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It was in Las Vegas at CES 2022 that Volvo Cars introduced Ride Pilot, an unsupervised driving feature that will be integrated into its upcoming all-electric SUVs. Developers from Luminar and Zenseact collaborated with Volvo on the system, which will be tested in California later...

Deltaray, a laboratory spin-off from the Flemish Institute for Microelectronics and Components (Imec) and the University of Antwerp, has announced a new round of funding of €4.2 million from the investment fund Industrya, the historic Flemish investment company LRM and private in...

A team from IAS (Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale) has combined submillimeter observations from the Planck satellite with a method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to build a tSZ map for the detection of galaxy clusters: MILCANN. The latter allowed them to build a...

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), is interested in the challenges of using artificial intelligence in the financial sector and has launched the first Tech Sprint (hackathon), in June and July 2021. It focused on the explainability of artificial intellig...

According to Acteurs Publics, the Ministry of Justice decided to abandon the development of DataJust on Thursday, January 13. The objective of this project was the creation of an official compensation repository, based on artificial intelligence, aiming to inform victims of perso...

The launching ceremony of the Initiative for the Development of Artificial Intelligence (IDIA) in Francophone Africa took place in December at the Espace Numérique Ouvert (ENO) in Dakar. The Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR), the Centre Universitaire de Recherche e...

Data management specialist Alteryx announced on Jan. 6 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trifacta, a cloud company that leverages scalable data management and machine learning to make data analysis faster and more intuitive. The acquisition will enable Alteryx ...

Founded in 2018 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard d’Archimbaud, Kili Technology has developed an automated data annotation technology to accelerate and improve artificial intelligence projects within companies. After a first round of funding of $7 million in January 2021...

The Hospices Civils de Lyon are experts in knee and hip surgery, fitting more than 3,000 prostheses each year. To optimize and secure these operations, the orthopedic surgery departments of the Hospices Civils de Lyon have benefited from an additional technological innovation wit...

Founded in 2008, the Belgian start-up Collibra supports companies in the use and management of their data flows thanks to its SaaS Data Intelligence Cloud platform. On Tuesday, January 11, it announced a new investment from Snowflake Ventures, the venture arm of Snowflake, a data...

Two Kavli Centers focusing on ethics, science and the public, one at the University of California at Berkeley and the other at the University of Cambridge, were launched last December to help the public understand the impact of scientific discoveries, especially their ethics. Emi...

The National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC) and the National University Health System (NUHS) have signed a collaboration agreement to build a national petascale supercomputing infrastructure that will meet Singapore’s medical research and healthcare needs by the mid...

Protai, an Israeli company specializing in artificial intelligence-based drug discovery, has announced an $8 million (€7 million) round of funding from venture capital firms Grove Ventures and Pitango HealthTech. The start-up, which combines deep proteomics with machine learning,...

As a specialist in social and asset protection in France, AG2R LA MONDIALE protects 15 million policyholders and supports 1 in 4 companies. It receives a considerable number of emails each year (300,000 for the health sector). To ensure a faster and smoother processing of these e...

In early December, as governments met at the United Nations in Geneva to decide whether to open negotiations to establish new international standards on autonomous lethal weapons systems (known as “killer robots”), members of the Campaign Against Killer Robots demonst...

EyeLib™ is an innovative automated diagnostic station that promises to revolutionize the management of the growing number of patients with vision disorders. Combining artificial intelligence and robotics, it can perform 100 different measurements of the eye in less than 6 minutes...

Health Data Club (HDH) and Unicancer signed a partnership agreement in July 2021 to jointly build the Unibase program, with the goal of creating a working environment for processing health data through innovative analytical approaches. At the end of November, Unicancer and the HD...

On January 6, Mobile Industrial Robots announced the deployment of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) at the IKEA Jarosty center, operated by FM logistic, a French logistics services specialist. With the MiR500, a heavy object and pallet transporter, this warehouse is equipped with...

On the eve of CES 2022, which takes place January 5-8 in Las Vegas, HERE Technologies announced the availability of HERE Lidar Data, its global library of 3D Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) data, on the HERE platform. It will enable the creation of a digital twin using Lidar ...

On November 11, SambaNova Systems, OTP Bank and the Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) announced a partnership to build Europe’s fastest AI supercomputer within 100 days, leaving Wall Street and their European competitors including the French behind in th...

On January 6, Confiance.ai announced its collaboration with EUROCAE, the European leader in the development of globally recognized industry standards for aviation, and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The latter will allow EUROCAE to define its developments and contr...

DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Group specialized in Artificial Intelligence, announced last December that it had designed a new language model based on Transformer: GOPHER, which, with more than 280 billion parameters, will allow it to test the limits of large natural process...

Aryballe, a French start-up, combines biochemistry, advanced optics and machine learning to reproduce the human sense of smell. NeOse Advance,the company’s latest development, is based on silicon photonics and detects, records and identifies olfactory data to develop univer...

Synthesia is a startup using AI to create synthetic avatar videos for marketing purposes. After an initial round of funding in April 2021, it announced a new $5O million round led by Kleiner Perkins last December, with participation from GV and existing investors Firstmark Capita...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have developed a machine learning model to identify the author of a painting based on tiny brush mark details invisible to the naked eye and not controlled by the painter. They used data from mapping the surface of the p...

On February 18, 2021, Emmanuel Macron launched the cybersecurity acceleration strategy as part of France Relance and the4thFuture Investment Program (PIA 4). An AMI “Securing the territories” was launched with the objective of identifying local authorities, ports and ...

The student associations ACES (student association of competitive entrepreneurial computing of Sorbonne University) and Sorbonne University SOphIA (student association of Artificial Intelligence) are organizing an Ecology hackathon that will take place in spring 2022. They are la...

Quandela, a leading French company in quantum photonics, raised €15 million on November 16 from Deeptech investment fund Omnes Capital, the Defense Innovation Fund managed by Bpifrance and subscribed by the Defense Innovation Agency (AID), and the Quantonation fund specializing i...

SystemX, the technological research institute (IRT) dedicated to the digital engineering of future systems, welcomes two new founding members to its board of directors following the dissolution of the Fondation de Coopération Scientifique du Campus Paris Saclay (FCS), which had t...

New synthetic drugs (NPS) are psychoactive substances that attempt to reproduce the effects of existing illicit products such as ecstasy/MDMA, amphetamines, cocaine, cannabis, LSD… But most of them are much more powerful, dangerous and addictive than the drugs they imitate....

CaMéX-IA Grand Est is a Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications (CMQ) with the Excellence label, winner of the PIA3 for the next 8 years. This consortium brings together companies, high schools and higher education institutions with the aim of training in the digitalization and ...

An AI system capable of solving elementary math problems has been developed by researchers at Open AI (the company behind the GPT-3 language model). This is a step forward since, until now, models have been able to master the manipulation of language to formulate sentences, but n...

When we give a toy to a child, we think of the pleasure it will give him or her, but we rarely consider the inconveniences and dangers that this gift is likely to cause, all the more so because we believe it complies with European legislation and is recognised as being harmless f...

On October 29, 2021, Dave MC Carty, corporate vice president of XBOX operations, announced in a press release that Microsoft had acquired Two Hat, a leading provider of content moderation solutions. Two Hat is a leading provider of content moderation solutions, which aim to creat...

The protection of personal data is problematic, most people accept its use without really knowing what they are committing to. To help them understand how their data is used and whether it is used within a legal framework, the University of Lucerne has developed an “AI lawy...

David Clark Cause, founded by philanthropist David Clark, is behind Call for Code, the largest developer engagement to date. Call for Code Global was launched in Paris at the Viva Tech 2018 conference with the support of Emmanuel Macron and IBM President Ginny Rometty. For this 2...

A new technology developed at Tel Aviv University will use artificial intelligence to identify patients at risk of serious illness due to blood infections. Researchers trained the AI program to study the electronic medical records of about 8,000 patients at Tel Aviv’s Ichil...

In Serbia, IT is currently the fastest growing economic sector. The Serbian government continues to invest in the digital transformation of the economy and has allocated €30 million for the construction of a large National Data Centre, aimed at the systematic and rapid implementa...

Skema, School of Knowledge Economy and Management, defines itself as “the global school that prepares the talents of the companies of the 21st century – responsible, mobile, multicultural, entrepreneurial talents, managers of information, data and knowledge”. It...

The 20 start-ups selected for the twelfth Fit 4 Start, Luxembourg’s flagship acceleration programme, created by the Ministry of the Economy and managed by Luxinnovation with Technoport, the Luxembourg-City Incubator and the Luxembourg Space Agency, were unveiled on 16 Decem...

On November 15, the French government enacted the Reen law to reduce the environmental footprint of digital, which accounts for almost 5% of global emissions. Companies are already tackling this problem and developing technologies to reduce the ecological footprint and, among the...

The INVEST-AI program is IVADO Labs’ investment fund with a mission to help Quebec companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, propel their performance by applying AI techniques to their processes. Since 2019, the AI adoption program has selected and support...

Mailinblack, the French leader in cybersecurity, has been protecting companies against email-based cyberattacks for over 15 years with its innovative solutions. Its goal is to make cybersecurity accessible to all organizations, not just large companies, and on November 9 it annou...

Being able to predict who will suffer from dementia with accuracy thanks to artificial intelligence. That’s the research topic of a team of researchers from the University of Exeter in the UK. The results of their study were published in JAMA Network Open and show how theyd...

On March 29, 2018, during the “AI for Humanity” day, Emmanuel Macron announced the “National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence”, inspired by Cedric Villani’s report which called for “the awakening of France and Europe” in terms of AI. ...

Founded in 2013 by Delphine Remy-Boutang, the Digital Women’s Day (DWD) is a growth accelerator that mobilizes public, private and media actors in Europe and Africa to honor women who innovate and undertake. It is in this context that it has just launched a call to all wome...

Botnation, a French platform for scalable chatbots, conducted a survey of 3,859 people to determine the types of e-commerce where users would like to have the support of a chatbot to guide them in their purchases. The study shows that the welcome and advice provided by chatbots a...

The announcement of the 17 winners of the fifth call for projects for university hospital research (RHU) was made by Olivier Véran, Minister of Solidarity and Health, Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and Guillaume Boudy, Secretary General f...

On December 17, IBM inaugurated a new co-innovation center dedicated to artificial intelligence, in the presence of its president Beatrice Kosowski and the Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O. Located on the Saclay plateau, this research and co-innovation center, now official...

During its 37th plenary meeting held in Strasbourg on 8 and 9 December, the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) launched the 2022-2025 action plan called “Digitalisation for a better justice” aiming at reconciling the efficiency of new technologi...

In a press release published last week, France Digitale, the French Association for Standardization (AFNOR) and the French General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI) announced a new partnership allowing startups and technology SMEs to participate in the debates concerning the regu...

The American company Clearview AI has developed a facial recognition software whose database is based on the aspiration of photographs and videos publicly available on the Internet. It is said to have collected more than 10 billion photos “without any legal basis”, wh...

CIFAR, a global research organization, named five researchers from Mila, the Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle, as AI Chairholders in December. They will receive long-term funding to support their work in software engineering, robotics, machine learning, natura...

Califrais has announced that it has raised €1.5 million from STEF, a specialist in temperature-controlled transport and logistics. This round of financing will enable the company to support the accelerated digitisation of Rungis Market, where it is based. Califrais and STEF, alon...

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is a world-class science and technology institute that brings together five prestigious French engineering schools: École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis. To increase its societal impact, i...