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Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

Native, the agentic intelligence company building the operating system for offline trade, today announced it has acquired Frontline Research Group, a leading market intelligence business serving consumer goods...

The launch comes eight months after Fusepay launched its digital payments platform in Seychelles, and raised $350,000 in pre-seed funding in August 2025.

Most of the rules now shaping how artificial intelligence gets built were written somewhere else. The European Union has its… The post Africa’s AI Ethics Gap: Why the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already...

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most...

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the...

Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base...

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge...

You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.

Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

We want teens to have age-appropriate experiences with AI and to keep parents informed if we become aware that their… The post Meta Introduces AI Alerts to Notify...

Data privacy has become one of the defining issues of the digital age. Every time we browse the internet, make a mobile payment, shop online, use social media,...