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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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- Global
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Analysis: Black-Box AI and Cheap Drones are Outpacing Global Rules of War
From 3D-printed drones to Anthropic’s Claude, advanced technologies are making conflict more accessible and less accountable — leaving human oversight at risk.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: African Citizen Digital Health Data Is Now a Condition of Global Health Funding
"The United States has signed 26 bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding with African governments under the Trump administration’s America First Global Health Strategy, the framework that replaced USAID and restructured PEPFAR." . . . "Each MOU comes bundled with two sub-agreements that should concern every digital health practitioner in a signatory country."
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South African AI Startup Yazi Secures First Institutional Funding at $1.6 Million Valuation
Founded in 2022 by CEO Timothy Treagus and CTO Mzwandile Sotsaka, Yazi is attempting to disrupt the $153 billion global market research industry by moving away from traditional email-based surveys and towards the world’s most used messaging platform: WhatsApp.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Western AI Models “Fail Spectacularly” in Farms and Forests Abroad
Big Tech’s AI tools trained on Western data often can’t recognize local crops, forests, or farming conditions without adaptation to local environments, and there is a risk that a focus on profit by big tech firms and large agriculture companies will hurt farmers.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Iranian Drone Strikes at Amazon Sites Raise Alarms Over Protecting Data Centers
Tech industry’s past focus on cyberattacks and natural disasters overshadowed threats of physical attacks.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Big Tech ‘Leave Poor Farmers Sidelined’ In AI Revolution
The report published Wednesday by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) highlights how tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba are shaping the future of farming through cloud platforms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, attracting substantial public and private investment.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Ho Chi Minh City Sets up $20 Million Venture Capital Fund to Support Startups
Priority investment areas include digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and blockchain, semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology, new materials, renewable energy, automation and robotics.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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