Banks do not need faster AI; they need more accountable decisions
Financial leaders are now being asked to fund artificial intelligence (AI), govern it, and explain the value it creates. That…
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Shadow AI: The Next Evolution of Shadow IT
Shadow IT, the use of technology systems, software, applications, devices or cloud services without formal approval, management or monitoring, emerged as a…
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How African Governments Are Regulating AI, And Who Is Getting It Right
Two years ago, most African governments treated artificial intelligence as a subject for conference panels rather than policy documents. That…
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Meta AI Just Got a To-Do List — And It’s Ticking Off Your Tasks
Meta AI has quietly crossed a line that most chatbots never reach: it no longer waits to be asked. The…
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Microsoft Leads Q2 2026 Brand Phishing as ChatGPT Emerges as a New Phishing Target
New Brand Phishing Report reveals cybercriminals are concentrating attacks around the world’s most trusted digital, social, and have now added…
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AI Confidence Starts with Trusted Data
Organisations are moving quickly from AI ambition to AI use cases. Employees are already using AI tools in their daily…
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Africa’s AI Ethics Gap: Why the Continent Needs Its Own Governance Framework
Most of the rules now shaping how artificial intelligence gets built were written somewhere else. The European Union has its…
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AI Hallucination and the African Context: Why Accuracy Matters More Here
A South African judge recently sat down to verify nine legal citations submitted in a supplementary court notice. Only two…
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Small Language Models vs Large Language Models: Which Makes Sense for African Developers?
For most of the last three years, the default assumption in AI development has been simple: bigger is better. The…
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AI Tutors in African Classrooms: Experiment or Transformation?
In a classroom in Benin City, a teenager named Omorogbe Uyiosa sat with his phone after school hours, working through…
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Nigerian mental wellness startup SereniMind pairs AI-guided support with access to licensed therapists
A Lagos-based mental wellness platform is betting that artificial intelligence can help close Nigeria’s yawning mental health treatment gap, at…
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From AI Consumers to AI Creators: How Africa Can Become the World’s Next AI Innovation Hub
In a small office in Tunis in 2018, a startup called InstaDeep made a decision that looked reckless at the…
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Meta Launches Muse Image, Its First In-House AI Image Generator, as Competition in Visual AI Intensifies
Meta has begun rolling out Muse Image, the first image-generation system built entirely by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the research division…
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AI Diagnostics in African Hospitals: Promising Pilots, Scaling Challenges
Walk into a public clinic in rural Siaya County, Kenya, and the shortage that defines African healthcare becomes obvious within…
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Dark AI Explained: How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence
A bank teller in another country once watched an elderly woman withdraw a large sum of cash, hands trembling, voice…
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How Technology and AI Can Accelerate Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa does not have a resources problem. It has a distribution problem, and technology is the fastest bridge we have…
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Africa Has Moved Past AI Adoption. Now Comes the Hard Part (A Special Report)
We spent the first half of 2026 tracking how AI agents are reshaping African infrastructure, capital, policy, and workforces. Today,…
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SAS Study: Most SMBs Are Still in the Early Stages of AI Adoption
SMBs need practical solutions over hype to bridge the gap between AI readiness and reality. Nearly 70% of small and midsized businesses (SMBs)still remain in…
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Nigerian Banks Are Deploying AI Against Fraud. Here’s How Far They’ve Come
Nigeria’s digital payments ecosystem has grown faster than almost anyone anticipated. The country processed nearly 11 billion instant payment transactions…
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Africa’s AI Talent Drain: The Continent Is Producing Engineers It Cannot Afford to Keep
There is a quiet irony sitting at the centre of Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The continent is producing more machine…
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Agentic AI in Africa: What It Means When AI Takes Action on Your Behalf
The first wave of AI tools taught machines to respond. The current wave is teaching them to act. Across the…
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Banks Don’t Need More AI Ambition;They Need AI They Can Trust and Govern
Banks are no longer discussing artificial intelligence (AI) as a distant possibility. It is already moving into analytics, risk, fraud,…
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Why Business Leaders Need Stronger Strategic Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Every week, someone tells me that AI will run businesses in five years. My answer is always the same: a…
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The Side Hustle Economy Gets an Upgrade: How Nigerians Are Putting AI to Work
For many Nigerians, the side hustle is not optional. It is how rent gets paid, school fees get sorted, and…
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African AI Startups Worth Watching Right Now
There is a version of Africa’s AI story that gets told mostly in superlatives in a continent leapfrogging, a generation…
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Africa’s Quiet Financial Revolution: How AI and Blockchain Are Reshaping Who Gets Served
For decades, the story of banking in Africa has been one of absence. The branches are too far away. Documentation…
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AI and the Creative Economy: How African Artists and Innovators Can Thrive
Africa’s creative sector, spanning music, film, fashion, and digital art, is expanding at a pace that is difficult to ignore….
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The Quiet Revolution: How AI Is Reshaping Agriculture Across Africa
Africa feeds itself largely through the hands of smallholder farmers. That fact is easy to state and hard to appreciate…
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Can Africa Develop Its Own Large Language Models (LLM)?
The continent has the languages, the talent, and the growing ambition. What it still lacks could define whether homegrown AI…
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Anthropic Strikes Compute Deal with SpaceX, Raises Claude API and Claude Code Limits
Anthropic has entered into a partnership with SpaceX that will significantly expand its computing infrastructure, a move the AI safety…
