Africa: The Big Deal

Africa: The Big Deal focuses on the African startup ecosystem, tracking investment trends, featuring key investors, and highlighting sector growths like FinTech and Energy. It also covers issues like gender imbalance in funding, regional funding dynamics, and the impact of economic conditions on startup funding.

Investment Trends Startup Ecosystem Sector Growth Funding Dynamics Economic Conditions Gender Imbalance

The hottest Substack posts of Africa: The Big Deal

And their main takeaways

The Climate Justice of AI Safety

157 implied HN points • 13 Apr 23

🕹 Technology AI Climate Safety Ethics

There are two main groups discussing AI safety: doomers and boomers.
Debates on AI safety can be like theology discussions, but it's more productive to focus on specific concerns and solutions.
It's important to move from vague terms to concrete benchmarks when addressing AI safety.

GPS for GPUs

1 HN point • 08 Mar 23

🕹 Technology AI Security Supercomputers Verification

Nuclear Proliferation Treaties monitor nuclear activities at facilities worldwide.
Developing a secure location chip for GPUs could prevent spoofing of GPS.
Embedding chips in GPU clusters could help track and prevent misuse of supercomputers.