Applications are now open for the 2026 Inclusive AI Innovations in Africa Programme under the Hub for Artificial Intelligence and Disability Inclusion Innovation Track, with grants of up to 5 million Kenyan shillings on offer for African innovators building AI solutions that promote disability inclusion. The programme is seeking African innovators, researchers, startups, developers,...

Meta is making its first AI infrastructure bet in India, striking a data centre partnership with conglomerate Reliance Industries in a market rapidly emerging as a hub for AI infrastructure as global technology firms scramble to secure the computing power needed to train and deploy AI systems. The partnership, announced Wednesday, will see Meta collaborate […]

Google has cut the monthly price of its budget AI subscription plan from $7.99 to $4.99 while doubling its included storage — bringing a price war that has been brewing in emerging markets squarely to American consumers. The company announced the cut on Monday, with the storage included at the Plus tier rising from 200 […]

By Avinash Gupta, Head of COE (Centre of Excellence) at In2IT Technologies Cybersecurity has always been a constant race between attackers and defenders. As organisations strengthen their security tools, cybercriminals continually devise new ways to bypass them. Today, the rise of agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is accelerating the contest between defenders and cybercriminals by...

Article by Craig Stephens, Advisory Business Solutions Manager, SAS Africa Banks are no longer discussing artificial intelligence (AI) as a distant possibility. It is already moving into analytics, risk, fraud, customer engagement, operations, and decision support. The real question is not whether AI will be used in banking. It is whether banks can govern it […]

Agentic AI adoption is moving faster than many organisations are prepared for, and while the technology promises major productivity gains, the risks need to be carefully weighed. Cliff de Wit, Chief Innovation Officer at Accelera Digital Group (ADG), says businesses need to be careful that they do not treat agentic systems as harmless extensions of […]

A Cambridge laboratory has run the first human trial of a vaccine whose active ingredient was designed entirely by artificial intelligence — not tweaked or analyzed by AI, but designed from scratch by it. The result is a single shot that could, in theory, protect against every known coronavirus, including strains that do not yet […]

Global voice AI models are built for clean, high-bandwidth audio. Most of Africa’s phone calls are not. A startup emerging from stealth is betting that the gap is a business opportunity. AethexAI, a UK-based voice-infrastructure company founded by a team drawn from Meta, Stanford and Goldman Sachs, has raised a $3 million pre-seed round. The […]

South African fintech company Yoco has announced the acquisition of Dyner, an AI-native operating system built for restaurants and independent businesses — marking another step in its evolution from a payments company into a broader commerce and operations platform for small businesses. Yoco builds tools and services to help small businesses accept card payments in-store […]

SpaceX has lined up another major compute deal ahead of its historic IPO — this time with Google — under which the search giant will pay $920 million a month for access to roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and related infrastructure. SpaceX announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the […]

Kenya and South Africa have pledged to deepen cooperation in digital innovation, financial services and investment, with artificial intelligence featuring prominently among the priority areas for joint development. Addressing the Joint South Africa-Kenya Business Forum on Thursday night, Kenyan President William Ruto and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the growing importance...

The same AI boom filling data centres is about to make everyday IT more expensive, and African businesses running on ageing hardware will feel it first. Memory prices are set to climb sharply as manufacturers divert capacity to AI infrastructure. The research firm Gartner forecasts DRAM prices rising by 125% and NAND flash prices by […]

The Nigerian Ministry of Defence is restructuring its technology infrastructure to integrate artificial intelligence into national security operations and modernize the country’s border defences. Minister of Defence General Christopher Gwabin Musa led a high-level delegation of senior ministry officials to Monaco in May to evaluate the practical applications of the Multi-Domain Hybrid...

As artificial intelligence moves rapidly from experimentation into core business operations, organisations are rushing to deploy AI tools across customer service, operations and internal workflows. But in the race to adopt the technology, many companies are overlooking a critical question:  Who actually owns the intellectual property created by these systems? Dawood Patel, CEO of Helm, […]

BMW Group South Africa has marked 20 years of its IT Hub in Menlyn, Pretoria, revealing that a team based in the city built the AI visual inspection systems now used to check vehicles on BMW assembly lines around the world. The hub, which started with 11 employees in 2006, has grown to about 2,500 […]

Efham.ai, an AI education platform developed by Egypt-based NixAI, has secured an investment from Foras.AI to support its mission of building the first Arabic community dedicated to learning artificial intelligence in the Arabic language. The investment comes amid growing demand for AI skills across the Middle East and North Africa, as individuals, startups and businesses […]

The Tanzanian government has ordered disciplinary action against supervisors who fail to conduct performance appraisals for public servants and warned of sanctions against employees who misuse artificial intelligence and official government communication systems. Deputy Minister of State in the President’s Office for Public Service Management and Good Governance Regina Qwaray said negligence...

A consortium of African and European organizations has launched a four-year research and advocacy project aimed at ensuring that African perspectives, priorities and knowledge systems are meaningfully integrated into global and regional governance of artificial intelligence. Titled “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action,” the project will run until...