Benoît Berthelot

Emirates Telecom has agreed to sell a stake in Vodafone to a vehicle controlled by the family of French billionaire Xavier Niel, in a deal valued at almost $6 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence after signing deals with major European industrial customers BMW, Airbus bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Former Tesla scientist Rémi Cadene plans to produce a humanoid AI robot for manufacturing, logistics and homes, with his Paris-based startup #UMA. He showed an early prototype at their Paris HQ yesterday :

John Wren, CEO of Omnicom, said he’s starting to see results after closing the deal for rival Interpublic Group about seven months ago bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A former executive of WPP, one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Chinese court for taking bribes totaling $176 million with his ex-colleagues, according to sources bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

France’s domestic intelligence agency will replace Palantir data tools with a local alternative made by Chapsvision bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise around €3 billion ($3.5 billion) at a valuation of roughly €20 billion, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NYT's A.G. Sulzberger 40 minute-long speech about the "brazen theft of intellectual property" by AI companies drew large applause and some loud shouts of “bravo” among media executives gathered in Marseille. Yet some in the audience had mixed feelings bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Mistral AI is expanding into advanced manufacturing, striking deals with new customers Airbus and BMW as it looks to so-called physical AI to fuel growth bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Le Monde reprend les informations de Bloomberg sur "l'Institut de l'espérance" de Vincent Bolloré. Parmi ses membres: Xenia Fedorova, ancienne directrice de RT France. @ITrippenbach @ArianeChemin

Patrick Drahi’s spat with Altice co-founder Armando Pereira has escalated after Swiss courts ordered the seizure of assets following a lawsuit by the latter to reclaim at least 1.2 billion francs ($1.5 billion) he claims he’s owed bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

As Cannes wraps, ‘The White Lotus’ is moving in. The HBO hit is bringing its tourism halo — and television’s cultural clout — to the home of world cinema. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is in discussions with European banks about deploying its answer to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has held talks about unveiling an ambitious French AI data center project with President Emmanuel Macron in the coming weeks, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

French billionaire Vincent Bolloré has created a Christian-inspired think tank with other wealthy business leaders to propose a conservative agenda ahead of the country’s presidential election next year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Vincent Bolloré a lancé un think tank "d'inspiration chrétienne", l'Institut de l'espérance, à un an de l'élection présidentielle. Son manifeste propose un centaine de mesures sur le pouvoir d'achat, l'immigration, la sécurité, la fertilité, la culture bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Bouygues Telecom, Iliad and Orange are moving closer to a provisional agreement to acquire SFR, the French business of billionaire Patrick Drahi’s telecom company Altice. With @DNair5, Vincy Chan, @RuthsDavid bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Three days after Bill Ackman pitched a deal for Universal Music Group that he estimates values the record label giant at €56 billion ($66 billion), the Dutch company’s stock remains steadfastly below the offer price bloomberg.com/news/articles/…