Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic and hereditary disease that leads to a progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain, resulting in severe psychiatric and motor disorders. A research team (Sorbonne University/Inserm/CNRS) led by Christian Néri, Inserm Research ...
On September 12-14, after two years online, the 53 member states from across Europe and Central Asia were invited to the 72nd session of the Regional Committee for Europe (RC72) held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Among the action plans approved, one concerns one of the flagship initiative...
PyTorch is one of the most widely used open source ML frameworks, developed by Meta AI. Soumith Chintala, one of its creators, announced on September 12 that PyTorch has joined the Linux Foundation, whose main mission is the collaborative development of open source software. The ...
Predicting the structure of proteins is one of the challenges of biological research. The MIT Technology Review relayed an announcement from Deepmind about its AI tool, the AlphaFold program. In it, the company said it had successfully predicted the structure of almost every prot...
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body such as the brain or kidneys. To detect it, the WHO recommends a chest X-ray. However, low-income countries where this diseas...
At the end of July, OpenAI announced the availability of its image generation AI, DALL-E 2,in beta version. One million people had already registered on the waiting list, they will be able to benefit from Outpainting, the latest feature for DALL-E 2 announced by Open AI. In 2021,...
We have seen in the last few years that scientific culture is essential. It is an integral part of culture and it is all the more important as many political decisions rely on science. To be able to think, to make informed decisions, to make enlightened choices, requires to know ...
The Digital Health Acceleration Strategy is part of the France 2030 plan, which aims to create the medical devices of tomorrow in France. On September 14, the Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health, the General Secretariat for Investment, in charge of France 2030, and the Heal...
While cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world (approximately 1 in 6 deaths), early diagnosis increases the chances of a cure. Researchers from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) used deep learningan...
In July 2020, the European Union established “NextGenerationEU,” a recovery plan to ” mitigate the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.” To benefit from these funds, each member state had to present its National Recovery and Resilienc...
The use of AI, in particular Midjourney to create a work of art, raises many controversies, the British advertising agency 10 days, which, as its name suggests, develops communication campaigns in just 10 days, decided to demonstrate that AI-assisted creation will soon disrupt th...
Scientific research is giving us a better understanding of the functioning of the complex organ that is our brain and its 86 to 100 billion neurons. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Champalimaud Foundation have been working fo...
Valeo and the CEA announced on September 13 that they had signed an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of power electronics, which are at the heart of the challenges of tomorrow’s electric mobility. Their teams will work together on innovative electronic techno...
Approximately 10,000 young Africans will benefit from the partnership announced on September 8 by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Mastercard Foundation, and the Rwandan government. The $275.7 million investment will go to CMU-Africa, a Kigali-based campus of the U.S. univer...
As part of an international collaboration, a team of researchers from the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche sur Mer (LOV, Sorbonne University/CNRS) has assembled a huge zooplankton dataset acquired by underwater cameras on a global scale, the analysis of which has...
Radio Television Española (RTVE), the country’s largest audiovisual group, equivalent to France Televisions in ours, has enlisted the help of VSN, a technology company specializing in the development of advanced software solutions for the broadcasting and media and entertai...
The Colorado State Fair is a highly anticipated event in Colorado, this year it took place from August 26 to September 5. On August 29th, the award for the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category was given to Jason Allen for “Space Opera Theater”, a wo...
On August 31, NVIDIA announced that it had received a letter from the U.S. government imposing restrictions on exports to China and Russia of its A100 graphics processors and those under development H100. On the same day, AMD announced that the sale of its MI250 accelerator chips...
Saving species is one of the major issues that technology can help solve. Nowadays, thanks to start-ups and artificial intelligence, solutions are emerging to protect natural ecosystems and participate in species conservation. DeepMind gets involved in saving ecosystems with AI A...
Michelin, the world’s leading tire manufacturer, took advantage of the Public Works Association’s (PWX) annual convention to share its new artificial intelligence service from the Safer Roads Suite, “Near Miss / VRU”. Before the start of the new school yea...
Confiance.ai, a collective of 13 major French industrial and academic French industrial and academic partners, has just joined forces with Aniti in an agreement to develop trusted AI solutions. The two entities already had a first agreement in 2021, focusing on robustness and fai...
The ARS Ile-de-France wishes to “promote access for all Ile-de-France residents to innovations that significantly improve their care, as close to home as possible”. Following the second call for ” Innovators” projects on June 23, this APP, launched in July...
Sidetrade, an AI platform dedicated to securing and generating enterprise cash flow, announced on September 6 that it has been selected by Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 500 IT systems integrator, for a five-year partnership. Insight’s goal is to improve employee engagement...
The Big Data Steering Group jointly established by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the network of heads of medicines agencies in the EU, the Heads of Medicines Agencies Organization (HMA), published its third workplan for 2022-2025 this summer. The goal of the Big Data Wo...
As part of the Territoires d’industrie program, the Government and the Banque des Territoires launched the AMI “Territoires d’industrie 4.0: anticipating tomorrow’s skills” to support the realization of projects that meet the training needs of the in...
SystemX, the technological research institute (IRT) dedicated to the digital engineering of future systems, announced on September 2 the launch of the 4th project of its AI2 program, which aims to combine AI, business knowledge and physical models. The new collaborative R&D p...
On August 30th, the Conseil d’Etat published a study adopted in a plenary general assembly on March 31st, on the use of AI in public services. Conducted at the request of Jean Castex, then Prime Minister, in June 2021, entitled “Artificial intelligence and public acti...
On August 30, the State and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region (AuRA) signed a joint State-Region roadmap on artificial intelligence in order to articulate their strategies in this area. This AI roadmap was signed by Catherine Staron, Vice-President of the AuRA Region, and Sylvain P...
The AMI “Data, AI and Health Care Pathways” was presented on September 5 at the PariSanté Campus innovation and research campus, which will open on December 14, 2021. Launched by the Comité Stratégique de Filière des Industries et Technologies de Santé, the AMI aims t...
Every six months, the Fintech Observatory publishes a study that deciphers the main trends in the field in France. The study it conducted on the fundraising of the last six months shows that, although the geopolitical context has impacted the financing of fintech, it has remained...
A quick response by firefighters to an accident or fire can save lives but can be hampered by traffic. To remedy this problem, the German town of Bad Hersfeld, located in the state of Hesse, decided to use AI to control its traffic light network and thus allow the emergency servi...
During the “Choose France “summit organized by the Elysée Palace in Versailles on July 11, Accenture, a company specializing in digital consulting and support, announced its intention to create an R&D center in Brest, which will create 500 jobs within three years....
During the IAAPA Expo Europe 2022, which will take place from September 12 to 15 in London, IMKI, a startup from Alsace specializing in the design and development of generative AI, will present “We are Legends”, a turnkey solution for immersive and interactive experie...
In order to fight against irregularities in the declaration of buildings, the DGFIP (Direction Générale des Finances Publiques) has launched the “Innovative Property Tax” project, the experimentation of which has so far focused on the detection of swimming pools in 9 ...
Owkin, a Franco-American start-up specializing in AI and federated learning applied to medical research, announced on September 2 that two of its diagnostic solutions, namely Owkin Dx RlapsRisk BC and Owkin Dx MSIntuit CRC, have received CE-IVD (CE Marking for In Vitro Diagnostic...
Missions You will be part of a team of about 15 engineers and PhDs, regularly accompanied by post-doctoral students, PhDs and interns, specialized in the evaluation and qualification of artificial intelligence systems. This team is historically recognized for its expertise in the...
After several years of experimentation, France committed to a national strategy for the development of automated road mobility at the end of 2017. Anne-Marie Idrac, former Minister, has been appointed as the senior official responsible for this strategy and a collaborative workin...
Coordinator of the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (SNIA), attached to Bercy, since March 9, 2020, Renaud Vedelwas appointed Director of the Cabinet of the Minister Delegate in charge of the Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Jean-Noël Barrot, on July 13, du...
London-based startup Stability AI announced on August 22 the public release of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image model similar to Dall-E 2 from Open AI or Imagen from Google. The open-source model is the result of a collaboration between Stability AI, RunwayML, research groups at...
On this first day of the new school year, we offer you a small selection of the news on artificial intelligence that you may have missed during the summer: Delivery of the largest open science multilingual language model ever trained While they regularly provide fascinating resul...
On August 19, Samsung laid the foundation stone for its future R&D center to be built on its campus in Giheung, south of Seoul. The company plans to invest $15 million by 2028 in the 109,000 square meter facility, which will be dedicated to memory chips and semiconductors, in...
This August has seen some high-profile cyberattacks whether it was the one on the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) in Corbeil-Essonnes or the 120 French hospitals in the Ramsay group. However, the vast majority of these attacks are not reported by the companies that suffe...
Language models are generally designed by the giants of new technologies such as GPT-3 from Open AI or Gopher from Deepmind. Recently we dedicated an article to BLOOM,the largest open-source multilingual language model trained to date involving a thousand researchers. LightOn, a ...
Currently, the U.S. does not have a federal framework to regulate AI. The Algorithmic Accountability Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on February 3, but even if it passes, it won’t be able to take effect for a few years. In the meantime, st...
Proteins are present in all living cells where they perform essential functions. Understanding the relationship between a protein’s amino acid sequence, for example, its domains and its structure or function is the subject of much scientific research. A team of researchers ...
The use of machine learning methods for prediction and forecasting has become widespread in the quantitative sciences. However, there are many known methodological pitfalls, including data leakage; for Professor Arvind Narayanan and his PhD student Sayash Kapoor, a reproducibilit...
In late June, UVeye, an Israeli startup specializing in advanced vehicle diagnostic systems, announced that it received an investment from General Motors’ venture capital arm, GM Ventures, to help fund the development and commercialization of its vehicle inspection technolo...
In late June 2021, Microsoft, owner of the collaborative web platform GitHub, and Open AI launched a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based completion tool designed to help developers code faster. It’s actually been available to them since June 21 as a subscriptio...
Telexistence (TX), a Japanese robotics start-up, and FamilyMart, a leading convenience store chain in Japan, announced in early August the deployment of the “TX SCARA” AI robot and “TX Work Analytics” in-store task analysis system in 300 FamilyMart stores ...
More than 15,000 project holders, startups and tech leaders will participate in the #1 event in France dedicated to the integration of Big Data and artificial intelligence in business! With its unique positioning as an “adoption facilitator” focused on the sharing of ...
Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity or ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, affecting about 6% of school-aged children and 3% of adults. Early treatment is essential, but before that, the diagnosis of ADHD must be made. A team of researchers from the Depart...
A global study conducted by Vanson Bourne for Mulesoft, a Salesforce subsidiary and integration and API solution provider, reveals that demands for automation within organizations are increasing dramatically. These demands are coming from various departments looking to increase t...
Canadian supercluster based in Montreal, SCALE AI acts as an investment and innovation hub to accelerate the adoption and rapid integration of AI in Canada. This Monday, August 22, it unveiled twelve new projects aimed at optimizing production and transportation through AI. With ...
Advanced age and diseases affecting leg coordination, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and neurological damage, can lead to reduced mobility. Start-up CIONIC has partnered with LISiN and industrial design company Fuseproject to develop Neural Sleeve, a weara...
One of the complications of diabetes can be diabetic retinopathy, which is damage to the retina, a thin membrane essential to vision that covers the back of the eye, ultimately resulting in decreased vision and even blindness. In June 2018, DIAGNOS, which specializes in AI-enable...
In June 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a standing blanket order requiring manufacturers and operators to report to it certain crashes involving vehicles equipped with Level 2 automated driving systems (ADS) or advanced driver assistance sy...
It’s often difficult for consumers to get clear, actionable information from companies about the security and privacy of their connected products. That’s why the Mozilla Foundation launched the “Privacy Not Included” buyer’s guide in 2017 with the go...
The eighth edition of the SIDO Lyon will open its doors on September 14 and 15, 2022 at the Cité Internationale de Lyon: 48h top-chrono to decipher the innovation and to concretize its digitalization projects, whatever the level of maturity of its project! SIDO Lyon, the leading ...
According to the online journal Pharmaceutical Technology, machine learning engineers are increasingly sought after by pharmaceutical companies. The largest number of job openings are found in North America, but some countries in Europe and Asia are gaining ground. France, for ex...
Featured snippets are the small summaries that Google offers in response to a question frequently asked by Internet users. On August 11, Google presented an innovation to improve their quality: the company will use MUM, (Multitask Unified Model) its AI-based algorithm built on th...
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