Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #43

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.