Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #4

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North America:

• The US Department of Justice appoints its first Chief AI Officer, a 37-year-old computer scientist from Princeton University. 

• Google buys real-time access to Reddit’s corpus for $60 million a year, to be used as training data. The tech giant is forced to halt image generation of people, following Gemini’s woke inaccuracies. 

• Intel publishes a new roadmap for chip production in the era of AI.

• Both Adobe and Microsoft announce new AI features, designed to supercharge work with PDF files and enhance the Photos app, respectively. 

• Open AI launches an invite-only forum to facilitate discussion among users, reviewers, and AI experts. 

Europe:

• The EU Commission establishes the European AI Office, tasked with monitoring AI activities across the union.

• Harvard Business Review publishes legal compliance advice for companies ahead of the EU AI Act vote. 

• London-based Stability sells its Paris-based subsidiary Clipdrop, an AI-powered photo editing platform, to the American software developer Jasper.

Asia:

• Bloomberg reports on the upcoming launch of BharatGPT in India, led by Mukesh Ambani, the wealthiest individual in Asia. 

• In China, one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world, Lenovo, announces a new round of AI investment after a quarterly rise in profits. Meanwhile, Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba, raises $1 billion to build a new state-of-the-art LLM.

• The government of Vietnam goes into a partnership with two AI companies, aimed at realizing smart city projects throughout the country.

Australia:

• CSIRO, an Australian government agency charged with scientific leadership, launches a startup program to accelerate long-term AI growth in the country. Meanwhile, recent survey results indicate that two-thirds of Australians consider AI an essential solution for business.