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ON OCTOBER 28TH, BLOOMBERG PUBLISHED YESTERDAY (27 OCTOBER) AN ARTICLE IN WHICH IT REPORTED THAT NVIDIA HAD ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD CO-INVEST 1 BILLION EUROS (NOTE: THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS ABOUT RMB 828.1 BILLION) IN COOPERATION WITH DEUTSCHE TELEKOM IN GERMANY TO BUILD A NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DATA CENTRE IN MUNICH, GERMANY, AND THAT PLANS WOULD BE ANNOUNCED NEXT MONTH. THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO HOST MUNICH, GERMANY, WITH A TOTAL INVESTMENT OF EURO1 BILLION. WHEN IT'S BUILT, EUROPE'S LARGEST ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE COMPANY, SAP, WILL BECOME ITS CALCULATOR..

August 1, 2012 - OpenAI announced yesterday that it will build the Stargate Norway data center project in Norway with partners Nscale and Aker. This is OpenAI's first AI data center initiative in Europe and the second leg of the OpenAI for Countries non-US sovereign AI facility initiative in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Compared to the previous Stargate UAE, which had a total capacity of 1GW, Stargate Norw...

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said on Wednesday at the VivaTech conference in Paris that the company will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial use in Germany, Reuters reported. He pointed out that this platform will combine AI and robotics to help car companies such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz optimize processes from product design simulation to logistics management. Jen-Hsun Huang also unveiled a series of European-focused expansion plans, including expanding technology centers in seven countries, opening up NVIDIA's computing services platform to European companies, and assisting with multi-language AI models...

April 22, 2012 - OpenAI Ireland Ltd. has reported significant growth in the number of active users of its ChatGPT Search feature in the European Union over the past six months, according to a report filed by the company. For the six-month period ending March 31, 2025, ChatGPT Search reached an average of approximately 41.3 million monthly active users, compared to approximately 11.2 million for the six-month period ending October 31, 2024, a significant increase. According to 1AI, Op...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Friday (April 13) that it has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform, Company X, over the company's alleged use of personal data collected from European users to train its artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok. According to Reuters, the DPC will be investigating how Company X handles personal data related to public posts by European users in order to train generative artificial intelligence models. data for use in training generative AI models. The DPC, an influential privacy regulator in the European Union, has previously investigated Microsoft, TikTok and Meta...

April 2, 2017 - A study released at a European Central Bank conference suggests that AI will help companies in the long run if they can survive the changes it brings, Reuters reported today. The research team analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as survey results from 2017 to 2021 and found that the earliest companies in the manufacturing industry to introduce AI instead saw productivity decline in the early years, mainly because they replaced some human workers with robots. This finding runs counter to the prevailing view. AI is often thought to increase productivity and, in many cases, enhance on...

March 20, 2011 - After a nearly year-long hiatus, Meta's AI chatbot is finally returning to the European market. Starting this week, Meta AI will gradually roll out on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories, but is currently limited to text-based chat functionality. 1AI understands that Meta AI first went live in the U.S. in 2023, when the company planned to bring it to Europe, but due to Irish privacy regulator...

March 20, 2011 - ChatGPT, a popular chatbot owned by artificial intelligence company OpenAI, recently faced yet another privacy complaint for generating false information. The incident, which took place in Europe, was initiated by privacy advocacy group Noyb in support of a Norwegian individual who discovered that ChatGPT was generating false information claiming that he had been convicted of murdering two of his children and attempting to kill a third. The incident has raised questions about whether OpenAI is in violation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 1AI notes that previously...

The European Central Bank has warned that there is a risk of a "bubble" in artificial intelligence-related stocks, which could burst suddenly if investors' optimistic expectations are disappointed. It is understood that the ECB issued the warning in its semi-annual financial stability report released on Wednesday. The report listed a variety of risks, including war, tariffs and banking system vulnerability. The ECB noted that stock markets, particularly in the United States, have become increasingly dependent on a handful of companies seen as beneficiaries of the AI boom. The ECB said, "This concentration of a few large companies has triggered a bubble in the prices of AI-related assets...

Recently, the US company Meta announced that it will begin using European users' data to train its artificial intelligence, claiming that this move has legitimate interests. Meta said that in order to help users get these experiences, it will now use users' information to develop and improve Meta's AI, and users have the right to object to their information being used for these purposes. The company has added updates to its privacy policy to reflect these changes. The update will take effect on June 26, 2024. The notice has been sent to European users through Facebook's in-app notification system: "…

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic announced that its generative AI assistant Claude will be launched in Europe on Tuesday local time. The company's basic software products have gained some traction in industries such as finance and hospitality across Europe. Anthropic will also offer a paid subscription version called Claude Pro, which will open all its models (including the most advanced Claude 3 Opus) to users. In addition, Anthropic has launched a Claude Team subscription plan for enterprises, with a monthly fee of 100…

New Jersey-based GPU cloud computing company CoreWeave has opened an office in London, which will become its European headquarters, following its latest funding round, which valued it at $19 billion. CoreWeave announced that it will open two data centers in the UK this year as part of a £1 billion ($1.25 billion) investment, marking its first expansion outside the United States. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave is one of many AI cloud computing companies to benefit from the recent boom in the field of AI, including the Cha…

Google today pledged through a press release to invest 25 million euros (currently about 194 million yuan) to help Europeans learn to use artificial intelligence. The funds are open to social enterprises and non-profit organizations, and will be used to help people who are "most likely to benefit from training" in the future. According to reports, Google will open a series of "Growth Academies" to support companies in using AI to expand their company size. At the same time, Google will expand its free online AI training courses to 18 languages. "For artificial intelligence to benefit everyone, it must be created by everyone and for everyone...

Europe is increasing its investment in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), but is moving more cautiously relative to North America, according to new research from the Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI). The study predicts that European companies will increase their GenAI investments by $115% to $2.8 billion over the next year. Europe is investing at a slower pace than North America, where spending is expected to approach $6 billion. This more cautious investment is mainly due to ethical and bias issues in the more stringent European market. However, European companies are more cautious about the impact of GenAI on their business…

Job opportunities for young people and highly skilled workers actually increased rather than disappeared during the boom of deep learning in the 2010s, according to a study published by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Tuesday. The study examined the link between the share of employment related to AI technology in 16 European countries between 2011 and 2019. During this period, breakthroughs in areas such as language processing, image recognition, algorithm-based recommendations and fraud detection triggered a technological revolution, with generative AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT …