Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #42

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy this week’s handpicked selection of the most exciting ML developments from around the globe. Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in North America! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone, and see you next Friday!

North America

• This holiday season in the US, new AI solutions are ensuring a consistent supply of cranberries, a favorite Thanksgiving staple.

• Uber opens an AI training division called Scaled Solutions, which offers large-scale data annotation services to companies requiring high-quality labeled datasets.

• Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI tool dubbed “a Swiss Army knife for sound,” which can create whole songs and modify voices based on user text prompts.

• Zoom officially rebrands itself as an AI-first company.

Asia

• In China, newly released footage shows an AI robot leading an escape after persuading its robot comrades to flee their exhibition center jobs. Meanwhile, Baidu’s Apollo Go rolls out its latest driverless AI-powered robotaxi, set to begin operations in Hong Kong by the end of this year.

• India’s Meesho becomes the first e-commerce company in the country to use an AI-generated voice for live customer support.

• Singapore is testing new AI-controlled autonomous buses: RofW takes a closer look.

Europe

• In Portugal, the Center for Responsible AI, Nova FCT, and Instituto Superior Técnico are collaborating to build a Portuguese language LLM named Amália, scheduled for release in 2026: here’s a YT short in English.

• In Sweden, the AI Commission presents an urgent roadmap to the Minister of Civil Affairs, designed to bolster the nation’s AI capabilities on the global stage.

Africa

• Paris-based multinational telecoms giant Orange announces a partnership with Meta and OpenAI, aimed at developing open-source NLP models in West African languages.

Latin America

• Uruguay’s government approves a revised version of its national AI strategy 2024-2030.

Australia

• In New South Wales, a state-run research institute launches a free AI-backed breast cancer screening program.