AI sovereignty: Europe knows its weaknesses, but will it act fast enough?
At La REF, the panel discussion titled "Europe hasn't said its last prompt," moderated by Charline Perrault, journalist at Les Échos, brought together Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier, Catherine Fieschi, Octave Klaba, Frédéric Mazzella, Laurent Solly and Valérie Urbain. The exchanges focused on a question that has become central: what does European sovereignty still mean at a time...
“These certainties have disappeared”: Ursula von der Leyen redefines the European economic model
At La REF 2026, on August 27 at Roland-Garros, Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech to French entrepreneurs that goes far beyond the question of competitiveness. The President of the European Commission starts from an observation: the conditions that have supported the European economic model for several decades are being profoundly challenged. Energy, China,...
AI in business: the missing link between productivity and value creation
A report by the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence raises a question that should directly interest business leaders: who actually captures the value created by AI? Behind this question lies a much broader problem. Companies have invested heavily in accessing technologies, adopting them, and multiplying use cases. But they still have...
What does AI know about your company after 1,000 conversations?
An AI becomes more useful when it knows your business. But what happens when the combination of mundane information reveals context that no one has explicitly provided? A business leader uses artificial intelligence daily. One Monday, he asks it to prepare a negotiation with a supplier. A few days later, he analyzes with it the...
The AI value gap: why AI works but doesn’t always create value
Artificial intelligence works. It analyzes documents, generates content, synthesizes information, detects anomalies, automates certain tasks and is now beginning to act through agentic systems capable of chaining multiple operations. Yet as these capabilities advance, another question becomes central: Why do companies with high-performing AI technologies not always manage to transform this technological power into measurable...
When companies adopt AI faster than they can transform
What if the next AI risk for businesses was no longer just moving too slowly, but moving faster than the organization itself? In the sample studied by the Boston Consulting Group, 61% of CEOs surveyed believe their board of directors is pushing artificial intelligence transformation too quickly. This finding comes from the global study CEOs...