The French tech scene, from someone who is both French and works its transatlantic side for a living. The startups, the labs, the sovereignty ambitions, and the honest gap between la French Tech branding and what actually ships. Fond enough to root for it, close enough to be critical.
Paris-based Cycloid will be the developer portal for the European Commission's €180M sovereign cloud framework. The real job: keeping four providers, one of them…
Amazon's enterprise AI assistant, Quick, is now available on desktop for Windows and macOS, targeting the shadow AI problem. However, it is not part…
Mistral secured three billion euros in its latest funding round, surpassing a twenty-one billion valuation, the highest for any European tech company. Led by…
Bull has secured a €387.8 million contract to build LUMI-AI, a EuroHPC supercomputer set for 2027. Notably, it uses AMD chips to diversify from…
Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker PSQL, raising $360 million—$140 million less than anticipated due to shareholder redemptions. Despite concerns about foreign…
Seven amendments in ten years, five algorithms authorized since 2015, and oversight that never leaves the executive branch. What the French state can actually…
Sept modifications en dix ans, cinq algorithmes autorisés depuis 2015, et un contrôle entièrement interne à l'ordre administratif. Ce que l'État français peut réellement…
Mistral Large 3 shares DeepSeek V3's attention stack down to the compression ranks, and since 11 August Mistral serves Z.ai's GLM-5.2 unmodified on its…
In 2021, AXA implemented SecureGPT for controlled AI that safeguarded sensitive data. However, the subsequent adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot bypasses these protections, raising…
Three ex-Meta researchers founded Mistral AI, aiming for European AI sovereignty. They raised over €1.1 billion and established a partnership with Microsoft. Their innovative…
Orange and Morrison announced a €3 billion joint venture to build data centers in France, targeting 400 megawatts of capacity. Despite its sovereign branding,…
The European AI sector faces a significant challenge: while purchasing AI accelerators is quick, connecting them to the power grid can take seven to…
The European Union is investing ten billion euros in seven AI Gigafactories, aiming to enhance its AI computing capabilities amid competition from the US…
Virginia has implemented a new tax on data centers, charging one cent per kilowatt-hour, marking a shift from incentives to consumption taxes. This trend…
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