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CRITIQUE - Mélancolique, l’histoire de Suzanne Legrand nous propulse à Rio. À voir au théâtre de la Huchette, à Paris.

Crédit : UFC Islam Makhachev pose ses conditions pour un combat entre lui et Ilia Topuria. Si Ilia souhaite l’affronter, ce ne sera pas chez les poids légers. Le champion des poids mi-moyens, Islam Makhachev, évoque la possibilité d’un affrontement avec l’actuel détenteur du titre des poids légers, Ilia Topuria. Le protégé de Khabib Nurmagomedov se retrouve au centre de nombreuses rumeurs depuis son dernier combat, une victoire par décision unanime contre Jack Della Maddalena à l’UFC 322 en novembre dernier, qui lui a permis de devenir double champion de l’UFC. Alors qu’un combat avec Ilia Topuria est la rumeur la plus persistante, Makhachev ne ferme pas la porte à ce superfight, mais pose toutefois certaines conditions. Islam Makhachev ne ferme pas la porte à un combat Au micro de MatchTV, Islam Makhachev explique les différentes raisons pour lesquelles il ne veut pas affronter Ilia Topuria dans la catégorie des poids légers : « J’ai déjà eu la ceinture chez les poids légers, personne ne m’a battu là-bas. Pour une ceinture ? Ça ne m’intéresse pas. Si il veut monter, qu’il vienne ». Pour lui, Ilia Topuria n’a rien à perdre à l’affronter en welterweight : « Il peut le faire, car il n’a rien à perdre en montant. S’il perd, il redescend chez les légers et c’est tout. Il défendra sa ceinture là-bas… Moi, j’ai déjà été champion des poids légers, et je ne redescendrai certainement pas ». Mais Makhachev estime qu’Ilia Topuria a encore du travail à faire dans sa catégorie : « Il n’a encore rien prouvé chez les légers. Il a encore beaucoup de travail à faire. Arman Tsarukyan le défie tous les jours, il lui demande de se battre. » Le champion welterweight devrait défendre sa ceinture prochainement mais son adversaire n’est pas encore connu. Pour le français Salahdine Parnasse, Makhachev avec son parcours sportif est déjà le GOAT du MMA mondial. Pensez-vous que ce combat peut se réaliser ?

Jérôme Bouchacourt, avec Philippe Le Brech Le derby parisien entre le Paris SG et le Paris FC est la meilleure affluence de ces seizièmes de finale qui sont assez décevantes en nombre de spectateurs. Les seizièmes de finale de la coupe de France n’ont pas vraiment fait recette. A part le derby parisien de Ligue

Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off.Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIBig Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and performance tracking.Across tech, AI investments are likely adding pressure to boost accountability, observers told BI.At many firms, "There is greater pressure, greater anxiety," a tech CEO said.In Silicon Valley, 2026 is shaping up to be a show-your-work year.Across Big Tech, companies are tightening worker oversight amid layoffs, AI-driven job anxiety, and cuts to entry-level roles. If 2025 was about bosses calling on workers to be hardcore, 2026 is about making sure they actually do it.A look inside two of the biggest players reveals what heightened accountability can look like: Business Insider exclusively reported this month that Amazon stepped up efforts to let managers track employee badge swipes and revised performance reviews to focus more on individual accomplishments.Meanwhile, Business Insider also learned that Meta is using dashboards to track workers' AI usage and simplifying its review structure with a winner-take-more approach that better rewards the highest performers. It is also cutting about 10% of workers at its metaverse division.Taken together, the moves signal that Big Tech is ratcheting up the stakes for workers who find themselves in a market that's sluggish for seemingly all but AI's shiniest superstars.The ante-upping comes as companies are pumping massive sums into AI — and, in many cases, are still waiting for the returns to materialize. A desire to see more performance metrics may stem from a need to quantify how workers are using AI to boost productivity."I suspect in a lot of tech firms, there is kind of a mood of panic," Matthew Bidwell, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told Business Insider, referring to executives' fear of falling behind in the AI race.Bidwell added that the sense of urgency coming from the top around AI then leads to the question, "How do we make sure we're squeezing the most out of people?"Big Tech's answer? Go big on metrics.Inside Business stories reveal the inner workings of companies from Silicon Valley to Wall Street that are shaping our world today. Sign up for the newsletter.Dashboards for AI and workersIt's not just Amazon and Meta. Microsoft has worked to shed its "country club" reputation, while Google has also changed how it rates employees to incentivize outsize performance.Productivity dashboards, tool-usage metrics, and increasingly granular performance evaluations are becoming central to how managers gauge value. The goal, executives say, is to ensure accountability and reward top performers. The shift is also philosophical: Productivity isn't assumed. It has to be proven.At Amazon, managers have a dashboard to track how much time workers are spending at its corporate outposts — and to flag those who are brushing off the company's return-to-office mandate. The company, as part of its performance review process, is asking its corporate workers to provide three to five accomplishments that exemplify their work.Meta is also adjusting how it keeps score of workers' performance — in part by giving more frequent feedback and tightening the focus on "rewarding outstanding performance," a Meta spokesperson told Business Insider earlier this month.The demand for greater productivity isn't limited to tech. Citi CEO Jane Fraser sent a memo to the bank's staff on Wednesday, entitled "The bar is raised," in which she made it clear to Citi's more than 200,000 workers that she expects them to raise their standards in 2026."We are not graded on effort. We are judged on our results," Fraser wrote in the memo.Big Tech's big yearThe power moves from Big Tech likely reflect a mix of factors, industry observers…