Data & AI
> AI Act: keys and resources to achieve compliance
A new tranche of the AI Act comes into effect on August 2, 2026. Here is a briefing on the obligations and on the compliance tools that the EU has added to it.
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> AI: after the hype, the budget
The era of experimentation is over. Companies are entering a phase where every AI usage must now justify ROI.
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Business
> Microsoft and Mistral AI go industrial-scale with a partnership focused on infrastructure
Microsoft and Mistral AI take a new step in their collaboration, now combining AI models, compute infrastructure, and deployment capabilities for enterprises.
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> Open source, moratorium on data centers… 29 proposals to reclaim digital sovereignty
In six months of hearings, the parliamentary inquiry into France’s digital vulnerabilities quantified the scale of dependence on American technologies and lays out 29 proposals to reduce it.
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> AI in business: why Microsoft and AWS bypass intermediaries
By deploying thousands of their own engineers directly at the heart of client companies, Microsoft and AWS bypass traditional system integrators, partners in implementing their offerings.
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> VMware, a real dependency issue in the public sphere
Hearings by the parliamentary inquiry into digital dependencies highlighted VMware’s footprint in the public sector… and the exit strategies being pursued by some.
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Cloud
> Among hyperscalers, agent stacks follow one another… and resemble each other?
Is there convergence or divergence in the strategies of American cloud providers on agentic AI? At the Google Cloud Summit Paris, opinions were divided.
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> European cloud providers push their own sovereignty framework
Not fully adhering to the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework, the CISPE association advances its own framework.
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Cybersecurity
> “17,600 automated actions”: how the agentic attack on Hugging Face unfolded
Hugging Face provides a timestamped technical analysis of the agentic attack suffered between July 9 and 13. Here are a few elements.
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> When regulators order banks to harden against AI
In the face of AI capable of weaponizing software vulnerabilities within minutes, European financial authorities are racing against the clock and have summoned 110 banks to review their defenses.
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