Quick Friday news roundup

Nvidia is building in Europe!
The AI chip maker announced at the GTC Paris conference that they are working with partners in European countries to build both infrastructure and factories, marking probably the largest AI investment so far on the continent.
More at Investor’s Business Daily, and Nvidia’s press release.

A novel approach to the AI embargo in China
Chinese AI companies have found a route around the embargo of advanced AI chip sales to the country. Much like the early days of desktop publishing, they have taken to flying suitcases full of high density hard drives to neighboring Malaysia, to hook them up to a nicely unrestricted supercomputer and process the data.
More at The Wall Street Journal. See also: Sneakernet.

Massive Google Cloud outage affects just about everyone
Google’s cloud service went down from 11:46 until 14:23 PST yesterday, affecting a lot of internet services, like Spotify, Cloudflare, Discord and Snapchat. It also affected certain login features at OpenAI, impacted most services at Anthropic and, of course Google’s own Gemini, listing the entire time span as «full outage.»
More at: TechCrunch, and r/singularity.

Google AI with high precision hurricane forecasts
Google DeepMind & Google Research have launched a model that simulates 50 storm scenarios up to 15 days out, now being trialed with the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Early results show forecasts are ~87 miles more accurate than Europe’s ECMWF model. It’s a smarter, data-rich companion to traditional physics systems—and a potentially big step forward in saving lives.
More at The Verge and check it out at Google’s weather lab.