AI Summit Day 1: Setting up Efficient & Truly Inclusive AI Governance
"We must manage artificial intelligence; we must not let it manage us."
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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.
Le Fourgon’s Big Bet: Reinventing The Milkman To Crush Single-Use Plastics
The company has developed a delivery service offering groceries in reusable glass containers designed to be cleaned and reused dozens of times. But with high infrastructure costs, can the company scale to achieve its impact goals?
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
France Digitale AI Mapping: 750 Startups And Dreams Of Digital Greatness
On the eve of the AI Action Summit, France is staking its claim to be a leader in this critical sector. The report highlights the vast potential -- and the big challenges.
AI Action Summit: France Digitale CEO Maya Noël Is All Business
On the Summit's Business Day: "The idea is to make people understand the use and not just talking about what are the models, what is the value chain, but very concrete stuff to inspire a lot of companies to use more AI in their business."
French Tech Wire: Bug Bankruptcies And Veggie Victories
In this edition: Fly Ventures' Marie Brayer talks about funding hard tech; inside Alice & Bob's quest to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer; plus the insect alt protein industry is getting squashed; a court delivers some happy veggie tales to the alt meat industry.
