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#131: Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion for Equitable AI, Hurricane Helene's Outage Was Backhaul Not Towers, Missouri Caps Plate-Reader Data at 30 Days
Impact Signals #131: Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion for Equitable AI, Hurricane Helene's Outage Was Backhaul Not Towers, Missouri Caps Plate-Reader Data at 30 Days The Gates Foundation committed at least $1 billion over two years to equitable AI and, unusually, published the split: 40 percent education, 40 percent health, 10 percent agriculture, 10 percent language data. The rest of today is the arithmetic of landing money like that. AI-assisted ultrasound arrived in 32 clinics across every council of Tanzania's Dodoma region, a Tajik computer-vision model is now running on a GPU in…
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