Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of the most interesting ML developments from across the planet. Have a great weekend, and see you next Friday!
USA and Canada
AWS re:Invent 2024 is wrapping up in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring multiple product announcements, including RAG systems with Amazon Bedrock that enable the integration of fresh data into AI models post-training.
Fact Company posts an interview with Richard Socher of You.com, billed as the first AI-powered search engine.
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Pro, a new subscription priced at $200 a month.
Canada’s government unveils its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, vowing to “drive billions in investment.”
In Minnesota, the Attorney General’s Office gets sued after its proposed anti-deepfake law was revealed to have been written with the use of AI.
Europe
In the UK, researchers from DeepMind publish a seminal paper in Nature, introducing a new ML model that can predict weather. Meanwhile, bias is detected in the AI system used by the British government to detect welfare fraud.
In Sweden, the music streaming platform Spotify launches Wrapped AI, a new feature enabling users to experience the tunes that defined their year.
Asia
In China, Tencent releases its text-to-video generator, based on the AI model Hunyuan, making it available to individuals and companies free of charge.
In Japan, a company is utilizing AI to translate manga into English: MIT Technology Review delves into this development.
Latin America
For this year’s Day of the Dead, a Mexican funeral parlor generated AI-animated images of deceased people: RofW takes a closer look.
Africa
Caribou Digital and Mastercard Foundation issue a report titled “The Role of AI Innovation Clusters in Fostering Youth Employment in Africa”: here’s the PDF.
Australia
Well-known Australian cricket commentator, Robert “Crash” Craddock, lends his voice to AI in a new project: here’s the result.
