Le Point

2 months ago | lepoint.fr | Beatrice Parrino

Faced with the rising power of the United Sates and China in the strategic sectors of artificial intelligence, defense, and space, Europe is struggling to compete. A lack of funding, ineffective governance, risk adverseness: these are the obstacles compromising our economic and scientific sovereignty. Nobel Prize winner in economics, Jean Tirole makes an alarming assessment of this technological gap and analyzes its root causes.

Nov 5, 2024 | lepoint.fr | Guillaume Grallet

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI surprisingly made ChatGPT, software capable of quickly answering any question, available to the public. While the tool isn't infallible, ChatGPT gained 1 million users in five days. Most importantly, this generative artificial intelligence, which has continued to improve, plunges us into a new Age of Enlightenment, as explained by Yann Le Cun, Turing Prize winner, the Nobel Prize of computer science. Behind this poker move stands a man with incredible instinct.

Sep 6, 2024 | lepoint.fr | Olivier Hertel

A new setback for the famous microbiologist and former director of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection. Despite his almost "forced" retirement and the fact that he is now considered now being on the margins of the university system, he continues to publish work aiming to demonstrate the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of Covid-19.

Aug 13, 2024 | lepoint.fr | Beatrice Parrino

Algerian Imane Khelif took to the ring for her final fight of the Paris Olympics on Friday August 9, winning gold in the welterweight division. Unknown to the general public until the opening of the Games, she has been in the spotlight ever since, battered by a controversy over her gender. To get to the Olympics, Khelif, who received her boxing license in Nice, in the south of France, relied on a number of experts based in Algeria, in the United States and also in France.

Jul 11, 2024 | lepoint.fr | Olivier Blanchard

The campaign was full of promises of new spending or tax cuts, which, more or less convincingly, were said not to increase the deficit. The real question is elsewhere. Forget the campaign promises. The question is: how much to reduce the deficit already present ? The answer is that, over time, the government needs to reduce the primary deficit—a concept I will explain later—by 4 % of GDP, around 120 billion euros. This is not insurmountable, but it is far from straightforward.