The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is an independent funding corporation. In January, Jeff White, its CEO, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for ACOA, and Jenica Atwin, Member of Parliament for Fredericton, officially lau...
Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes and chronic diseases announced the acquisition of xbird, a Berlin-based medical artificial intelligence company that develops JITAI (just-in-time adaptive interventions) technologies...
The Moroccan General Directorate of Taxes has equipped itself, last January, with a conversational agent “chatbot” as part of the diversification of its communication channels and facilitation of its interactions with users as well as in application of the law No. 55-...
As automakers look to improve the security of their cars, they are increasingly interested in facial recognition. At CES 2019, Hyundai showcased its Genesis GV60 model that is equipped with this technology. The Biometrics Security and Privacy Research Group at the Idiap Institute...
In March 2021, France Urbaine’s “Digital and Innovation” commission submitted to the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Cedric O, the Manifesto “ For Responsible Digital Territories”, drawn up jointly with the Assembly of French Communities (AdC...
CausaLens, a London-based deeptech specializing in causal AI, announced a $45 million fundraising ina Series A round led by Dorilton Ventures and Molten Ventures, formerly Draper Esprit. Existing investors Generation Ventures and IQ Capital, GP Bullhound and other investors also ...
All glaciers are undergoing major changes due to global warming. An interdisciplinary team of glaciologists, climatologists and mathematicians from the University of Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, Météo-France, the Free University of Brussels and TU Delft used for the first time deep art...
At the end of January, Diot-Siaci Group, a European leader in property and personal insurance consulting and brokerage, and Shift Technology, a French unicorn specializing in the development of AI-based data automation and optimization solutions for the insurance industry, announ...
On July 6, 2021, the Pentagon announced the cancellation of JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure), a 10 billion contract to modernize its cloud infrastructure that was to be awarded to a single vendor. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle then entered the competitio...
DeepMind, the subsidiary of Alphabet (formerly Google), specialized in AI presented AlphaCode, a tool capable of writing computer code in a completely autonomous way to solve problems requiring logical thinking and understanding of language. It has confronted this new code genera...
Pure Storage, a leading provider of 100% flash-based block, file and object storage solutions for the enterprise, and Graphcore, a semiconductor company that develops gas pedals for AI and machine learning, have partnered to optimize and deliver the best possible performance for ...
Last December, the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region made official the creation this year of the Regional Digital and Artificial Intelligence Agency: ARNIA, a high-level digital public service, which will support citizens, companies and communities in their digital transition and dev...
The Data Protection Act allows any person to access data concerning him or her. This right is reinforced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) published on May 4, 2016 and entered into force in May 2018. An employee can therefore ask his employer to communicate persona...
One of the most studied aspects of magnetic confinement fusion is the turbulence of the edge plasma, which is critical to the performance and operation of the reactor. Abhilas Mathews, a doctoral student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and works in the Plasma...
France Assureurs, the federation that brings together all insurance and reinsurance companies operating in France, (more than 247 companies representing more than 99% of the global insurance market), publishes a position paper in which it asks insurers not to rush headlong into t...
On February 7 and 8, as part of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, the conference “Building Europe’s Digital Sovereignty” will take place. On the program of this first day, broadcasted live online : Opening speeches Session 1: Open sover...
Dataquitaine 2022, the day dedicated to AI, Operations Research and Data Science in New Aquitaine, will take place on February 10, 2022 in Bordeaux, in hybrid format. This annual event is organized by Digital Aquitaine’s AI Data Science community, in partnership with INRIA ...
Synapse Développement, a specialist in Artificial Intelligence applied to texts and linguistic engineering, has won the i-Nov competition in the Digital DeepTech theme financed by the Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir (PIA) and operated by Bpifrance, thanks to its ...
Guillaume Lajoie, a member of Mila, the Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle, and an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal, and his colleague Amy Orsborn, from the University of Washington, have won an award from the Simons Collaboration on the Global ...
On February 1, Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program contract to develop a prototype artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. The prototype will be integr...
On January 10, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered EUROPOL, the European criminal police agency, to divest itself of data collected in the course of investigations lasting more than six months. On February 1, the Council Presidency and the European Parliament r...
Withings, a French company, designs, develops and markets connected objects for the well-being and health of their users. To provide users with even more personalized monitoring and expand its range of services, the company has just announced the acquisition of the German start-u...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the potential of AI and digital technologies to help manage crises and support resilience, but not all people and countries benefited equally. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has just released guidelines for solutions to ensure th...
In France, banking and insurance supervision is carried out by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR). Created in 2010, following the 2008 financial crisis, the authority aims to supervise banks and insurance companies to guarantee financial stability, protec...
The IDEMIA group, world leader in Augmented Identity, announced in early January the signature of a collaboration agreement with the CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). Both have already conducted joint projects in the past, they will now d...
The interministerial service of the Archives of France (SIAF), in partnership with the Paris School of Economics, is launching the Socface research project, conducted by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) and the company Teklia. The evolution of French society f...
On February 1, the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) announced the launch of a new community platform powered by artificial intelligence and invited people to join the “AI for Good neural network” without further delay. This AI-based networking platform aims...
50 years ago, Alain Colmerauer laid the foundations of Prolog, the first computer language for “logic programming”. Like LISP, it was to become one of the key tools of Artificial Intelligence (AI). After its glory days in the 80’s with the worldwide repercussion...
Popular beauty brand L’Oréal and Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary in the U.S. that specializes in life science research, announced an exclusive partnership in late January. To study the mechanisms of hair and skin aging, the companies will rely, among other things, on the dev...
The DEEL project aims to develop an interpretable, robust, secure and certifiable artificial intelligence (AI) applied to critical systems in the aerospace and transportation fields. This transatlantic research program is led in Quebec by the Consortium for Research and Innovatio...
InstaDeep, one of the leaders in the design of decision-making Artificial Intelligence systems, announced on January 25 that it had raised $100 million (€88 million). The company closed a Series B round led by DeepTech investment firm Alpha Intelligence Capital and supported by C...
The National Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence(CNIA), supported by the AFIA Board of Directors, is intended for the entire AI research community. It is a forum to strengthen the links and interactions between the different sub-disciplines of AI and the disciplines using AI. CN...
ALEIA, a platform to accelerate and secure artificial intelligence projects, organizes on February 3rd, the webinar ALEIA, the new sovereign and operational AI solution. ALEIA is a member of the Hub France IA, a non-profit association, driving and federating European AI initiativ...
Sanofi and Exscientia have been collaborating since 2016, they recently signed a license and research collaboration agreement to develop up to 15 novel small molecule candidates in oncology and immunology. Exscientia’s fully integrated artificial intelligence (AI) platform ...
At CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandon Carter and colleagues conducted a study that showed that neural networks trained on popular datasets like CIFAR-10 and Image Net suffer from over-i...
Fact-checking consists of systematically verifying statements made by political leaders or elements of public debate, especially during election periods. Radio France has entered into a partnership with Polytechnique and Inria to develop artificial intelligence in its newsrooms. ...
German companies Bosch and Cariad, the Volkswagen Group’s software subsidiary, have announced an extended partnership to accelerate the introduction of partially and highly automated driving functions suitable for series production on all classes of Volkswagen Group vehicle...
On Tuesday 25 January, the Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees held their first joint exchange of views on the proposed legislation on artificial intelligence. Parliamentary work on this central topic will continue this year. In December, on the occasion of its Preside...
Ansys, building on a long-standing relationship, announced in late 2021 a multi-year agreement with Seagate Technology to expand Seagate’s use of Ansys simulation solutions internationally. Seagate Technology, a global leader in mass data storage solutions, applies Ansys...
FARI, the Brussels Institute for Artificial Intelligence, set up last year as part of the recovery plan, aims to connect AI experts, citizens, businesses and local organizations. The Minister of Digital Transition, Bernard Clerfayt, has just awarded it four projects. This first m...
In early January 2022, Pascal Faure, Director General of INPI and Ms. Rena Lee, his counterpart at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) signed a new work plan for 2022-2023, which succeeds the October 21, 2020 plan around the promotion and commercialization of IP ...
As early as 2013, Autonomous Lethal Weapons Systems (ALWS) were discussed at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). At the end of 2021, the subject was again addressed by the 125 States meeting in Geneva but, due to a lack of agreement, the dossier, referred...
Artificial Intelligence is booming and the technologies it has developed are in constant evolution. The ethical problems that can arise from their use are at the heart of the debate. XXII, a company specialized in Deep technologies, has announced the creation of an ethical charte...
Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday, Jan. 24, the construction of the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) supercomputer, which is among the fastest AI supercomputers today and is expected to be the fastest by mid-2022, when it is finalized. Researchers ar...
Morocco’s digital transformation began a dozen years ago. Since then, the government, aware of the impact of digital technology on Moroccan society and economy, has launched several strategies to accelerate its development. Artificial Intelligence has an essential role to p...
Vivoka, a Lorraine-based company and French leader in speech recognition with the Voice Development Kit, announced in early January its participation in the partnership program of NXP Semiconductors, the world’s tenth largest supplier of embedded controllers. The addition o...
The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science is an international research initiative launched by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and overseen by the National Meteorological Center. At a ceremony held on January 13 at Expo 2020 in Dubai, under the patronage of His Hi...
The 20th edition of the Meetings of Young Researchers in Artificial Intelligence (RJCIA’2022) calls for contributions. It will take place on June 30 and July 1, 2022, the last days of the next edition of the Platform for Artificial Intelligence (PFIA’2022), which will...
Exakis Nelite, part of Magellan Partners group, the first Microsoft pure-player partner in France, announced in early January its appointment to the “Data Lake for Nuclear” project as part of the French Government’s France Relance program. Exakis Nelite has form...
On January 10, 2022, the RATP group announced the launch of the 3rd edition of its start-up gas pedal dedicated to new mobility and better urban living. The five winning start-ups will benefit from a six-month business acceleration to test and deploy their solutions and services ...
INRIA and the University of Rennes 1 have been collaborating since 1980, the year the Rennes-Brittany Atlantic Center was created. On Wednesday, January 19, the two institutions signed an agreement that confirms their strategic partnership and formalizes the creation of the ̶...
Mathematics is often considered as an exact science and for most of us, it allows to solve all computational problems. However, they come up against certain problems that are still unsolvable, and algorithms designed to solve them have not succeeded either. Among these problems, ...
Right now, we hear a lot about Delta and Omicron, the two most circulating variants in France, but little do we know that more than 70,000 variants were discovered between early October 2021 and late November 2021. BioNTech and InstaDeep announce that they have developed and succ...
Faced with the resurgence of smart or augmented cameras in public spaces and the ethical or legal problems that these devices pose, the CNIL, after various works on the issue, has published a “Draft position on the conditions of deployment of so-called “smart” o...
According to a study conducted by Snyk, today 43% of all data leaks are directly related to vulnerabilities discovered within applications. As the Python programming language becomes increasingly popular with developers, Snyk examined security issues related to the language and f...
There are and will always be fraudsters… Artificial intelligence will help identify those who have “omitted” to declare certain buildings to the tax authorities, such as outbuildings, garden sheds and swimming pools. The latter are numerous in the Bouches-du-Rhô...
The acceleration of the development of Artificial Intelligence is a global challenge. The United States and China are the leaders, but France does not intend to lag behind. At the national level, the France AI strategy was presented on March 21, 2017. In March 2018, Emmanuel Macr...
AIM is a French manufacturer specializing in the development of embedded hardware and software, it creates industrial PLCs, from the simplest to the most complex and, in addition, has developed the “zero code” programming tool Agilia Intuitive Automation™. He has just...
Last October, Emmanuel Macron presented France 2030, a 30 billion euro investment plan for a dozen sectors of activity including digital, hydrogen, batteries, space, health and culture. The goal is to enable France and Europe to regain their independence in the industries and ski...
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