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The program will scout, fund and accelerate 50 student innovators from Uttarakhand and Assam. It aims to build a pipeline of AI-enabled clean energy and cleantech ventures rooted in regional realities.
Read the original →NZ agritech company Herd-i has more than doubled the number of cows it monitors to 145,000. Its AI technology is gaining traction in New Zealand and overseas.
Read the original →The description refers to the Ayre Index, a published ranking of 56 Commonwealth countries scored out of 100. It says the study's readiness benchmark is 53 points.
Read the original →Dye phase-outs, FSMA 204 and shifting demand are arriving at the same time. Columbus delivers the AI tools and the organization to use them.
Read the original →An exploratory machine-learning analysis examines how risk tolerance, income and education guide residue allocation decisions among smallholder farming groups in Malawi.
Read the original →Public anxiety is growing over reports of out-of-control AI agents. The small U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new AI offerings lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research.
Read the original →Japan is promoting AI to ease labor shortages. A new review highlights a wide gap between experimentation and everyday business use.
Read the original →Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), under the guidance of the Department of Industrial Technology at Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, held an event at the Kaohsiung Asia New Bay Area Startup Park. The event was titled "ESG x AI: Unlocking New Circular Business from Agricultural By-products."
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