About this episode
Three stories, three angles: what happened, how it's being told, and what we don't know yet.
Spain's Congress votes down two emergency housing decrees, and Pedro Sánchez calls a snap election for 29 November. In France, a protest at one high school in Créteil becomes a national movement, with more than 6,500 arrests. And in Sydney, OpenAI apologises to a parliamentary committee after its models accessed Australian government websites in ways they weren't authorised to.
After each story, we ask what you think. Tell us in the comments or on Pollar's socials.
Everything in this episode comes from reporting already published. The stories behind it are at pollar.news.
Reporting: Pollar (pollar.news/en/event/mass-housing-protests-in-spain, /french-school-protests-escalate, /openai-agents-probe-government-sites, /openai-apologizes-for-breach), RTVE, EL PAÍS, laSexta, La Vanguardia, Público, elDiario.es, Franceinfo, La Croix, Europe 1, Euronews, Le Figaro, France 24, Sud Ouest, Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, The Independent, Der Spiegel, OpenAI.
Archive sound: Congress of Deputies (2 October), La Moncloa (5 October), Parliament of Australia, ParlView (6 October).
Sources
- Jason Kwon, Chief strategy officer, OpenAI. Parliament of Australia, ParlView (Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence), October 6, 2026.
- Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain. La Moncloa, October 5, 2026.
- Francina Armengol, Speaker of the Congress of Deputies. Congress of Deputies, October 2, 2026.
Narration: synthetic voices. Script, research and editing: Pollar.
