WAICF 2025: France Positions Itself as an AI Leader
During her opening speech at the World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) 2025, Clara Chappaz, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, highlighted France's ambitions in this rapidly expanding field. Between massive investments, structuring innovation ecosystems, and a vision of ethical and inclusive AI, France is asserting its technological leadership while consolidating its role in...
WAICF 2025: HiveNet and Distributed Computing, a Sustainable Revolution for AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the heart of technological advances, but its energy cost and environmental impact are often underestimated. During his conference, David Gurle, CEO of Hivenet, offered a striking analysis of this issue and presented a bold alternative: distributed computing. AI and Its Unsuspected Energy Cost David Gurle opened his conference...
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...
OpenAI Faces the Funding Wall: Why the Economics of Generative AI Are Changing
The headline hits like a warning. "18 months until bankruptcy?" The idea is circulating, driven by an op-ed by Sebastian Mallaby and relayed in France by ZDNet. But the real question isn't whether OpenAI "will disappear." It's more structural. Who can sustainably finance the industrialization of generative AI when demand is growing faster than margins?...