InstaDeep CEO takes AI from Tunis to London

2024-04-20 10:10 PM by Eugen Boglaru

Karim Beguir launched the artificial intelligence start-up InstaDeep in Tunisia in 2014 with just two computers and $2,000. By 2023, it was an international operation bought by German laboratory BioNTech for $700 million. “For the first time, we saw that a start-up launched in Africa with very limited resources could become a major international player,” the …

AI-aided virtual conversations with WWII vets are latest feature at New Orleans museum

2024-03-20 08:47 PM by Eugen Boglaru

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-sized image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors before a grueling march. “That was a Tuesday …