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Professor Clement K. Dzidonu, the President of the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), has recently advocated for a radical rethink in how individuals, educational bodies and society approach...

Africa carries one of the world’s highest burdens of drug-resistant infections, yet the laboratory data needed to track it is often missing. The bigger health-tech opportunity may be...

Across rural Nigeria, host communities watch heavy machinery dig up their land daily. But ask locals who hold the operational licence, what minerals are being extracted, or what...

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come...

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable...

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge...

In today’s edition: Kenyans are watching two IPO deals // Koko’s continued search for a buyer // Senegal maps rules for satellite Internet // Zimbabwe’s new AI hub

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI...

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what...

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its...

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of...

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026

By Allan Juma, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at ESET South Africa, according to the Microsoft Global AI Diffusion monitor, is leading the continent in generative AI adoption with 23.1%...

With just days to go, all is set for the 11th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), as innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors, technology leaders, researchers, business executives...

With just days to go, all is set for the 11th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), as innovators,… The post Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026: Africa’s Innovation...

Its longer-term plan is to connect computing resources across different satellites and turn them into what it calls virtual AI data centres.

In today’s edition: Spam callers could face 1 year in jail || MTN, Telecel secure Ghanaian 5G licences || Ghana has new rules for public AI buys ||...

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it...

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a...

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a...

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant...

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic...