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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. That was fast. In less than a week since Meta launched its AI model, LLaMA 2, startups and researchers have already used it to develop a chatbot and an AI assistant. It will be only a matter…

Last year, global healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory surveyed more than 80 companies across four African countries for a report emphasizing the growth of startups digitizing the continent’s health supply chain and distribution and regulatory frameworks governing e-pharmacy activities. This time, the firm went deeper into Africa’s health supply chain segment, broadening the scope of […]

Plans by Kenya’s Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) to withdraw its second case against African fintech giant Flutterwave have been shot down by the country’s third highest court, the High Court. The agency had in August last year frozen $3 million belonging to Flutterwave, Hupesi Solutions, and Adguru Technology Limited on suspicion of money laundering and […]

Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s branding to X, Facebook’s rebrand to Meta doesn’t seem all that bad. Zuckerberg might be good at lifting weights these days, but he still needs to pull Meta out from a seriously rough few years. […]

AI technology will usher in a new era and allow businesses to solve problems in ways never thought possible.

The technology streamlines tasks for some workers — and makes them completely unmanageable for others.

Thousands of companies could be at risk from an actively exploited Citrix zero-day that hackers have already abused to target at least one critical infrastructure organization in the United States. Citrix last week sounded the alarm about the critical-rated flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, which impacts NetScaler […]

Supply Change Capital invests at the earliest stages in the areas of deep tech food, agriculture and ingredient, supply chain technology and enterprise software.

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. What’s next for the moon It’s been more than 50 years since humans last walked on the moon. But starting this year, an array of missions from private companies and national space agencies…

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week, I published an in-depth story about efforts to restrict face recognition in the US. The story’s genesis came during a team meeting a…