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Comment by Arthur Mensch
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO
you do not want to have foreign entities with their finger on the button [...]AI Verified source (Jun 11, 2025)
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Verified: the provided Le Monde English URL, published on June 12, 2025, attributes to Arthur Mensch the sentence fragment “you do not want to have foreign entities with their finger on the button...” in a longer quote about disabling critical infrastructure. The linked French original, published on June 11, 2025, contains the matching source text “vous ne voulez pas avoir des entités étrangères qui ont la main sur le bouton...,” so the stored excerpt is a faithful translation and the attribution is correct. The article reports these remarks as being made on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, so the stored date is also consistent with the utterance date. ([lemonde.fr](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/12/at-vivatech-emmanuel-macron-hails-historic-partnership-between-mistral-ai-and-nvidia_6742267_19.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
Disputed
Le Monde’s English article dated June 12, 2025 contains the line that the infrastructure would be “sovereign,” attributed to Mensch, but the following sentence about “the entities with the most AI-dedicated chips” is written as the reporter’s narration, not as Arthur Mensch’s quoted words. The French original on Le Monde has the same structure, so the stitched excerpt is materially misattributed. ([lemonde.fr](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/12/at-vivatech-emmanuel-macron-hails-historic-partnership-between-mistral-ai-and-nvidia_6742267_19.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
replying to Arthur Mensch