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'In France, the unchecked growth of data centers has more in common with the Wild West than with a digital El Dorado'

After the building permit for a planned data center in the northern Paris suburb of Le Bourget was revoked, suburban departmental head Stéphane Troussel calls for a pause and holding a public debate in the interest of local residents.

300 French newspapers file competition complaint against Google over AI summaries

The federation of newspapers said that Google's new AI-generated summaries of search results will erode traffic to their own websites.

How AI poses a threat to journalism, already weakened by 20 years of digital upheaval

The surge of artificial intelligence, which scrapes journalistic content, is putting the media sector to the test as layoffs continue to mount.

Meta CEO Zuckerberg lays out open-source vision for AI

As the tech giant Meta launched Muse Glimmer, a new AI model, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, released a video and an essay calling for open-source AI models as a way for the US to compete with China and support its citizens.

The illusion of controlling AI

Following two incidents acknowledged by OpenAI and Anthropic in July, it is clear that control of the conditions under which artificial intelligence systems interact with the real world is essential.

'I don't let my AI talk to me like that'

In her column, Guillemette Faure points to the pride people feel when they believe they have trained their artificial intelligence to be more useful than average.

Mexican candidates forced to retake university entrance exam after suspicions of AI-driven cheating

Entrance exams for the various programs at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which students took remotely for the first time, produced scores much higher than in previous years, raising suspicions about the use of artificial intelligence assistance.

The new era of AI-powered search, which could 'change the web economy'

Since Wednesday, Google has started displaying artificial intelligence-generated responses, known as AI Overviews, for certain queries, rather than the traditional list of links. Website publishers and brands now fear for their visibility and are trying to find ways to respond.

OpenAI tops one billion active users as AI race intensifies

The ChatGPT maker reached the milestone less than four years after launching its flagship chatbot, even as mounting competition has pushed the company to slash prices.

Europe commits €5 billion to fund seven AI megafactories and catch up with the US and China

The European Commission has launched a call for tenders to fund these massive facilities designed for training artificial intelligence models. The challenges are numerous: budget uncertainty, compliance with environmental standards, dependence on American technology...

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology

Minnesota's law, which is set to take effect on Saturday, is distinct from other state and federal laws that outlaw deepfakes, or non-consensual, AI-generated sexually explicit images of people. Rather than only penalizing the people who use the tools to create these images, Minnesota will now hold the makers of the tools responsible as well.

OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented. It began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.

EU tells firms to label AI-generated content from Sunday

The European Union will tell companies they must integrate watermarks and other markers into their content if it has been created by artificial intelligence from Sunday.

In the US, opposition to data centers is growing and becomes political

As the 'decentralized and ideologically heterogeneous' movement against data centers grows, US President Donald Trump wants AI companies to foot the bill.

France strives to keep up in global data center race as opposition mounts

According to a recent report by Rexecode, rolling out data centers in France could represent €210 billion in investments by 2035. The consulting firm considers this a crucial challenge to meet at a time when local opposition to these energy-intensive facilities – which generate few jobs – is mounting.

Fields medal awarded to four young mathematicians

Recognized as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, the Fields medal honors researchers under the age of 40 for outstanding discoveries. Of the four recipients, one winner, 35-year-old Hong Wang, is only the third woman to receive the honor since its inception in 1936.

Google's AI Overview, now available in France, raises anticipation and concern

Publishers fear they could lose a significant portion of their web traffic with these tools, which are already available in other countries.

OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

On Tuesday, OpenAI released a statement revealing that its artificial intelligence system had hacked the AI startup Hugging Face, describing the breach as a 'significant security incident.' According to OpenAI, its AI models used stolen credentials and went to 'extreme lengths' to access secret information.

'Stopping AI because it carries risks? That would be like banning cars because they cause accidents'

The challenge for humans is not choosing between accelerating or slowing down artificial intelligence, but creating the conditions for public trust, argue entrepreneur Eric Hazan and economist Olivier Sibony in an op-ed for Le Monde.

The Chinese AI threatening Silicon Valley

The launch in China of highly advanced and open artificial intelligence models by Moonshot, Zhipu and DeepSeek threatens to upend the business model of American tech giants, which relies on paid and closed access.