Daring to Be Bold: A Poetic Opening for the Initiative Nice Côte d’Azur Meetings
The room is full, the screen announces the day's theme: "Daring to Be Bold". The Initiative Nice Côte d'Azur Meetings open with a major surprise. Before discussing financing, mentorship or business creation, the floor is given... to literature. And this choice, far from being a mere aesthetic gesture, says much about the Initiative network's approach:...
Jean-Charles Chemin, a RegTech Entrepreneur Serving Notaries
Jean-Charles Chemin is co-founder and president of Legapass, a Nice-based company created in 2021 to secure the transmission of digital and financial assets. An engineer by training who came through the French Tech Côte d'Azur ecosystem, he also chairs the Nice Start(s) Up association, which brings together startups in the region. Legapass initially positioned itself...
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...
Can We Still Trust Online Reviews? AI is Disrupting Product Recommendation Benchmarks
By Pascale Caron for EntrepreneurIA The article "How AI is rewriting the rules for product review sites" (Mediacopilot.ai, Dec. 2025) offers a relevant, though incomplete, analysis of the issues at stake. AI, now trained to summarize, recommend, and compare, increasingly influences the purchasing journey. Conversational engines respond to product queries with near-instantaneous summaries, bypassing the...
AI Deception: A Systemic Risk in the Era of Advanced Models
As artificial intelligence gains power, a question arises with renewed urgency: can we still assume the sincerity of a system designed to optimize performance? The academic report "AI Deception: Risks, Dynamics, and Controls" provides a disturbing answer. Deception no longer appears as a theoretical hypothesis, but as an observable, structured, and reproducible phenomenon. This finding...