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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

CIO

Numerous IT vendors are likely to be affected by the advisory, including cloud service providers such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and IBM; software vendors such as Databricks and Salesforce; model service providers (mostly startups) such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Cohere, along with social platforms such as Meta.

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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO

Ada Developers Academy bridges the app-dev gender gap Ada Developers Academy was started in 2013 as a nonprofit no-cost coding school to support women and gender-expansive adults who want to embark on careers in software development. Diversity and Inclusion, IT Training , Mentoring, Nonprofits, Women in IT. Here are three of note.

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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders

TechCrunch

Amazon says that AWS Impact Accelerator will award qualifying pre-seed startups up to $225,000 (a $125,000 cash grant and up to $100,000 in AWS service credits) as well as training, mentoring and technical guidance. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. “Today, training, fine-tuning or productizing open source generative models is extremely challenging,” Prakash said. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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Uganda’s Tugende closes $3.6M Series A extension to meet the demand for its asset finance products

TechCrunch

These riders get some training, medical and life insurance, safety equipment and hands-on support from their first use of the motorcycle to owning it. . They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . Image Credits: Tugende.

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Ghanaian agtech Farmerline to use new funding to strengthen its infrastructure, help farmers create wealth

TechCrunch

Farmerline was founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai. These shop owners, usually the first point of knowledge for the farmers, are used by Farmerline to distribute educational material and to gather farmers together for training. million pre-Series A funding.

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Why you should care about debugging machine learning models

O'Reilly Media - Data

Sometimes ML models are just plain wrong, but sometimes they’re wrong and socially discriminatory, or hacked, or simply unethical. [2] Social discrimination: by now, there are many widely publicized incidences of social discrimination in ML. One major source of discrimination in ML is demographically unbalanced training data.