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Following the British referendum on June 23, 2016, where a majority of voters voted for the UK to withdraw from the European Union, the country has not been part of the EU since January 31, 2020. Wanting to accentuate its detachment from the European political-economic body and b...

Since September 8, Devoteam, a company specializing in digital strategy consulting, technology platforms and cybersecurity, has opened its registration for the sixth edition of Devogame. This serious game offers participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in a life-size ga...

Gradually, artificial intelligence, data and more broadly new technologies are making their appearance in several sectors, including agriculture. For example, the government launched the French AgriTechinitiative in early September to support the development, maturation and expor...

On September 23, 2021, the Vietnamese government released a national strategy on artificial intelligence research, development, and application until 2030, with the aim of making Vietnam a hub for innovation and AI within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the...

While the RATPis launching its first experiments with an autonomous bus line, the city of Montpellier is in turn launching an experiment with an automated vehicle dedicated to urban logistics. The Carreta project will be coordinated by Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole with the ...

Launched in September 2020, aivancity Paris-Cachan is a Grande Ecole dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Data. One year after its launch, aivancity Paris-Cachan inaugurates its 5.0 campus. Located in the heart of the Cachan university campus, the Grande École will welcome it...

On September 3, French company Atos announced that it had completed the acquisition of Visual BI. This American company is specialized in data analysis and business intelligence (BI) in the cloud. Already mentioned last July, this arrival allows to include new partnerships becaus...

Launched in June 2016, The Technological Research Institute (IRT) SystemX announces the closure of its Cybersecurity of Intelligent Transport (CTI) project. Conducted in collaboration with the French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) and the Gendarmerie Nat...

On September 30, the Village by CA Paris, a start-up accelerator, will hold its fourth Village Awards ceremony. The competition supports cooperation between start-ups and large groups and is open to the whole of France. In each region, several start-ups are associated with large ...

The United Nations (UN) has explained that certain artificial intelligence systems are in its sights. In particular, it considers that facial recognition systems can represent a very serious risk in the non-respect of human rights, especially when this technology is used in publi...

Last April, NLP Cloud, a Grenoble-based start-up, launched its NLP programming interfaceallowing companies and their developers and/or data scientists to use NLP in their projects. The French start-up announced the integration of the open source GPT-J model in their NLP tool. Rec...

SystemX, the technological research institute (IRT) dedicated to the digital engineering of the systems of the future, is launching the “Business Semantics for Multisource Data Mining” (SMD) project, the third project in its “Artificial Intelligence and Augmente...

Skello, one of the French Tech start-ups, has announced that it has raised €40 million from the investment fund Partech. With this financing, the start-up hopes to improve its solution for optimizing and automating schedule management while developing new markets in Europe, parti...

Deep Vision, a company known for developing AI processors as well as software suites for edge computing applications, has announced that it has raised 35 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Several major players in the Series A round joined the fundraise: Exf...

In Ireland, France and the European Union as a whole, the issue of data protection is important and it is regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Data Protection Commission, Ireland’s equivalent of the National Commission for Information Technology a...

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) announces the signature of a partnership with Gleamer. Gleamer is renowned for having designed a suite of AI software for radiology diagnosis. The firm will use its skills to co-build with AP-HP an AI solution to detect the ma...

This is a major first in the public transport sector in France: the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) is launching an experiment with a 100% autonomous bus. It will run on line 393 from Sucy-Bonneuil to Thiais-Carrefour de la Résistance and vice versa. This announcem...

According to a report by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global revenue of the artificial intelligence market is expected to grow by 15.2% year-on-year in 2021 to reach 19.4 billion in 2020. which is the fastest growing compared to hardware and software. For 2021, i...

With the aim of contributing to new diagnostic and treatment strategies for cancer patients thanks to AI, several companies, institutions and organisations have joined forces to launch the “Filière Artificial Intelligence et Cancer” association. This public/private pa...

In order to facilitate the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation to give a second life to works of art from antiquity and the Middle Ages, the European Union is launching the RePAIR project for “Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics”. Th...

Climate change is a major issue that is increasingly being highlighted by authorities and is already impacting several industries. Several companies and startups specializing in climate analysis have developed solutions to predict how climate change could affect global trade. The...

September is inevitably associated with the start of the new school year, when 12.8 million primary and secondary school students return to school. EvidenceB, a start-up combining cognitive science and artificial intelligence, offers a module called Adaptativ’Langue. Some 5...

At the Technical University of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, the car manufacturer Skoda has inaugurated an artificial intelligence production laboratory (AIM.Lab). This opening is part of the company’s Next Level strategy, which aims to make the Czech Republic a productio...

Issue 5 of ActuIA, the magazine of artificial intelligence, arrives on newsstands and in digital format on September 21, 2021! Receive it directly at home or at work by subscribing today. On the agenda: features, analyses on AI and its applications and renowned experts for an iss...

Greenly, a technology start-up specializing in helping organizations reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, announced this week that it has raised 10 and 600,000 in 2020. Investors include Cedric Hutchings, CEO of Outsight and co-founder of Withings, Damien Balsan, founder of Loo...

Understanding rare diseases in order to better diagnose and treat them effectively is a major challenge due to the multiplicity of syndromes and the small number of people affected by rare diseases. To meet this challenge, the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec will launch a rese...

Atos, a French specialist in digital transformation, announces the signing of a partnership with AFNOR Certification for the promotion and development of the IQS – IoT Qualified as Secured – label. It will allow Internet of Things (IoT) players to verify the security ...

On September 9, 2021, an event took place in connection with the AI experimentation in Hauts-de-France. This event was an opportunity to present the assessment of the two and a half years of the initiative in the presence of Bruno Lucas, general delegate for employment and vocati...

During the XXV meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Bern, an innovative application was presented. Named ArchAIDE, this tool designed by a team of researchers from the University of Pisa aims to revolutionize the world of archaeology with the help of artificia...

Botify, a French SEO start-up, has announced that it has raised 55 million in funding. Bpifrance participated through its Large Venture fund, as well as investors who have already contributed to Botify’s development: Eurazeo and Ventech. Adrien Ménard, co-founder and CEO of...

From September 8 to October 28, 2023, the Rugby World Cup, one of the world’s greatest sporting events, will take place in France. Two years to the day before the kick-off of the first match between the host country and New Zealand, World Rugby announces its partnership wit...

To classify a brain tumour into one of six common types using a single 3D MRI scan: that was the challenge set by a team of American researchers. Together, they designed a deep learning model capable of this feat, a step closer to creating a reliable tool for automatic detection ...

Google Maps, the Mountain View company’s online mapping service, offers a feature that allows users to learn more about ETA: estimating the time of arrival at a location predefined by the user. The accuracy of this estimate is based on several technologies, including graph ...

While the DIGIFERMES label is launching its call for applications, the government is focusing on agriculture and innovation with the launch of the French AgriTech. With this initiative, the government wishes to support the development, maturation and export of know-how in the Agr...

From October 1 to November 30, a call for applications in the digital agriculture sector will be launched. This initiative is part of the DIGIFERMES network, which aims to support farmers in the implementation of digital technologies. Thus, farmers with an experimental farm where...

Databricks, a company specializing in data and AI, has just announced a new round of financing in the amount of 1.6 billion dollars from numerous investors, including Counterpoint Global – Morgan Stanley. With this new financing, the company’s valuation is positioned ...

GAIA-X, the European data infrastructure project set up by France and Germany during 2019 was the subject of two plenary sessions in 2021 in the framework of the French GAIA-X Hub. The third plenary session will take place on Thursday 23 September, with the presence of Cédric O, ...

An athlete was run over by an autonomous bus designed by Japanese carmaker Toyota during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which run from August 24 to September 5, 2021. The firm has apologized for the “overconfidence” that led the bus to cause the terrible accident. T...

Mojdo, a start-up offering a SaaS solution to improve the performance of sales teams, has announced that it has raised €7 million from several investors, including the Daphni fund and the Aglaé Ventures fund. The conversational analytics company hopes to recruit around 60 new tal...

With the aim of making transport planning more reliable, Everysens, a French company specializing in logistics visibility, announces the launch of a new AI-based feature: availability forecasting. This feature should allow logistics coordinators to know if enough wagons will be a...

As part of the eighth edition of the EIT Digital Challenge which focuses on deep tech companies, twenty start-ups were chosen to participate in the final of the competition. All of these companies cover a wide range of topics and offer innovative services or products using sophis...

As part of a project led by Tencent, several researchers have succeeded in developing a model for restoring images and photographs of faces. It is far from being the first tool of its kind, but the results it offers are much better than the average, as shown by the various compar...

Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm, has published a report on the European IT services market. The report shows that the sector is still growing strongly thanks to the increasing adoption of cloud-based services. The Europe Middle Eas...

On Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 September 2021, the tenth edition of Big Data & AI Paris will take place, a major European event dedicated to artificial intelligence and Big Data that you should not miss. During these 2 days, many actors of AI and data will be present to excha...

At the 180th meeting of the American Acoustic Association (ASA), a research team from the University of Maryland, USA, presented an artificial intelligence model to detect signs of depression. The tool, coupled with a mobile application, analyzes the voice and notices potential c...

As part of the cycle of international conferences on AI organized in the Alpes-Maritimes department (06), a debate will be organized around AI and women. On Wednesday, September 8, 2021, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, this conference will focus on the role that women play in the advent...

The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) will organize AMLD Africa, an event that will take place from September 2 to 4. Thisis the fifth edition of a series of conferences over three days around machine learning applied to the development of the African continent. Thi...

In this new episode of Synapse AI, Mathieu Barreau interviews Isabelle Galy, coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) collective of the Village francophone. The French-speaking Village is an initiative designed to create delegations and federate actors on the sidelines of ...

The Polaris supercomputer project will aim to be one of the largest supercomputers to boost AI to extreme scale. It will be housed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. NVIDIA has announced that the infrastructure will run on the firm’s accel...

Officially unveiled last April, the Wafer Scale Engine V2 (included in the Cerebras CS-2 system) is the latest processor designed by Cerebras, an American semiconductor manufacturer. Always in a will to go further and to be able to put in network its processors, the firm announce...

As it does every year, Gartner, an advanced technology research and advisory firm, proposes its “Magic Quadrant”, a table that takes the form of four boxes, each corresponding to a category: leaders, visionaries, niche players and challengers. The document proposed by...

While in the Republic of Congo, a workshopwas launched to accelerate the establishment of an African center for research in artificial intelligence, Algeria announces the creation and inauguration of higher schools of mathematics and artificial intelligence. For this academic yea...

NVIDIA AI Enterprise is the name of NVIDIA’s suite of AI tools and frameworks that are now available to companies that want to use them. The company is offering companies running VMware vSphere the ability to virtualise AI workloads on NVIDIA-certified systems. Among the we...

The 4th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will be held from November 17 to 20, 2021 in Sophia Antipolis. Organized by the Université Côte d’Azur, the Communauté d’Agglomération de Sophia Antipolis and the Sophia Club Entreprises with the support of the Alpes Maritimes de...

After presenting its next humanoid robot at Tesla AI Day, Elon Musk’s firm announced the future design of Tesla Dojo D1. This chip dedicated to the training of artificial intelligence should allow Tesla vehicles to ensure a semi-autonomous driving thanks to the supercompute...

Last May, IBM Research showcased its latest creation: a technology for creating 2-nanometer chips. On August 23, the firm unveiled Telum, its first chip with AI inference acceleration, which is expected to perform tasks such as fraud detection in banking transactions. It is the r...

Deepfake is a technology for synthesizing images or videos using artificial intelligence. It allows, in general, a superposition of images or videos to change the face of a person or to make him say things he never said. A look at this technique, which is increasingly used in the...

For more than a year, the European GAIA-Xproject has been in the news. With its objective of offering a cloud computing service in Europe and a European data infrastructure, the initiative is undoubtedly ambitious. In a move to get more and more into the thick of things, a hackat...

During the summer of 2019, several employees of the SNCF denounced a major health problem in some of the freight cars of the railway company. Indeed, these employees discovered asbestos in a dozen freight maintenance workshops, an insulating and resistant material used in many co...