The African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Development Programme are moving their AI 10 Billion Initiative ...

A new continental advisory council will examine how AI policies affect public participation, cultural representation and ...

Microsoft’s Africa Development Centre in Nairobi is reportedly closing its engineering operations. Employees were informed of ...

East Africa’s biggest company Safaricom uses artificial intelligence to prevent 94% of attempted fraud in real time, its ...

Its health product, Mamora AI, was built for HDI Rwanda. Through the platform, residents report symptoms and conditions in their communities to help detect ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is exploring cooperation with France on internet connectivity, AI and online user protection. It is seeking to strengthen its ...

AI could help African creators, languages and stories reach wider audiences through translation, subtitling, localisation and ...

UCT is one of 17 organisations selected worldwide for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, from more than 3,000 ...

The African Development Bank and the UN Development Programme are moving their AI 10 Billion Initiative into implementation, ...

Microdramas evolved from China’s “duanju” industry: self-contained serialised stories of 25–50 episodes, each one to two minutes long, originally shot with ...

South African startup Vambo AI has released MORENA, an open-weight 1.5-billion-parameter language model trained from scratch ...

Microsoft is pitching AI integration to Africa’s oil, gas, utilities and mining operators, targeting the gap between ...