AI Is Changing Education.
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Kenya Proposes AI Law That Reaches Foreign Firms Like OpenAI and Meta
Kenya’s new draft Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Policy is open for public consultation, and it is not the kind of light-touch, wait-and-see document most African governments have published on…
Five Startups Bet Billions That the Transformer’s Time Is Up
Every major LLM on the market today, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, all of them, runs on the same nine-year-old idea: the transformer, introduced in a 2017 Google paper with the now-famous…
Top 10 AI Exam Prep Tools Right Now
Exam season in Africa never really ends. Right now, UNILAG undergraduates are sitting second-semester exams while JAMB and WAEC candidates a few months out are already drilling past questions, and…
Top 10 AI Presentation Tools Right Now
You have a presentation due tomorrow morning, and all you actually have is a half-finished outline, three data points you keep meaning to turn into a chart, and a growing…
Lagos Is Training 10,000 Young People in AI
Lagos is getting more serious about preparing its young people for an AI-powered economy. On August 10, the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), in partnership with InnoPower Africa, launched…
Another ChatGPT Update. But What Actually Changed?
About two weeks ago, Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash and two smaller, specialised variants, promising better performance with lower latency and more efficient AI agents. A few days later, OpenAI…
INTERPOL: AI is Responsible for more 55% of cybercrime in Africa
INTERPOL’s latest cybercrime report has one headline everybody’s repeating: AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa. But that’s only one of several findings from the organisation’s…
Top 10 AI Research Tools Right Now
You have a report due, a lesson to prepare, or a decision to make that depends on facts you do not yet have. So you open a browser tab. Then…
Top 10 AI Learning Tools Right Now
A classroom of forty students moves at one pace, whether or not any single student in it is actually keeping up. A parent helping with homework does not remember how…