Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #47

Hello and welcome to this year’s first issue of the AI Bulletin! 2025 is already off to an exciting start with some interesting AI developments, including notable launches from the renowned CES trade show running January 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Have an awesome weekend, and we’ll see you next Friday!

North America

• The AI search engine Perplexity partners with Tripadvisor to provide its users with hotel information sourced directly from the travel platform.

• Omi launches its AI wearable, a small orb that attaches to the side of the user’s head, promising a major productivity boost.

• Shutterstock merges with Getty Images in a $3.7 billion deal to create an AI-backed visual content powerhouse.

• Nvidia unveils the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, reportedly 1,000 times more powerful than a regular laptop.

Credits: Sean Hollister, The Verge

Europe

• Paris-based VideoLAN introduces AI-enabled subtitles generation and translation to its flagship VLC player.

• Berlin-based Vay expands further into Las Vegas with its NVIDIA DRIVE AGX-backed AI driving technology known as teledriving, where a human driver controls a vehicle remotely.

Asia

• South Korea’s Booxtory, CES 2025 Best Innovator in AI, unveils a blend of CV and NLP technologies capable of digitizing any book in real time: here’s a short video report from Reuters.

• Fast Company publishes an interview with Soj Gamayon, a 22-year-old Filipino woman who won the Red Bull Basement World Final in Tokyo for her AI-powered solution that helps farmers mitigate crop risks.

The Caribbean

• The Bahamas Judiciary is developing an AI tool to streamline document filing and submission within the nation’s court system: here’s a comment from the Acting Registrar.

Africa

• In South Africa, a Pietermaritzburg-based law firm is facing serious penalties following the discovery that its attorneys utilized GenAI to make up legal citations.

Australia

• In Sydney, a male high school student is under investigation by the NSW Police and Department of Education for using AI to generate explicit deepfakes of his female peers.