The Nairobi-based Lori Systems, an e-logistics company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to efficiently manage their cargo and transporters, has raised funding from Google to help it to continue to expand across the continent.
Egyptian startup Convertedin, a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised a US$3 million seed funding round to help it expand across MENA and Latin America. Convertedin is built for brands and businesses who desire a single platform to drive personalized and scalable campaigns, convert customers, achieve measurable results and grow revenue.
IT teams spend lots of time on repetitive requests from business users, finds this TeamDynamix survey. You might think the implication is IT should let users do more for themselves. But the main time-wasters are things like password resets, employee on-boarding, and managing credentials, which can’t really be delegated. And here’s the kicker: IT professionals automate those tasks by building sloppy, insecure, undocumented scripts, just like the non-professionals. Fun fact: 53% of teams manage 100 or more applications.
Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike. Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else. Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed. It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.