AI Summit For Action Day 2: US VP Tells Europe Where To Stick Tech Regulations
The two-day summit saw lots of biz announcements, but no consensus on an AI statement. The mood was decidedly more buoyant at the Business Day gathering at Station F.
AI Summit For Action Day 1: Big Investments and a European Wake-up Call
Can a €109bn investment package turbo-charge France's AI ambitions? Can AI diplomats learn to sing from the same gospel hymn?
President Macron: 'We will adopt the Notre Dame strategy' for AI
Macron: "This summit is not just the announcement of investments in France. It's a wake-up call for our European strategy."
AI Summit Day 1: Bending the Arc of AI Towards a Resilient and Open AI Ecosystem
"We need to stop thinking about the decisions made about AI as something that technology company leaders do. We have to take back the control of those decisions."
AI Summit Day 1: Scaling Competitive & Sustainable AI Ecosystems Across the Globe
"Sustainability and performance are not in conflict. You need to do both."
AI Summit Day 1: Setting up Efficient & Truly Inclusive AI Governance
"We must manage artificial intelligence; we must not let it manage us."
AI Summit Day 1: Global Leaders Call for Privacy and Security Safeguards To Protect Democracy
"We cannot take this progress forward when we are not including diverse voices. Democracies around the world have different shapes and forms."
AI Summit Day 1: Creating a Virtuous Circle between AI, Creation & Information
"If we kill creativity and creators, we kill the human soul. Culture is what tells us where we come from, what unites us."
AI Summit Day 1: Harnessing AI for the Future of Work
"It's not the AI that is going to take our jobs, it's the lack of preparedness for us to take up new jobs in an AI context that is more at risk."
🤖 La Machine #17: AI Action Summit Makes The Money Rain Down! 🤖
Inside: France is securing massive AI investments, with President Macron announcing €109B in funding. Bpifrance will invest €10B in AI startups. And Mistral AI punched back with its new Le Chat model.
French Tech Wire: Budget Cuts Bite As Startups See Green
In this edition: Le Fourgon CEO Charles Christory explains his mission to reduce single-use plastics; Laurent Van Lerberghe discusses how new VC firm Keles wants to help European Digital Health startups scale. Plus: French tech budget follies.
French Tech Funding Wire February 7: Stockly, Riot & More!
Startups that raised from Feb. 3 to Feb. 7 also include: Wildsense, NETRI, Extracthive, Sirius NeoSight, Histovery, Neuralk AI, PAPAYA, NEO ECO, Epyr, Lyv Healthcare, The QA Company, ASTRA IT, Crown Procurement, SuperBranche, Aleph-Networks, Mantle8, Extrajool, Anybuddy, Revolte, Reev, and Fraktion.
Spotlight Interview: Keles' Laurent Van Lerberghe On Digital Health Investing
"The region between the UK, France, and Benelux is becoming something like a new Palo Alto. Everything is reachable within two and a half hours, creating a concentrated ecosystem of talent, capital, and market opportunities."
The Digital Diplomats: Is France Still an Innovation Nation in 2025?
President Trump surrounded himself with tech execs for his 2nd term. In contrast, the French tech ecosystem risks losing its place at the heart of President Macron’s agenda. How do these political shifts change the calculus for French entrepreneurs in terms of where to scale their startups?
🤖 La Machine #16: Special AI Action Summit Edition 🤖
Inside: France Digitale CEO Maya Noël wants to help the Summit get down to business; FD's AI startup mapping makes the case for France as an AI player; meanwhile the DeepSeek freakout continues.
AI Research: January Recap
🧠 Traditional vs. AI-Generated Meteorological Risks for Emergency Predictions | SIRRI Naoufal, UMR6174 Institut Franche Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique Sciences et Technologies (FEMTO-ST), Besançon, France. | Frontiers Abstract: This study aims to analyze and examine in-depth the feature selection process using Large Language Models (LLMs) to optimize firefighter prediction performance. Although