Weekly bulletin from AIport, FINAL issue

Hello and welcome to the final issue of the AI Bulletin!

As some of you might have noticed, we’re in the process of moving our newsletter to a new platform. This involves two important developments:

1. Over the next few weeks, some of you will receive our content via Substack, while others will get it through beehiiv until we complete our migration.

2. In line with this transition, we’re shifting from a text-dominant format to a more visual approach. As a result, we’re also pausing the AI Bulletin, at least for the time being.

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our subscribers for your engagement across the 53 issues of the AI Bulletin we’ve published since the portal’s inception. We look forward to presenting newer and more user-friendly AI content starting next week. Have a great weekend and stay tuned!

North America

• Figure AI reveals a new Vision-Language-Action model for humanoid robots. 

   

• Nvidia launches an AI platform to teach American Sign Language.

• xAI announces an early preview of Grok 3, its most advanced model to date. 

• On the same day, Microsoft rolls out Muse, an AI model for gameplay ideation, and unveils Majorana 1, a groundbreaking quantum chip poised to accelerate AI development. 

• MIT Technology Review publishes a feature on a Canadian artist who collaborates with AI.

Europe

• Sweden’s Spotify partners with ElevenLabs to bring more AI-narrated audiobooks to its streaming platform.

• A German EU Parliament member criticizes a glaring copyright loophole in the EU AI Act.

• Polish startup Clone Robotics introduces Protoclone, the world’s first musculoskeletal android, positioned as a potential competitor to Boston Dynamics.

Asia

• A tech entrepreneur in Malaysia creates an AI solution that engages and frustrates scammers by trapping them in prolonged conversations.

• Dubai Customs launches Al Munasiq, an AI-powered platform for the classification of goods.

• RofW explores how Turkey’s translators are training LLMs that may soon replace them.

Latin America

• Spearheaded by Chile’s Ministry of Science and Innovation (CTCI), Latin America is advancing its AI adoption with the release of Latam-GPT, an AI model designed to represent the region’s cultural and linguistic diversity. 

Africa

• American think tank Brookings publishes its research findings on the benefits and shortcomings of open-source AI for African nations.

Australia

• Swimming Australia is reportedly leveraging AI to train athletes in preparation for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.