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Anne Le Hénanff, Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence, at the Ministry of the Economy, in Paris, February 3, 2026.

“For all critical uses, we must detoxify ourselves from non-European tools and build the tools of European independence. » David Amiel, Minister Delegate in charge of the civil service and State reform, presented, Thursday February 5, the new State doctrine in terms of purchases of software and digital services. “Public procurement must support French and European gems”he added.

This doctrine have to be embodied in a round introduced Thursday, which shall be signed by the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, “in the coming days”. This textual content “is part of the logic of strengthening our digital sovereignty”defined the Minister Delegate answerable for synthetic intelligence and digital know-how, Anne Le Hénanff, in a transparent allusion to rising geopolitical tensions, significantly with the United States of Donald Trump.

To assist its message, the federal government additionally promised, on Thursday, to speed up the migration, to a bunch aside from Microsoft, of the Health Data Hub, controversial since its creation in 2019: this platform geared toward gathering the well being information of the French to be able to perform analysis with synthetic intelligence would be the topic of a brand new name for tenders launched on Monday February 9. “The award of this contract will take place at the end of March 2026”indicated David Amiel, Anne Le Hénanff and the Minister of Health, Stéphanie Rist, in a press launch. This switch was promised in 2020 by the federal government, in response to the controversy.

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