La Machine tells you what you need to know about an ecosystem that is emerging as a global AI hub. This includes the latest headlines, product launches, company launches, and funding rounds.
The Franco-German digital summit delivers a sovereignty-themed AI rom-com. Voice AI surges as GetVocal lands $26M for human-agentic voice agents. Volta raises €11M to drag B2B into the digital era.
While B2C perfected one-click buying, B2B distributors still swim in PDFs and Excel sheets. French-Italian startup Volta just raised €11M to change that. Fast.
GetVocal raised a $26M Series A to fuel a new era of human-guided, agentic voice AI. Its system blends ancient communication instincts with cutting-edge tech to deliver trusted, enterprise-ready automation.
Freeda's AI catches blueprint blunders; Yann LeCun ditches Meta; Beside rings up $32M for its AI voice app; Anthropic lands in Paris; Accel says Europe's AI application startups are rocking; there's a robot loose in a nuclear power plant.
The American Tech giant released a report emphasizing all the ways it's spending €4 billion on France's AI transformation. Plus: Nvidia eyes a $1B bet on Poolside, Schneider Electric rides the data center wave, and French publishers warn of AI abuse.
The tech giant is going all-in on France’s AI future, pledging to train a million citizens, back 2,500 startups, and spread innovation beyond Paris. In a report released this week, the company highlighted partnerships, from Mistral to Danone, to demonstrate its commitment to France's AI ambitions.
Scikit-learn’s creators aim to turn France’s AI research into global business with Probabl. Plus: Doctolib’s AI parenting assistant, Mistral’s new enterprise platform, France’s civil-service chatbot, OpenAI’s Paris expansion, and this week’s top AI funding rounds.
Scikit-learn, born at a French research institute, is one of the world’s most-used machine learning libraries. Probabl aims to turn it into a global business. Its journey reveals France’s AI potential and the structural hurdles of commercializing public research.
Phagos uses AI-designed bacteriophages to fight bacterial infections; Claimy is building algorithms to chase lost musical royalties. Plus: Mistral AI gets a fancy new crib; Paris ranks #3 in global AI hubs; Probabl leads AI funding with €13M round.
Claimy, a Paris startup backed by €1.5 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered platform to locate and reclaim lost royalties, attacking a $15 billion global problem that’s eroded transparency and trust in the booming music economy.
Antibiotics are failing. French biotech Phagos thinks the answer lies in nature’s own bacteria-killers: 'phages.' With €25 million and an AI platform to match viruses with their prey, the startup could rewrite the rulebook on how we fight infection.
It's Cybermois, France's cybersecurity month. For Part II of our special Cybersecurity package, we look at MokN's platform that uses AI and "fake doors" to trick hackers into revealing stolen credentials. CEOs Stu Solomon (HUMAN) and Philippe Humeau (CrowdSec) discuss the AI future of security.
When stolen credentials breached his 'impenetrable' system, Gautier Bugeon had an insight: give attackers fake doors to try. His startup MokN raised €2.6M, hit $1M ARR in 16 months with half its clients being billion-dollar companies, and is now expanding to America.
The cyber arms race has accelerated: humans once led attacks, AI now augments them, and MOAIs may soon strike autonomously. The big question: can defenders evolve fast enough to match a threat that never sleeps and learns on the fly?
France gets a new AI and digital minister as Naïma Moutchou joins the Government du Jour. Kikleo uses computer vision and AI to fight food waste. Gojob secures €120 million to scale its AI temp platform globally. Plus: ETIs embrace AI, a real fake-news network exposed, and data centers under fire.
The FoodTech startup just raised €3.5M for its system that uses AI-powered cameras to track every uneaten bite in cafeterias. By turning food waste into actionable data, it helps kitchens cut costs, shrink their carbon footprint, and serve smarter, more sustainable meals.
