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‘Automation Can Inherit a Gender’: Letsike Sets Out Three Frontiers of the AI Divide

Africa’s AI Push Needs Authority Limits for Autonomous Agents

How AI Is Reshaping Employment and Skills Development Across Africa

Three-Quarters of Industrial AI Pilots Never Scale. The Problem Is Plumbing, Not Algorithms.

Tether Releases Open Offline Translation Models for 19 African Languages, With Peer-Reviewed Benchmarks

Microsoft Names Angela Nganga East Africa Lead, Handing a Government-Relations Specialist Its Most Stalled African Project

Deloitte’s Egypt Hub Grows From 23 Staff to 900, With $80 Million More Committed

Mastercard Backs WhatsApp Checkout in Kenya, Where Meta’s Own AI Tools Won’t Look

Workplace Disputes Make Up 37% of Queries to South Africa’s AI Legal Chatbot

Injini Opens $125,000 AI EdTech Venture Builder Across Nine Southern African Countries

Ugandan Startup SANDI AI Wins US$50,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize for Using Artificial Intelligence to Unlock Finance for Farmers

Islamic State Provided ISWAP With Satellite Links and Jailbreaking Training. The Cells That Followed Are the Story.

Intel expands AI literacy across Kenya through national library network

AI, Bias And The Rule Of Law

‘South Africa Should Not Chase This’: An AI Expert Argues Against the Data Centre Rush

Two-Thirds of South African News Sites Take No Action Against AI Scraping — And the Ones That Do Are the Ones That Can Afford To

Atlantica Ventures Has Backed Four African AI Infrastructure Startups in 18 Months. None of Them Build Models

Pilot Adds AI Layer to Restaurant POS as South African Hospitality Software Turns Competitive

Korea-Africa Ministerial Conference Convenes Under AI Theme, Two Weeks After Seoul’s First AI Loan to the Continent

Lelapa AI Adds Voice Generation and Looks Beyond Africa: ‘We Built a Technology That’s Beneficial for a Majority World’

Labour Gets a Formal Seat on AI as NEDLAC Summit Takes Up Technological Transition

La Francophonie Convenes First Digital Governance Forum as Francophone Africa Builds a Fourth AI Rulebook

‘It Influences How They Are Assessed’: African Women Fellows on Data, Credit Ratings and AI Built for Local Conditions

AI Hardware Demand Is Now Raising US Inflation as Much as Tariffs — And African Buyers Pay in Dollars

Two-Thirds of South African Creators Don’t Disclose AI Use – Because They Fear It Costs Them Trust

Meta’s New AI Business Tools Skip WhatsApp — the App Carrying 93% of Its African AI Prompts

‘In the Labs, in the Code, in the Data’: NWU’s Language Media Centre Turns Ten With a Challenge on AI

Nigerian Military Disowns AI-Generated Video of Defence Chief Making Political Statements

Namibia Cancels N$40m AI Crop Monitoring Deal Over Procurement Failures and Data Sovereignty Concerns

Ugandan AI Health Pilot Records High Agreement With Community Workers, Now Enters the Harder Phase

Google Extends Free Student AI Offer From Six African Countries to 27

Abu Dhabi’s M42 Enters Africa With 10-Year Botswana Health Deal Spanning AI, Genomics and Supply Chains

Cape Town’s Verascient Raises $1.2m to Give AI Agents Enterprise Memory, After Abandoning Its First Product

Morocco and India Form Joint Commission on Language AI, Targeting Darija and Amazigh in Public Services

Intron’s Sahara v2.5 Handles Mid-Sentence Language Switching, With Igbo and Hausa Voice Generation