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1. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will headline VivaTech 2026, discussing innovation, entrepreneurship, and space ambitions. → Read more
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3. Meta is testing face-recognition software from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier, for its smart glasses, raising privacy concerns. → Read more
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Our take
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Friday we looked at the 12 billion dollar bet Jeff Bezos placed on Prometheus, the company meant to deliver an "artificial general engineer." Twenty-four hours later, here he is again, this time as the headline name at VivaTech, whose tenth edition opens in Paris on Wednesday, June 17.
The show likes to pick a marquee patron. After Elon Musk three years ago, the Williams sisters in 2024 and Jensen Huang last year, it is Bezos who will take the main stage, fortune estimated at 250 billion dollars, for a session moderated by astronaut Mike Massimino. The agenda is clear enough: we are here to talk about Blue Origin, the Moon and the "new space era," not the artificial intelligence that filled his news cycle just last week.
This is where the picture gets amusing. VivaTech 2026 sells itself as the grand celebration of European digital sovereignty, with Germany as country of the year, India as official AI partner and Macron expected Thursday to defend Europe's place in the race. And to blow out its ten candles, the show rolls out the red carpet for an American billionaire there to sell rocket dreams. A European third way, sure, but with a headliner imported from Seattle.
The real story plays out somewhere other than the stars. While Bezos talks about the future of humanity, his bet of the moment remains that AI which promises to redraw entire industries. Space is the spectacle, AI is the strategy. For a show whose watchword this year is "impact, not illusion," inviting the man who sells precisely both of those has something deliciously ironic about it.
G.
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