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In an article published in the journal Nature Communications on February 19, 2021, researchers from the University of Évry, CEA, CNRS, APHP, CHU Henri Mondor and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) unveiled the mobile application developed to facilitate the diagnosis of antibiotic res...

Based in Metz, the start-up SESAMm specializes in big data and artificial intelligence solutions for investment professionals. The start-up announced last month that it had raised €7.5 million in funds from Carlyle, Newalpha Asset Management, Havenrock, Angelsquare, the Caisse d&...

Facial recognition and its use in different spheres are the subject of much debate. One recent example is in France, where the President of the CNIL issued a warning to a sports club this week. The latter was planning to use a facial recognition system to automatically identify p...

SCALE AI, a Canadian super cluster specializing in artificial intelligence based in Montréal, has unveiled the five projects selected, totalling $16.6 million in investments. From quality control to transportation asset optimization to diagnostic tools for truck maintenance, thes...

Insurtech Akur8, winner of the Insurtech of the Year 2020 Finance Innovation Award, and AXA Spain have announced their partnership to help improve the insurer’s pricing process. For the French start-up, this is the first contract with a Spanish partner in one of the most co...

4 categories, 11 types of digital solutions are proposed by the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) in this first classification. This system has been developed in the context of the multiplication of digital tools that can be used in today’s health care. The solutions examined a...

The Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE) has announced the creation of LEIA, the world’s first generic platform dedicated to the evaluation of artificial intelligence, following funding received from the French government to the tune of 390,000 euros. ...

For this first episode of Synapse AI, Mathieu Barreau receives Professor Pierrich Plusquellec to study the link between technology and emotions. A biologist by training, Pierrich Plusquellec holds a doctorate in Ethics from the University of Paris XIII, the Study of Behaviour and...

Carried by the PSL University, the doctoral program “Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences” launches a call for applications open until February 26, 2021. 23 thesis topics on AI or massive data processing interfaces are available. Artificial Intelligence for the Sc...

Last weekend, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and the Ministerial Delegation for Artificial Intelligence (DMIA) announced a three-year collaboration (2021-2023) for regional development in the field of artificial intelligence. A draft agreement was signed on 12 February in the pre...

Capgemini and OVHcloud have announced a global partnership to address the cloud transformation needs of public and private organizations. The two companies aim to help organizations build their cloud infrastructure with the highest international security standards and will combin...

“Prediction is the essence of intelligence” is often repeated by Yann LeCun, co-inventor. from Deep Learning. Paradoxically, artificial intelligence is an area where exalted predictions are abundant, beginning with that of the great Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate and c...

The relationship to money has changed considerably in recent years, and probably even more so last year. Artificial intelligence, digital assistant, bot, the tools are now numerous to manage one’s finances. According to a study by Farnoosh Torabi, an American journalist and...

The Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the EU Cyber Security Agency (ENISA) published this week a reporton the cyber security risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in autonomous vehicles. The report makes recommendations and advocates a security by design approach...

Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence and engineering. The development of their collaboration will enable Altair to contribute to the company’s business transformation by reducing development time and costs, whil...

Voice technologies have experienced a great boom in recent years with innovative solutions, research projects with numerous applications but also the issue of data protection. It is in this context that the Voice Lab and Datafunding have launched a data funding campaign with the ...

As part of its long-term strategy to expand its capabilities in artificial intelligence, the Swiss manufacturer Givaudan announced its intention to acquire the French start-up Myrissi. Founded in 2014 and based near Nancy, France, Myrissi has developed a patented AI technology th...

At the end of January, the Council of Europe announced its recommendations on facial recognition, a central issue. Faced with the increasing use of facial recognition technologies, the European body recommended strict rules to avoid significant risks to privacy and data protectio...

Ali Rebeihi received last week Laurence Devillers and Serge Tisseron in his show Grand bien vous faire on France Inter. The two experts spoke about the technological revolution of the decade 2020 with, in particular, the famous talking machines, connected speakers and other emoti...

Winner of the IDEX UCA Jedi IDEX DeepTech Startup call for projects, the MusicIA project is working on the realization of a music intelligence software solution. This is a joint project between the Albigensian start-up AIbstract, which specializes in the application of artificial...

Transforming the energy sector through an ecosystem of artificial intelligence solutions is the goal of the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI). Launched by Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft, it is expected to provide an energy services framework for energy operators, service ...

Last year, SKEMA Business School unveiled an ambitious strategic plan for the period 2020-2025. One year later, the group is in a position to announce several concrete advances, notably in artificial intelligence with the creation of an AI faculty, two AI specializations and a ne...

The 5th edition of the IoT Week by CITC will be held this year from 15 to 19 March 2021. It is a 100% digital edition that will be organized and whose previously announced program remains unchanged. For one week, technology experts, representatives of major international groups a...

Last week, France and Germany launched a joint call for projects. Focused on innovation projects on artificial intelligence, it is open until 29 April 2021. The two countries thus intend to deepen their close cooperation in this field. Under a new call for projects, both countrie...

Last month, Inria and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding aimed at creating a strengthened partnership, embodied by the “Centre Inria de l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris”. This memorandum identifies and def...

Axians France (VINCI Energies) and HPE conducted a survey between June and July 2020 on the development of AI projects in French companies. While artificial intelligence has become a major concern for companies and many are convinced of the advantages of this technology in terms ...

Devoteam and Télécom SudParis announced the creation of a new teaching chair entitled “Interpretable AI for Mission-Critical Applications”. This 3-year Chair is the concrete expression of the historic partnership between the engineering school and Devoteam. The Chair ...

Charles Bouveyron became the new Director of 3IA Côte d’Azur at the beginning of the month. Drawing on his experience within the Côte d’Azur University ecosystem and his expertise in the field of artificial intelligence, he took up his post on January 1st, succeeding ...

Graphcore has announced one of the last fundraising events of the year 2020. The British company has completed a $222 million Series E financing round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.77 billion. Graphcore has developed an Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), which is...

On 12 January 2021, the GdR TAL is organising a day dedicated to the recent advances in language technologies for applications at the heart of our society. Speakers will explain how artificial intelligence is used, in particular new approaches exploiting deep neural networks, to ...

Since 1 January 2021, all public data (vector and ortho-images) from the National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) are free and accessible free of charge. While the opening of all public data requested by the Government was planned for 2022, the IGN anticipate...

The startup MyDataModels has announced a fund raising of €2.5 million in seed money. Led by Speedinvest with the participation of Earlybird, a long-time investor of MyDataModels, and Région Sud Investissement, this new funding will enable the start-up to continue its work on its ...

This week, the Impact AI collective presented a practical guide for companies to implement trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). Start-ups, SMEs, CAC 40 companies, consulting firms and academic actors participated in the design of this guide. The think tank also approached th...

The Institut Curie and Google announced on Thursday 10 December the launch of a joint research programme on artificial intelligence (AI). They will work together to develop and implement deep learning methods for the analysis of complex transcriptomic and epigenetic data in singl...

In a publication on arXiv, researchers from MIT and Harvard University presented Deep Evidential Regression, an artificial intelligence that would be “aware” of its own reliability and its own uncertainties and errors. Formed from neural networks, it proposes decision...

For several years, the multidisciplinary institute in Artificial Intelligence of Grenoble has been collaborating with companies, SMEs and laboratories on specific projects. Among these projects is ServiceNav, Coservit’s SaaS monitoring platform, which has enabled the Grenob...

The work of Raphaël-David Lasseri, David Regnier, Jean-Paul Ebran and Antonin Penon, theoreticians at the CEA, Irfu at the DRF (Espace de Structure Nucléaire Théorique) and the Nuclear Physics Department at the DAM, was published this year in the journal Physical Review Letters ,...

The first summit of the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPIA) was held in Montreal on December 3 and 4. On this occasion, the Franco-Canadian PMIA initiative was expanded to include four new member states, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Brazil. Officially laun...

The Health Data Hub (HDH) announced this week that the CNIL had authorized four new projects. Deep.Piste, DeepSarc, HUGO SHARE and Rexetris thus join the first three projects that had received CNIL approval at the end of October, CoviSAS, supported by the MIAI artificial intellig...

On the occasion of the European Researchers’ Night 2020, coordinated by the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Frédéric Dehais, Rufin VanRullen and Thomas Serre, chairholders of the Toulouse Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence (ANITI), focused ...

On the occasion of the Lisbon Websummit, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF) announced the launch of a new financing facility in the form of a co-investment instrument ofup to €150 million to support artificial intelligence companies across E...

The Institut Curie announced this week its research partnership with Ibex Medical Analytics to improve breast cancer diagnosis using artificial intelligence. The research will aim to meet a growing need for automated solutions and decision support tools. Breast cancer is the most...

In 2017, Capgemini Invent and Eramet began working together to develop the use of artificial intelligence in all the Eramet Group’s mining and metallurgical activities. Their aim was to improve productivity, commercial performance and metal recovery to speed up the Group...

The Institut Mines-Telecom, together with the Academy of Sciences, announced the 2020 winners of the ITM – Academy of Sciences Awards. The ITM – Academy of Sciences Grand Prize was awarded to Gaël Richard, while the ITM – Academy of Sciences Hope Prize was award...

The Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CAIM) will be officially opened in January 2021 in Bern, Switzerland. The center, founded by the University of Bern and the Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, is intended to be a platform for research, teaching and transf...

This week will be held IAPAU, the festival Machine learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The organisers, the IA Pau association, the LumenAi company and the Hélioparc technopark, are proposing two themes for this third 100% online edition: the impact of AI on tomorr...

This week the European Commission adopted a package of initiatives to modernise the judicial systems of the European Union (EU). The Communication on the digitisation of justice in the EU and the new strategy on European judicial training are at the heart of this new package. The...

The Smart Buildings Alliance (SBA) proposes its white paper “Artificial Intelligence for Smart & Green Buildings”. The 85-member Artificial Intelligence Commission of the SBA has mobilized to clarify what AIe is and how this technology can improve the performance ...

It’s a new chapter for Element AI, as Jean-François Gagné, founder and CEO of the company said in a blog post. Indeed, the American company ServiceNow has announced the conclusion of an agreement to acquire the Montreal-based start-up for an undisclosed amount. The high-pro...

As a place for training but also a place for open exchanges on society, aivancity is launching its e-learning platform aivancityX, based on the reference open-source platform edX (created by MIT and Harvard in 2012). aivancityX produces and distributes MOOCs (Massive Open Online ...

This Wednesday 25 November at 5.30 pm the final of the innovation challenge launched by AI For Tomorrow is taking place. The 7 startup finalists will pitcher in front of an exceptional jury composed of : Frédéric Mazzella, Founding Chairman of Blablacar & Co-Chairman Entrepre...

The winners of the Inria – Academy of Sciences 2020 Awards have finally been announced. This year’s winners were Stanley Durrleman, Pierre-Louis Curien and Pl@ntNet. Created in 2011, and supported by the French Academy of Sciences and Dassault Systèmes, these prizes h...

A team of scientists from CNRS, IRAM, Observatoire de Paris-PSL, and the schools Centrale Marseille and Centrale Lille gathered within the ORION-B program worked on improving the visibility of astrophysical phenomena hitherto inaccessible thanks to artificial intelligence. His wo...

The health situation related to the Covid-19 pandemic has made containment one of the key measures to combat the spread of the virus. However, its impact, especially in the educational world, is hotly debated. The AI for Schools Foundation has taken an interest in this subject an...

GrAI Matter Labs announced this week that it has closed its latest round of financing for €13 million. The company launched GrAI One in October 2019 as the world’s first AI processor optimized for ultra-low latency and low-power peripheral processing. This new round of fina...