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ChatGPT Is Huge in India. These Locally Focused Startups Found a Way to Compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- artificial intelligence, data, MSMEs, startups
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AI Risk Management in Digital Finance: Protecting Africa’s Underbanked from Invisible Threats
Digital finance has been a game-changer for financial inclusion across Africa. But as information technology security analyst Nathaniel Adeniyi Akande explains, many communities remain excluded — and though AI-powered lending tools offer new opportunities to reach them, these tools also introduce new risks that can undermine trust or even exclude the people they are designed to serve. He argues that it is digital lenders’ responsibility to anticipate and mitigate these threats, and explores several practices that are essential to AI risk management in the sector.
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- Finance, Technology
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What Happened to Ghana’s 1 Million Coders Promise? Seven Months On, Silence and Frustration Linger
The initiative was launched with fanfare at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra, promising free training in coding, AI, cybersecurity, and software development.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All?
The fight against malaria has been one of the great global health success stories of the 21st century, as efforts to defeat the disease have prevented an estimated 2.2 billion malaria cases and saved 12.7 million lives. But as Yosuke Kaneko at SORA Technology explains, this progress has stalled in recent years — and as global development funding dries up, there are worrying signs that the problem could get worse. He argues that this situation calls for an openness to new, tech-driven solutions, and explores how SORA Technology is using drones equipped with AI-powered cameras to target mosquito breeding sites and eradicate the disease at its source.
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- Health Care, Technology
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BHub Raises $10 Million to Bring AI to Brazil’s Accounting Market
BHub, a Brazilian financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latam, raised a $10M extension round, bringing its total funding to $55M.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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South Africa Launches $100 Million Digital Inclusion Fund
Backed by a blended group of investors, the initiative aims to give entrepreneurs both capital and access to global networks.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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U.S. Backs $150 Million Zipline Expansion to Transform Africa’s Healthcare Delivery
"The U.S. Department of State has approved a $150 million award to Zipline, the world’s largest autonomous logistics company, to support the expansion of its life-saving artificial intelligence-powered drone delivery infrastructure across Africa."
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Big Tech’s Rising AI Emissions Push Durable Carbon Removal Prices to New Highs
More than $10 billion has moved into the market through spot purchases and long-term offtakes, reshaping global expectations for carbon removal finance.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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