Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #27

GitHub launches an AI toolbox for developers, Italy commits to becoming an AI leader, Abu Dhabi’s oil giant adopts AI, and much more.

Hello and welcome to our latest and freshest issue of the AI bulletin! We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of ML and data science developments from around the globe, arranged chronologically. Have fun and see you next week!

North America

• GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, releases GitHub Models — a new AI toolbox for engineers.

• Google unveils its new SLM — a lightweight version of its Gemma 2 model, featuring 2 billion parameters.

• Meta AI denies the occurrence of the shooting incident at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania — the company’s Global Head of Policy explains why.

• OpenAI makes its newest Her-like talking AI available to Plus subscribers.

Europe

• The landmark EU AI Act officially enters into force: check out our succinct summary of the legislation here.  

• In Italy, La Stampa publishes an interview with economist Fabio Pammolli, who vows to transform Italy into a global AI leader through his Turin-based AI4Industry Foundation, co-funded by the nation’s government.

Asia

• In Abu Dhabi, the emirate’s national oil company, ADNOC, commences AI-backed operations at its offshore Satah Al Razboot field.

• China introduces AI-powered autonomous cars to the 330-km road connecting the island of Hengqin and Macau, often dubbed the Las Vegas of the East. 

Latin America 

• A joint report by the International Labor Organization and the World Bank claims that up to 38% of jobs in Latin America and the Carribean could be affected by GenAI, with as many as 5% potentially eliminated.

Africa

• According to a study by SciDev.Net on Sub-Saharan Africa, East African countries are successfully utilizing a low-cost AI model to bolster weather forecasting.

Australia

• A 48-year-old man from Victoria is sentenced to 13 months in prison for using AI to generate and distribute sexually explicit images of minors.