The synopsis is: 21-year-old Luis (Jake Galluccio) embarks on a cross-country journey to fulfill his late mother’s last wish: to have her ashes scattered at a beach they once loved.

Along the way, he picks up Josiah (Vishay V. Singh), a spirited hitchhiker with secrets of his own. As the miles roll by, their friendship deepens, but tensions rise when hidden wounds come to the surface.

When Luis discovers that Josiah is also on a journey shadowed by grief and unresolved family pain, the two are forced to confront their deepest fears. Bound by shared loss, they help each other find hope and healing in ways neither expected.

Their scene at the diner, led by Jake Galluccio, is filled with tender emotions, and it was quite revelatory and cathartic. It was natural, subtle and compelling.

Galluccio works well opposite his Vishay V. Singh as his scene partner, and it is neat to watch their friendship and trust develop and thrive as the short progresses.

The Verdict

Overall, “Grief Trip” is a warm and poignant film that tackles such subjects as living with loss, love, memory, and the bond forged on a road trip that will hopefully lead to closure for both Luis and Josiah.

Jake Galluccio is not afraid to be raw and vulnerable in this role, while also serving as the voice of reason for Singh’s character. The acting performances will hit viewers like a shot in the heart.

Christian Baldonado does an exceptional job bringing “Grief Trip” to life. Anybody who has ever dealt with loss, trauma, or family drama will find the storyline heartfelt and relatable. This acting project appeared to be a labor of love for all involved.

“Grief Trip” deserves to be enjoyed for its beauty, simplicity, intimacy, and pathos. It ought to be made into a full-length feature movie someday, since the audience will want to know what happens to these characters, who become friends on this journey of self-discovery.

This coming-of-age story garners 4.5 out of 5 stars. Prepare to be blown away. Well done.

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“A total of 1,557 cases are being addressed immediately, and hundreds of people deprived of their freedom are already being released under the amnesty law,” National Assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez told a press conference.

Amnesty is not automatic under the law: petitioners must ask the court handling their cases.

On Saturday alone, 80 prisoners had been freed from detention in the capital Caracas, Rodriguez told AFP. 

On Friday, the lawmaker overseeing the amnesty process, Jorge Arreaza, announced that prosecutors had asked courts to free 379 prisoners.

Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez — the sister of the top lawmaker — pushed for the legislation after she rose to power following the capture of leftist leader Nicolas Maduro during a US military raid on January 3.

The legislature unanimously adopted the landmark amnesty law on Thursday, and Delcy Rodriguez hailed its passage, describing it as a step toward “a more democratic, fairer, freer Venezuela.”

Opposition figures have criticized the new legislation, which appears to include carveouts for some offenses previously used by authorities to target Maduro’s political opponents.

It explicitly does not apply to those prosecuted for “promoting” or “facilitating…armed or forceful actions” against Venezuela’s sovereignty by foreign actors.

Rodriguez has leveled such accusations against opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado, who hopes to return to Venezuela at some point from the United States.

The law also excludes members of the security forces convicted of “terrorism”-related activities.

But the amnesty extends to 11,000 political prisoners who, over nearly three decades, were paroled or placed under house arrest.

“The law provides for those substitute measures to be lifted so that these people can enjoy full freedom,” Rodriguez told reporters.

– ‘Let’s hope it’s true’ –

Outside a national police facility in Caracas known as Zone 7, relatives — some of them on site for weeks — patiently waited.

“Let’s hope it’s true,” Genesis Rojas told AFP.

A group of relatives who have been camped out for days chanted: “We want to go home!”

A row of police officers with riot shields stood watch.

“They’re the ones who should ask us for forgiveness. For kidnapping us, for robbing us, for having violated all our human rights,” said Yessy Orozco, whose father is imprisoned in Zone 7.

A group of 10 women went on a hunger strike that lasted more than five days to demand the law’s passage and freedom for Venezuela’s political prisoners.

The last hunger striker, a woman outside Zone 7, posted a sign that read: “In recovery. No answers.” She declined press interviews, saying she felt unwell.

Hundreds have already been granted conditional release by Rodriguez’s government since the deadly US raid that resulted in Maduro’s capture last month.

Maduro ruled Venezuela between March 2013 and January 2026, silencing opposition and activists under harsh leftist rule.

Maduro and his wife are in US custody awaiting trial. Maduro, 63,  has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges and declared that he was a “prisoner of war.”

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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have built a real-time monitoring system that tracks these rapid fluctuations about 100 times faster than previous methods. Using fast FPGA-based control hardware, they can instantly identify when a qubit shifts from “good” to “bad.” The discovery opens a new path toward stabilising and scaling future quantum processors.

Quantum technologies promise powerful new capabilities, though practical large scale quantum computers are still under development.

Qubits

Qubits are the fundamental units of quantum information. They can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to superposition. This enables them to perform complex calculations more efficiently than classical computer bits (the smallest unit of data in computing).

Qubits are developed by manipulating quantum particles such as photons, electrons, and atoms. Their ability to be entangled also enables powerful computational capabilities beyond classical systems.

Qubits are extremely sensitive. The materials used to build them often contain tiny defects that scientists still do not fully understand. These microscopic imperfections can shift position hundreds of times per second. As they move, they alter how quickly a qubit loses energy and with it valuable quantum information.

Until recently, standard testing methods took up to a minute to measure qubit performance. That was far too slow to capture these rapid fluctuations. Instead, researchers could only determine an average energy loss rate, masking the true and often unstable behaviour of the qubit.

Breakthrough

To overcome these challenges, the researchers developed a real-time adaptive measurement system that tracks changes in the qubit energy loss (relaxation) rate as they occur.

The new approach relies on a fast classical controller that updates its estimate of a qubit’s relaxation rate within milliseconds. This matches the natural speed of the fluctuations themselves, rather than lagging seconds or minutes behind as older methods did.

To achieve this, the scientists used a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a type of classical processor designed for extremely rapid operations. By running the experiment directly on the FPGA, they could quickly generate a “best guess” of how fast the qubit was losing energy using only a few measurements. This eliminated the need for slower data transfers to a conventional computer.

Programming FPGAs for such specialised tasks is challenging. However, the researchers succeeded in updating the controller’s internal Bayesian model after every single qubit measurement. That allowed the system to continually refine its understanding of the qubit’s condition in real-time.

The controller can keep pace with the qubit’s changing environment. Measurements and adjustments happen on nearly the same timescale as the fluctuations themselves, making the system roughly one hundred times faster than previously demonstrated.

The research appears in the journal Physical Review X, titled “Real-Time Adaptive Tracking of Fluctuating Relaxation Rates in Superconducting Qubits.”

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The results showed how, in some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams that had spent months building prediction models. By generating usable analytical code from precise prompts, the AI systems reduced the time needed to process health data. The findings hint at a future where AI helps scientists move faster from data to discovery.

AI vs human

To compare performance directly, researchers assigned identical tasks to different groups. Some teams relied entirely on human expertise, while others used scientists working with AI tools. Several AI tools were examined.

The challenge was to predict preterm birth using data from more than 1,000 pregnant women.

The AI system generated functioning computer code in minutes — something that would normally take experienced programmers several hours or even days.

The advantage came from AI’s ability to write analytical code based on short but highly specific prompts. Not every system performed well. Only 4 of the 8 AI chatbots tested produced usable code. Still, those that succeeded did not require large teams of specialists to guide them.

Why this matters

Speeding up data analysis could improve diagnostic tools for preterm birth — the leading cause of new born death and a major contributor to long-term motor and cognitive challenges in children. In the U.S., around 1,000 babies are born prematurely each day.

Researchers still do not fully understand what causes preterm birth. To investigate possible risk factors, Sirota’s team compiled microbiome data from about 1,200 pregnant women whose outcomes were tracked across nine separate studies.

Advanced AI

To develop AI capable of analysing a vast and complex dataset – such as all pregnancy details across a period of time for the entire U.S. – proved challenging. To tackle this, the researchers turned to a global crowdsourcing competition called DREAM (Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods).

One of the DREAM pregnancy challenges focused specifically on vaginal microbiome data. More than 100 teams worldwide participated, developing machine learning models designed to detect patterns linked to preterm birth. Most groups completed their work within the three month competition window. Yet it took nearly two years to consolidate the findings and publish them.

To determine if generative AI could shorten that timeline, the researchers instructed eight AI systems to independently generate algorithms using the same datasets from the three DREAM challenges, without direct human coding.

The AI chatbots received carefully written natural language instructions. Much like ChatGPT, the systems were guided through detailed prompts designed to steer them toward analysing the health data in ways comparable to the original DREAM participants.

The AI systems analysed vaginal microbiome data to identify signs of preterm birth and examined blood or placental samples to estimate gestational age. Pregnancy dating is almost always an estimate, yet it determines the type of care women receive as their pregnancies progress. When estimates are inaccurate, preparing for labour becomes more difficult.

Researchers then ran the AI generated code using the DREAM datasets. Only 4 of the 8 tools produced models that matched the performance of the human teams, although in some cases the AI models performed better. The entire generative AI effort — from inception to submission of a paper — took just six months.

Human oversight remains necessary

The scientists emphasise that AI still requires careful oversight. These systems can produce misleading results, and human expertise remains essential. However, by rapidly sorting through massive health datasets, generative AI may allow researchers to spend less time troubleshooting code and more time interpreting results and asking meaningful scientific questions.

The research appears in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, titled “Benchmarking large language models for predictive modeling in biomedical research with a focus on reproductive health.”

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Workers detected a problem with helium flow to the massive SLS rocket that will “take the March launch window out of consideration,” Issacman said in a post on X.

“I understand people are disappointed by this development. That disappointment is felt most by the team at NASA, who have been working tirelessly to prepare for this great endeavor,” Isaacman said.

“During the 1960s, when NASA achieved what most thought was impossible, and what has never been repeated since, there were many setbacks.”

The towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will be rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to investigate the technical issues and make any necessary repairs, Isaacman said.

A complete briefing will follow in the coming days, he added.

A uncrewed test flight to the Moon and back called Artemis 1 took place in 2022 after several postponements – Copyright AFP/File Jim WATSON

The highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission, lasting about 10 days, will see three Americans and one Canadian fly around Earth’s satellite.

It would be a huge step towards Americans once again setting foot on the lunar surface, a goal announced by President Donald Trump in his first term.

On Friday, NASA had set March 6 as the earliest possible launch date.

The US space agency hopes to put humans back on the Moon as China forges ahead with a rival effort that is targeting 2030 at the latest for its first crewed mission.

China’s uncrewed Chang’e 7 mission is expected to be launched in 2026 for an exploration of the Moon’s south pole, and testing of its crewed spacecraft Mengzhou is also set to go ahead this year.

The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first humans to travel to the Moon in over 50 years, with subsequent missions expected to land on the surface. – © AFP Patrick T. Fallon

NASA surprised many late last year when it said Artemis 2 could happen as soon as February — an acceleration explained by the Trump administration’s wish to beat China to the punch.

But the program has been plagued by delays.

The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission took place in November 2022 after multiple postponements and two failed launch attempts.

Then technical problems in early February — which included a liquid hydrogen leak — cut short a so-called wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis 2 launch. That was finally completed earlier this week.

The wet dress rehearsal was conducted under real conditions — with full rocket tanks and technical checks — at Cape Canaveral in Florida, with engineers practicing the maneuvers needed to carry out an actual launch.

NASA is hoping that the Moon could be used to help prepare future missions to Mars.

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“Lali”, by director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, had its world premiere on Thursday at a packed screening where it was warmly welcomed by members of Berlin’s own Pakistani community, which included the country’s ambassador to Germany.

The Punjabi-language black comedy tells the story of Sajawal (Channan Hanif) and his new bride Zeba (Mamya Shajaffar).

The locals in their working-class part of the city of Sahiwal mutter that Zeba is living under a curse after her previous suitors died in mysterious circumstances.

Khoosat told AFP that making Pakistan’s debut at the festival came with “a good sense of achievement, but also with a sense of responsibility”.

He said it was a “sign of validation” to achieve recognition with a story “deeply rooted in its own idiom”.

Part of that idiom is the boisterous humour that the Punjab region is known for, portrayed in part through Sajawal’s mother, the imposing matriarch Sohni Ammi.

The film opens with her encouraging the men of the neighbourhood to fire guns in celebration of Sajawal’s wedding — only for her to get shot in the leg.

– ‘New generation’ of filmmakers –

The mordant humour alternates with more serious themes like desire, sexuality and unhealed trauma and occasional suggestions of magic and the supernatural.

Although Khoosat pointed out nothing that takes place on screen is physically impossible.

“Lali”‘s premiere at Berlin has echoes of the trajectory of “Joyland” by Saim Sadiq, which became the first ever Pakistani entry in competition at the Cannes film festival in 2022.

That film tells the story of a man falling for the trans director of a dance troupe and received critical acclaim as well the Jury Prize and the “Queer Palm” at Cannes.

Khoosat was a producer on that film and Sadiq in turn worked as an editor on “Lali”.

Is Khoosat hopeful that such films can raise the profile of Pakistani cinema?

He said that the industry in Pakistan has been struggling, suffering a “semi-gradual kind of demise” over the past 20 years or so.

“Before that, we had a big cinema scene… which would produce, you know, more than 100 films a year. ”

But Khoosat said Pakistani cinema has struggled to rise of other media and did not “cater to a newer audience”.

Could films like “Lali” bring Pakistani cinema new recognition?

“This opportunity of visibility on such platforms — I just wish that, you know, it would translate into a more thriving” domestic film industry, Khoosat said.

“There’s definitely a whole new generation of filmmakers, and they need to be facilitated to produce more work.”

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“I don’t sleep well at night even while taking pills,” Hamid told AFP, as he expressed concern for his “family’s health… my kids and grandchildren”.

The city woke up to blasts overnight from June 12 to 13 last year as Iran’s arch-enemy Israel launched an unprecedented military campaign.

The war erupted as Iran was preparing for another round of talks with the United States, which briefly joined Israel in attacking key Iranian nuclear sites.

The attacks prompted Iran to respond with drone and missile strikes, with thousands of people killed in Iran and dozens in Israel.

Iran has now resumed talks with Washington, with Iran insisting they be limited to the nuclear issue, though Washington has previously pushed for Tehran’s ballistic missiles programme and support for armed groups in the region to be on the table.

Still, the outcome of diplomacy remains uncertain.

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said that “bad things” would happen if Tehran did not strike a deal within 10 days, which he subsequently extended to 15.

In this atmosphere, Hamid is worried about his children and grandchildren.

“I’ve lived my life, but they haven’t done anything good in their lives, they had no fun, no comfort, no leisure and no peace,” he said.

“I want them to at least experience life for a bit. But I’m afraid they might not get the chance.”

Others share his concerns.

Hanieh, a ceramist from Tehran, thinks war will occur “within 10 days”.

The 31-year-old has stored some essentials at her home to get through a possible military attack by the United States after its build-up in the region.

“I am getting more scared because my mother and I had lots of difficulties during the past 12-day war,” she told AFP. “We had to go to another city.”

Mina Ahmadvand, 46, also believes another conflict is in store.

“I think at this stage, war between Iran and the US as well as Israel is inevitable and I’ve prepared myself for that eventuality,” the IT technician told AFP.

“I bought a dozen canned foods including tuna fish and beans as well as packs of biscuits, bottled water and some extra batteries, among other things.”

– ‘Lessons learnt’ –

Iranians are applying “the lessons learnt during the 12-day war”, Hanieh said, as windows taped up with duct tape can be seen across Tehran.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that any military campaign against Iran would lead to a “regional war”.

Tehran has repeatedly said it would target Israel and US bases in the region, as when it attacked a US base in Qatar during the 12-day war.

The situation has forced Iranians to follow the news closely, and only adds to anxiety over surging prices and the plunging national currency following widespread protests.

On Saturday, the euro was trading at above 1.9 million rials while the US dollar surpassed the 1.6 million mark.

For Hanieh, there has been a sense of “life on hold” since the mass protests and Iranian communications shutdown that lasted nearly three weeks.

But in Tehran, shops and offices remain open, even though cafes and restaurants are mostly closed for the month of Ramadan, which started on Thursday in Shiite Iran.

Meanwhile, Ahmadvand is preparing for the worst.

“I don’t want war to happen, but one should not fool around with the realities on the ground.”

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Trump said on his Truth Social platform that after a thorough review of Friday’s “extraordinarily anti-American decision” by the court to rein in his tariff program, the administration was hiking the import levies “to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.”

The US leader had announced an initial 10 percent duty in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.

And Trump added that over the next few months, his administration would seek further alternative ways to impose “legally permissible” tariffs.

Saturday’s announcement is the latest in a careening process that has seen a multitude of tariff levels for countries sending goods into the United States set and then altered or revoked by Trump’s team over the past year. 

It also appears on its face to be an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, which offered perhaps the firmest rebuke yet of the Republican leader’s sweeping and often arbitrary duties, his signature international trade policy.

The new duty by law is only temporary — allowable for 150 days. According to a White House fact sheet, exemptions remain for sectors that are under separate probes, including pharma, and goods entering the US under the US-Mexico-Canada agreement.

Trump spent much of the past year imposing various rates to cajole and punish countries, both friend and foe.

On Friday, the White House said US trading partners that reached separate tariff deals with Trump’s administration would also face the new global tariff. 

The conservative-majority high court ruled six to three on Friday that a 1977 law Trump has relied on to slap sudden rates on individual countries, upending global trade, “does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.”

Trump, who had nominated two of the justices who repudiated him, responded furiously, alleging without evidence that the court was influenced by foreign interests.

“I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country,” Trump told reporters.

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The festival has had the air of an arthouse bubble when it comes to the topic of AI and the event’s leadership is keeping above the fray.

“At present, we do not intend to issue any statements regarding the use of AI in the film industry,” the festival said in a statement sent to AFP, adding: “We are monitoring developments with great interest.”

Nevertheless, some of the filmmakers present addressed the question of how the technology is changing the industry.

Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, director of the only animated feature in competition, “A New Dawn,” told reporters he had briefly considered using AI in his film.

“During production, we weren’t entirely sure we would be able to complete the film. At one point we wondered whether we should use AI for the backgrounds,” he said.

But Shinomiya concluded that AI is not yet “well-developed enough” to do that sort of work.

Juliette Prissard from Eurocinema, an organisation representing French film and TV producers, said it’s only a matter of time until the tools improve.

“It’s reasonable to think that in one, two or three years… you won’t be able to tell the difference anymore,” she told AFP.

AI can already “write scripts” and replaces extras in crowd scenes or even generate “digital replicas” of someone.

– ‘No choice’ –

In France, where foreign-language films are frequently shown with dubbing, voice actors have already been raising the alarm about AI’s impact on their profession.

But Prissard warns other film industry jobs could be replaced in the “near” future, such as “technicians, the set designers” and even “the producers themselves”.

Sevara Irgacheva, secretary general of the European Film Agency Directors’ association (EFAD), said that already “junior jobs are disappearing: all the assistant editors, assistant screenwriters”.

Despite this, the industry “is leaning toward accepting” AI “because, in any case, we have no choice”.

The tools have the potential to help the sector become more efficient and “save time at every stage of production”, particularly in the more “bureaucratic” aspects of the process.

A survey carried out in early 2025 by France’s National Centre for Cinema (CNC) found that 90 percent of film and audiovisual professionals surveyed were already using AI tools in their work.

In Berlin, Austrian director Georg Tiller presented a short film mixing filmed footage and AI-generated images, saying it was an attempt to encourage his fellow filmmakers to fight for a place in the new “digital cinema”.

“If we don’t then I fear that that we will die a slow death, because it will just steamroll over us,” Tiller told AFP.

– The ‘temptation’ of deregulation –

The issue garnered some relief with a December agreement between OpenAI and Disney, which allowed the use of the entertainment giant’s characters on Sora, the AI-generated video platform.

In return, Disney now has “privileged access” to OpenAI’s “highly sophisticated” tools, giving it a “technological advantage over the rest of the sector”, said Prissard.

But the use of AI in cinema has prompted thorny legal questions over intellectual property and the very notion of authorship, at a time when legislation is only just beginning to grapple with the subject.

Under EU rules, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime must carry at least 30 percent of European content in their catalogues.

Prissard questioned how those enforcing the rules “will be able to tell the difference” between original creations and “synthetic” ones.

Given “the fear of falling behind” the United States and China in developing AI technologies, Prissard said that Europe may succumb to the “temptation to allow more leeway to innovate without obstacles”.

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The statement signed by 86 countries did not include concrete commitments to regulate the fast-developing technology, instead highlighting several voluntary, non-binding initiatives.

“AI’s promise is best realised only when its benefits are shared by humanity,” said the statement, released by the five-day AI Impact Summit.

It called the advent of generative AI “an inflection point in the trajectory of technological evolution.”

“Advancing secure, trustworthy and robust AI is foundational to building trust and maximising societal and economic benefits,” it said.

The summit — attended by tens of thousands including top tech CEOs — was the fourth annual global meeting to discuss the promises and pitfalls of AI, and the first hosted by a developing country.

Hot topics discussed included AI’s potential societal benefits, such as drug discovery and translation tools, but also the threat of job losses, online abuse and the heavy power consumption of data centres.

Analysts had said earlier that the summit’s broad focus, and vague promises made at the previous meetings in France, South Korea and Britain, would make strong pledges or immediate action unlikely.

– US signs on –

The United States, home to industry-leading companies such as Google and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, did not sign last year’s summit statement, warning that regulation could be a drag on innovation.

“We totally reject global governance of AI,” US delegation head Michael Kratsios had said at the Delhi summit on Friday.

The United States signed a bilateral declaration on AI with India on Friday, pledging to “pursue a global approach to AI that is unapologetically friendly to entrepreneurship and innovation”.

But it also put its name to the main summit statement, the release of which was originally expected Friday but was delayed by one day to maximise the number of signatories, India’s government said.

On AI safety risks — from misinformation and surveillance to fears of the creation of devastating new pathogens — Saturday’s summit declaration struck a cautious tone.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) takes a group photo with AI company leaders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026 – Copyright AFP Ludovic MARIN

“Deepening our understanding of the potential security aspects remains important,” it said.

“We recognize the importance of security in AI systems, industry-led voluntary measures, and the adoption of technical solutions, and appropriate policy frameworks that enable innovation.”

On jobs, it emphasised reskilling initiatives to “support participants in preparation for a future AI driven economy”.

And “we underscore the importance of developing energy-efficient AI systems” given the technology’s growing demands on natural resources, it said.

– ‘Unacceptable risk’ –

Computing expert and AI safety campaigner Stuart Russell told AFP that Saturday’s commitments were “not completely inconsequential”.

“The most important thing is that there are any commitments at all,” he said.

Countries should “build on these voluntary agreements to develop binding legal commitments to protect their peoples so that AI development and deployment can proceed without imposing unacceptable risks”, Russell said.

Some visitors had complained of poor organisation, including chaotic entry and exit points, at the vast summit and expo site in Delhi.

The event was also the source of several viral moments, including the awkward refusal of rival US tech CEOs — OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Dario Amodei of Anthropic — to hold hands on stage.

The next AI summit will take place in Geneva in 2027. In the meantime, a UN panel on AI will start work towards “science-led governance”, the global body’s chief Antonio Guterres said Friday.

The UN General Assembly has confirmed 40 members for a group called the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.

It was created in August, aiming to be to AI what the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to global environmental policy.

India has used the summit to push its ambition to catch up with the United States and China in the AI field, including through large-scale data centre construction powered by new nuclear plants.

Delhi expects more than $200 billion in investments over the next two years, and US tech giants unveiled a raft of new deals and infrastructure projects in the country during the summit.

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