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As part of the United Nations (UN) 2021 Counter-Terrorism Week, two reports were presented around the use of artificial intelligence in the world of terrorism or to fight against it. These documents were unveiled in the presence of 168 UN member states, as well as actors from ind...

Officially recognized during the month of June 2021, the DomEx “IA Data Science” will aim to organize events in New Aquitaine and to structure the dynamics in the region around the topics of machine learning, statistics, business intelligence, operational research and...

The software development platform GitHub announced, at the end of June, the launch of its latest tool: GitHub Copilot. Designed in collaboration with Open AI and based on Codex, an engine announced to be more powerful than GPT-3 for code generation. This artificial intelligence, ...

Last May, the French retailer Intermarché launched its data challenge : to design a predictive model to estimate the daily sales volumes of several outlets for several products. At the end of June, the group announced its winners who will have the privilege to be the guests of a ...

On July 1, 2021, the Confiance.ai program was launched with the objective of meeting the challenge of industrializing AI. Thirteen industrial companies and academic partners have come together to form a collective that will meet the following major challenge: “Secure, make ...

Several American radiologists and researchers have been working on deep learning to identify calcifications in the coronary arteries. Using an X-ray, it would be possible – by exploiting the capabilities of deep convolution neural networks – to assess this possibility...

In a partnership, Google Cloud and NVIDIA will create a lab dedicated to artificial intelligence and 5G. This joint innovation lab will aim to help vendors design, test, optimize and validate 5G-related AI applications that will be deployed on Google Cloud or on-premises. These t...

Work on the design of AI tools to limit cases of online harassment or trafficking is likely to increase in the future. A concrete example is the STOP project , which aims to analyze Twitter posts to limit the risk of suicide. The Institut québécois d’intelligence artificiel...

On July 2, the Mutualité Française Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Espace de Réflexion Ethique Régional Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes will organize a round table on artificial intelligence. This event, which follows a first round table dedicated to health data, is part of the cycle of web mo...

A few years ago, the University of Waterloo used artificial intelligence to help detect skin cancer. In the same vein, Google presented its work that resulted in the design of an app to detect skin diseases. The experts have developed a smartphone app using the camera for the AI ...

On 29 June 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its report on the governance and ethics of artificial intelligence applied to health. Its release is the result of two years of consultations by a group of international experts selected by WHO. The document follows t...

At the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel announced its innovations in high-performance computing (HPC). The company presented a series of technological innovations, partnerships and customer adoption. There were several advances in its Xeon processor for H...

Since 2014, bluenove has been supporting private and public companies and institutions in transforming their organization through major internal or external consultations. To achieve this, it operates its deliberative platform called Assembl. Two years ago, in 2019, the technolog...

The Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée center will soon be organizing its hackathon. From September 24 to 26, 2021, the hackAtech will focus on innovation in the digital sciences and will aim to stimulate new start-up projects. Three themes will be highlighted: health, e...

The French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) has studied the awareness and image of artificial intelligence among the French. The main question around which the study revolves is the following: “How do the French perceive artificial intelligence? One of the findings shows ...

International law firm Baker McKenzie has decided to create a team dedicated to leveraging machine learning and data science for legal expertise. This initiative is part of its “Reinvent” innovation program and follows the digital transformation pilot project develope...

Axis Communications, a leading provider of network and IP video solutions, today announced a new strategy to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into its offerings. The company aims to provide tailored offerings by adopting AI-related technologies. A dedicated p...

Back in April, SambaNova announced that it had raised $676 million through a Series D round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Japanese holding company’s investment fund. The funding was used, among other things, to develop its innovative “Dataflow as a Service”...

Google Cloud conducted a surveyof 1,000 executives in industry around the acceleration of AI integration in the industry. The survey indicates a significant increase in the use of AI and digital tools by industry professionals following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it also sho...

Cloud and data-centric software company NetApp has announced the acquisition of Data Mechanics, a French provider of a platform dedicated to big data processing and analytics in the cloud. With this acquisition, NetApp aims to integrate the French start-up’s Apache Spark to...

Six major Spanish and Spanish-based companies have just launched IndesIA: a national strategic consortium. This project has been established to promote the use of data and AI in Spanish industrial companies with the support of pioneering organisations in the field such as the Bas...

While announcing the creation ofa Joint Cyber SecurityUnit in Europe, the European Commission published its report on the national strategies of EU member states, as well as those of Norway and Switzerland on artificial intelligence. The pooling of all these strategies was carrie...

On a daily basis, healthcare professionals collect, compile and manipulate a significant amount of data. With the aim of better exploiting data to understand practices, the French National Authority for Health is launching a strategy on the use of data for the period 2021-2024. T...

Botnation, a French platform for creating scalable chatbots, conducted a survey among consumers and professionals to find out how they view new technologies and artificial intelligence. 1,956 consumers as well as 1,058 professionals in contact with customers were questioned on se...

Through their collaboration, DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI have launched the Data-Centric AI Competition: an artificial intelligence challenge. Participants will be asked to improve a dataset according to a fixed pattern with the goal of improving the performance of machine lear...

Last April, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS ) expressed his reservation on facial recognition, in relation to the regulation on artificial intelligence proposed by the European Commission. On 21 June, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the adoption ...

The European Commission has recently announced its intention to create a new specialised cybersecurity unit. The Commission wants to combat the growing number of serious cyber security incidents that can affect public services and the lives of businesses and citizens in the Europ...

Four new AI-related technology projects will be supported by the Canadian investment and innovation cluster Scale AI. Worth C$35 million (€24 million), they bring the total number of announced projects to more than 150 and increase investment to more than C$200 million (€135 mill...

In all French departments, assessing wear and tear on departmental roads is a real challenge: Haute-Garonne is no exception with its 6,000 km of roads. To solve this problem, the departmental council of 31 signed an agreement with Vaisala, a company specializing in the design of ...

ABBYY, a multinational software design and “digital intelligence” company, is expanding the capabilities of its open source development library NeoML. This initiative aims to support developers in the design and deployment of artificial intelligence models and more pa...

A research team consisting of experts from Pohang University of Technology (POSTECH) and the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have developed a technique that can detect and improve the quality of unattended scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. To do so, they expl...

This 22 June 2021 sees the official launch of the European Federation – Action Tank – DRONES4SEC. This European action tank aims to bring out innovations and experiments throughout Europe with the support of the European Union. Seven members are at the origin of the p...

In its second edition of the barometer to better understand the impact of AI and digitalization on customer service, Axys Consultants surveyed players in this sector to identify their organization and the place these technologies take in customer support. More than a hundred cust...

The company Data Legal Drive, specialist in the edition of compliance software with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has conducted a study on data protection in several areas, including health, education, banking and insurance. The firm has conducted several surveys...

Voted by the last permanent commission of the Occitania region, a budget of 8 million euros will be allocated to support 159 thesis projects. This aid will be offered over the period 2021-2024. The Occitan doctoral students and their projects have been selected according to sever...

The Village Francophone, a driving force behind the federation of French-speaking delegations at national and international events, launched its AI collective on Tuesday 16/06 at VivaTech. Led by Isabelle Galy, the coordinator of ClusterIA (the association of companies and player...

Tractable, a company developing artificial intelligence systems for claims and accident management, has just raised $60 million from Insight Partners and Georgian, two private equity firms. This fundraising will allow the firm to accelerate its growth and will finance the develop...

Télécom Paris, an engineering school specializing in digital technology, and onepoint, a French company specializing in digital transformation, will be launching a research laboratory together. Called TALia, it will be dedicated to natural language processing with the aim of huma...

Understanding the language used by animals is one of the challenges facing some scientists: this is the case of Denise Herzing, who studies the language of dolphins through the Wild Dolphin Project. The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) aims to listen to and understand the l...

From June 28 to July 2, the start-up accelerator Euratechnologies will organize a special DeepTech and aerospace hackathon. Participants will have to find the best start-up idea to innovate in these two fields. Satellite geolocation, data processing, weather data, precision data,...

After presenting a deep learning method for AI models to forget certain information and its findings in computer vision and supervised learning, Facebook AI recently unveiled TextStyleBrush, a research project that can replace text with other text while maintaining the style and ...

Thanks to a partnership with Google, Thales announces the integration of its CipherTrust Manager and SafeNet Trusted Accesssolutions to encrypt Google Workspace documents. Google’s suite of AI-powered cloud collaboration and productivity applications has been available to e...

Devoteam, a consulting firm specializing in digital strategy, technology platforms and cybersecurity, has just announced the acquisition of Integrity, a cloud-based services platform, expert in Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS). The aim of this acquisition is to consolidate Devotea...

As part of their partnership, Astek and Craft AI presented their first solution in the field of cyber security. The company specializing in engineering, technology and information system consulting, and the French AI start-up, have together developed an authentication system base...

The European investment fund Speedinvest and the investment fund SoftBank Investment Advisers have announced the launch of the second edition of the Emerge accelerator program. The objective is to promote entrepreneurs and start-ups with a diversity background in the technology s...

The AFIA, Bordeaux INP, the University of Bordeaux and INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest are joining forces to organize the fourteenth Artificial Intelligence Platform (PFIA 2021) from June 28 to July 02, 2021. The previous editions were held in Palaiseau (1999), Grenoble (2001), Laval (2...

Dydu, a company specialized in conversational robots, has just published the results of the fifth edition of its annual survey on chatbots, callbots and voicebots. The aim of this survey is to provide some benchmarks around digital solutions related to conversational robots. Budg...

With the aim of boosting investment in research and innovation and addressing major climate and sustainability challenges, the European Commission has announced the launch of eleven European Partnerships with Industry. The European institution wants to make Europe the first clima...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the formation of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task (Task Force). This task force will write the roadmap that will direct the research, desi...

Several researchers at the University of California at San Diego have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can be implemented on robots. This code can take into account the medical environment in which it is located: it counts the number of people in a predefined s...

A Council of Europe ministerial conference took place on 10 and 11 June 2021 with freedom of expression as its main topic. The decline in the safety of journalists and the impact of artificial intelligence, as well as the massive digitisation in the media and information environm...

Coverd, a technology company specializing in nomadic object coverage, has chosen to focus on the digital transformation taking place in the insurance sector. The French insurtech conducted a survey on a field that is increasingly using technological innovations to facilitate poli...

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and Owkin, a technology start-up specializing in AI and federated learning for research and clinical development, have announced the latest results of their strategic collaboration at ASCO 2021. These include the development o...

Several researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a fibre with digital capabilities using an artificial neural network. It will be able to detect, store, analyze and deduce activity while sewn onto a garment, such as a shirt. It could be used to...

The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SEFRI) and the Idiap Research Institute have announced the signing of an agreement for a new research strategy in Switzerland. Thanks to this, about 60 jobs in the AI sector will be created and interdisciplinary ...

This Monday, June 14, OVHcloud announced the preparation of its IPO for the fall. The company wants to accelerate its growth in order to better compete with the American cloud giants. The company is planning to list on Euronext Paris and wants to strengthen its position in the Eu...