Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #15

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North America:

• ElevenLabs releases a preview of its new music-generating AI tool, along with the “It Started to Sing” song to demonstrate the model’s capabilities. 

• OpenAI is reportedly exploring whether it should legally allow users to generate NSFW content with the company’s GenAI tools. 

• Using AI models, researchers from MIT advance our understanding of sperm whales’ language — an article detailing this methodology comes out in Nature Communications. 

Europe:

• In London, DeepMind unveils AlphaFold 3, a new AI model developed together with Isomorphic Labs, which predicts polymers and other proteins, including DNA. 

• AI models help art experts, including Dr. Carina Popovici from Zurich-based Art Recognition, identify fake Monets and Renoirs on eBay, reports The Guardian.

• Brussels-based Euractiv posts a video on how the current EU AI guidelines relate to intellectual property and copyright. 

Asia:

• In Malaysia, PM Anwar Ibrahim announces the launch of a six-year AI talent roadmap with the aim of making the Southeast Asian nation a regional AI powerhouse.

• In China, TikTok introduces an “AI-generated” label to mark artificially created content. Meanwhile, its parent company, ByteDance, releases StoryDiffusion to tackle the challenges of creating coherent images and videos with diffusion-based AI models.

• In Singapore, the nation’s writers reject the government’s proposal to use their published data for LLM training.

Australia:

• South Australia, with its capital Adelaide at the forefront, becomes the self-proclaimed AI state — several groundbreaking AI tools are being presented by research centers and companies throughout the region.