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Wall Street Chases AI Billions While Africa Tries to Join the Race

Attendees at the Bloomberg Africa Business Summit on Nov. 17 in Johannesburg.

Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Loni Prinsloo and Yinka Ibukun report on the burgeoning effort by Africa to join the AI race.

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