Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #33

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the latest issue of our AI Bulletin. We hope you find this week’s selection of ML and data news useful. Have a pleasant weekend — we look forward to connecting with you again next Friday!

North America

• Meta Connect 2024 wraps up in Menlo Park, California, with Mark Zuckerberg unveiling new AI solutions, including voice-activated editing and automatic dubbing. Check out this video summary.

• The world’s first immersive museum dedicated to AI art is set to open in downtown Los Angeles next year. 

• In an unusual Gadget Lab episode, WIRED writers explore the potential of underwater AI data centers to combat GPU overheating with seawater cooling.

• OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, abruptly announces her departure from the company, along with two other key executives.

Europe

• In the UK, an AI-written piece in the London Standard (formerly Evening Standard), attempting to imitate the style of the celebrated late art critic Brian Sewell, is deemed a failure by the Guardian and other outlets. 

• Olle Zachrison, Head of AI & News Strategy at Swedish Radio, gives an interview explaining how the company uses AI to gain new listeners and refine content recommendations.

Asia

• In China, ByteDance launches two new AI models for text-to-video and image-to-video generation based on user prompts. Preview courtesy of Dr. Jingtai Liu: here’s the original + translation.

• Digital Dubai, the government agency responsible for digital transformation across the emirate, announces the development of Dubai Data — a new AI platform that will enable both private and state entities to store and share data at scale.

Latin America

• In Peru, a team of archeologists led by Masato Sakai from Japan’s Yamagata University discovers hundreds of ancient drawings from the Nazca period using a specially designed AI model. 

Africa

• Drawing on a recent Afrilabs report, TechAfrica News publishes an editorial examining the rise of AI startups in Africa.

Australia

• In Melbourne, Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece posts AI-generated photos of future city parks, sparking criticism due to weird, hallucinatory artifacts present in the images: here’s a short audio recap from ABC Radio National.