Nigeria’s MyCover.ai to scale its open insurance API platform with new funding
Africa’s insurance market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% between 2022 and 2028, reaching $120 billion. Though seemingly impressive, the insurance industry in Africa could be worth more if insurance penetration on the continent wasn’t extremely low, less than 3%, according to reports.
Read MoreHashtag Trending Jul.19- Microsoft announces price hikes for AI integration; Tesla directors overpaid and forced to return over $700 million; A chatbot so good that it’s the death of human customer service?
The free ride is over – Microsoft announces the price hikes for AI integration, Tesla directors were overpaid and forced to return over 700 million dollars of their compensation, Microsoft still isn’t saying how hackers got the key to compromise the U.S. government emails and a chatbot so good that
Read MoreReliance-backed Dunzo defers staff pay again amid funding search
Dunzo, a hyperlocal delivery startup in India, is postponing employee salaries for a month and intends to settle remaining dues from the previous month also in September as the Google and Reliance Retail-backed startup hunts for new funding. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which partially deferred making payroll for last month until
Read MoreThe Last Mile in a Software Solution is the Longest
Last-minute integrations take longer than a minute to doContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreLeadership Journal: Become an Inspiring Leader in 10 Minutes a Day
Improving your leadership skills with self-reflection — collect new insights, think creatively, make better decisionsHave you ever finished a busy workweek, wondering what it was that you’ve accomplished throughout? Me too.I bet you spend time every day racing between numerous tasks on your to-do list. Perhaps you’re rushing from one meeting to the
Read MoreNeura Robotics picks up $55M to ramp up in cognitive robotics
Neura Robotics, a German startup that since 2019 has been building cognitive robots — machines that possess memory, the ability to operate across a complex and changing mix of variables, and can collaborate with people (“cobots” as Neura calls them) — has raised $55 million. It plans to use the
Read MoreYouth Empowerment Through Digital Skills
In today’s digital age, it is essential to equip young people with the necessary skills for their future success. By learning and honing digital skills, youth can enhance their employability and explore entrepreneurial opportunities to generate income without the need for full-time employment. From content creation and coding to AI
Read MoreKorean fashion platform Musinsa bags $190M Series C led by KKR at a $2.7B valuation
Musinsa, a Seoul-based fashion marketplace, said Wednesday it has raised a $190 million round of Series C funding led by KKR, with participation from Wellington Management. The new capital put Musinsa’s valuation at approximately $2.76 billion (more than 3 trillion won), per sources familiar with the situation. The Korean fashion
Read MoreMeet ChatGPT’s Evil Twin
With the continuous advancement of technology, cybercriminals are swift to exploit new tools and techniques for their malicious activities. It didn’t take long for an “evil” version of ChatGPT to emerge, giving rise to reports about WormGPT, a novel generative AI cybercrime tool that empowers cyber criminals to write malware
Read MoreLLaMA 2: The Dawn of a New Era
Key differences from LLaMA 1, safety & violations, Ghost Attention, and model performance.Image generated by Stable Diffusion.Instant Access to Resources and Important LinksPaperGitHub repositoryHuggingFace models (you need to request access by agreeing to the license)Playground (using text-generation-inference)LLaMA 2 model familyMeta just released the new state-of-the-art open LLM, which is a collection of
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