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Future Intelligence, a convention dedicated to artificial intelligence and data, will be held from June 1 to 3

Future Intelligence, a business convention dedicated to artificial intelligence and data-driven innovations, will take place from June 1 to 3. The event, which promises keynotes, round tables and high quality meetings, will be held online, with 100% digital content. During three ...

Europe: Official announcement of the draft regulation on artificial intelligence

On April 21, 2021, the European Commission officially announced its plans for regulations and actions “to promote excellence and trust in artificial intelligence.” This announcement comes two months after the publication of the AI white paper in February 2021 and the ...

Focus on PlantVillage, an artificial intelligence solution developed to save crops in Africa

One of the consequences of global warming in East Africa is the multiplication of locusts which have invaded Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where their presence was previously rare. Faced with the devastation caused by these locusts on crops, a solution had to be developed to enable...

Researchers from Korea University and Sony AI launch food app

As part of a ‘gastronomic’ partnership between Korea University (KU) and Sony AI, a project was carried out to improve the knowledge around flavour pairings between several ingredients. From this study, FlavorGraph, an ingredient mapping application, was born. Artific...

EuroHPC inaugurates Vega, the first supercomputer shared by the member states of the European Union

On 20 April 2021, the European Joint Undertaking for High Performance Computing (EuroHPC), the European Commission and the Slovenian government inaugurated the Vega supercomputer in Maribor, Slovenia. Vega was supplied by Atos and will be hosted by the Slovenian Institute of Info...

Study reveals that a crowd’s opinion is less taken into account than an algorithm’s

In a study publishedonApril 13, three researchers found that we tend to trust machines and algorithms more than other human beings in a decision-making situation. This study, financed to the tune of $300,000 by the American army, was led by Eric Bogert, a doctoral student in the ...

Atos announces the acquisition of Ipsotek to strengthen its offering in edge computing and video analytics

On April 20, 2021, Atos has just announced three acquisitions with a view to strengthening its position in several sectors: cybersecurity, digital transformation of the industrial sector, edge computing and video analysis using artificial intelligence. German Cryptovision, Canadi...

Acquisition of Talentsoft: how Cegid hopes to improve its HR & Payroll offering

Cegid, the business management solutions company, has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Talentsoft, which specialises in Cloud Talent Management solutions. This acquisition is part of Cegid’s objective to strengthen its position in the Payroll and Human Resourc...

Facebook AI and HZM use artificial intelligence to predict the effects of drug combinations

In a collaborative research between the German research center Helmholtz Zentrum München (HZM) and Facebook AI, an artificial intelligence model was designed to predict the effects of drug combinations, their dosages, their planning. This model could also be useful in several typ...

Deep learning, one of the major economic challenges of the 2030s according to a report

According to US asset management firm ARK Invest, deep learning will be one of the major economic challenges in one to two decades. This analysis is part of its “Big Ideas 2021” report, which also covers topics such as Bitcoin and 3D printing. According to the company...

Google Cloud partners with Siemens to bring AI solutions to factory floors

In order to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor, the Siemens Group has announced a partnership with Google Cloud. The German company wants to use artificial intelligence technologies and more specifically those of machine learning, cloud computin...

Fugaku supercomputer and an AI model for tsunami flood prevention

In 2011, a tsunami occurred off the coast of Japan. The toll was severe: 15,897 dead, 2,534 missing, 6,152 injured and 139,000 refugees. It even caused an accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Ten years later, Fujitsu Laboratories, with the help of RIKEN, Tohoku Universi...

Use Case: How Bentley Systems’ iTwin Integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse

To integrate with NVIDIA Omniverse, Bentley Systems has extended its iTwin platform. The goal is to provide an artificial intelligence-based graphics pipeline for real-time visualization and simulation of digital twins of infrastructure. NVIDIA Omniversewas developed specifically...

The start-up Imageens raises 1.2 million euros from the investment fund Anaxago

After announcing its collaboration with the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the start-up Imageens is raising €1.2 million from the investment fund Anaxago. This fundraising will allow the company to accelerate the marketing of its two solutions based on art...

Kyndryl, IBM’s new separate company that will offer managed infrastructure services

IBM announced this week the name of the new entity in charge of managed infrastructure services that will operate as an independent company. Kyndrylwill be spun off from the multinational IT company so that it can fully invest in the cloud. The new $19 billion company will have 9...

Focus on Car Thing, Spotify’s voice-activated device for vehicles

Bluetooth technology is one of the options not present in some cars, which is not practical for listening to the music you want, for example. Spotify is looking to get around this by offering Car Thing , a device with a screen to allow the motorist to use Spotify in the car via v...

Genethon and WhiteLab Genomics to collaborate on using AI for gene therapy

Genethon, the AFM-Telethon research and development center, announced last month its collaboration with WhiteLab Genomics. This partnership aims to accelerate the development of innovative gene therapies thanks to artificial intelligence. WhiteLab Genomics’ Catalyst platfor...

Systancia creates Neomia, a subsidiary specialising in the design of products dedicated to AI

Neomia is the brand new subsidiary of the French cybersecurity publisher Systancia. It will work on the design of products dedicated to AI, whether or not they are linked to the publisher’s activities. The aim is to help companies accelerate the adoption of AI in their appl...

Milestone Systems partners with Two-i to deliver VMS with AI interface

Milestone Systems, an open platform IP video management software (VMS) vendor, has partnered with Two-i, a technology company specializing in AI software development. The collaboration aims to provide an AI-based video analytics solution for VMS. Two-i’s contribution will g...

Cigref and CISPE want to put an end to the practices of software access controllers

As more and more companies, start-ups and large institutions migrate to the cloud, Cigref, an association of large companies and public organisations that use digital services, announced on 13 April the launch of a charter of ten principles. This initiative is part of a desire to...

The Léon Bérard Centre will pilot three projects using AI to improve radiotherapy

The Centre Léon Bérard, a cancer centre in Lyon and the Rhône Alpes region, has announced that it is working on three new programmes in radiotherapy. These new programs will use AI to better control the delivery of dose during therapy while reducing the duration of treatment. The...

Project STOP: How analyzing Twitter posts can prevent suicide risks

France has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe, with approximately 9,000 deaths per year. In Spain, the available statistics show that almost 3 000 people commit suicide every year. The Covid-19 pandemic, the increase in feelings of loneliness and malaise, unfortunately ma...

The University of Gothenburg is interested in a study on artificial intelligence to contain the next epidemics

In a study published on April 13, 2021, researchers from the University of Gothenburg (UG) in Sweden explain why AI would be one of the solutions to be retained to contain the increase of infections during future epidemics or pandemics. Few studies have looked in the past at how ...

Europe: the European Commission plans to regulate the use of ‘high risk’ AI systems

As part of its new regulation on artificial intelligence, the European Union is considering strict rules. Among the points addressed are AI systems used for “indiscriminate surveillance” operations, which the European Commission wants to ban. Companies and institution...

Back to the launch of the PIEEC “Electronics and Connectivity” of the Strategic Committee of the Electronics Sector

The Strategic Committee of the Electronics Industry (CSF) is preparing a new project of common European interest (PIIEC). The creation of this project, entitled “Electronics and Connectivity”, comes after the strategic role of the electronics industry as a whole was h...

Twitter announces work to make its algorithms more ethical and transparent

In the presentation of its ongoing work, Twitter has highlighted, this April 14, the ethical AI. The social network wants to improve its machine learning algorithms in such a way that they are more ethical and transparent for people registered on the platform. The goal is to give...

Spain: Government invests €450 million in its national cyber security training programme

Cyber attacks have not spared Spain.Last March, forexample,SEPE, the Spanish public employment service, was the victim of an attack via the Ryuk ransomware. In order to strengthen Spain’s cyber security capabilities, the government has announced a plan worth 450 million eur...

Review: the Microsoft By Simplon AI School celebrates its third year of existence

In March 2018, Microsoft and Simplon created the AI School with the aim of training job seekers in artificial intelligence. Three years later, this school has evolved into a strong network of 24 schools in 9 French regions. During this period, 500 learners, all with different pro...

AXA collaborates with Microsoft to design a healthcare service ecosystem

AXA announces its collaboration with Microsoft with the aim of creating a digital healthcare platform that simplifies the healthcare pathway, while providing access to an ecosystem of services open to all. At the end of 2020, a pilot program in this area was launched in Germany a...

Parrot signs a partnership with High Lander to automate and improve the efficiency of their drones

The European drone group, Parrot, announced on April 13 the signing of a partnership with High Lander. This company has developed Mission Control, a platform that provides fleets of drones with intelligent airspace control and coordinated aerial continuity during autonomous fligh...

St John’s College researchers present automatic language model to combat neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, have been looking at the molecular grammar of proteins. In the conclusion of one of their publications published last week in PNAS, they indicate that their study could be used to “correct grammatical errors i...

La Poste acquires OpenValue and inaugurates a new data and artificial intelligence division

La Poste is progressively looking to use AI in its development strategy, notably through the strategic plan “La Poste 2030, committed to you” with digital as its main focus. In this context, the company has announced the acquisition of the big data and AI consulting f...

Eight AgTech Startups Selected for SAP.iO Foundry Paris Accelerator Program

As part of its new Agribusiness acceleration program, SAP.iO Foundry Paris has unveiled the 8 start-ups specializing in innovation around agriculture and agri-food selected. Three French start-ups, Connecting Food, Sencrop, and Procsea France SAS, are among the companies joining ...

Cybersecurity: Glimps raises 6 million euros to accelerate its development

Glimps has announced a €6 million fundraising round led by Ace Capital Partners, a private equity firm in the strategic industries and cybersecurity sector. Founded in November 2019, the startup specializes in automating enterprise IT security and malware detection processes usin...

NATO working on the use of artificial intelligence in the military

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is working to establish a framework of standards and rules for the use of artificial intelligence in the military. NATO has called AI a necessary technology to maintain an advantage over potential adversaries, but with 30 member state...

NVIDIA Announces New ARM “Grace” Processor for 2023

A week rich in eventsfor NVIDIA which announced the release in 2023 of an ARM processor, the first of its design. Called Grace, it will offer ten times more performance to servers compared to the most powerful current servers. Supercomputers designed by the Swiss Center for Scien...

HPE to build a supercomputer in the House of Artificial Intelligence

The Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA) in Sophia Antipolis will soon be equipped with a computing platform. Researchers, students and start-ups will thus be able to access a high quality infrastructure to carry out projects linked to AI and machine learning. Hewlet...

Cloudflare and NVIDIA Partner to Bring AI to the Network Edge at Scale

Cloudflare has announced its partnership with NVIDIA, enabling large-scale AI deployment at the network edge. The U.S. firm provides day-to-day solutions for developing AI-enabled applications and machine learning models. NVIDIA’s contribution will help increase the perform...

Consortium coordinated by iAR uses AI to fight food waste

The agri-food industry requires daily rigor and technical know-how. It is also a field where the use of digital tools remains discreet, whereas automation and intelligent data and information management would accelerate its transformation. Today we are interested in a project to ...

Use case: John Deere, in collaboration with Intel, develops its own automatic detection solution

Agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere is piloting a solution that uses computer vision to automatically detect defects in the automated welding process in its manufacturing facilities. To develop this solution, the mechanical industry brand is leveraging AI technology de...

AI at the service of cooperatives and small agricultural enterprises: the example of UOC research in Catalonia

Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) are currently working on optimising data on international trade, invoicing, internet traffic and customer segmentation. As part of this project, they are seeking to develop tools based on the use of artificial intelligence to ...

Microsoft acquires Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion

Microsoft has acquired artificial intelligence and voice technology company Nuance Communications Inc. The reported sum is said to be 27 billion. Nuance and Microsoft have been collaborating together since 2019 in the medical field and more specifically in telemedicine, a sector ...

Demain.ai announces the acquisition of Kaption.fr, a YouTube video subtitling agency

demain.ai has confirmed the acquisition of Kaption.fr, a professional subtitling and subtitle translation service for youtubers. This acquisition is part of the development of tomorrow.ai’s activities in the field of natural language processing using artificial intelligence...

Stanford University and Genentech introduced Trial Pathdfinder, a clinical trial support system

Clinical trials are fundamental for researchers to test the efficacy and tolerance of patients to a treatment. The selection of people for these trials must therefore be strict but inclusive, which remains complex. A team of researchers from Stanford University, in collaboration ...

Focus on Huawei: the Chinese company restructures its AI and cloud business

Over the past few years, observers have seen how Huawei was making its transition. The Chinese company wanted to move from being a telecom device manufacturer to a service provider, and in particular developed its own artificial intelligence research division. However, after 14 m...

Five players from the automotive and technology world join forces to create the “Software Republic”.

To create the “Software Republic”, Thales, STMicroelectronics, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault and Atos announced on April 9, 2021, the formalization of their collaboration. This is a new ecosystem aimed at innovation in intelligent and sustainable mobility and like...

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne designs new AI-based nanosensors

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have designed a new type of nanosensor. This solution, based on artificial intelligence, will be used to design specific drugs to treat diseases or pathologies. Aurelian John-Herpin, Deepthy Kavungal, Lea...

Enedis unveils the winners of the 4th edition of its Start-Up competition focused on the ecological transition

As part of the 4th edition of its Start-Up competition, Enedis has unveiled the 11 winners who will be able to benefit from support from its teams. Every year, Enedis offers this competition to innovative start-ups and SMEs in order to develop and bring out innovative solutions t...

AP-HP and Imageens collaborate to improve medical imaging data analysis software

Imageens and the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) have announced a collaboration. The objective of this partnership is to allow the AP-HP to provide its researchers with a software for the valorisation and structuring of medical imaging data. The use of algor...

EvidenceB and Pearson Group launch Atticus, an AI-enabled digital platform for studying Latin

Here is a tool that may help young students to study Latin. EvidenceB and the Pearson Group have just signed a partnership aiming at proposing to the general public, a platform for learning Latin based on AI. The publisher of school education Pearson wished to ally with EvidenceB...

Call for applications for the seventh edition of the HPE France Accelerator Program

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has officially launched the seventh edition of its start-up acceleration program this April. The call for applications is open throughout the month of April. Since 2015, HPE has supported more than a hundred B2B startups to support innovation and ...

Ethics: Two Google researchers fired, Google Brain leader and co-founder resigns

Last December and February, Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell were fired by Google while working in the AI ethics arm for the brand. On April 7, 2021, Samy Bengio, leader and co-founder of Google Brain submitted his resignation. Let’s take a look back at these two firings....

A look back at the #GirlsinAI hackathon organized by Teens in AI on the theme of gender equality

Between March 6th and March 13th, #GirlsinAI, a 100% digital hackathon was organised by Teens in AI with the support of Société Générale. The competition was attended by young people aged between 12 and 18, from 25 different countries, with priority given to girls. The hackathon ...

The European FlexiGroBots project focused on the food industry will be coordinated by Atos

The European project FlexiGroBots, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, focuses on the development of a platform for a more relevant use of robotics in the food industry. Atos recently announced that it will participate in the project as project coordinator and supervisor. The t...

ForePaaS and MRI sign partnership to develop cloud-native AI and big data analytics solutions

In order to accelerate the research of cloud-native AI and analytics solutions in Japan, the French company ForePaaS and the Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) have announced their partnership. These cloud-native Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analytics solutions will enab...

Intel showcases new third-generation processors built on its data center platform

The new third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors were recently introduced. They offer an average of 46% more performance than the previous generation, thanks to the new intelligence features built into the processor and its data center platform. These new third-generation ...

Three MIT researchers found that databases had some misjudgments

In the framework of research on artificial intelligence, a team of three researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a paper at the end of March, showing that the databases used by the algorithms to analyze a query were not really reliable. It was w...

Switzerland: The Swiss Data Science Center will bring its expertise to the Federal Statistical Office

The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) is to support the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) in its efforts to promote the use of data science and artificial intelligence within the administration. The two Federal Institutes of Technology, to which the Swiss Data Science Center belong...

European MAESTRIA project will use AI to prevent stroke and heart rhythm disorders

Launched last March, the European MAESTRIA project is part of the European Union’s desire to prevent heart rhythm disorders and the risk of stroke. For five years, various approaches linked to artificial intelligence will be used to design multi-metric digital tools. This p...

HabiloMedia publishes a report on the relationship between young people, AI and the protection of their private data

The Canadian digital literacy centre HabiloMedia recently released a report on their project focused on young people’s relationship with AI, algorithms and privacy. Funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the report proposes, among other things, the crea...