South African fintech Bridgement has raised R330 million ($20.3 million) in funding from Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) and Standard Bank, strengthening its capacity to lend to small and medium-sized businesses…
South African AI startup HyperDev has raised more than $1 million (R16 million) in pre-seed funding to expand a software development platform that helps users turn AI-generated code into fully…
Kenyan HR-tech startup Fuzu has raised $3.86 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered recruitment platform and accelerate its growth across Africa. The round attracted backing from Sparkmind.vc,…
We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
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Every month Nigeria spends waiting on a finished AI law is a month a fintech in Lagos ships a credit-scoring… The post Nigeria’s AI Governance Bill: Why the Delay Is…
Walk into a public clinic in rural Siaya County, Kenya, and the shortage that defines African healthcare becomes obvious within… The post AI Diagnostics in African Hospitals: Promising Pilots, Scaling…
AI agents can now reason, plan, call tools, retrieve customer data, and initiate financial transactions on their own. What almost… The post The Compliance Layer AI Agent Frameworks Forgot to…
On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Nigeria opening a probe into Meta, X, and AI firms, Zeepay’s response to $11.6 million refund reports, Kenya’s creation of new licences for Uber, Bolt,…
Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In industries where…
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