Scaling Skills to Power Africa’s AI Future
The most consequential AI story of the decade could belong to Africa. Artificial intelligence could boost the continent’s economic growth…
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How AI Is Bridging Africa’s Healthcare Gaps and Saving Lives
Across much of Africa, healthcare systems are shaped by distance, shortages of skilled professionals, fragile supply chains, and uneven access…
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Why Africa’s AI moment is a strategic lever
New report shows how the Global South can drive the development of ethical and responsible AI. A new report from…
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African AI Startups Shift from Adoption to Building Indigenous Models
The push for homegrown language models across Africa marks a strategic departure from dependence on Western AI systems that barely…
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Nigeria’s AI Adoption Accelerates as Businesses Seek Efficiency Gains
Nigerian companies are implementing artificial intelligence tools at an increasing rate, driven by pressure to cut costs, improve service delivery,…
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Why African SMEs Need AI: A Competitive Necessity, not a Luxury
Small and medium enterprises across Africa are entering a defining decade. Those that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations…
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Data and Technology Trends That will Define 2026
2025 settled the debate around the importance of data and AI. Most companies have already pulled these tools into their…
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The AI Skills Gap in Africa and Why It Has Become a Structural Risk
Artificial intelligence is no longer peripheral to Africa’s technology story. From fraud detection in Nigerian banks to language tools trained…
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UAE Launches $1B “AI for Development” Initiative to Boost Digital Infrastructure Across Africa
The UAE has announced the launch of the ‘AI for Development’ initiative, worth US$1 billion, to support and finance artificial…
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AI and Digital Transformation: What will Shape Africa’s next wave of Business Growth?
From Lagos to Lusaka, African entrepreneurs are discovering that AI isn’t futuristic tech—it’s the practical tool they need right now…
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Zusi Inegbeniki: The AI Visionary Bridging Finance, Technology, and Africa’s Innovation Future
When you meet Zusi Inegbeniki, you immediately sense the blend of calm confidence and quiet brilliance that defines true innovators….
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Google Updates AI Mode with New Capability to Display AI-Generated Visual Results
On Tuesday, Google revealed a new feature in AI Mode that enhances the current text-based experience by adding visual exploring…
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Study Finds Global Surge in Trust for GenAI Despite Gaps in Safeguards
Organisations building trustworthy AI are 60% more likely to double ROI of AI projects, underscoring the high cost of ignoring…
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Banking’s AI Future: 5 Key Lessons from Industry Leaders on Responsible and Profitable Transformation
SAS explores these strategies and more this week at Sibos 2025, the global financial services event of the year. AI is…
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Fintech Innovation: The Role of AI and Blockchain in Financial Inclusion
What do you think of when you hear “financial inclusion”, access to bank accounts? It’s more than that! Financial inclusion…
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NITDA DG: Africa Must Lead the AI Revolution, Not Follow
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE, has urged African nations to collaborate…
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Data, analytics and AI vital to bridging the insurance protection gap in Africa
The global insurance industry faces a $1.8 trillion protection gap – the difference between insured and uninsured losses across health,…
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From tractor tweets to crop status updates: How AI is cultivating the future of farming
AI in agriculture is rapidly shifting from being a distant concept to a practical, transformative tool. But amid all the…
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AI is revolutionising data visualisation, and businesses must be ready, says PBT Group
The business world is filled with data—from sales and operational reports to customer behaviour analytics and social media sentiment. Yet,…
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The Outlook of AI in 2025 – The Power of Prediction in Industries
It’s March 2025, a small organic farm in Vermont just doubled its profits. Thanks to an AI tool that predicted…
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AI Readiness Lags Ambitions: Survey Highlights Key Gaps Threatening Generative AI Success
Only 12% of organisations feel ready for agentic AI workflows, despite significant investments, underscoring critical data and infrastructure challenges Qlik®,…
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The future of AI: Why trust and governance matter
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become embedded in the systems that power organisations, industries, and people’s daily lives. Generative AI (GenAI),…
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How DeepSeek’s AI Models Can Boost AI Innovation for Your Business
The last few weeks in the AI ecosystem have been nothing short of exciting, as China and the United States…
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Gaps in cyber protection leave businesses vulnerable to AI-enhanced threats, Kaspersky study finds
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, organisations worldwide face escalating challenges when protecting against sophisticated AI-powered attacks. Despite…
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The role of analytics and AI in flood prediction and preparedness
An undeniable reality of living in the 21st century is that we are increasingly being confronted with changing weather patterns. In…
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The evolution of data’s ‘AI-dentity’
In a time where data drives decision making and innovation, the journey of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from a…
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Harnessing AI to combat financial crimes
Thanks to the availability of advanced technology, financial crimes are becoming more sophisticated and complex. From trade-based money laundering and…
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Transforming utilities with AI: Embracing a new era of smart, predictive, and efficient solutions
The global artificial intelligence (AI) in energy and utilities market was valued at USD 10.56 billion in 2023 and is…
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New study: Government GenAI optimism may be outpacing ability to deploy
Despite high hopes and dedicated budgets for GenAI, government agencies need to increase guardrails, training; synthetic data could be missed…
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From Bias to Breach: Why Securing AI Requires More Than Just Fairness
Artificial Intelligence is no longer confined to futuristic headlines or lab demos. It’s here, embedded in the apps we use,…
