Protesters clashed with police in France on Saturday as demonstrations over living costs and public services entered a fourth consecutive weekend and drew students, trade unions and members of the revived “Yellow Vest” movement onto the streets.

The country’s Interior Ministry counted 146,000 demonstrators nationwide, including 46,000 in Paris. A youth union alliance put attendance at 250,000 nationally and 75,000 in the capital. At least 360 people were arrested across the country, AFP reported, citing a ministry tally.

Police used tear gas against people throwing projectiles as the main Paris march ended at Place de la Nation, per AFP. Garbage cans were set alight as protesters and police clashed in several cities, according to Le Monde.

Police blocked a separate, banned Yellow Vest gathering at Place de la Concorde and arrested two movement leaders, Le Monde reported.

The Yellow Vests emerged in 2018 in opposition to fuel-tax increases, before broadening into a movement protesting high living costs and the policies of President Emmanuel Macron.

The turnout was lower than on the previous three weekends. It was also below union-led demonstrations on Nov. 5, when the Interior Ministry counted 575,000 people nationwide.

The protests began in late September with high-school students demanding better conditions, before university students and unions joined.

This weekend’s protests come after French lawmakers rejected the revenue section of the 2027 budget, as the government wrestles with addressing public anger while trying to rein in its finances.

The government’s original proposal now goes to the Senate, which is scheduled to begin debating it Nov. 20.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is due to meet labor and employer representatives Monday to discuss wages and purchasing power.

Elon Musk had a head-spinning week in AI.

After agreeing with bitter rivals Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in their call for foundation model labs to slow the pace of development, Musk was contradicted by President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said AI companies actually need to go faster.

Trump, whose stock portfolio includes shares of Nvidia and SpaceX according to his most recent disclosure, called fears of runaway AI a “hoax.”

Speaking on a panel at the All-In Summit on Tuesday that included longtime friend and former White House AI czar David Sacks, Musk took a more middle-of-the-road approach. He urged companies to test each other’s new models to identify and fix safety issues before they get released, an option he sees as preferable to the government taking a heavy-handed regulatory position in AI.

“You can always escalate the amount of regulatory oversight, but it is very difficult to reduce it,” Musk said in a virtual appearance at the event. “It does tend to be very much a one-way ratchet.”

Behind the scenes, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that Musk had joined Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in advising President Trump to oppose an industry-funded regulator.

Musk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

The back and forth in just the past week is a microcosm of Musk’s history in artificial intelligence, dating back to an early check he wrote to fund DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014. The year after that deal, Musk co-founded OpenAI with Altman and others as a nonprofit research lab.

While Musk has long expressed controversial and often conflicting views in AI, torching friendships along the way with the likes of Google co-founder Larry Page and Altman, the stakes now are higher than ever. Model developers are rolling out technology that has industry insiders sounding the alarm about the potentially existential threats of AI, while internet giants spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on the infrastructure to power it.

Musk’s SpaceX is heavily invested in the technology’s growth. The company merged with xAI, Musk’s AI startup, in February, and completed a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding tools provider Cursor in August. In between those two events, SpaceX went public in the largest IPO on record, briefly turning Musk into a trillionaire.

Meanwhile, Musk’s other public company, Tesla, continues work on so-called physical AI, including driverless cars and humanoid robots.

“Tesla is arguably the world’s biggest robotics company,” Musk said at Tesla’s “AI Day” in 2021. “Because our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels.”