Technology & AIUber shut down in Nigeria and Uganda the same day it announced 3,300 layoffs to fund autonomous vehicles, ending 12 years in Africa's largest ride-hailing market and exposing how little a driverless future has to offer cities built on cheap human drivers.
Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards promises to keep AI monitoring data inside infrastructure the customer controls. For African banks and fintechs bound by strict new data-protection laws, that promise only works if they already own a qualifying cloud account — and most don't yet.
16d agoUber shut down in Nigeria and Uganda the same day it announced 3,300 layoffs to fund autonomous vehicles, ending 12 years in Africa's largest ride-hailing market and exposing how little a driverless future has to offer cities built on cheap human drivers.
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Small Foundation has backed Nairobi's Unmarkets, which builds agribusinesses by pairing capital with established African food companies rather than funding founders from scratch. The investment launches four new Kenyan ventures.
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