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The agreement between France and Fluidstack for a 10 billion supercomputer questions
The announcement of a Agreement between France and Fluidstack for the construction of a Gigawatt supercomputer From 2026 to surprise. This British startup, still little known, only raised $ 4.5 million to date and is currently looking to bring together between 100 and 200 million in series A. An amount far from Billions required to the promised infrastructure.
While Coreweave has already raised more than $ 3 billion To develop its capacities, the choice of Fluidstack questions
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The Floor floor tax triggers the ire of Paul Midy in the Assembly
The proposal of a 2 % floor tax on heritage greater than 100 million euroscarried by Eva SAS and Clémentine Autainwith the support of deputies Sandrine Rousseau, François Ruffin, Benjamin Lucas and Delphine Bathoarouses a strong opposition. Paul Midy (Renaissance) castigates a taxation of entrepreneurs on the basis of the valuation of their companies, even before they received the slightest euro. Environmentalists, they defend a measure of tax justicetargeting 0.01 % of the wealthy taxpayers. But this approach ignores a key point: the valuation of a company remains illiquid and largely virtualraising the question of the equity of such a taxation.
Alibaba displays its strongest growth in one year, carried by e-commerce and AI
Alibaba recorded a 8 % increase in turnoverreaching $ 38.6 billion In the last quarter, exceeding forecasts. The Cloud Division, which houses its AI projects, has increased by 13 %while international trade has jumped 32 %. The company, in full rehabilitation after the regulatory repression of 2020, saw its valuation to increase $ 100 billion in 2025. Eddie Wu, his CEO, now put on theGeneral artificial intelligence (AG) as a strategic priority.
Amazon exceeds Walmart in quarterly income for the first time
Amazon generated 187.8 billion dollars income in the fourth quarter, surpassing The 180.5 billion Walmart. This is the first time that the e-commerce giant has ahead of the historic retail leader in a quarter. Walmart, however, retains its annual advance, with $ 708.7 billion forecast sales against 700.8 billion for Amazon in 2025.
Openai records strong growth in its users
OPENAI now has 400 million active users per weekup 33 % Since December, according to his COO Brad Lightcap. The company has also doubled its business customers, reaching 2 million paid subscribers.
At Meta, executives double their bonus, 5% of employees are lost their post
Meta noted the target bonus of its executives 200 % of their basic salaryagainst 75 % previously. The decision aims to align their remuneration on the market, after a observation of undervaluation to comparable companies. This revaluation comes a week after the announcement of the Deletion of 5 % of the workforce and the 10 % reduction in stock options for thousands of employees.
Meta deploys Community Notes to supervise information online
Meta launches Community Notesa participative system allowing users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads to add context to publications that can be confusing. The notes, written and evaluated by a community of contributors, are only published if a consensus is reached on their relevance. The objective is to fight against disinformation without direct intervention of Meta. Currently in beta in the United States, registrations are being opened.
SEC creates a unit dedicated to surveillance of crypto and AI
There DRY launches it Cyber ââand Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU) To strengthen investor protection in the face of crypto and artificial intelligence risks. Led by Laura d'(Cetu will replace the old unit dedicated to digital assets and Cyber, created in 2022. The initiative is part of a post-Gensler regulatory era (ex president of the SEC), with a more nuanced approach on the classification of crypto -assets.
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Romain Achard (The Ramp): “Local advertising must adapt to a changing market”
We announced it to you last week, The Ramp is united with Dataventure to redefine local digital marketing. An operation which is part of a broader dynamic, since Dataventure had already joined in 2023 the EDG group, led by Vincent Klingbeil. The opportunity is given to us to talk about local marketing and how brands can develop very fine communication on the main networks and apps thanks to solutions like The Ramp. To talk about it in more detail we invited Romain Achard, CEO of The Ramp
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73 thongs lifts $ 55 million to transform the valuation of alternative assets with AI
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- Food security: Spore.bio raises 22 million euros for instant detection of contaminants
- ⏠1.7M for Ochhy: when the AI ââmakes the smartphone the new runner coach
- Cycloid raises 5 million euros to automate the devops and simplify the multicloud
đ„ previous edition of the Good Morning Frenchweb:
- Aldebaran in danger / Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 / The fundraising to follow
- After Cédric Siré, MichÚle Benzeno leaves Webedia / Axeptio acquires adopt / terminus for Humane
- 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
đ To read on Frenchweb.fr:
- Majoranas to a quantum computer of one million qubits: Microsoft opens a new era
- Adwanted Group is continuing its external growth strategy with the online iPO.
- 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.
