The digital skills gap in Africa is becoming one of the biggest obstacles to the continent’s economic transformation. African businesses are adopting cloud services, artificial intelligence, digital payments, e-commerce and…
Eight months ago, Fusepay’s whole pitch was simply to get Seychelles’ trade businesses off paper ledgers and WhatsApp receipts and onto digital payments. This week, the company said the otherwise…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and…
The Bosun Tijani Foundation has opened applications for the second cohort of its Gen AI Fellowship, a six-month programme built to take young Nigerians from casual users of generative AI…
Yesterday, July 20, marked the birthday of Dr. Olatunbosun “Bosun” Tijani, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy. Birthdays are usually occasions to celebrate individuals. In Tijani’s case, they…
Backbase, the leader in AI-powered banking, in partnership with African Banker magazine, has published The State of AI in African Banking 2026: The Reality of Banking in the Agentic Era….
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another…
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal…
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on…
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and…
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