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From Arsène Lupin To Upstream Security: How Roni Carta Turned A Teenage Hacking Obsession Into Depi

At 24, the Grenoble bug bounty hunter behind Depi just raised $5.9M to find supply chain attacks before they happen.
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Today, I am publishing AGNT: The Orchestration Economics Manifesto, a framework for what is becoming the largest value dislocation within the S&P 500 in modern memory.

It rests on five claims:

1. The marginal cost of cognition is collapsing. The collapse is non-linear.

A task that costs $100 in human cognitive labor today will cost $10 in 2027, $1 in 2028, and pennies in 2029.

2. As cognition becomes abundant, machines shift from tools to actors.

For the first time, software receives goals, takes autonomous action, and delivers outcomes. The unit of economic production changes from the human labor hour to the orchestrated workflow.

3. Orchestration creates a new economic layer. The companies that control it capture the surplus of the entire transition.

The entity that reorganizes itself around a new architecture - with intelligence at the core of workflows - and delivers outcomes from irreplaceable operational context through the Orchestration Layer captures the surplus of the transition. That entity is the AGNT.

4. Three structural laws predict who wins, who loses, and who the market is mispricing.

Proximity to intent. Context depth. Workflow intelligence. Satisfy all three: you are an AGNT, the captain of the Agentic Era. Miss one: you are just a member of the crew.

5. Every company carries an embedded option that the market cannot yet price.

Every company holds two value curves inside a single stock price: the fundamentals curve and the orchestration curve. The gap between them is an embedded option that runs in both directions. The destruction will be priced in days. The creation will be priced in years.

These five claims are the spine of the Manifesto. Each is developed across the full text: the substrate that made cognition collapse, the shift from tools to actors, the emergence of the Orchestration Layer, the laws of durable value capture, and the hierarchy of firms, sectors, and positions that will fracture, fuse, or be repriced in the crossing.

Find the full Manifesto here: https://t.co/rvlTBplFj8

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"Something fails in the equation because we do not manage to transform very smart ideas, good ideas, into manufacturing capacity," Lèquepeys said.

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Europe's €830M Last Stand For Chip Sovereignty May Depend On Grenoble

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This public-private collaboration has also been a core characteristic of the Grenoble ecosystem, and the project hopes to leverage this mindset to demonstrate.

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Today @UpwayShop raised a $60M Series C led by A.P. Moller Holding w/ money from Galvanize, Ora Global, and funds from past investors @sequoia. Founded by Stéphane Ficaja + Toussaint Wattinne in 2021, Upway has raised $125M. Upway refurbishes e-bikes and sells them to consumers.

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Read the Deep Dive here: https://t.co/cS4iOXCacq

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As AI reshapes global technology, the debate over hype vs bubble rages.

VC firm @c4ventures is taking a longer view, doubling down on its conviction that something more profound is happening and that Europe can produce world-class AI and deep tech companies.

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...In another 20 years, my grandkids will say that you had the time of the combustion engines, you had the time of electricity, and you had the time of the internet. And then there is a fourth wave, which is AI. That's our conviction."