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I promise we won’t write about every new AI-based content creation tool, Dear Reader. But, hey, when Microsoft announces it is adding one to its Dynamics 365 application suite, that’s worth noting. The new tool, now in preview within Viva Sales, will use Azure OpenAI Service and GPT to help salespeople write emails.

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AI-based sales email tools are not a new category. Lavender has been selling one for several years and now claims more than 10,000 users and several big companies as clients. They just raised an $11 million Series A, bringing total funding to $13.2 million.

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Does this newsletter shamelessly chase the latest trends in order to boost readership? Not at all: we are very ashamed of ourselves but do it anyway. So here’s yet another Data Clean Room story: Samooha just raised $12.5 million for its data clean product, which is doubly trendy because it runs on Snowflake.

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You’re probably heard about IAB CEO David Cohen’s blistering attack on privacy advocates. Here’s why he cares: 64% of advertisers told Wpromote their campaigns were less successful after Apple introduced App Tracking Transparency, which requires user permission to track their behaviors. Lots more here on alternatives to third party cookies (Google’s Topics API is leading the horse race), data clean rooms, state privacy regulations, and using CDPs for advertising.

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Privacy is just one front in the Big Tech wars. The U.S. government opened another yesterday with a report charging that Apple and Google use their app stores to stifle competition. No, it wasn’t written by Jamie from our Department of the Obvious.

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The Turing Test for artificial intelligence relied on humans to judge whether they were talking to a computer. The shoe is now on the other foot, or would be if computers had feet: OpenAI has released a tool that uses AI to judge whether an article was written by a human. Paging Philip K. Dick.

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Egyptian fintech and e-commerce ecosystem MNT-Halan has raised up to $400 million in equity and debt financing from local and global investors as it continues to serve underbanked and unbanked customers in the North African country.

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Google’s new policy requiring digital lenders in Kenya to submit proof of license to operate in the East African country takes effect today. The policy aims to clamp down on rogue loan apps, which are pervasive in the country.

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This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment.

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India is emerging as the world’s cloud computing and Data Centre Hub. The recent report by Colliers India: ‘Data Centre: Scaling up in Green age’, states that India’s data centre market is likely to double to about 20 million square feet by 2025 from its current capacity of 10.3 million square feet.

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Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), India’s most comprehensive ICT solutions provider, today announced that it has been recognised as an NVIDIA DGX-Ready data center colocation provider. This makes Sify the first colocation provider in India to offer customers the option to host NVIDIA DGX A100 systems.

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Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) watchdog has launched a sweep to find social media influencers who publish misleading testimonials and other types of misinformation in sectors where social influence is most widespread, including fashion, beauty and cosmetics, food and beverage, travel, health fitness and wellbeing, parenting, gaming and technology. The agency also intends to act against sites that it finds are not acting in the best interest of the consumer.

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