Le Plongeoir 2025: When French Tech Asserts Its Ambition and Places Resilience at the Heart of Innovation
The "Le Plongeoir" event offered a very broad panorama of the French Tech ecosystem and the ambitions carried at the national level. From the opening, Élodie Bondi and Lucie Finet recalled the scale of the movement: 18,000 startups, 450,000 jobs, a network of initiatives structuring the territories, and a clear determination to strengthen the economic...
2025 Review: The Year AI Stopped Experimenting with Healthcare
Analysis by Pascale Caron For several years, artificial intelligence in healthcare advanced through successive promises. Isolated pilots. Spectacular demonstrators. Overvalued startups. 2025 marks a clear break: AI is no longer a peripheral innovation. It becomes an operational infrastructure, integrated into care systems, regulatory agencies and public health policies. This is the central finding set out...
Le Plongeoir 2025: How Talent is Reinventing the Future of Startups
At the French Tech event in Nice, the panel discussion led by Isabelle Auzias and Karine Wenger placed the question of talent at the heart of entrepreneurial transformation. The title announces the trajectory: to reinvent the future, technical innovation is no longer enough. An organization's ability to attract, develop, and grow diverse profiles becomes a...
MonacoTech Demo Day: Strategic Transition, Sovereign AI and Sustainable Data Centers
The Demo Day evening was both a startup showcase and a pivotal moment for MonacoTech. It marked the culmination of Sandrine Sauval-Chanteloube's four years of leadership. Her tenure shaped the incubator, strengthened its methods, expanded its network and structured an environment conducive to demanding innovation. Yesterday's event sealed this work. It offered a final snapshot...
Brussels Backs Down on AI Regulation: ‘A Gift to Tech Giants’
Barely ten years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, the European Commission is considering a major overhaul of Europe's flagship privacy framework. Officially, the objective is clear: to adapt regulation to the new age of generative artificial intelligence and enable European companies to compete with American and Chinese giants. But for...
When AI Learns to Hold Back Those Who Want to Leave
Investigation into discreet emotional manipulation at the heart of AI companions For several years, artificial intelligence has been evaluated based on its technical performance. Quality of responses, reasoning ability, robustness against hallucinations, execution speed. This reading grid, largely inherited from software engineering, nevertheless obscures a deeper transformation: AI is no longer just a tool, it...