Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #39

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you like this week’s selection of the most significant developments in the fields of machine learning and data science. Have an awesome weekend, and see you next Friday!

North America

• The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, sues Caseway AI for unauthorized data scraping. 

• Amazon Prime unveils a new GenAI feature that enables subscribers to recap the content they’ve been watching on the platform.  

• Artist Es Devlin is awarded a $100,000 prize at MIT for her work on AI-generated poetry and linguistic diversity.

Europe

• In France, Mistral introduces Moderation API, an AI system available in 11 languages that safeguards against harmful content. 

• In the UK, a portrait of ML pioneer Alan Turing, painted by an AI robot, fetches over $1 million at Sotheby’s. Meanwhile, the journal Nature explores the impact of AI-generated fakes on science.

• The largest publisher in the Netherlands, Veen Bosch & Keuning, announces plans to translate books into English using AI.

Asia

• In China, ByteDance unveils X-Portrait 2, an AI model that transforms still photos into videos. Meanwhile, Tencent open-sources Hunyuan3D, a unified framework for text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation.

• In Malaysia, Big Tech giants are constructing AI data centers, which are both creating jobs and raising concerns over power shortages.

Latin America

• In Brazil, a New Zealand AI company breaks into the world’s largest beef export market.

Africa

• Bermuda-based Withanage Foundation announces a substantial investment in AI platform development for Africa. 

Australia 

• A new study by Microsoft reveals Australia’s most promising opportunities amid the global AI boom.