Sovereignty and open models: the common thread of ai-PULSE 2026
The word sovereignty was everywhere at Station F, right down to the signage. Behind the slogan, a fairly coherent strategy: open weights, GPUs in Europe and the middle layer.
Agent identity, a field still wide open
Zalando runs agents across 2,700 microservices. Their answer to scattered secrets is open source, and it fits in one RFC.
Inference economics: why the GPU is not the point
At ai-PULSE 2026, AMD talked about reselling tokens and Nokia about networking inside the racks. Read together, the two talks show that what costs money is the time the chip is not working.
ai-PULSE 2026: what I took away from the day
A report on Scaleway's AI conference at Station F: the opening keynote, sovereignty, inference economics, agent identity. With links to the detailed write-ups.