Michael Amar

Chairman of 3 of tech's leading conferences — AI (@raisesummit), robotics (@Machinasummit) & digital assets (@parisblockweek)

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Conferences aren’t about stages.
They’re about engineered collisions between the right people.
We are building those collisions at scale.
Stay tuned for the next gen of tech events.

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Visa buying Fireblocks would be a loud signal: card networks don't just want to route stablecoin payments, they want to own the custody and settlement layer underneath.
At around $2.5B, far below Fireblocks' 2022 $8B valuation, this could be a bargain entry for Visa. https://t.co/hWcAzwDaAx @SignalWeek

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Interesting signal for the events world: as AI floods every feed with content, agencies are buying live event capability because trust is still built in the room.
The next move is pairing that human layer with AI on the ops side. https://t.co/h63tz5atsS

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

This is the clearest case for AI roll-ups I've read. The bottleneck isn't the model anymore, it's adoption and capturing the value.

Owning the business solves both.

Curious which service verticals Long Lake sees next. https://t.co/SWKPIqyy1Q

[Prathik Naidu @prathiknaidu]

https://t.co/nkSOIMIQaG

[Awa K. Penn @TawohAwa]

This is the best AI use case I’ve seen in a long time. Just wow!!!

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

OpenAI on Google Cloud is the clearest sign yet that the model race is turning into a distribution race.
Once every hyperscaler sells every frontier model, the moat moves to data, governance and cost.
Fun to watch Gemini now competing with GPT https://t.co/SASysVVhK2

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@jnbarrot Comme vous faites avec 🇮🇱 ?

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Textbook AI roll-up math: buying a 198-seat contact center for ¥200M, about 0.43x revenue, then lifting margins with AI. Cheap BPO capacity plus automation is where the real arbitrage sits right now, and it's happening in Japanese microcaps too. https://t.co/N1vmGSbsVy

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Salesforce paying $5.66B cash for Braze says it all: AI agents are only as good as the live signals they act on. Agentforce now gets real time behavior across apps, SMS and WhatsApp. The marketing cloud war just became a data freshness war.
https://t.co/mAEKqZw62X

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

Visa and Mesh just made crypto and stablecoin balances spendable at 175 million merchants, straight from the wallets people already use. No separate card for the user, no new hardware for the merchant. That is the last mile crypto payments needed.
https://t.co/KQVu94KjaQ

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

JPM Coin expanding from Base to Ethereum mainnet says a lot: the biggest US bank wants its deposits settling on the most liquid public chain. Tokenized deposits vs stablecoins is shaping up to be the real fight of 2027. https://t.co/xDVlc7km5n

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@jnbarrot 🤡

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@patamiel On t’as perdu pour de bon je crois 🤪

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

China just put 23 AI tech categories - including large models, agents, and chip design -on its draft export-control list. Open-source and published work stay out, but Beijing is drawing a clearer line on what sensitive AI IP can leave the country. Big move in the US–China tech race.

https://t.co/REBl6G08gG

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

AI labs are now buying cyber, not just models. Cohere + AISLE makes sense for sovereign and enterprise AI. The real question: can autonomous security scale as fast as the threats? https://t.co/B60OkOK5Da

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@OurielOhayon 💯

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@Net I have stopped being furious. It’s even more sad.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

A Letter to the World’s Leftists and to Righteous People : 7th of October. There are days history writes in ink, days it writes in tears, and days so terrible that history writes their names in blood. October 7 was such a day. The morning came quietly. Some were sleeping. Some were praying. Mothers were beside their children. Then Hamas terrorists, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, entered homes in Israel. Blood. Fire. Screams. Women were raped. Children were burned. Families were executed. Babies were kidnapped. Jews were hunted and murdered.

Homes that once held prayers, laughter and children's footsteps became places of death. Beds became graves. A mother's arms became empty. A child's room waited for a child who would not return.

There are no words large enough for such grief. Only the silence afterward. The silence of a mother waiting for her child. The silence left when evil has finished screaming.

Once again, Jews were murdered for being Jews. An ancient nightmare suddenly had a date in the present tense. The old hatred had found new mouths and new excuses.

From my country, the United Arab Emirates, a Muslim Arab country, came a voice within minutes calling it by its name: A terrorist attack. No excuse. No ideology can make rape resistance. No slogan can make burning a child justice. No flag can make kidnapping a baby freedom.

And yet, London. Paris. Toronto. You would have expected tears. Instead, people celebrated while Jewish families searched for the missing and children remained with kidnappers. People waved the flag of the kidnappers of babies instead of demanding freedom for the babies.

This was another wound of October 7. Innocent people were murdered, while others had forgotten how to mourn them. It felt as though civilisation had turned backwards. Back toward 1936. Back toward the old darkness. That was where morals failed.

I have travelled to universities around the world and stood beside Jewish communities attacked simply for being Jewish, to tell them: You have a friend here.

When the Holocaust happened, I was not there. I cannot go backwards and stop the trains or take one terrified child by the hand. But I was alive on October 7. And I had a choice.

One day my children may ask: Where did you stand? I want to tell them: I stood with the baby, not his kidnapper. I stood with the mother, not her rapist. I stood with the murdered, not the murderer. I stood with the Jew hunted simply for being a Jew.

When people found sophisticated words to excuse barbarism, I chose humanity's simplest word: No. No to rape. No to kidnapping. No to burning children. No to terrorism. No to antisemitism.

Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, may have lost in Gaza, but an ideology does not die because it loses a battlefield. Look at the streets of the West, universities, some parliaments and city councils. Too many young minds have become hostages to propaganda for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's proxies in the West.

When you become silent about an October 7, you do not guarantee that October 7 will remain in the past.

Hatred begins as a sentence before it becomes a scream. Extremism begins as an excuse before it becomes an act. Evil first asks to be tolerated, then excused, then normalised.

Remember October 7. Remember the empty beds. Remember the empty arms. Remember the kidnapped. Remember the murdered. Remember Jewish families hunted in the one place every human should believe is safe: home.

Be like my country, the UAE, where antisemitism is not an opinion to celebrate. It is a crime. Where the Muslim Brotherhood is banned, not romanticised as activists.

History will ask something simple: When a child cried, where did you stand?

On October 7, I knew my answer. With the baby, not the kidnapper. With the mother, not her rapist. With the innocent, not the terrorist.

And when my children read this chapter of history, I want them to know: Their father did not look away.

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

7.10 . We will never forget. Who did this. Who is supporting who did this.

[AsieNews @AsiaNews_FR]

#Chine 🇨🇳 Devenu l'une des activités extrascolaires les plus populaires chez les adolescents, le pilotage et programmation de #drones est désormais obligatoire dans les programmes de plus de 1200 collèges et lycées techniques. RT CGTN

[Michael Amar @amarmic]

@patamiel Pas en phase. Le lieux impacte peu. Bcp de conf à Lisbonne, Amsterdam, etc