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Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI
"As AI becomes more ubiquitous across every area of society and in people’s daily lives, it is prompting people to ask fundamental questions about their role and value in an AI-driven future."
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- Technology
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- Global
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CoreNest Launches $25 Million Fund to Support Startups in El Salvador
The initiative, which is a joint effort between the Government of El Salvador and strategic allies of the ecosystem, will support around 300 high potential startups over the next five years in the Central American country.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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Razorpay, NPCI, and OpenAI Join Forces to Enable ChatGPT UPI Payments in India
Razorpay partners with OpenAI and NPCI to test ChatGPT-based agentic UPI payments for seamless shopping.
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- Asia Pacific
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Courts Don’t Know What to Do About AI Crimes
Increasing adoption of AI is transforming Latin America’s justice system by helping tackle case backlogs and improve access to justice for victims. But it is also exposing deep vulnerabilities through its rampant misuse, bias, and weak oversight as regulators struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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A $3.7 Million Initiative aims to Advance Evidence-Informed Deployment of AI Solutions for Social Good in Africa
It will bring together AI solution developers, policymakers, civil society and social science researchers to fund research to generate evidence on the social benefits and harms of AI solutions in Africa and Asia.
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- Technology
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- Global
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AI-Powered Telemedicine Bridges Prenatal Care Gap in Low and Middle-Income Countries
The AI component integrates deep learning models capable of identifying standard fetal planes critical for prenatal assessments.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Water AI Center Launched to Develop Sustainable Water Practices
Launched during Climate Week, the Water-AI Nexus will focus on ensuring that AI infrastructure uses water as efficiently as possible and leveraging AI capabilities to solve pressing water scarcity and management challenges.
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- Technology, WASH
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- Global
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WorkAI Receives R $5.5 Million Investment
With this team and the support of strategic investors, WorkAI seeks to establish itself as a benchmark in humanized AI not only in Brazil, but throughout Latin America.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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