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Brazil’s Enter Raises $35 Million Series A at $350 Million Valuation
The firm specializes in investing in breakthrough technologies across various sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, energy, and defense.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Viewpoint: Are We Connecting Communities to 3G Student Learning Failure?
"3G internet coverage leads to substantial increases in smartphone ownership and internet usage among adolescents, but also results in significant declines in test scores . . ."
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- Education, Technology
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- Global
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Econet Founder Strive Masiyiwa Unveils $720 Million Plan to Build Africa’s First AI Factory Network by 2026
Under this vision, the continent would gain the infrastructure to conduct local AI research, development, and deployment.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Argentina Wants to Be an AI Powerhouse, but Its Tech Experts Are Leaving
President Javier Milei pitched Argentina as an AI hub, but the few jobs and research opportunities are not enough to keep engineers at home.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Analysis: The limits of AI in Social Change
More actors—from grantmaking to service delivery—are exploring the use of AI. However, the excitement around scale and efficiency often overshadows a critical question: What does it mean to bring machine-generated abstraction into systems built on trust, context, and relationship?
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- Technology
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When AI Gets It Wrong: Lessons from a Women-Centered Design Experiment Highlight the Need for Inclusive GPTs
In emerging markets, women entrepreneurs continue to face systemic barriers to financial inclusion. And as Koheun Lee at CARE explains, ChatGPT and other AI models sometimes contribute to this exclusion, reinforcing societal biases that limit women’s potential for business growth and long-term financial health. She shares insights from CARE's attempt to build a women-centered design GPT — and proposes some practical steps AI users can take to mitigate bias against women when working with mainstream GPTs.
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- Finance, Technology
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TechnoServe Launches NOVA EdTech to Scale Effective Business Training for Entrepreneurs
Through asynchronous digital training and personalized learning paths, users can access practical skills at their own pace—anytime, anywhere.
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- Education, Technology
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Weather Forecasting Training Program Brings the Power of AI to Low- And Middle-Income Countries
MBZUAI, AIM for Scale, and the University of Chicago, have launched a first-of-its-kind weather forecast training program.
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- Education
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- Global
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