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NiMet, AIM, Partner For Scale to Deliver AI-Powered Weather Forecasts to Farmers Across Nigeria
NiMet plays a central role in Nigeria’s agricultural and climate information systems, providing early warning advisories, seasonal climate predictions, and digital climate services.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa Refiant AI Raises $5 Million Seed Funding to Help it Expand
The startup has secured a US$5 million seed round, led by VoLo Earth Ventures, a California-based climate technology fund.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Workers Around the World Are Not Getting What They Want From AI
A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: The Gig Workers who are Training Humanoid Robots at Home in Emerging Markets
People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.
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- Global
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Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.
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- Technology
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Why Enterprise AI Deployment in the Asia Pacific Keeps Stalling at the Pilot Stage
Matt Codrington, VP and GM for Lenovo Greater Asia Pacific, framed it as a structural pivot point at the event’s media roundtable. Last year, he told reporters, the conversation was about proving return on investment. This year, the question is different: why are organisations that have already proven it still struggling to scale?
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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South Africa’s Hlayisani Capital Launches 2nd Fund with Initial $29.9 Million in Commitments
It offers strategic support and capital to high-growth, highly scalable SMEs with a proven track record, and specialises in growing these SMEs into large, successful enterprises that operate across multiple territories, create jobs and generate export revenue domestically.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OpenAI Foundation Pledges $1 Billion in Grants to Ensure AI ‘Benefits All of Humanity’
The pledge represents a major development in OpenAI’s philanthropic activities and offers insight into how the company, which started as a nonprofit, plans to carry out its charitable mission to develop AI to benefit “all of humanity.”
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- Technology
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