In marketplace news: 

🤖 Amazon sellers are using ChatGPT to help write product listings in sprawling marketplace. Amazon sellers are turning to the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT to automate some of the tasks associated with running their online businesses. CNBC

🕹 Unity aims to open generative AI marketplace for video game developers. In future, developers could visit Unity's marketplace, select an AI product such as an artwork generator, and be able to use it to instantly create content. Reuters

⚖️ What are the ethical hazards in the effort to commercialize AI? Microsoft's Bing chatbot has displayed some strange, inappropriate responses. Could training in ethics help? Marketplace

🇺🇸 Employer health benefits company Gravie raised $179M equity investment from General Atlantic with participation from existing investors AXA Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital. 

🇪🇸 Spain’s Cabify has raised $110M in a new funding round as it expands in ride-hailing business.

🇩🇰 Denmark-based Agreena has raised €46M ($50M) in Series B funding for its soil carbon program that financially incentivizes farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture practices. 

Other promising marketplace deals:

🇮🇳 UpGrad, an India-headquartered edtech marketplace unicorn, has raised $36M via an internal rights issue, with Temasek investing about $10M as part of the deal.

🇺🇸 Smalls, the first-to-market DTC fresh cat-only food brand, today announced it has raised $19M.

🇮🇱 Reeco, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based marketplace that connects hospitality buyers and suppliers, raised $10M in seed funding.

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