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Copy of Paystack Now Lets Your AI Agent Pay For Your Lunch; Meta Moves Into Prediction Markets; A Nigerian Solar Firm’s $30 Million Deal; And OpenAI’s New Custom Silicon Chip Partnership With Broadco
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots into real-world applications as Paystack tests AI-powered payments and Meta is exploring the launch of its own prediction market to deepen its AI ambitions. Meanwhile Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator has secured $31 million to expand electricity access across Nigeria, while OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip in partnership with Broadcom All this and more in today’s Read It And Eat! Markets as of 25th of June 202
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Paystack Now Lets Your AI Agent Pay For Your Lunch; Meta Moves Into Prediction Markets; A Nigerian Solar Firm’s $30 Million Deal; And OpenAI’s New Custom Silicon Chip Partnership With Broadcom
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots into real-world applications as Paystack tests AI-powered payments and Meta is exploring the launch of its own prediction market to deepen its AI ambitions. Meanwhile Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator has secured $31 million to expand electricity access across Nigeria, while OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip in partnership with Broadcom All this and more in today’s Read It And Eat! Markets as of 25th of June 202
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Polymarket Accused Of Deceptive Marketing; SEC Prohibits The Influencing, Marketing and Promotion Of Dangote’s IPO; Nigerian AI Startup Focused On Sign Language; & SK Hynix Dethrones Samsung
Questions around trust and regulation are taking center stage as Polymarket faces allegations of paying creators to promote misleading betting activity, while Nigeria’s SEC has moved to curb premature marketing of the highly anticipated Dangote Refinery IPO. In the technology space, Nigerian startup Talksign is using AI to break communication barriers with real-time sign language translation, and South Korea’s corporate hierarchy has been shaken as AI-driven chipmaker SK Hyni
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The Economics of Snowfall
A Deep Dive Into Who the Economic Winners and Losers are during Snowfall "The weather outside is frightful.” Frank Sinatra I was working from home on a random weekday when I took a break to look at the view from my apartment and let my mind wander. Whilst I watched people penguin walk and cars all but crawl, I settled on an interesting thought: who benefits and suffers the most financially when it snows? That question led me down an incredibly fascinating rabbit hole, t
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Your "Investment" Is Probably a Gamble. Here's How to Know for Sure.
The Differences between Dice, Deals & Dividends; "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” John Maynard Keynes I commonly get consulted for investment proposals, whereby people are asking of me where I believe is best for them to deploy their capital in order to get a financial return, and the first thing that I ask [after strongly indicating that I am not a financial advisor, and the entire conversation isn’t financial advice] what their time
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From Manger to Markets: An analysis of Christmas’ Commercial Takeover
Has Capitalism Devoured Christmas? Underneath the bustle of the German Christmas markets, the pouring of mulled wine and hot chocolate, the wrapping of selected trinkets, and the voices of the choir singing Christmas carols, is the faint, almost imperceptible, constant pinging of successful transactions, whether it be Apple Pay, Google Pay, cash, or a physical card. That sound is the evidence of the “Golden Quarter” in full swing, and the silent prevalence of the second r
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Copy of Paystack Now Lets Your AI Agent Pay For Your Lunch; Meta Moves Into Prediction Markets; A Nigerian Solar Firm’s $30 Million Deal; And OpenAI’s New Custom Silicon Chip Partnership With Broadco
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots into real-world applications as Paystack tests AI-powered payments and Meta is exploring the launch of its own prediction market to deepen its AI ambitions. Meanwhile Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator has secured $31 million to expand electricity access across Nigeria, while OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip in partnership with Broadcom All this and more in today’s Read It And Eat! Markets as of 25th of June 202
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Paystack Now Lets Your AI Agent Pay For Your Lunch; Meta Moves Into Prediction Markets; A Nigerian Solar Firm’s $30 Million Deal; And OpenAI’s New Custom Silicon Chip Partnership With Broadcom
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots into real-world applications as Paystack tests AI-powered payments and Meta is exploring the launch of its own prediction market to deepen its AI ambitions. Meanwhile Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator has secured $31 million to expand electricity access across Nigeria, while OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip in partnership with Broadcom All this and more in today’s Read It And Eat! Markets as of 25th of June 202
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Polymarket Accused Of Deceptive Marketing; SEC Prohibits The Influencing, Marketing and Promotion Of Dangote’s IPO; Nigerian AI Startup Focused On Sign Language; & SK Hynix Dethrones Samsung
Questions around trust and regulation are taking center stage as Polymarket faces allegations of paying creators to promote misleading betting activity, while Nigeria’s SEC has moved to curb premature marketing of the highly anticipated Dangote Refinery IPO. In the technology space, Nigerian startup Talksign is using AI to break communication barriers with real-time sign language translation, and South Korea’s corporate hierarchy has been shaken as AI-driven chipmaker SK Hyni
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