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Analysis: The Gig Workers who are Training Humanoid Robots at Home in Emerging Markets
People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.
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- Global
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Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.
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- Global
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South Africa’s Hlayisani Capital Launches 2nd Fund with Initial $29.9 Million in Commitments
It offers strategic support and capital to high-growth, highly scalable SMEs with a proven track record, and specialises in growing these SMEs into large, successful enterprises that operate across multiple territories, create jobs and generate export revenue domestically.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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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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- Global
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Bezos and Gates-Backed Firm Fights for DRC’s Mineral Data in Exchange for More Investments
The dispute between the US mining firm, Kobold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, and Belgium's AfricaMuseum over the digitization of colonial-era maps of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be intensifying.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- corporations, data, mining, renewable energy
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Addressing the Communications Breakdown in Global Development: How AI-Enabled Assessment Tools Can Reach Excluded Communities
Development work can only be effective if it’s based on the actual needs and lived experiences of the communities it aims to serve. But as Talía Jiménez Romero at Fortell Impact explains, in many of the remote, under-resourced areas where this work is most needed, the voices of local people are often the hardest to hear, due to barriers related to language, education, and lack of access to the internet and other technologies. She explores how AI can be leveraged to facilitate data collection and needs assessments in these multilingual and low-connectivity contexts, while complementing the work of local teams on the ground.
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- Technology
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