Throughout August, we’re revisiting eight long-form FTJ articles whose themes continue to resonate today. From AI and deeptech to sovereignty, cybersecurity and global scale, they explore the ideas, companies and debates shaping French Tech. We hope you enjoy revisiting them with us.
We first published this article in September 2025.
Since then, as AI reshapes how professionals access and use information, Juisci’s core mission of making scientific knowledge more accessible has become increasingly relevant.
How Juisci Is Using AI to Save Doctors 8 Hours a Week and Fight Medical Misinformation
When the COVID pandemic first hit, while holed up in his New York apartment, cardiologist Dr. David Luu found himself desperately trying to keep up with the torrent of new scientific studies about the virus.
Each day brought dozens of fresh papers on PubMed, many running to 15 dense pages. Luu began summarizing and posting them on Twitter, crowdsourcing insights from colleagues around the world.
That experience became the seed of Juisci, a Paris-based startup that today helps over 200,000 healthcare professionals in 60 countries get straight to the core of the latest medical research. The platform ingests thousands of peer-reviewed studies each week, then uses its proprietary AI to select, summarize, and recommend the most relevant findings to the user.
Juisci recently announced a €5.5 million round led by Ring Capital, with Athens-based Big Pi Ventures and Bpifrance, to strengthen its R&D and expand into the U.S. market.
“Cardiologists need to read about three papers a day just to stay current; oncologists, closer to six,” said CEO and co-founder Robin Roumengas. “That’s not sustainable. We give them the key points, link back to the original source, and save them hours every week.”
🗣️Responsible AI🗣️
A look at the big stories from recent weeks, by Responsible & Frugal AI expert James Martin, of BetterTech.
So there we have it: proof that AI can make your company’s emissions go up by as much as the hyperscalers’: +42 % in five years. Or even five times more…
Asked to investigate by a “global enterprise”, British sustainable IT consultant Mark Butcher established that its scope 3 emissions rose by… 42% since it invested heavily in AI, and that’s in just one year (2025). For what ROI? Zero, the company told Butcher, who also established they were only using 14% of the GPU compute they were paying for.
Other firms’ reactions to such news? Hold my (warmed by forest fires) beer, yet again…
Whilst xAI ‘promised’, via Politico, that it is starting to remove some of the planet-wrecking methane generators powering its Colossus supercomputer (it is also adding more), Meta confirmed its burgeoning love affair with similar off-grid behind-the-meter (BHM) power sources by investing in 12 new gas plants. This coincided with its exit from corporate renewable energy initiative RE100, added TechCrunch.
Big tech’s gas obsession is even resurrecting 90s-era climate problems: the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is letting BHM stations contribute to acid rain again, according to The Hill.
Plug data centers into clean electricity, replied Europe, and we’ll be fine! Charles Gorintin, co-founder & CTO of French insurance unicorn Alan, even qualified this as an “ecological gesture”, in a byline published just as his country entered its fourth heatwave in three months. Thereby ignoring AI’s countless other impacts beyond emissions, or the hugely wasteful processes underpinning current AI production.
Meanwhile, a €1.5bn data center due to be built in France’s Provence region was stopped after local protesters demonstrated that its planned power capacity of 40MW was an understatement… and that its owner, Sesterce, had hoped to be exempt from submitting environmental reports.
Maybe elsewhere in AI, people are getting more responsible? Maybe not, considering OpenAI and Anthropic let their agents escape, then claimed it was because they’re ‘too powerful’...
Or DeepMind disbanding AlphaFold, the most useful thing to happen in AI in years (it won a Nobel Chemistry Prize).
Or the fact that some women have taken to playing Disney music when near men wearing Meta smart glasses, as the latter’s IP-detecting AI will shut them down. Leading to the not-unfair conclusion that Disney music is better protected than women in such a context…
No, this summer’s ray of hope comes from China, which has banned AI “companion” chatbots for minors, and prohibited any chatbot designed to “induce emotional dependence”, according to Gizmodo. This bold move confirmed intentions, already stated in late 2025, to demand immediate human intervention whenever a bot mentions “suicide”.
Call me naïve, but why can’t that apply worldwide?
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