Google has entered into an agreement to acquire a data center spanning over 3.81 lakh square feet in Navi Mumbai through a long-term lease of 28 years as it expands its cloud infrastructure in India to meet increasing demand in one of its key growth markets.
Pan-African venture capital firm Verod-Kepple Africa Partners has reached the second close of its first fund (Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures), targeting African startups at $43 million. The fund achieved its first close last March (at $20 million) and aims to attain its final close by the end 2023 at $100 million; if reached, VKAV will join an exiguous number of Africa-focused funds with $100 million or more in total capital allotment. The fund targets African startups and will invest in Series A and B startups with $1.5m to $3m checks.
AnyClip, The Visual Intelligence Company™ has announced that they have integrated ChatGPT into GeniusWork, their AI-powered internal communications platform for business, among the first major internal communications tools to do so. AnyClip’s platform uses AI to turn traditional videos into smart content, empowering employees to share knowledge, collaborate, and communicate across the organization.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.