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- 01 of 07NEWS
African nations launch AI plan to bring local languages online
Benin, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria and Togo joined telecoms body GSMA to build AI tools that understand African languages, helping people who cannot read English get government and phone services. It follows a new declaration on digital access signed in Abuja.
OUR TAKETechnology finally learning the user's language instead of demanding the reverse.
Read more → - 02 of 07NEWS
Chinese robot startup PsiBot becomes a billion dollar company
PsiBot is raising nearly 100 million dollars at a 1.48 billion dollar valuation, training robots and self-driving cars using data collected from gloves and other custom gear. Car maker Chery is among its backers.
OUR TAKESomewhere a robot is learning to fold laundry better than we do.
Read more → - 03 of 07NEWS
Nigeria's weather agency turns to AI to warn farmers before disaster hits
Nigeria's meteorological agency signed a deal with research group AKADEMIYA2063 to use AI powered climate forecasts, aiming to warn farmers earlier about droughts and floods that threaten food supplies.
OUR TAKEKnowing the rain is coming beats finding out when crops are ruined.
Read more → - 04 of 07NEWS
Korean and Japanese money makes its first AI bet on a tiny Jeju startup
A joint fund backed by Korea and Japan made its first investment in Seraphim, a small company on Jeju Island that uses AI to speed up making 3D content for games and design work.
OUR TAKESmall islands can build big tech too, given a friendly cheque book.
Read more → - 05 of 07TOOLS
New tool builds its own web scraper just from a chat message
Hong Kong firm BrowserAct launched Agent Build, which lets anyone describe the data they want, then watches an AI system browse a website, test the extraction and hand back tidy results.
OUR TAKEHandy for small businesses who would rather not learn to code by Friday.
Read more → - 06 of 07TOOLS
Search app Perplexity brings a task doing AI helper to Windows laptops
Perplexity launched a desktop agent for Windows that can open files and complete multi step tasks by picking from 20 different AI models, though the thinking still happens on Perplexity's own servers, not your machine.
OUR TAKEAnother assistant vying for a permanent seat on your taskbar.
Read more → - 07 of 07NEWS
Visa cuts 2,600 jobs and blames AI for doing the work instead
Payments giant Visa is eliminating about 7 percent of its staff, mostly in technology teams, as AI software takes over tasks engineers used to do. The company says other factors, including new payment methods, also played a part.
OUR TAKEThe machines processing your card payments just made some humans redundant.
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