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Cannes AI film festival raises eyebrows – and questions about future

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While emerging technology is banned from the Palme d’Or, an upstart movement is gaining investment and attentionIn Cannes’ darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was strange. The first edition of the World AI film festival (WAIFF) showcased visions of men with fish scales erupting from their […]

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‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director

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Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright His hit film was a masterpiece capturing the gritty truth of the Paris suburbs, but the director of La Haine is now sold on an AI-generated future for cinema.Mathieu Kassovitz has called the technology the “the last artistic tool we

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French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over alleged child abuse images on X

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Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The

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Musk fails to appear at French court hearing over sexualised AI deepfakes on X

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Tech magnate Elon Musk, who has owned the X platform since 2022, failed to appear at his court hearing on Monday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The billionaire, founder of Tesla and the aerospace company SpaceX, had been summoned by French authorities as part of an investigation launched last year into the social media platform X

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French AI startup AMI raises $1B to develop ‘universal intelligent systems’

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French artificial intelligence startup AMI on Tuesday said it has raised $1 billion to develop AI systems designed to understand the physical world “in the way animals and humans do”, unlike the language-based models behind chatbots such as ChatGPT. The company said it expected to produce “fairly universal intelligent systems” within five years.

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French AI startup AMI raises $1B to develop ‘universal intelligent systems’

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French artificial intelligence startup AMI on Tuesday said it has raised $1 billion to develop AI systems designed to understand the physical world “in the way animals and humans do”, unlike the language-based models behind chatbots such as ChatGPT. The company said it expected to produce “fairly universal intelligent systems” within five years.

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Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project may collapse if row continues, says warplane maker

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Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workloadFrance and Germany’s next-generation fighter jet project could soon be “dead”, one of the two companies tasked with delivering it has warned, amid a worsening corporate rift over who gets to build the aircraft.Dassault Aviation, France’s leading

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Police Search X’s Premises in France as Prosecutors Summon Elon Musk

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The move followed a yearlong investigation into X and escalated a wider standoff between European officials and American tech companies over the regulation of social media.

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French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

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Prosecutors summon tech billionaire and company’s ex-CEO for questioning as part of expanded investigationEurope live – latest updatesProsecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.“A search is under way

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Fake video claiming ‘coup in France’ goes viral – not even Macron could immediately get it removed

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Sometime in the second week of December, an improbable video began making the rounds on French-language social media. France, it claimed, was subject to a coup d’état, and President Emmanuel Macron had possibly been deposed. The video, an AI-generated fake, racked up millions of views and caused alarm with at least one African leader. At first,

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