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Researchers Unveil Application of Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Antibiotic Resistance

In an article published in the journal Nature Communications on February 19, 2021, researchers from the University of Évry, CEA, CNRS, APHP, CHU Henri Mondor and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) unveiled the mobile application developed to facilitate the diagnosis of antibiotic res...

SESAMm seedling raises 7.5 million euros to accelerate its growth

Based in Metz, the start-up SESAMm specializes in big data and artificial intelligence solutions for investment professionals. The start-up announced last month that it had raised €7.5 million in funds from Carlyle, Newalpha Asset Management, Havenrock, Angelsquare, the Caisse d&...

CNIL warns a sports club about the use of a facial recognition system

Facial recognition and its use in different spheres are the subject of much debate. One recent example is in France, where the President of the CNIL issued a warning to a sports club this week. The latter was planning to use a facial recognition system to automatically identify p...

Canada: Five projects and $16.6 million in artificial intelligence investments for SCALE AI

SCALE AI, a Canadian super cluster specializing in artificial intelligence based in Montréal, has unveiled the five projects selected, totalling 6.68 million, including 2.63 million from the Government of Quebec, SCALE AI hopes to play a leveraging role in accelerating the deploy...

InsurTech Akur8 and AXA Spain Announce Partnership to Improve Pricing Process

Insurtech Akur8, winner of the Insurtech of the Year 2020 Finance Innovation Award, and AXA Spain have announced their partnership to help improve the insurer’s pricing process. For the French start-up, this is the first contract with a Spanish partner in one of the most co...

The French National Authority for Health unveils its classification of digital solutions used in healthcare

4 categories, 11 types of digital solutions are proposed by the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) in this first classification. This system has been developed in the context of the multiplication of digital tools that can be used in today’s health care. The solutions examined a...

LNE presents its LEIA platform dedicated to the evaluation of artificial intelligence

The Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE) has announced the creation of LEIA, the world’s first generic platform dedicated to the evaluation of artificial intelligence, following funding received from the French government to the tune of 390,000 euros. ...

Podcast: Artificial intelligence at the service of emotions – Synapse AI N°1

For this first episode of Synapse AI, Mathieu Barreau receives Professor Pierrich Plusquellec to study the link between technology and emotions. A biologist by training, Pierrich Plusquellec holds a doctorate in Ethics from the University of Paris XIII, the Study of Behaviour and...

Call for applications: doctoral programme “Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences”.

Carried by the PSL University, the doctoral program “Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences” launches a call for applications open until February 26, 2021. 23 thesis topics on AI or massive data processing interfaces are available. Artificial Intelligence for the Sc...

Aix-Marseille University and the ministerial delegation for artificial intelligence sign a memorandum of understanding

Last weekend, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and the Ministerial Delegation for Artificial Intelligence (DMIA) announced a three-year collaboration (2021-2023) for regional development in the field of artificial intelligence. A draft agreement was signed on 12 February in the pre...

Secure Cloud Transformation: Capgemini and OVHcloud Sign Global Partnership

Capgemini and OVHcloud have announced a global partnership to address the cloud transformation needs of public and private organizations. The two companies aim to help organizations build their cloud infrastructure with the highest international security standards and will combin...

Hypermind launches major forecasting competition on AI progress to 2023

“Prediction is the essence of intelligence” is often repeated by Yann LeCun, co-inventor. from Deep Learning. Paradoxically, artificial intelligence is an area where exalted predictions are abundant, beginning with that of the great Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate and c...

Using AI to manage finances: 56% of the French according to an Oracle study

The relationship to money has changed considerably in recent years, and probably even more so last year. Artificial intelligence, digital assistant, bot, the tools are now numerous to manage one’s finances. According to a study by Farnoosh Torabi, an American journalist and...

Focus on RebrAIn, the start-up that aims to revolutionize the surgical targeting of Deep Cerebral Stimulation.

RebrAIn is a very young start-up, specialized in targeting the brain areas that cause essential tremor and Parkinson’s diseases treated by Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Created on January 4, 21 by Emmanuel Cuny, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Bordeaux and a ...

Cybersecurity risks in autonomous vehicles: ENISA makes its recommendations

The Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the EU Cyber Security Agency (ENISA) published this week a reporton the cyber security risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in autonomous vehicles. The report makes recommendations and advocates a security by design approach...

Data analysis and AI at the heart of the partnership between Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany

Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence and engineering. The development of their collaboration will enable Altair to contribute to the company’s business transformation by reducing development time and costs, whil...

Voice data: Voice Lab and Datafunding launch data funding campaign

Voice technologies have experienced a great boom in recent years with innovative solutions, research projects with numerous applications but also the issue of data protection. It is in this context that the Voice Lab and Datafunding have launched a data funding campaign with the ...

French start-up Myrissi acquired by fragrance manufacturer Givaudan

As part of its long-term strategy to expand its capabilities in artificial intelligence, the Swiss manufacturer Givaudan announced its intention to acquire the French start-up Myrissi. Founded in 2014 and based near Nancy, France, Myrissi has developed a patented AI technology th...

Council of Europe calls for strict regulations on facial recognition

At the end of January, the Council of Europe announced its recommendations on facial recognition, a central issue. Faced with the increasing use of facial recognition technologies, the European body recommended strict rules to avoid significant risks to privacy and data protectio...

Replay “These talking machines that are going to invade our daily life” on France Inter

Ali Rebeihi received last week Laurence Devillers and Serge Tisseron in his show Grand bien vous faire on France Inter. The two experts spoke about the technological revolution of the decade 2020 with, in particular, the famous talking machines, connected speakers and other emoti...

Focus on the MusicIA project by AIbstract and the CTEL of the University of the Côte d’Azur

Winner of the IDEX UCA Jedi IDEX DeepTech Startup call for projects, the MusicIA project is working on the realization of a music intelligence software solution. This is a joint project between the Albigensian start-up AIbstract, which specializes in the application of artificial...

Open AI Energy Initiative, Shell’s energy sector ecosystem, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft

Transforming the energy sector through an ecosystem of artificial intelligence solutions is the goal of the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI). Launched by Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft, it is expected to provide an energy services framework for energy operators, service ...

SKEMA will deploy AI in its programs and campuses while focusing on hybridization.

Last year, SKEMA Business School unveiled an ambitious strategic plan for the period 2020-2025. One year later, the group is in a position to announce several concrete advances, notably in artificial intelligence with the creation of an AI faculty, two AI specializations and a ne...

New dates for IoT Week, which runs from March 15 to 19, 2021.

The 5th edition of the IoT Week by CITC will be held this year from 15 to 19 March 2021. It is a 100% digital edition that will be organized and whose previously announced program remains unchanged. For one week, technology experts, representatives of major international groups a...

France and Germany call for projects on artificial intelligence

Last week, France and Germany launched a joint call for projects. Focused on innovation projects on artificial intelligence, it is open until 29 April 2021. The two countries thus intend to deepen their close cooperation in this field. Under a new call for projects, both countrie...

Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Inria join forces to strengthen their leadership in AI and digital technology

Last month, Inria and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding aimed at creating a strengthened partnership, embodied by the “Centre Inria de l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris”. This memorandum identifies and def...

Massive adoption of AI projects in companies, the Axians France and HPE survey

Axians France (VINCI Energies) and HPE conducted a survey between June and July 2020 on the development of AI projects in French companies. While artificial intelligence has become a major concern for companies and many are convinced of the advantages of this technology in terms ...

Devoteam and Telecom SudParis launch the “Interpretable AI for Mission-Critical Applications” teaching chair

Devoteam and Télécom SudParis announced the creation of a new teaching chair entitled “Interpretable AI for Mission-Critical Applications”. This 3-year Chair is the concrete expression of the historic partnership between the engineering school and Devoteam. The Chair ...

Charles Bouveyron becomes the new Director of the 3IA Côte d’Azur Institute succeeding Jean Marc Gambaudo

Charles Bouveyron became the new Director of 3IA Côte d’Azur at the beginning of the month. Drawing on his experience within the Côte d’Azur University ecosystem and his expertise in the field of artificial intelligence, he took up his post on January 1st, succeeding ...

Fund Raising: Graphcore completes $222 million Series E financing round

Graphcore has announced one of the last fundraising events of the year 2020. The British company has completed a 2.77 billion. Graphcore has developed an Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), which is a new type of microprocessor specifically designed to support artificial intellig...

Artificial intelligence and language technologies: the computer overcomes the language barrier

On 12 January 2021, the GdR TAL is organising a day dedicated to the recent advances in language technologies for applications at the heart of our society. Speakers will explain how artificial intelligence is used, in particular new approaches exploiting deep neural networks, to ...

The IGN’s public data relating to topography, relief and visualization of the territory are free and open to the public

Since 1 January 2021, all public data (vector and ortho-images) from the National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) are free and accessible free of charge. While the opening of all public data requested by the Government was planned for 2022, the IGN anticipate...

Leonard welcomes 13 new projects in the 2021 class of its IA course

Leonard, VINCI’s foresight and innovation platform, presented the start-ups and projects selected for its 4 acceleration and support programmes. The 2021 promotion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme includes 13 new projects. This is the second promotion of this p...

Start-up MyDataModels, specialising in predictive analysis and machine learning, raised 2.5 million euros

The startup MyDataModels has announced a fund raising of €2.5 million in seed money. Led by Speedinvest with the participation of Earlybird, a long-time investor of MyDataModels, and Région Sud Investissement, this new funding will enable the start-up to continue its work on its ...

Impact AI Collective Unveils Practical Guide for a Trustworthy AI

This week, the Impact AI collective presented a practical guide for companies to implement trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). Start-ups, SMEs, CAC 40 companies, consulting firms and academic actors participated in the design of this guide. The think tank also approached th...

The Institut Curie and Google sign a partnership around AI for the analysis of complex transcriptomic and epigenetic data

The Institut Curie and Google announced on Thursday 10 December the launch of a joint research programme on artificial intelligence (AI). They will work together to develop and implement deep learning methods for the analysis of complex transcriptomic and epigenetic data in singl...

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have trained neural networks to estimate its own reliability.

In a publication on arXiv, researchers from MIT and Harvard University presented Deep Evidential Regression, an artificial intelligence that would be “aware” of its own reliability and its own uncertainties and errors. Formed from neural networks, it proposes decision...

Case study: the partnership between ServiceNav and experts from the IA Institute in Grenoble, France

For several years, the multidisciplinary institute in Artificial Intelligence of Grenoble has been collaborating with companies, SMEs and laboratories on specific projects. Among these projects is ServiceNav, Coservit’s SaaS monitoring platform, which has enabled the Grenob...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence to predict the properties of the atomic nucleus…

The work of Raphaël-David Lasseri, David Regnier, Jean-Paul Ebran and Antonin Penon, theoreticians at the CEA, Irfu at the DRF (Espace de Structure Nucléaire Théorique) and the Nuclear Physics Department at the DAM, was published this year in the journal Physical Review Letters ,...

Four new countries join the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence

The first summit of the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPIA) was held in Montreal on December 3 and 4. On this occasion, the Franco-Canadian PMIA initiative was expanded to include four new member states, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Brazil. Officially laun...

Focus on the four new Health Data Hub projects

The Health Data Hub (HDH) announced this week that the CNIL had authorized four new projects. Deep.Piste, DeepSarc, HUGO SHARE and Rexetris thus join the first three projects that had received CNIL approval at the end of October, CoviSAS, supported by the MIAI artificial intellig...

Replay: Artificial intelligence at the service of the brain and humans, a Conference-show with Frédéric Dehais, ANITI

On the occasion of the European Researchers’ Night 2020, coordinated by the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Frédéric Dehais, Rufin VanRullen and Thomas Serre, chairholders of the Toulouse Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence (ANITI), focused ...

Artificial intelligence for biologists, an introduction to the EpiMed Open Course initiative

Through the EpiMed Open Course initiative, the Institut pour l’Avancée des Biosciences (IAB) and Grenoble Alpes University have launched courses available on Youtube. Researcher Ekaterina Flin offers here an introduction to artificial intelligence for the analysis of biolog...

Launch of a new €150 million European instrument to support companies in the artificial intelligence sector

On the occasion of the Lisbon Websummit, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF) announced the launch of a new financing facility in the form of a co-investment instrument ofup to €150 million to support artificial intelligence companies across E...

The Institut Curie signs a partnership with Ibex Medical Analytics to improve breast cancer detection using AI

The Institut Curie announced this week its research partnership with Ibex Medical Analytics to improve breast cancer diagnosis using artificial intelligence. The research will aim to meet a growing need for automated solutions and decision support tools. Breast cancer is the most...

Syntec Conseil’s ‘Data & Technology’ Grand Prix rewards Capgemini Invent and Eramet’s Data and AI programme

In 2017, Capgemini Invent and Eramet began working together to develop the use of artificial intelligence in all the Eramet Group’s mining and metallurgical activities. Their aim was to improve productivity, commercial performance and metal recovery to speed up the Group...

Gaël Richard and Étienne Perret, 2020 winners of the ITM Awards – Academy of Sciences

The Institut Mines-Telecom, together with the Academy of Sciences, announced the 2020 winners of the ITM – Academy of Sciences Awards. The ITM – Academy of Sciences Grand Prize was awarded to Gaël Richard, while the ITM – Academy of Sciences Hope Prize was award...

Switzerland sets up a centre for artificial intelligence in medicine in Bern

The Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CAIM) will be officially opened in January 2021 in Bern, Switzerland. The center, founded by the University of Bern and the Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, is intended to be a platform for research, teaching and transf...

IAPAU#3: The Festival Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence returns from December 4 to 6, 2020

This week will be held IAPAU, the festival Machine learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The organisers, the IA Pau association, the LumenAi company and the Hélioparc technopark, are proposing two themes for this third 100% online edition: the impact of AI on tomorr...

EU: new measures to speed up digitisation of judicial systems and training of professionals

This week the European Commission adopted a package of initiatives to modernise the judicial systems of the European Union (EU). The Communication on the digitisation of justice in the EU and the new strategy on European judicial training are at the heart of this new package. The...

Sophia Summit: after a successful 3rd edition that was 100% online, the next edition will take place from November 17-19, 2021.

The Sophia Summit was held from November 18 to 20, 100% online. Organized by Université Côte d’Azur, the Sophia Antipolis Agglomeration Community and the Alpes Maritimes department with the support of Sophia Club Entreprises and 3IA Côte d’Azur, the event has establis...

Smart & Green: SBA publishes white paper on Artificial Intelligence for Buildings and Cities

The Smart Buildings Alliance (SBA) proposes its white paper “Artificial Intelligence for Smart & Green Buildings”. The 85-member Artificial Intelligence Commission of the SBA has mobilized to clarify what AIe is and how this technology can improve the performance ...

ServiceNow Announces the Upcoming Acquisition of Element AI to Enhance its Workflow Management Platform

It’s a new chapter for Element AI, as Jean-François Gagné, founder and CEO of the company said in a blog post. Indeed, the American company ServiceNow has announced the conclusion of an agreement to acquire the Montreal-based start-up for an undisclosed amount. The high-pro...

aivancity launches an e-learning platform dedicated to artificial intelligence

As a place for training but also a place for open exchanges on society, aivancity is launching its e-learning platform aivancityX, based on the reference open-source platform edX (created by MIT and Harvard in 2012). aivancityX produces and distributes MOOCs (Massive Open Online ...

AI for Tomorrow Innovation Challenge Final

This Wednesday 25 November at 5.30 pm the final of the innovation challenge launched by AI For Tomorrow is taking place. The 7 startup finalists will pitcher in front of an exceptional jury composed of : Frédéric Mazzella, Founding Chairman of Blablacar & Co-Chairman Entrepre...

Pierre-Louis Curien, Stanley Durrleman and Pl@ntNet, winners of the Inria Awards – Academy of Sciences 2020

The winners of the Inria – Academy of Sciences 2020 Awards have finally been announced. This year’s winners were Stanley Durrleman, Pierre-Louis Curien and Pl@ntNet. Created in 2011, and supported by the French Academy of Sciences and Dassault Systèmes, these prizes h...

Nicolas Sabouret, winner of the FIEEC CARNOT Prize for Applied Research

The FIEEC CARNOT Prize for Applied Research celebrated its 10th edition this year. On November 18th, on the occasion of the Rendez-vous Carnot 2020, the digital ceremony for the FIEEC CARNOT Prize for Applied Research 2020 was held. Two joint winners were distinguished, Nicolas S...

Scientists use the learning machine to make visible astrophysical phenomena hitherto unattainable.

A team of scientists from CNRS, IRAM, Observatoire de Paris-PSL, and the schools Centrale Marseille and Centrale Lille gathered within the ORION-B program worked on improving the visibility of astrophysical phenomena hitherto inaccessible thanks to artificial intelligence. His wo...

The AI pour l’Ecole Foundation publishes a white paper on pedagogical containment and continuity

The health situation related to the Covid-19 pandemic has made containment one of the key measures to combat the spread of the virus. However, its impact, especially in the educational world, is hotly debated. The AI for Schools Foundation has taken an interest in this subject an...

Deep Tech – GrAI Matter Labs Raises €13 Million to Bring to Market its Embedded AI Chip

GrAI Matter Labs announced this week that it has closed its latest round of financing for €13 million. The company launched GrAI One in October 2019 as the world’s first AI processor optimized for ultra-low latency and low-power peripheral processing. This new round of fina...