How a Jack Dorsey-backed bitcoin miner uses a volcano in Kenya to turn on the lights in rural homes

cnbc.com HELL'S GATE, Kenya — Two-and-a-half hours northwest of Nairobi by car, a small group of bitcoin miners set up shop at the site of an extinct volcano near Hell's Gate…

Meta AI's image generation is unlike anything ChatGPT can do

bgr.com It’s official: Meta is ready to join the AI fray. Meta AI received a massive update this week. Llama 3 is Meta’s new large language model that powers Meta AI, which Mark…

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis raises concerns over Barrick Gold’s pay practices in light of poor safety performance

theglobeandmail.com Proxy advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co. is censuring Barrick Gold Corp. ABX-T for paying its executive team excessive cash bonuses in a year the company reported five…

Meta Integrates Real-Time Bing And Google Search With Llama 3 AI Assistant

mediapost.com Bing and Google search results now serve real-time information in the Meta AI assistant built on the company’s largest language model (LLM) Llama 3, which is being…

How to Use Meta AI on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and the Web

tech.co It’s turning into a significant week in the AI arms race, with Meta launching a web chatbot that’s similar to ChatGPT, expanding its AI within Facebook, Messenger,…

Meta Brings Advanced AI Chatbot to All of its Apps

socialmediatoday.com With major investment in AI, and significant resources at its disposal, Meta’s now making a bigger move to challenge OpenAI, and others, within the generative AI space. From…

Meta Brings its Most Advanced AI Chatbot to All of its Apps

socialmediatoday.com With major investment in A.I., and a huge amount of resources at its disposal, Meta’s now making a bigger move to challenge OpenAI, and others, within the generative AI…

Meta Brings its Most Advanced AI Chatbot to All of its Aps

socialmediatoday.com With major investment in A.I., and a huge amount of resources at its disposal, Meta’s now making a bigger move to challenge OpenAI, and others, within the generative AI…

Meta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps

techcrunch.com Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest Large Language Model, Llama 3,…

Meta launches new versions of Llama and its AI assistant

axios.com Meta today released a compact version of its latest open source AI model, Llama 3, as well as a new update for Meta AI, its assistant, which can now answer questions using…

Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now

theverge.com To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last September, is now being integrated into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going…

7 Penny Growth Stocks to Buy ASAP Before They Go Parabolic

investorplace.com If you're looking for high-growth penny stocks you're at the right place Penny growth stocks can be some of the most lucrative yet perilous investments out there. While many…

Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?

economist.com It is now four years since the first poor countries were plunged into default because of spiralling costs from covid-19 spending and investors pulling capital from risky…

Critical raw materials: how the EU hopes to secure supplies

euronews.com If Russia's war on Ukraine shocked Europe into realising the folly of its dependence on Moscow for gas suppplies, growing geopolitical uncertainty has forced the EU to…

The Guardian view on debt and developing countries: time to offer some relief

theguardian.com Blighted by the effects of global heating, beset by food insecurity and rising poverty, and hobbled by dollar-denominated debt that leaves no fiscal room for manoeuvre, some…

Pula raises $20M Series B to provide agricultural insurance to farmers in Africa, Asia and LatAm

techcrunch.com Pula, an insurtech based in Kenya, has since 2015 been keen on enhancing the access to agricultural insurance by small-holder farmers across emerging markets, shielding them…

Every year, tuberculosis kills over a million people. Can a new vaccine turn the tide?

vox.com A single dose of the BCG anti-tuberculosis vaccine. | Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images For the last 100 years, we’ve only had one TB vaccine — and it leaves a lot to…

Starlink Reportedly Instructed To Shutdown In Zimbabwe By Government

zerohedge.com Starlink Reportedly Instructed To Shutdown In Zimbabwe By Government Authored by L.S.M Kabweza via TechZim.co.zw, Techzim can reveal that the government of Zimbabwe has…

Bulls jump deeper into copper amid supply challenges, AI-fueled demand

aol.com Copper's bull run should continue for at least the next three years, fueled by global supply challenges and hot demand for the metal to power energy transition and…

A24 Boards Rungano Nyoni’s Cannes Entry ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the second feature from Zambian-Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni, has been picked up by A24 for international sales ahead of its world…

Ghost of Elliott-Argentina battle still haunts sovereign debt market

axios.com It's been nearly a decade since hedge fund Elliott Management's 15-year battle royal with the government of Argentina — and advocates, investors and legislators are still…

Copper prices climb to 2024 high as Citi calls the start of the metal's second bull market this century

cnbc.com Copper plates on wagons ready for onward shipping at the Mufulira refinery, operated by Mopani Copper Mines Plc, in Mufulira, Zambia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Soaring copper…

Koryx Copper Intersects 98.00 M @ 0.43% Cu Eq, Including 4 M @ 1.12% Cu Eq and 2 M @ 1.47% Cu Eq

benzinga.com HM17: 0.93% CuEq over 12 meters from near surface including 4 m @ 1.52% CuEq. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Koryx Copper Inc. ("Koryx" or…

Navigating the future: How CargoX is transforming African trade with Blockchain

africa.businessinsider.com The transition from paper-based to digital trade documentation is more than a technological upgrade; it's a necessary evolution to address the inefficiencies holding back…

It's 2024, Not 1924. Why Are We Still Trading in Elephant Trophies?

newsweek.com The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a rule that will make it harder to import elephant hunting trophies from African countries that can't prove they're…

‘Extraordinarily opaque’: A Dubai energy company that’s only 2 years old has deals in place to acquire huge chunks of African land

fortune.com Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the…

‘Carbon colonialism’ in Africa meets resistance as companies seek to sell carbon credits from conservation projects that often upend local livelihoods

fortune.com Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the…

A Dubai company’s staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods

abcnews.go.com A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects ABUJA,…