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Elon Musk’s xAI Secretly Dropped Its Benefit Corporation Status While Fighting OpenAI
While xAI, and its supplier, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, initially promised to use pollution controls with the turbines, those haven’t yet materialized.
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- North America
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AND Global Raises $21.4 Million to Power Financial Inclusion
This investment will support further development of AND Global’s services, such as digital lending and other fintech solutions, to improve financing access for small businesses, as well as the unbanked and underbanked across Asia.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Degas Limited Pledges $100 Million to Make Ghana Africa’s First AI-Powered Agricultural Hub
Degas’ platform combines AI-driven satellite monitoring and agriculture techniques. The results, according to Makiura, are drawing strong interest from Japanese investors.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Big Tech’s “AI for Good” Spending Increases in Africa. So Does Skepticism
While Google, Microsoft, and Meta provide AI for social good, some advocates say projects exploit the continent for data, erode local control.
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Google Commits $37 Million to Power Africa’s AI Future
At the core of the new initiatives is the AI Community Center in Accra.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is Google Building a $6 Billion Data Centre Campus in India?
Reports show 1GW Visakhapatnam facility will be Google’s largest in Asia, with US$2bn committed to renewable energy and regional connectivity expansion.
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- Asia Pacific
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Airtel Enters Cloud War to Keep Data Within Indian Borders
Bharti Airtel’s sovereign cloud offering would be a differentiator in the market as it can reduce cloud spending for enterprises by 30-40%, claimed its vice-chairman and managing director, Gopal Vittal.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: How MSMEs Can Use AI to Navigate Global Trade Turbulence
The transformation of global trade through AI isn't a distant future. It's happening right now, and the window of early-adopter advantage is still open.
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- Technology
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- Global
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