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The State of the Map 2026 is the annual conference for OpenStreetMap users, to be held in Paris and online from August 28-30, 2026, featuring talks, workshops, and social events.

This paper applies explainable machine learning to mobility trajectories from the NetMob 2025 Data Challenge to assess the 15-minute city concept in Paris, finding that higher local service availability is associated with less car use and more active mobility, though with spatial and demographic heterogeneity.

Parisian startup UMA_Robots, founded by former Tesla Optimus, DeepMind, and Hugging Face engineers, has built its first robot prototype in 9 months. The robot uses end-to-end AI to observe, decide, and act with real-time learning, aiming to address labor shortages, reindustrialization, and ecological transitions.

Remi Cadene shares excitement about developing a fully functional humanoid robot with efficient AI in just 9 months with a small team in Paris at UMA Robots.

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M in seed funding from Nvidia and others to scale its ultra-low latency voice AI models and open a Bay Area office.

A small team spent 9 months designing and assembling Prototype Version 0 of AI, software, and hardware in Paris at UMA_Robots.

Station F is launching the second batch of its F/ai accelerator program to help AI startups scale from product to revenue, with backing from major tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.

Startup School Paris is happening on June 29, with a final batch of applications open. Founders from Datadog, Supabase, PostHog, and others will share real, unpolished stories. Apply if building in France or Europe.

A 600M parameter reasoning model trained using SYNTH reportedly outperforms a 397B model and Sonnet 4.5 in an industrial application for the Paris subway, highlighting the effectiveness of small, specialized models.

An AI researcher announces joining AmiLabs as Director of Research in Paris, working with Yann LeCun and a team focused on world modeling and foundation models.

The author attended the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris, noting Mistral's shift from a model company to a full-stack AI provider, with emphasis on on-prem deployment, specialized small models, and European sovereignty.

At the Paris AI Summit, Sam Altman commented on Elon Musk, expressing hope that he would stop lawsuits and acquisitions and compete with better products, and stated that Elon might be living in insecurity.