The Free-Service Wedge: AI startups trade chores for training data
What Changed and Why It Matters AI companies are shifting from scraping the open web to paying for specific, rights-cleared data. A new market has formed: free services and small…
How a teacher-led startup is fixing AI’s broken data pipelines
What Changed and Why It Matters A former maths teacher just raised a seed round to fix AI’s least glamorous problem: data plumbing. London-based Poindexter Labs closed £2 million to…
US AI Boom Pulls VC; African Startups Pivot to Domestic Capital
What Changed and Why It Matters Global venture capital is crowding into US AI. That concentration is starving peripheral markets of risk capital—especially Africa. “African startups are rewriting their funding…