According to BCG's 2026 Applied AI Index, corporate spending on AI has more than tripled over the past year. The article looks at how a growing number of executives are finally able to measure a return on that investment.
In a column for Le Monde, Marie Charrel argues that by replacing jobs on a large scale, AI will erode state revenues that depend heavily on taxing labor. Governments will therefore have to rethink their tax systems.
Visiting Paris, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described himself as an optimist on AI risks, sovereignty and employment. He also announced several investments in France, including in Doctolib.
Prisma Media isolated its search traffic and corrected for seasonal effects to confirm the declines linked to Google's AI Overviews. The publisher expects the losses to grow if Google brings AI summaries to Discover in France.
AI engines no longer rank pages; they cite credible third-party sources, including the press. The author concludes that generative engine optimization is also a public relations job.
The author argues that AI could finally make it realistic to move away from business software vendors, though migrations remain hard. The ability to rebuild such software should count as a criterion of digital sovereignty.