Before moving to California, I assumed San Francisco and Los Angeles were simply different versions of the same idea. I quickly discovered they are completely different worlds. San Francisco feels concentrated. The city revolves around technology, startups, venture capital, universities,...

Moving from France to Silicon Valley changed the way I think about technology. Before arriving in California, I viewed artificial intelligence primarily through the lens of applications, innovation and digital transformation. Like many Europeans working in technology, I followed the...

For much of the last decade, artificial intelligence lived on screens. We experienced it through search engines, recommendation systems, copilots, chatbots and increasingly capable software interfaces. Intelligence was something that processed language, generated images, summarized documents or wrote code. It...

Long before I ever boarded a plane to California, Silicon Valley already occupied a special place in my imagination. Like many people around the world, my first exposure to the Valley did not come through business meetings, startup events, or...

After attending hundreds of events over the past year in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I have come to realize something surprising: The social life here is fundamentally different from what I experienced in France. Of course, people still go...

Artificial intelligence is often presented as an immaterial technology. The public imagination associates AI with software, algorithms and digital experiences. Models generate text, create images, write code and answer questions through interfaces that appear almost frictionless. From the perspective of...

Before moving to Silicon Valley, Waymo felt almost like a myth. I had seen videos online. I had read articles about autonomous vehicles. I knew Google had been working on self-driving technology for years. But from France, it still felt...