Europe's largest tech conference VivaTech in Paris drew 180,000 attendees amid a heatwave, with Jeff Bezos predicting AI will create labor shortages and Yann LeCun warning of a potential AI bubble. Th…
Seltz, a nine-person startup, raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build a search infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents, replacing legacy APIs like Google and Bing. The company wrote its own c…
Hiring across Europe is down 25% from pandemic-era highs and 15% year over year, while U.S. hiring remains 24% below pre-pandemic levels, according to LinkedIn data. Executives at VivaTech said employ…
Business leaders and a psychiatrist at VivaTech in Paris argued that AI is increasing workplace stress by adding new demands, fueling uncertainty, and challenging workers' sense of purpose. A Headspac…
Montreal-based surgical AI company Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech 2026 in Paris. The company uses Raman spectroscopy to analyze tissue molecular sign…
Canadian medical AI startup Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech in Paris, beating dozens of international competitors. The company's AI platform uses Rama…
Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai announced at the VivaTech conference in Paris that the company is 'all in' on AI, pursuing a full-stack strategy spanning chips, cloud infrastructure, foundation models…
PwC global chairman Mohamed Kande said at VivaTech that companies adopting AI at scale are increasing headcount, not cutting it, and that workers become more valuable with AI use. PwC's 2026 jobs baro…
VivaTech's 10th edition in Paris drew 200,000 visitors and featured Jeff Bezos advocating for moving heavy industry to space, while Indian PM Modi and French President Macron highlighted AI cooperatio…
Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, argued at VivaTech that AI must move beyond next-word prediction to 'world models' that understand physical reality. His startup, which raised $1.03 billion…
Jeff Bezos said at the VivaTech conference in Paris that AI will create a labor shortage rather than mass unemployment, arguing the technology will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for bui…
Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and AI startup Prometheus, warned at the VivaTech conference that artificial intelligence will create a labor shortage rather than mass unemployment, as AI boosts prod…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted at the VivaTech conference in Paris that artificial intelligence will create labor shortages rather than replace humans, arguing that AI will lower barriers to huma…
LVMH awarded Fairly Made, Bluefish, and Synthesia at its 2026 Innovation Awards during VivaTech, recognizing their work in supply-chain traceability, AI search optimization, and video generation. Chai…
The US tightened access to Anthropic's advanced AI models for foreign nationals, causing the company to restrict access globally and highlighting Europe's dependency on American AI. At VivaTech in Par…
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655 million for artificial intelligence, including a single sovereign conversational assistant for roughly one million state employees,…
French startup Mistral AI and Nvidia announced a partnership to launch Mistral Compute, a European AI infrastructure stack that will include roughly 18,000 Blackwell GPUs and a planned 40-megawatt dat…