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African startups raised about $1.44 billion in the first half of 2026, but the small cheques that start companies are disappearing. Rounds below $500,000 made up just 19% of deals, down from 52% in H1 2021, and only 190 ventures raised more than $100,000, the lowest tally since at least 2021. Disclosed grants are thinning…

Pa. — Penn State Great Valley hosted its annual student research poster competition this semester, offering opportunities for students to summarize their work, practice their presentation skills and answer questions from faculty and guests. This year’s competition was held at the conclusion of Great Valley’s Industry Engagement Day, allowing students to showcase their work among…

Machine translation plays a crucial role in bridging language gaps, especially in specialized domains such as software engineering. Traditional neural machine translation models, including Transformer and LSTM-based models, have shown significant progress in Chinese-to-English translation tasks. However, these models often face challenges in optimizing hyperparameters dynamically and handling diverse textual domains, leading to suboptimal translation…

A new engineering discipline called harness engineering is changing how the world builds reliable artificial intelligence systems. Unlike earlier shifts in the AI race, this one rewards patient engineering discipline over access to giant compute budgets. That has real implications for India’s own growing AI ambitions, and more specifically, for the technology entrepreneurs of Jammu…