Tag: Tech and Transformations
IA: OpenAI’s GPTBot robot tenses the international media
The French media do not want to let OpenAI use their content for free. According to the newspaper The echoesseveral French media groups have blocked the access of OpenAI, the…
Meta: a vast Chinese disinformation operation dismantled
This is one of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever known on the social network Facebook. Dubbed “Spamouflage”, what now turns out to be a Chinese propaganda operation has been going…
TikTok France changes its mind after a damning report from the Senate
TikTok SAS, the French branch of the Chinese giant Bytedance, has decided to replace its president Zhao Tian with the American Adam Presser, recently appointed director of global operations for…
In California, the Silicon Valley giants’ XXL project to create “the ideal city”
For the past five years, a company called Flannery Associates has been quietly buying undeveloped land in northern California, Solano County. She sometimes leaves there sums three or four times…
Vincent Vanhoucke (DeepMind/Google): “AI will allow robots to evolve with humans”
Rather Terminator, C3PO (Star Wars) or replicants (blade runner)? For nearly half a century, works of science fiction have imagined all kinds of robots, with various looks and purposes. One…
NFT: the danger of broken promises
What is an NFT (non-fungible token), this unique and authenticatable digital object, used for? For the beginner, the first research on the subject can be confusing. It is the future…
Digital Services Act: the moment of truth for Big Tech… and for Europe
Preliminary discussions, adoption, publication, entry into force, actual application… The tortuous course of European texts tends to confuse people’s minds. This time, there it is: the Digital Services Act (DSA)…
Threads: a web version to compete with Elon Musk’s “X”
It was created by Meta in the hope of profiting from the setbacks of the platform owned by Elon Musk. Threads now has a web version since Thursday, August 24,…
The Digital Services Act, the EU’s superweapon to regulate the Internet
The European Union is going on the offensive this Friday, August 25 against the excesses of the internet giants: the DSA (Digital Services Act) will force major platforms, such as…
Activision: what does the new takeover offer submitted by Microsoft contain?
The American software giant Microsoft has submitted to the British Competition Authority (CMA) an amended version of its proposed acquisition of the American video game publisher Activision Blizzard, finally hoping…