Italy

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Italy's data protection agency Garante announced Friday that it has fined OpenAI 15 million euros (note: currently about 114 million yuan) after concluding an investigation into the use of personal data by a generative AI application and finding that OpenAI did not follow data privacy regulations when training ChatGPT. 1AI cited the announcement as saying that OpenAI did not have a sufficient Italian legal basis to process users' personal data during the training of ChatGPT, violating the principle of transparency and the principle of privacy for the use of...

Italian AI startup iGenius announced yesterday local time that it is deploying an AI supercomputer called Colosseum (note: meaning Colosseum of Rome). The supercomputer is based on NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell supercomputer chip, and will be one of the largest NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs in the world based on that chip. iGenius says the Colosseum supercomputer will eventually contain thousands of Grace Blackwell superchips with advanced liquid cooling and is expected to boost...

On Nov. 29, Italy's data protection authority (GPDP) warned local publisher GEDI that it should not share its personal data files with ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, in a move that could violate European Union privacy regulations, Reuters reported. Pexels Note: GEDI announced in September that it had entered into a strategic partnership with OpenAI to make its Italian-language news content available to ChatGPT subscribers.GEDI publishes two of Italy's major daily newspapers, La Repubblica and Du...

Italian companies could increase their value added by around 50 billion euros by 2030 through the widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a study by Accenture. The study was released on Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Leonardo Commission in Rome. The Commission is a business group that promotes the "Made in Italy" brand and is not related to the Leonardo Defense and Aerospace Group. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney Leonardo Commission said in a statement that strengthening the promotion of the "Made in Italy" brand in international markets, including…