Agentic AI: Understanding the Next Strategic Layer of Artificial Intelligence for Businesses
For two years, artificial intelligence has entered businesses through content generation. Text, images, code, summaries. Generative AI was initially perceived as a tool for augmenting individual productivity. We are now entering a more structural phase: that of agentic AI. The diagram you see does not represent a single technology, but rather a maturity architecture. It...
BPCE and AI: From Cautious Experimentation to Industrial Strategy
In less than two years, BPCE has shifted from a defensive control posture to a logic of gradual industrialization of generative AI, anchored to its Vision 2030 strategic plan. The challenge is not merely technological. It is organizational, social, regulatory and, above all, economic. The group claims massive adoption of assistants, while maintaining marked caution...
Not All Data Is Created Equal: Artificial Intelligence Is No Excuse for Mediocrity
The observation is now shared by data departments, business units, and software vendors: the era of massive accumulation is over. In AI systems, raw data no longer has value in itself. It must be structured, qualified, governed, and situated within a precise context of use. Two converging perspectives demonstrate this: the DQE white paper on...
AI Slop: When Algorithmic Overproduction Saturates the Information Space
The term AI Slop has become established in public discourse within just a few months, to the point of being named Merriam-Webster's "word of the year" for 2025. It describes a phenomenon now visible at scale: the proliferation of AI-generated content, mass-produced, of mediocre quality, and massively disseminated by digital platforms. Spectacular yet interchangeable images,...
When humans meet AI: what do usage patterns really reveal?
By Pascale Caron — for EntrepreneurIA Analysis of the HBR study « Making Sense of Research on How People Use AI », published in November 2025 A quiet but profound turning point What are users actually doing with AI? That's the question Marc Zao-Sanders raises in a recent op-ed published by the Harvard Business Review....
EDF and Generative AI: Scaling Up a Critical Industrial Group
On January 27, 2026, ZDNet revealed a milestone rarely achieved in France. EDF opened an internal generative AI portal to approximately 160,000 employees, multi-LLM, presented as "sovereign," operated in a private environment and designed to industrialize more than 400 business use cases. Behind the announcement, a more structural question emerges: what does "adopting AI" mean...