WAICF - World AI Cannes Festival

🌟 Welcome to our New Speakers! 🌟 We’re thrilled to announce our latest lineup of confirmed speakers for the WAICF - World AI Cannes Festival 2025! These AI Leaders and Experts are shaping the future of AI across majors industries: 🎤 Francesca Rossi – IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM 🎤 Esma Aimeur – Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Université de Montréal 🎤 Dileep George – Director of Research, Google DeepMind 🎤 Pascale Fung – Director/Senior Director of AI Research, CAIR Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (Hong Kong)/Meta FAIR 🎤 Anna Mareschi Danieli – Vice-Chairman, Acciaierie Bertoli Safau SpA Safau S.p.A., @Danieli Group 🎤 Marcin Hejka– General Partner, OTB Ventures Get ready to hear their insights on the latest trends and challenges in AI innovation. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired by the brightest minds in the industry. 📅 Save the date! February 14-16, 2025, in Cannes. 🎟️ Early bird passes are available now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eAkCctEz

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📚 Article : EU Set to Fine Apple in First Major Enforcement of Digital Markets Act 🔗 Competition Policy International : https://lnkd.in/etGPca3Z Bloomberg : https://lnkd.in/eRCzt8Ws 📊 Figure : $ 3.43 trillion 🔗 TechCrunch : https://lnkd.in/dYa9BDUP 💡 Quote : "First, it’s clear that there are a lot of new opportunities to use new AI advances to accelerate our core business that should have strong ROI over the next few years" 💭 Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta 🔗 Quartz : https://lnkd.in/eY5uh2Bh

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📚 Article : Google Inks Deal for Nuclear Power for AI Tech, Data Centers 🔗AI Business : https://lnkd.in/g6NpWgDj 📊 Figure : 96% 🔗 Business Standard : https://lnkd.in/erJUC8C6 💡 Quote : "we're not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we're not organized to do it" 💭 Eric Schmidt 🔗 The Register : https://lnkd.in/e6PJitvK

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📚 Article : California governor vetoes bill to regulate artificial intelligence 🔗Financial Times : https://lnkd.in/dwFbws99 📊 Figure : $6.6 billion 🔗Silicon UK : https://lnkd.in/d7nW7_-z The New York Times : https://lnkd.in/d_vjpcTG 💡 Quote : “The global discourse on AI has already changed, we hear much less about the existential risks of AI, or so-called high risks. We hear about a potential bubble. We hear about what the latest developments are. That’s part of what we’re trying to do, to help change that discourse. So maybe it’s less fascinating, but it’s more concrete.” 💭Anne Bouverot 🔗 The Guardian US : https://lnkd.in/euFFkGwK

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📚 Article : Meta’s Llama 3.2 launches with vision to rival OpenAI, Anthropic  🔗VentureBeat : https://lnkd.in/g9Fw2z9V 📊 Figure : 100 🔗 AINews : https://lnkd.in/d9R3Q7_i 💡 Quote : "This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there," 💭 Sam Altman 🔗 Fox Business Network : https://lnkd.in/evzdErMm VentureBeat : https://lnkd.in/eGyADrbF

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📚 Article : OpenAI recently updated its ChatGPT model, now capable of more advanced "thinking" and "reasoning," with applications in healthcare and development. AI is getting closer to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)! 🔗AI Business : https://lnkd.in/eAGKptg8 📊 Figure : According to IDC, AI will contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, representing 3.5% of the global GDP. 🔗 IDC : https://lnkd.in/d9R3Q7_i 💡 Quote of the Week: "No one currently fully understands AI’s inner workings or is held accountable for its use. There is an urgent need for stronger international governance." 🔗 Reuters : https://lnkd.in/d_e4Uaf9 AIJazeera : https://lnkd.in/dd7zzaB7

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 ARTICLE 📄 Google under EU investigation over data privacy issues. 💡 Google faces a European privacy probe over its PaLM 2 AI system. If found guilty of GDPR violations, they could face massive fines! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eCEctwpd Source: POLITICO FIGURE 🚀 DeepMind unveils groundbreaking AI for protein design. 💡 AlphaProteo, the AI that could revolutionize drug development with success rates up to 300 times higher than current methods! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3thq6nN Source: AINews QUOTE 💬 AI regulation in California could have global repercussions. 💡 "The rest of the world is certainly paying close attention to what is happening in California and in the US more broadly right now..." – Yoshua Bengio 🔗 https://lnkd.in/emExQMVq Source: Financial Times

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📰 ARTICLE : 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eVgsa8q9 Source: Reuters 📊 FIGURE : 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eNiENR-K Source: Crunchbase 💬 QUOTE : 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gRgwtPQY Source: UN News Want to learn more ? explore more in the full articles! 📚✨

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📰 ARTICLE : Apple is introducing “Apple Intelligence”, an AI suite powered by ChatGPT in the upcoming iOS 18 update 🔗: https://lnkd.in/dQZHAMi9 Source: The Guardian 📊 FIGURE : On Wednesday, NVIDIA shared its latest quarterly earnings report 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eW8AwYcv 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eEC8UyZa Source: Yahoo! Finance & Forbes 💬 QUOTE : "The power of this scale revolution ultimately lies in enabling small teams to make big impacts." — Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gs5kDZ9b Source: World Economic Forum Want to learn more ? explore more in the full articles! 📚✨

🎉 IT'S TIME FOR THE BEST OF THE WEEK 🎉 📰 ARTICLE : AI capabilities are growing faster than hardware : can decentralization close the gap ? 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gQHyTMuh Source: AINews 📊 FIGURE : Worldwide Spending on Artificial Intelligence is forecast to reach $632 billion in 2028, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC). 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eSv9cq9k Source: IDC Research 💬 QUOTE : MIT releases comprehensive database of AI risks 🔗: https://lnkd.in/ghdzZ9rk Source: Venture Beat Want to learn more ? explore more in the full articles! 📚✨