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In June 2021, Worldline, a global leader in the payments and transaction services industry, announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection into Worldline’s digital payment offering. This collaboration was finally made official at...

Iktos, a company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for new drug design, announced on March 30 a collaboration agreement with Ono Pharmaceuticals, an R&D-focused Japanese pharmaceutical company focused on drug innovation dedicated to fighting disease and pain. Ono&#...

Last month, Linedata, a global solutions provider for asset management, insurance and credit professionals, announced that it had developed two artificial intelligence modules to help its clients make decisions and increase productivity in the follow-up of client files. Named ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a leading Los Angeles hospital, have developed an algorithm that can accurately measure deposits in coronary arteries and predict a patient’s risk of suffering a heart attack within five years. It would allow this analysis to be d...

Rakuten France announced last month the launch of Rakuten Fulfillment Network, a full service logistics model covering the handling, storage, packaging and shipping of e-commerce orders. Rakuten’s goal is to allow merchants to take back control of their fulfillment, while s...

Burnout is a state of deep physical and psychological fatigue resulting from chronic stress in the workplace. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki, professor of data engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Biel, and her team of scientists supported by the Swiss National Science...

As part of the World AI Cannes Festival, Jeanick Brisswalter, President of the Université Côte d’Azur, will award the “Honorary Doctorate” to Yann LeCun, Vice President and Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Professor at New York University, on Saturday, April 16, 2...

MassChallenge Switzerland, part of MassChallenge’s global network of innovators, announced on March 30, a partnership with Enterra Solutions, whose Autonomous Decision Science TMfunctionality enables end-to-end value chain optimization, decision making, and complex research...

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) is the regulator of personal data. Its mission is to assist professionals in their compliance and to help individuals to control their personal data and exercise their rights. On April 5th, the CNIL announced...

Docaposte, the digital subsidiary of La Poste Group, aims to become the French benchmark for digital trust solutions. To this end, it announced in early March the creation of a data and AI center that brings together the expertise of its teams and those of two other La Poste Grou...

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the grand prize winners of the Connecting to the Future, Full Potential and Go High Challenges on March 30 at the GLOBE 2022 Forum in Vancouver. These three clean technology challenges are part of the Imp...

Enterprise data cloud company Cloudera’s new study, “Limitless: The Positive Power of AI,” released in March, is based on two online surveys conducted by Sapio Research in August 2021. For the first, 10,880 knowledge workers working in companies with 1,000+ empl...

Launched in 2015, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) start-up program has already enabled more than 120 young companies to benefit from personalized coaching. HPE announced this Tuesday, April 5, the opening of the call for applications for the eighth edition of its start-up ac...

The 7th issue of ActuIA, the artificial intelligence magazine, is now available on newsstands and in digital format! Subscribe today to receive it directly at home or at your workplace. In this new issue, you will find articles on the use of AI in communities, on the five-year pe...

On Monday, April 4, Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to explore new capabilities in Space Edge Computing (SEC), artificial intelligence space observation tools (DeeperVision) and the d...

Global warming will have a major impact on agriculture, and scientists are looking for solutions to adapt agricultural systems to extreme weather events. Researchers from INRAE, the University of Bordeaux and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile studied 24 plant species fr...

Only about 20 percent of the biographies on the English-language Wikipedia site, one of the world’s most visited websites, are of women, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. Aspart of her doctoral project in computer science at the University of Lorraine, within the Natio...

EIOPA, the European regulator for insurers, aims to foster financial stability and confidence in the insurance and pensions markets. This EU agency published a report in June 2021 on ethical and governance principles regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the insurance i...

Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan and Israel’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Orit Farkash-Hacohen signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cross-border cooperation in artificial intelligence on March 21 during a visit ...

Hewlett Packard Spain announced in early March the opening of a new center in Valencia, dedicated to the development of innovative technologies and software solutions that should ” revolutionize strategic industrial sectors”according to the company. The company does n...

On March 31, Criteo, the global technology company that provides the world’s first Commerce Media Platform, announced a five-year research partnership between the Criteo AI Lab and Inria (the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology). This pa...

Antibodies, small proteins produced by the immune system, can bind to specific parts of a virus to neutralize it. For example, to combat Covid-19, labs have made vaccines but have also turned their attention to synthetic antibodies that, by binding to the virus’s leading pr...

On March 18, Montreal-based Concordia University launched its Institute for Applied AI and announced the appointments of Tristan Glatard and Fenwick McKelvey as co-directors. In this capacity, they will contribute to the development of the Institute’s interdisciplinary acti...

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, Inserm, PSL University (Paris Sciences et Lettres), Inria, the Agence du Numérique en Santé, and the Health Data Hub, together with all the players in the Paris region in the fields ...

The potential of artificial intelligence to help overcome the challenges we face is certain, but the limited computational capabilities of conventional computers are a hindrance to solving certain problems. Quantum combined with AI could well be the solution. To demonstrate this,...

Microprocessor manufacturers have been interested in MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) since the 1990s. Researchers at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Foundry Business and Semiconductor R&D Center performed ...

In early March, a forum on digital identity and data governance began in Dakar, chaired by Yankhoba Diatara, Senegal’s Minister of Digital Economy and Telecoms, and hosted by Ghana’s Personal Data Chairperson, Patricia Poku, and Awa Ndiaye, Chairperson of the Personal...

Microsoft promotes fair and inclusive AI. With this in mind, Microsoft created an alternative school in 2018 in partnership with the social and solidarity enterprise Simplon.co: the Microsoft By Simplon AI School. On March 16, Microsoft France and Simplon inaugurated their 34th s...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched a second call for the world’s top researchers in artificial intelligence, designed to attract and retain the world’s best talent in the field. The call was announced by Digital Minister Chris Philp on March 23 at AI UK, t...

In a few days, the first round of the presidential elections will take place. 15 days later, the President of the Republic will be known, followed by a new hemicycle on June 19. From that moment on, e-health will have 5 new years to move from dream to reality. 5 years to integrat...

The deployment of AI in our daily lives, both personal and professional, is a source of opportunities and innovation but also presents non-negligible risks in terms of security, privacy, discrimination and environmental impact. To discuss this, we have exchanged with Gwendal Biha...

Only a few days left before the release of the new issue of ActuIA, the magazine of artificial intelligence. An issue not to be missed! So subscribers, watch your mailbox and, if you are not a subscriber, don’t hesitate and subscribe today! In this issue, you will find arti...

The ARDNA (AI Research on Data for Nuclear Application) project was selected at the end of 2021 as the winner of the ” call for projects to support investment and modernization of thenuclear industry” as part of France Relance. ARDNA is a project of Aquila Data Enable...

In Quebec, the Laurentian region is known for its sudden changes in weather conditions. Episodes of blowing snow (very fine snow pushed by the wind) are particularly dangerous. Since last winter, the Quebec Ministry of Transport has been conducting a pilot project to detect blowi...

Hugo Le Picard, researcher at the Ifri’s Energy & Climate Center, and Mathieu Toulemont, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PhotoRoom, sought to measure the progression of decentralized solar power in urban areas in Africa. To do so, they used deep learning methods to ...

KAYRROS, a leader in climate and energy data analysis, announced on March 22 a new round of financing of 40 million euros. The French government, via French Tech Souveraineté operated by Bpifrance, the European Investment Bank (EIB), NewSpace Capital, and OperaTech Ventures, the ...

Epigraphy studies inscriptions on durable materials, such as stone and metal, and is very useful to historians for the study of ancient civilizations, most of whose perishable records have disappeared. However, these inscriptions on imputrescible materials have suffered the damag...

In 2017, the CFVR project (targeting fraud and valuing requests) was the subject, of a financing by the FTAP (Fonds de Transformation de l’Action Publique) of 5 million euros with the objective of improving ” the efficiency of tax control operations by renovating the ...

On Monday, March 14, Canada’s Minister of Education, Jean-François Roberge, and Éric Caire, Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital Affairs, announced an investment of $10.6 million over two years to digitize all the data accumulated by school service centers (CSS). Artificia...

On March 15, Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez inaugurated “Future Seeds,” the world’s largest tropical crop bank based at the Alliance’s campus in Palmira, Colombia. The facility will not only preserve the biodiversity of important tropical crops, bu...

In mid-February, the Centre Hospitalier de Bigorre in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) organized the inauguration of an Artificial Intelligence module for digestive endoscopy, in order to optimize colorectal cancer screening: CAD EYE by Fujifilm. The hospital’s endoscopy department...

If the adoption of solutions based on artificial intelligence is progressing throughout the world, the question of data, its collection, its quality and its sovereignty is at the center of many debates. We spoke with Antoine Couret, founder of ALEIA and president of the France AI...

Researchers at Amazon, two professors at the University of California Computer Science teamed up with Meta’s chief scientist to conduct a study on machine learning and presented an end-to-end noise-tolerant integrated learning framework: PGE. This framework allowed them to ...

Like all animals, pigs are sensitive, intelligent and capable of feeling emotions such as fear and pain as well as pleasure and happiness. They transmit these emotions through vocalizations, and being able to recognize emotions through vocalizations could allow breeders to improv...

The first international community innovation challenge “Smart Territory development, investment & entrepreneurship digital challenge” (TDC2022) was recently launched, whose objective is to promote the potential of the regions of Tangier, Tetouan and Al Hoceima to ...

Founded in 2019 in the Netherlands in Ryswick in the suburbs of The Hague, with a U.S. base since last year in the United States in Portland, Oregon, Rocsys develops solutions for autonomous charging cable connection. The start-up has just won a major contract in Oakland, Califor...

Researchers at Virginia Tech University (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), located in Blacksburg, have created a robot that can transform itself and then return to its original morphology. They were inspired by the art of kirigami to design its architecture an...

The compilation and analysis of numerous databases is essential to biomedical research. To develop new therapies or disease prevention strategies, scientists increasingly need better quality data. However, the quality is highly variable and the integration of different data sets ...

On March 3, the University Cancer Institute of Toulouse, IUCT-Oncopole, signed a memorandum of understanding with the aeronautics leader AIRBUS. The two parties will develop research projects of mutual interest over the next two years, particularly in the field of artificial inte...

Global warming is undeniable, and heat waves follow one another, exceptionally so. City dwellers are feeling the effects even more because the lack of vegetation and mineralization are creating urban heat islands, so they must adapt their lifestyle and travel. Faced with this glo...

Co-hosted by HPC centers in Singapore, Japan, Australia, SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2022 is an annual conference encompassing a range of notable supercomputing events in Asia held from March 1-3, 2022. It was this event that SingHealth, the National Supercomputing Center Singapore ...

In one month, from April 14 to 16, 2022, will be held the first edition of a new global event dedicated to artificial intelligence: the World AI Cannes Festival. An event that aims to bring together AI players and to shed light on the impact and interest of AI for both businesses...

The Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) adopted, during its meeting of Wednesday, March 9, 2022, a report “For a realistic, balanced and respectful of academic freedom open science”, presented by the deputy Pierre H...

Volvo Sweden announced on March 8 that it has signed an agreement with Phyron, a Swedish company that pioneered video technology. Thirty used car dealers with the Volvo Selekt quality label will use Phyron’s intelligent solution as part of a nationwide pilot project, which ...

According to a statement from Hoan Ton-That, CEO of Clearview AI to Reuters, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense began using his company’s facial recognition technology on Saturday, March 12. Indeed, the U.S. startup has offered to help Ukraine discover Russian attackers, fig...

DRONE VOLT, an international player in the fields of professional civil drones and embedded artificial intelligence, announced on March 2 the acquisition of the assets of the Danish company VIKING DRONE. The latter is specialized in the manufacture of connected drones for develop...

Why is AI sometimes called “the new electricity”? How can AI improve healthcare? What are the European Union and its member states doing to ensure trust and legality without curbing innovation? How can artificial intelligence be used ethically and responsibly? How can...