After Cédric Siré, Michèle Benzeno leaves Webedia / Axeptio acquires adopt / terminus for Humane

After Cédric Siré in January, Michele Benzeno leaves Webedia in a restructuring context

Michèle Benzeno announced yesterday her departure from Webedia After ten years spent alongside Cédric Siré and the founding team. This departure comes as Webedia is going through a period of Strong turbulence. After the failure of the group’s sale by Fimalacits owner, and cumulative losses of 167.5 million euros in two yearsthe company has engaged in a reduction in its costs. Since the entrance to Bernard Arnault’s holding (7 % of the capital) in June 2024, the restrictions were strengthened, and could suggest a layoff plan in 2025.

Webedia seeks to refocus on its flagship brands like Allociné and Jeuxvideo.com.

OVHCloud and Serco combine for the deployment of the platform destined

OVHCloud And Lecturer announce their collaboration as part of the DESTINE PROJECTan initiative of European Commission aimed at creating a Earth digital twin To model the effects of natural phenomena and human activity. Carried by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA)in partnership with EUMETSAT And ECMWFthe platform makes it possible to use the data ofEarth observation thanks to artificial intelligence and Cloud Computing.

OVHCloud will provide an infrastructure High performance paasintegrating Latest generation CPU and GPUservices ofKubernetes orchestrationas well as databases optimized for the processing of climatic data.

Lecturerin charge of development and maintenance, coordinates the integration of services and support for users. The project is part of the European green pact and the EU digital strategy.

Axeptio acquires adopt and sets up on the Brazilian market

Axeptio announces the acquisition ofAdoptactor in consent management in Brazil, thus consolidating its international expansion after its implantation in Canada. Brazil, with the LGPDregulations inspired by the European GDPR, represents a key market where the needs for compliance solutions are growing rapidly.

Founded in Brazil, adopt team more than 50,000 websitesof which Nike, Reebok and Lego. Its self-service expertise and personalized support makes it a strategic player for Axeptio, which aims to extend its activities beyond the Brazilian market.

Terminus for Humane and his Pin

Humane assets are taken up by HP For $ 116 million, integrating its employees, software platform and intellectual property, but excluding activity related to AI Pin. Founded by former Apple engineers, Humane had lifted $ 230 million from Lachy Groom, Kindred Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Sam Altman. After the failure of Ai Pin, the startup had refocused on Cosmos, its ia bone. Its founders will join HP to develop AI in its products. The transaction will be finalized by the end of the month.

X seeks to raise funds to a valuation of $ 44 billion

X, Elon Musk’s social platform is under discussion to raise funds from investors to the same valuation of $ 44 billion as when it was acquired in 2022. This lifting would mark a reversal after user leakage and Advertisers following the changes imposed by Elon Musk.

Donald Trump announces customs tariffs of at least 25 % on semiconductors

Donald Trump has announced that imported semiconductors would be subject to customs duties of “25 % or more”, while granting the manufacturers to establish factories in the United States. This measure is part of a desire to strengthen national production and reduce dependence on foreign suppliers.

Niantic in discussions to sell his video game activity in Scopely

Niantic, the publisher of Pokémon Gonegotiates the sale of its video game activity in Scopely, owned by the Saudi fund Savvy Games Groupfor about $ 3.5 billionaccording to several sources close to the file. The agreement, which could be announced in the coming weeks, would include Pokémon Go and other mobile titles. Faced with difficulties to reiterate its success with Pokémon Go, Niantic has reduced its workforce and canceled several projects since 2022. Founded in 2015 after a Google spin-off, the company also develops mapping tools in augmented reality.

Mira Murati Lance Thinking Machines Lab with former OpenAi frames

Mira Murati, ex-CTO of Openai, is associated with several former business leaders to create Lab thinking machinea startup dedicated to artificial intelligence. The company aims to develop models promoting in -depth collaboration between AI and Man in various fields. It brings together in particular John Schulman (co -founder of Openai), Barret Zoph (ex-VP Research) and Lilian Weng (ex-VP Safety). Mira Murati would try to raise up to $ 1 billion To finance the startup which has no product on date.

Fiverr launches AI tools for freelancers

Fiverr unveils a new suite of artificial intelligence tools, including the PERSONAL AI CREATION MODELallowing freelancers to train an AI on their work and monetize its use. This solution allows them to better manage their creations through the automation of different tasks.

Whatsapp crosses the threshold of large platforms under the EU DSA

Whatsapp, the messaging of Metareached 46 million monthly users in the EU, thus exceeding the threshold of Digital Services Act (DSA) to be designated as Very large online platform. This classification requires Meta to strengthen the content moderation and establish a risk assessmentunder penalty of sanctions that can reach 6 % of global turnover of Meta. The European Commission must confirm the qualification of WhatsApp as a large platform.

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• • OPENAI prepares its response / Adwanted aims at the stock market / TSS acquires Dolist
  • Meta ready to challenge Trump in the face of EU / Amazon sanctions accused by Italy of tax evasion / Brevo displays strong growth
  • X regulates $ 10 million to close Trump’s trial against Twitter / Cybersecurity and AI: Summit lessons for Action on AI / US Alexander Vinnik in Russia
  • Summit of action on AI: three blocks, three opposite models / AI restores to Emmanuel Macron / for his 20th anniversary, youtube buries television

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• TSSS acquires Dolist and strengthens its expertise in Marketing Automation
• Xi Jinping plays appeasement with Chinese tech giants: turn or illusion?
• AI Act European: Europe inspires America, despite Washington
• Brevo has strong growth and invests 50 million euros in AI over 5 years.