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Le projet d’euro numérique annonce-t-il le déclin des banques centrales? 💶🏦 La BCE avance sur le projet d’euro numérique malgré les résistances en France 💶🇫🇷 Accès handicapé du métro : une “honte” pour les Paralympiques de Paris ♿🏙️ Les scientifiques font une percée potentielle dans le cancer du sein après avoir préservé des tissus dans un gel 🧪🩺 The Audacious Kingdom prêt à briller à VivaTech ✨🇫🇷 Les tokens d’entraînement de GPT-4o pour le Chinois sont pollués par des spam et des contenus pornographiques 🚫📉 Le Royaume-Uni ouvre un bureau à San Francisco pour s’attaquer aux risques de l’IA 🇬🇧🤖
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Does the digital euro project signal the decline of central banks? 💶🏦 ECB advances the digital euro project despite resistance in France 💶🇫🇷 Metro access for disabled: a ‘shame’ for Paralympic Paris ♿🏙️ Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel 🧪🩺 The Audacious Kingdom set to shine at VivaTech, France’s premier trade show ✨🇫🇷 GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites 🚫📉 UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk 🇬🇧🤖
#1. Le projet d’euro numérique annonce-t-il le déclin des banques centrales ?
[AVIS D’EXPERT] La BCE planche sur un euro numérique. Un projet qui inquiète les banques commerciales. Décryptage avec notre expert Guillaume Almeras, fondateur du site de veille et de conseils Score Advisor.
Une récente publication de la Fédération bancaire française marque, une nouvelle fois, l’opposition des banques au projet d’euro numérique tel qu’il est profilé par la Banque centrale européenne (BCE).
Cette opposition (qui ne se limite pas aux banques françaises) est à la fois singulière – puisqu’elle revient à démonter proprement les arguments de la BCE – et inédite puisque, pour la première fois, des banques commerciales expriment leur crainte que leur banque centrale ne leur fasse… directement concurrence.
👉 Le projet d’euro numérique annonce-t-il le déclin des banques centrales?
#2. La BCE avance sur le projet d’euro numérique malgré les résistances en France
Un appel à candidatures, avec d’importants moyens financiers, a été lancé pour imaginer les développements techniques nécessaires à la mise en place de la monnaie numérique de banque centrale. Les banques françaises restent sceptiques sur l’utilité du projet.
Le projet d’euro numérique avance. Il est entré dans une phase de préparation, illustrant la détermination de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) d’avancer sur ce sujet, malgré le scepticisme des établissements financiers , notamment en France.
👉 La BCE avance sur le projet d’euro numérique malgré les résistances en France
#3. Metro disabled access ‘shame’ for Paralympic Paris
It is “absolutely scandalous” that more has not been done to improve accessibility on Paris’s underground trains network ahead of the Paralympics, a leading French disability charity has said.
APF France Handicap said the Metro was a “big black spot” on the city’s Paralympic legacy.
The president of the International Paralympic Committee said he understood the “frustration”, but pointed to “massive investment” in the city’s buses.
French wheelchair users told the BBC the lack of accessibility on the Metro was a source of “shame”.
👉 Metro disabled access ‘shame’ for Paralympic Paris
#4. Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel
Ability to preserve tissue in a special gel solution for at least a week will help doctors identify most effective drug treatments
Scientists say they have a made a potentially “gamechanging” breakthrough in breast cancer research after discovering how to preserve breast tissue outside the body for at least a week.
The study, which was funded by the Prevent Breast Cancer charity, found tissue could be preserved in a special gel solution, which will help scientists identify the most effective drug treatments for patients.
👉 Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel
#5. The Audacious Kingdom set to shine at VivaTech, France’s premier trade show
The British Embassy in Paris is getting ready to showcase the best of UK technology at this year’s VivaTech, Europe’s biggest startup and tech event.
Building on the UK-France Tech: Bienvenue au Royaume des Audacieux reception held in March at the British Ambassador’s Residence, the UK will make its comeback to VivaTech from May 22-25 in Paris.
Six UK companies will be present on the UK pavilion throughout the event, including large companies like BT and innovative startups including OnePlan, AirCards and PolyAI.
👉 The Audacious Kingdom set to shine at VivaTech, France’s premier trade show
#6. GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
The problem, which is likely due to inadequate data cleaning, could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and misuse.
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice that something seemed off about this newest version of the chatbot: the tokens it uses to parse text were full of spam and porn phrases.
On May 14, Tianle Cai, a PhD student at Princeton University studying inference efficiency in large language models like those that power such chatbots, accessed GPT-4o’s public token library and pulled a list of the 100 longest Chinese tokens the model uses to parse and compress Chinese prompts.
👉 GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
#7. UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk
Ahead of the AI safety summit kicking off in Seoul, South Korea later this week, its co-host, the United Kingdom, is expanding its own efforts in the field. The AI Safety Institute, a U.K. body set up in November 2023 with the ambitious goal of assessing and addressing risks in AI platforms, has said it will open a second location in San Francisco.
The idea is to get closer to the epicenter of AI development. The Bay Area is the home of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta that are building foundational AI technology.
