Yes of course it’s more than nuclear. But nuclear gives France an advantage over European competitors burning fossil fuels. More broadly, wondering what happens when ‘net zero’ hits reality of AI energy consumption. It becomes a highly politicised debate – especially in
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France invests €109bn in AI amid global competition
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France just made a bold move: €109bn into AI. For context, the EU announced €56m last week—less than a rounding error in this race. The US and China are surging ahead. France is at least trying to stay in the game. The UK, Germany, and the rest of Europe? Still asleep at the
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France’s 100 Billion AI Infrastructure Investment Strategy
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They got brilliant people there, no doubt @huggingface
, Mistral etc. And Macron has always understood ‘tech’ better than most EU leaders. He gets that France needs to have a pie of the AI pie. He also announced a 100b investment into AI infrastructure. That’s historic for -
France versus Germany: Tech Regulation and Economic Competitiveness
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now, if France can look and tax and labour laws to could become a very attractive proposition. Germany got the worst deal : anti tech, excessive regulation, strict labour labour laws, plus from leader in nuclear to burning fossil fuels.
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France’s Nuclear Advantage: Can It Lead AI Infrastructure?
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Macron touting France’s nuclear energy as a reason why it should be a leader in AI infrastructure.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 10 février 2025
If France goes hard for AI, and as a place to incubate the next wave of AI companies – the question is can sort its labour laws and tax regime?
Guess the question is – is France… https://t.co/3y2MJUiYR7Macron touting France’s nuclear energy as a reason why it should be a leader in AI infrastructure. If France goes hard for AI, and as a place to incubate the next wave of AI companies – the question is can sort its labour laws and tax regime? Guess the question is – is France
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France announces $100bn AI investment to strengthen European tech
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Macron announces $100bn + in AI investment.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 10 février 2025
France finally wakes up! Perhaps a silver lining to prevent the curious death of Europe?
Some of the best European AI talent is France, it also still has nuclear power (critically.)
Fascinating to note that this is *not* being… pic.twitter.com/ZmbfCDM49KMacron announces $100bn + in AI investment. France finally wakes up! Perhaps a silver lining to prevent the curious death of Europe? Some of the best European AI talent is France, it also still has nuclear power (critically.) Fascinating to note that this is *not* being
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SpaceX Elon Musk Asteroid Deflection Mission Humanity 2032
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If an ‘asteroid deflection mission’ to save humanity becomes necessary (apparently there is a 1% chance of collision by 2032) … I only trust one person to *actually* be able to do it. You know who: the one who catches rockets with chop sticks. Just saying.
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Humanity’s Last Exam: Pushing AI Beyond Human Capabilities
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Loving the conversation on R/Singularity on Humanity's Last Exam. As a contributor to HLE dataset remarks: "A 90% saturation would be nothing short of ASI++. Some of the questions are just absolutely inhumanly hard, the ones they show on their website are the easy ones" "If
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Learning to Code vs. AI: The Shifting Landscape of Skills
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I’m old enough to remember when everyone told me to learn to code or risk obsolescence. (A depressing prospect for me—I like human languages, not Python or Java.) And yet, here we are: the fastest-growing application of all time isn’t ChatGPT (anymore), DeepSeek, or a social