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Meta ready to challenge Trump in the face of EU sanctions
During the Munich Security Conference which was held on weekends in Germany, Joel Kaplan, World Director of Public Affairs of Meta, said that the company would not hesitate to request the intervention of President Donald Trump if the Union applied his digital regulations discriminatoryly against his products. He stressed that the sanctions imposed on American technological companies could be perceived as an unjustified form of taxation, thus taking up an argument put forward by Trump at the Davos World Economic Forum.
Meta, who has already received more than 2 billion euros in fines for European rules on competition and data protection, is also the subject of a survey under Digital Services ACT. Kaplan warned against a regulatory approach which would measure its effectiveness in terms of imposed sanctions, believing that it would place the European economy in a position of “considerable disadvantage”.
This warning by Joel Kaplan comes just after Meta Platforms was forced by the European Commission to soften access to Facebook Marketplace For competing classified ads platforms in Europe and pay a fine of 798 million euros for abuse of dominant position.
Anthropic defends Google against American restrictions on AI
Anthropic legally opposes a measure of the American government which would prohibit Google from investing in artificial intelligence startups. In its request, society affirms that such a ban would harm competition by promoting rivals like Openai and Meta, while jeopardizing its own development.
Google, which has invested about $ 3 billion in Anthropic, is at the heart of sanctions aimed at its dominant position in online research. For Anthropic, forcing Google to cut its links would weaken its economic model, while the AI sector requires significant funding to support the exacerbated competition in particular by the computing power needs.
Amazon accused by Italy of tax evasion on 1.2 billion euros in VAT
The Italian tax authorities criticize Amazon for having elected 1.2 billion euros in VAT between 2019 and 2021, as part of the sale of goods imported from China and other countries outside the EU via its platform. The American company is the subject of a total complaint of 3 billion euros, including penalties and interest. Amazon disputes these accusations, claiming to respect all of the tax laws in force.
X debt: banks lighten their exhibition
Banks having financed the acquisition of X by Elon Musk in 2022 for $ 44 billion managed to sell almost all of the associated debt, taking advantage of improving the financial prospects of the social network and the growing role of Musk in breast of the Trump administration. Thursday, a lot of $ 4.7 billion debts has been sold, exceeding 3 billion initially planned. The exact conditions of recent transactions are not detailed but their values would have undergone a discount of 10 to 20%.
The South Korean Data Protection Commission has suspended downloading the Deepseek application due to non-compliance with national regulations in terms of personal data protection.
Figure AI is on the way to lift $ 1.5 billion dollars to a valuation of 39.5 billion
The startup is AI, specializing in humanoid robots, is expected to announce a $ 1.5 billion financing round in the coming days, promoting 39.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. Align Ventures and Parkway Venture Capital would lead this lifting. Previously valued 2.6 billion dollars in 2024, is a one of its investors Microsoft, Openai, Nvidia and Jeff Bezos. The startup, counts BMW among its customers, and aims to deliver 100,000 robots within four years to compensate for labor shortages and perform complex tasks.
Bolt Technology extends its VTC service in Canada under the Hopp brand
Bolt Technology, a competitor of Uber of Estonian origin, continues its development in Canada under the HOPP brand. The company plans to set up in five major cities in Ontario: Toronto, Mississauga, Markham, Vaughan and Richmond Hill. Already present in 45 countries, Bolt put on a Canadian market that is still not very competitive to offer an alternative to dominant players. Valued at 7.4 billion euros in 2022.
Visma gets hands on Evoliz
Founded in 2010 by François Aupetit and Olivier Gasquet, LA French Fintech Evolizspecialized in the management, invoicing and pre-accounting of TPE and SMEsannounces his acquisition by the Norwegian group Vismaactor of cloud solutions for the company, which achieves a turnover of 2.6 billion euros. This acquisition is part of the Visma consolidation strategy in Europe, accelerated since the entry of 20 Private Equity funds to its capital at the end of 2023.
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Sundar Pichai: “useful” quantum computers within five to ten years
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google believes that “practically useful” quantum computers will be created within five to ten years, comparing their current development to that of artificial intelligence in the early 2010s. While governments and companies invest Massively in quantum research, a debate remains on its horizon of concrete application. In January, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, had estimated that truly operational quantum computers would not appear for several decades.
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Talkspirit wants to become the operating system of organizations that want to speed up for impact
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- Speeral rises € 1.7M to connect brands to the second -hand market via AI
- COUNTACT raises 1.3 million euros to digitize emergency management in business
- Mantle8 focuses on AI to map natural hydrogen and raises € 3.4 million
- From Versailles to Fort Alamo: HistoVery raises € 4M to impose the French Touch in increased cultural mediation
- Stockly raises 26 million euros to strengthen its stock pooling network
🥐 previous edition of the Good Morning Frenchweb:
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- 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
🚀 To read on Frenchweb.fr:
Brevo has strong growth and invests 50 million euros in AI over 5 years.
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- IA: The United States wants to accelerate, leadership assumed by JD Vance at the summit for Action on AI
- Openai’s purchase offer by Elon Musk could cost Sam Altman and his investors very expensive
- “We have not benefited enough twenty years of digital revolution,” said Labor Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet
- “The greatest technological war in the history of journalism is declared” for Laurent Guimier
- For Jean-Marc Jancovici, “AI is the new promise of Eldorado formulated by a part of the world” Tech “”
