perhaps cloudier at times. i think the warmest weather during the day on friday will be further south—west, so not quite as hot compared to thursday's weather across scotland and northern ireland. but further south, for cardiff, bristol, for instance, we're likely to see 29 or 30 degrees. looking towards the weekend, and saturday, we've still got the warm air mass with us through the day. that's going to be bringing a fine weekend. so through the weekend, again, mostly warm and sunny, just a small chance of one or two of us seeing some isolated showers. most places will avoid those showers. i think, through the day on saturday, it does look dry really across—the—board to start the day. not quite as hot here as recent days, but still a beautiful day. temperatures further south up to around 28 or possibly 29 degrees. good morning, welcome to breakfast, with steph mcgovern and naga munchetty. our headlines today: 100 troops are sent to help

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