In Quebec, Canada, Montreal’s largest English-speaking newspaper, The Gazette, publishes a piece about the nation’s roadblocks to AI development.

Harvard University launches Institutional Data Initiative, making its vast Law School Library available for AI training.

In the latest update, Apple announces Siri’s direct integration with ChatGPT.

Yelp introduces AI-backed business discovery and review insights.

Two of Google’s AI teams unveil exciting creations: the groundbreaking quantum chip Willow and the handy Gemini-powered code agent Jules.

OpenAI makes its text-to-video model Sora available to the general public. Tech vlogger Marques Brownlee suspects the model was trained on his content without consent.

xAI enhances Grok’s text-to-image capabilities with a new autoregressive model named Aurora. Here are a few attempts by the chatbot to generate our mascot (it went for darker vibes without my prompting):

Swiss AI robot manufacturer ANYbotics raises a total of $110 million in a Series B funding round, boosting its expansion efforts into North America. Check out our article on AI development in Switzerland to learn more.

Britain’s national institute for AI research, named after machine learning pioneer Alan Turing, is reportedly at risk of losing credibility due to staff redundancy issues.

In Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim officially opens the Digital Ministry’s National AI Office.

China’s law enforcement initiates public tests of the formidable RT-G, an armed-and-armored spherical AI robot that can detect and apprehend criminals.

In Mexico, digital platform MeMind releases an AI-powered app designed to prevent suicides.

Kenya launches the Diplomat’s Playbook on AI, marking the nation’s move to solidify its position as an AI adoption pioneer on the African continent.

Robotics researchers from the University of Sydney present an AI-powered version of their autonomous cattle herder Swagbot: here’s a short video report from Reuters.