Godfather of AI: How To Make Safe Superintelligent AI – Yoshua Bengio
The co-inventor of modern AI and the most cited living scientist believes he’s figured out how to ensure AI is honest, incapable of deception, and never goes rogue. Yoshua Bengio…
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…
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it…
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems…
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the…
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Koko’s clean-up is taking a while
In today’s edition: Kenyans are watching two IPO deals // Koko’s continued search for a buyer // Senegal maps rules for satellite Internet // Zimbabwe’s new AI hub
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still…
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like…