Young people love AI!
The meteoric adoption of conversational artificial intelligences by young French people, with 73.4% of 15-24 year-olds using them monthly, is redefining digital practices and heralding a future where information and shopping are reinvented around these technologies. Médiamétrie has published its M Insights article on AI usage among young people. In…
GAFA tax: doubling won’t appease Washington
France was thinking of calming things down vis-à-vis the US by doubling the GAFA tax rather than quintupling it, but we already know that Washington won't bend. Tensions between Paris and Washington over the GAFAM tax will not ease after French deputies voted to double the rate applicable to digital…
Knowledge Wars
Grokipedia, launched by Elon Musk, aims to revolutionize access to knowledge thanks to artificial intelligence that generates and updates content in real time, challenging Wikipedia's collaborative and sometimes biased model. Grokipedia is open. Grokipedia's mission is to right Wikipedia's alleged wrongs. AI wants to lecture copyists organized into volunteer cooperatives.…
Starlink on the iPhone, the prophecy of the global operator is underway
Apple is considering a partnership with Starlink to offer a high-speed satellite connection on its devices, promising to revolutionize Internet access while highlighting the challenges to be overcome in the face of terrestrial operators. The tech world is in turmoil. Apple and Elon Musk are talking. The two phenomena of…
EU: Media Outlook 2025 overlooks intellectual property of works
Behind the reassuring figures of the Media Outlook 2025, several European producers' organizations denounce the risk of Europe being transformed into a luxury provider for American platforms. Two years after an initial version, the European Commission has published its Media Industry Outlook 2025, intended to offer a strategic vision of…
France’s digital tax sparks Trump’s wrath — again
The amendment put forward in France by several Renaissance MPs, which increases taxation on digital giants by a factor of five, threatens, according to our information, to trigger a new trade war. At stake: retaliation on French products and a risk of breaking the Turnberry agreement between Washington and Brussels.…
Brussels relaunches the legislative machine: a dense 2026 program for digital and culture
The European Commission's work program for 2026, although limited to a small number of initiatives, promises to be a decisive period, requiring constant commitment from the companies involved. The European Commission's new work program for 2026 confirms one thing: European regulatory production has not said its last word. Although it…