January 2023

The Download: watermarking AI text, and freezing eggs

January 27, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A watermark for chatbots can spot text written by an AI What’s happened: A new method could help us to spot AI-generated texts. Watermarking buries hidden patterns in the text that are invisible…

How African startups raised venture capital in 2022

January 27, 2023

Earlier this month, we reported that investors’ sentiments surrounding venture capital activity going into this were more reserved than upbeat. Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more […]

How African startups raised venture capital in 2022 by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

A watermark for chatbots can spot text written by an AI

January 27, 2023
Hidden patterns buried in AI-generated texts could help identify them as such, allowing us to tell whether the words we’re reading are written by a human or not. These “watermarks” are invisible to the human eye but let computers detect that the text probably comes from an AI system. If embedded in large language models,…

Tesla’s Cybertruck Delayed Till 2024

January 27, 2023
The cyber truck was reported to go into production towards the end of 2023. This target was set in the second quarter last year. However, Musk has confirmed that the manufacturing would begin “sometime this summer,” but the mass production will not start until next year

How do I know if egg freezing is for me?

January 27, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Egg freezing is on my mind. At 36, I’m at an age when many of my friends have had babies, and the few who haven’t are weighing up their options. If they…