Macron announces €100 billion investment in AI with deepfake video blitz
www.france24.com
France will see €109 billion ($113 billion) invested in AI projects, President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday, calling it a game-changer ahead of a global AI summit in Paris. To promote the event,…

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Meanwhile, the French financing will include commitments from the United Arab Emirates, American and Canadian investments funds and French companies like telecommunications firms Iliad and Orange, and aerospace and defense group Thales

A few days before France’s AI Action Summit, which kicked off on Monday, the UAE said it would invest between 30 billion euros and 50 billion euros in the construction of a one-gigawatt AI data center in France as part of a campus focused on the technology’s development.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/frances-answer-to-stargate-macron-announces-ai-investment.html

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not a big fan of Macron, but in all honesty, “the genie’s out of the bottle” and we need some way to protect ourselves and the news media from ANY “foreign AI” influences.

    As long as the European countries stay true to their guidelines, this should just be considered as a necessity.