09-20-2024
Steve Kaaru
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Article by Steve Kaaru
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3 May, 2024
ChatGPT faces new rival AI model amid Austrian lawsuit for hallucinations
An Austrian NGO accuses OpenAI of being unable to amend incorrect info on ChatGPT, which it says violates the EU’s...
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2 May, 2024
BRICS still intent on a common currency, but the process is complex: Russia
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov noted that the common currency process hadn’t been shelved but acknowledged that it has...
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1 May, 2024
Apple in talks with OpenAI for iPhone AI features: report
Apple has renewed talks with OpenAI to power some features in the upcoming iOS 18; the iPhone maker is also...
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1 May, 2024
Google Cloud’s Web3 portal goes live
The Web3 portal gives developers access to blockchain data sets, testnet tools and products from Google Cloud Web3 partners such...
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1 May, 2024
Nigeria’s blockchain industry banks on new digital currency friendly SEC chief
President Bola Tinubu appointed former capital markets tsar Emomotimi Agama as the SEC head at a time when the Nigerian...
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30 April, 2024
Turkey tops list for stablecoin purchases versus GDP
Stablecoin purchases accounted for 4.3% of Turkey’s GDP, the highest ratio globally; the U.S. ranked fourth at 0.5% despite having...
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29 April, 2024
Coca-Cola inks $1.1 billion AI partnership with Microsoft
Coca-Cola first announced the partnership in 2020, back then worth $250 million, but is scaling it up to include testing...
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29 April, 2024
Mauritania commissions Germany’s G+D to design CBDC
The prospective CBDC, called the digital ouguiya, will “advance the digital transformation” and boost financial inclusion in Mauritania, the central...
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28 April, 2024
South Africa’s digital payments roadmap includes CBDC, stablecoins
South Africa is marching toward Vision 2025 payments digitalization, with the central bank identifying stablecoins and a retail CBDC as...
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27 April, 2024
Nigeria’s central bank denies directive to freeze digital asset bank accounts
After news outlets reported on the directive supposedly issued to multiple banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria denied it amid...
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26 April, 2024
Connecticut Senate passes AI bill curbing bias, deep fakes
The bill would punish anyone found guilty of using AI to create deceptive deep fakes and is supported by Microsoft...
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26 April, 2024
Nigeria launches first multilingual LLM trained in local languages
The new large language model will be trained in five low-resource languages and accented English to reflect Nigerians' diversity and...
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