South African AI startup Tennsa has secured backing from Oakvale Invest, becoming the first company in the newly launched AI-focused pre-seed fund’s portfolio. The Cape Town-based startup received more than…
Far from being a narrow regulatory exercise, the draft policy seeks to reshape the economics of artificial intelligence in Kenya. It encourages investment in local infrastructure, imposes new obligations on…
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More than half of the cybercrime cases observed by African law-enforcement agencies in 2025 involved artificial intelligence in some capacity. That finding from INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 captures…
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