European Tech Show: Macron inaugurates VivaTech today

Emmanuel Macron presents a plan to support French AI and more generally “French tech” startups, which have run out of funding after two successful years. This plan will be presented at the opening of VivaTech, the largest European tech show, this Wednesday. The program for this seventh edition: more than 2,200 exhibitors, conferences of major international entrepreneurs, as well as 10,000 business representatives, despite an entrance ticket of 620 euros and stands that sometimes sell for more than

But it's also an event designed to popularize tech, with spectacular or fun innovations. We will discover a ski mask with augmented reality, an exoskeleton for caregivers, a start-up that wakes up sleeping drivers, a Van Gogh animated by artificial intelligence, robots with wheels, drones, hydrogen vehicles... Nearly 100,000 visitors are expected for the general public day on Saturday

Top secret documents case: Indicted, Trump denounces “abuse of power”

In the United States, former President Donald Trump, prosecuted for his negligent handling of state secrets after leaving the White House, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him during his historic appearance in federal court in Miami. “We are definitely pleading not guilty,” his lawyer said at the hearing. This paves the way for a potentially very harmful trial for his campaign for the 2024 American presidential election

The 76-year-old Republican is accused of putting the security of the United States at risk by keeping confidential documents, including military plans or information about nuclear weapons, in a bathroom or storage room at his luxury Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The European Parliament paves the way for regulating AI

MEPs are due to give a first green light to the European project to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) on Wednesday, a key step in the race launched by the legislator to face the frantic pace of ChatGPT innovations. The European Union wants to be the first in the world to equip itself with a comprehensive legal framework to limit the abuses of AI, while securing innovation

Brussels proposed an ambitious draft regulation two years ago, whose consideration has been protracted and which has been further delayed in recent months by controversies about the dangers of generative AIs capable of creating texts or images.

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More than 100 people died in north-central Nigeria after a boat carrying families returning from a wedding sank in a river.

More than 530,000 high school students are studying philosophy Wednesday morning, many of them already sure to graduate. It was traditionally the test that got the ball rolling, but it lost some of its stakes with the reform of the baccalaureate

Some 195,000 people have lost their lives in Europe since 1980 due to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods, the European Environment Agency (EEA) reported, calling for new measures on Wednesday.

Swimming. Maxime Grousset won the 100-m freestyle, “the queen race” of the French Swimming Championships, in Rennes, where Léon Marchand was less radiant than usual despite winning a third title in the 200m