Hassan Allam wins $200 million Saudi AI data centre deal
The Egyptian group will build phase one in Riyadh, with a $1 billion tender next.
Two Kenyan AI startups win Meta’s pitchathon
Neural Labs Africa and Me-Nasoma each get $5,000 in equity-free funding.
INEC to set up AI division ahead of 2027 polls
The commission wants a team to fight deepfakes and fake results before 2027.
Africans are signing up for AI courses in big numbers
Coursera’s new report shows AI-related sign-ups up 95% in Ghana and 93% in Nigeria, with AI security and agentic AI leading the way.
Anthropic Is Giving Startups a Free Year of Claude Team and $1,000 in Credits
Anthropic has expanded its Claude for Startups programme. Qualifying companies get a free year of Claude Team, API credits and extra support. Major Highlights Free for a year: One year…
OpenAI Will Start Watermarking ChatGPT’s Text in the EU
OpenAI is adding an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union, so that other systems can tell the text was written by AI. It says…
AIT President Champions ‘Sovereign Triple-L’ for Lifelong Learning in AI Era
Professor Clement K. Dzidonu, the President of the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), has recently advocated for a radical rethink in how individuals, educational bodies and society approach the learning…
Antimicrobial resistance in Africa: The data gap behind the crisis
Africa carries one of the world’s highest burdens of drug-resistant infections, yet the laboratory data needed to track it is often missing. The bigger health-tech opportunity may be building the…
Who owns the wealth beneath your feet? The AI engine exposing Nigeria’s ‘hidden’ miners
Across rural Nigeria, host communities watch heavy machinery dig up their land daily. But ask locals who hold the operational licence, what minerals are being extracted, or what community benefits…
Healthleap raises $38 million for AI disease detection
Its AI flags illness doctors might miss, and it is already in 50+ hospitals.