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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

TechCrunch

at Stanford and spending most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies, CEO Noureddine Tayebi returned to Algeria to get involved in the country’s nascent tech scene to start a company and build technical talent in the Maghreb region (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). Image Credits: Yassir.

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Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by BOND

TechCrunch

The African startup, first launched in Algeria, has now raised $193.25 When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images. which is produced by state-controlled television channel Bahrain TV. ( A new study analyzing COVID-19 contact tracing apps conducted by Amnesty International has found that Bahrain and Kuwait are using their public health apps as mass surveillance tools.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

The letter reads: Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? The letter calls on “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

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