Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech | TechCrunch

Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech | TechCrunch

Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment. The startup’s latest investment is from African Renaissance Partners, an East African venture capital firm; Endgame Capital, an investor with a bias for technologies around climate change; and King Philanthropies, a climate and extreme poverty investor. The…

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ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU | TechCrunch

ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU | TechCrunch

OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates about individuals. The tendency of GenAI tools to produce information that’s plain wrong has been…

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