Without proper government-led public health initiatives, healthcare expenditures, including insurance and pharmaceutical drugs, can burden individuals and households. In recent years, private institutions have played a massive part in the considerable uptake of medical insurance and medicines and also in lowering the costs of getting them across Egypt, the largest producer of pharmaceuticals across the […]
Egyptian health tech Yodawy raises $16M, backed by Delivery Hero Ventures by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: Google announces global rollout for AI-driven ‘multisearch’ on mobile devices by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
One of the more interesting, but seemingly academic, concerns of the new era of AI sucking up everything on the web was that AIs will eventually start to absorb other AI-generated content and regurgitate it in a self-reinforcing loop. Not so academic after all, it appears, because Bing just did it! When asked, it produced […]
AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up in […]
Hands-on with the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
A notorious hacking group with alleged ties to Russian intelligence services has claimed its latest victim: British lawmaker Stewart McDonald. McDonald, a Member of Parliament for his constituency in Glasgow South, told BBC News that he fears he had been the victim of a “disinformation” campaign after his personal email account was “hacked by Russia.” McDonald […]
Meet the prolific Russian espionage crew hacking spymasters and lawmakers by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
These days climate investing is hot – if you will pardon the awful pun – but the days of just raising a fund and calling it “climate focused” are well and truly over. The market is sorting out the “wheat from the chaff” and if a VC fund can’t prove that it can back-up its […]
Planet A Ventures comes out of the door with a €160M European, science-backed climate fund by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
When the NYT hired a CTO, they chose someone with experience building infrastructure at big tech companies to help build a modern tech stack.
How the NYT is building a modern tech stack to drive every part of its media biz by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch