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French AI Summit Lays Groundwork for Business, Not Political Success

Billed as a setting for international governance, the event mostly delivered as a networking session

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks via video at "Visionaries Unplugged," an investor event in Paris, on Feb. 12.

Photographer: Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Yazhou Sun and Benoît Berthelot report from France’s lukewarm AI summit and its busier sideline events.

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