Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #6

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North America:

• The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is concerned over the exclusion of the country’s businesses in an AI legislation testimony.

• Google engineer gets indicted in a US court for selling AI trade secrets to competitors abroad.

• MIT researchers make progress in developing AI models with peripheral vision. Meanwhile, MIT Technology Review publishes its assessment of Lore Machine’s new one-click GenAI solution that turns written stories into comic books.

• Anthropic releases Claude 3, сlaimed to be the most advanced LLM to date, surpassing GPT-4 in terms of performance.

Europe:

• In Britain, scientists from the University of York unveil an AI robot that can help people get dressed. Meanwhile, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promises to get the nation’s AI sector £100 million in additional funding.

• In France, Tesla scientist joins Paris-based Hugging Face to launch a new open robotics project. In parallel, UNESCO’s inquiry concludes that ChatGPT and Llama 2 generate sexist content.

Asia:

• India announces mandatory government approval for AI model launches, with an exemption for startups. In spite of this, the nation commits a further $1.2 billion in AI investment just days later. 

• China voices plans to intensify efforts in quantum computing and AI. Meanwhile, Lenovo’s Head of Strategy, Linda Yao, says the company will expand its AI operations in Hong Kong.

Australia:

• Australian news media are eligible to seek payment from Meta for using their content to train AI, argue experts.