International AI News: Week Ending 10/11/2024

Tech war: China advocates use of local AI chips over those from US powerhouse Nvidia | South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3281254/tech-war-china-advocates-use-local-ai-chips-over-those-us-powerhouse-nvidia

OpenAI to open Paris office

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/10/09/openai-to-open-paris-office_6728764_19.html

TikTok joins the AI-driven advertising pack to compete with Meta for ad dollars – Digiday

https://digiday.com/marketing/tiktok-joins-the-ai-driven-advertising-pack-to-compete-with-meta-for-ad-dollars

“Meta AI rolling out in 21 countries. Today in Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Philippines, and the United Kingdom—plus support for Tagalog. Coming soon: Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab” / X

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1844284825840107919

Europe’s privacy patrol is spoiling Big Tech’s AI party – POLITICO

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-privacy-patrol-vengeance-block-ai-artificial-intelligence

Meta launches its AI chatbot in the UK on Facebook and Instagram | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/09/meta-launches-its-ai-chatbot-in-the-uk-on-facebook-and-instagram

ByteDance’s TikTok cuts hundreds of jobs in shift towards AI content moderation | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-cuts-over-700-jobs-malaysia-shift-towards-ai-moderation-sources-say-2024-10-11

“What a day for AI! Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield won the physics Nobel Prize for using concepts from statistical mechanics to create neural networks, including Hopfield networks and RBMs In this video, you can see a friendly explanation of RBMs

https://twitter.com/SerranoAcademy/status/1844012504156086394