AI: Oracle’s New Operating System
During its AI World Tour in Paris, Oracle outlined a clear ambition: to make artificial intelligence the central layer connecting the cloud, data, and applications, and to accelerate the shift toward agent-driven organizations.B During its AI World Tour in Paris, Oracle unveiled an ambitious vision for artificial intelligence, where autonomous…
What do AIs think about when we talk to them about music…
By surveying four major AIs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) with a 150-item questionnaire, we reveal that their music recommendations reflect a strong “boomer” bias, overwhelmingly favoring the rock canon (Rolling Stones, Queen, Nirvana) at the expense of rap, contemporary French-speaking artists, and classical music. We developed a tool to survey…
Global Music Report 2026: Strong Growth, a Focus on AI, and a Crackdown on Fraud
2025 was “an eleventh consecutive year of growth” for the global music industry, the IFPI reports, highlighting a dynamic market now shaped by the challenges of AI and streaming fraud. The global recorded music market continues its upward trajectory. According to the IFPI Global Music Report 2026, published on March…
Temu and Intellectual Property: “Proactive removals are now 200 times more common than trademark reports”
Temu, a Chinese-origin marketplace experiencing rapid global expansion, is regularly criticized for selling counterfeit products. Over the past two years, the platform has stepped up its efforts to address these criticisms. In particular, the platform highlights its “Brand Guardian Initiative,” designed to directly integrate rights holders’ assets into its automated…
AI Omnibus: It’s no longer an omnibus—it’s a high-speed train!
The AI Digital Omnibus is moving full steam ahead in Brussels. But the rushed timeline and the limited space given to parliamentary input are raising questions about the quality of the legislative process. The “Digital Omnibus” proposal on artificial intelligence, intended to simplify the implementation of the AI Act, continues…