Artificial intelligence systems are now powerful and inexpensive enough to perform work equivalent to nearly 12 percent of U.S. jobs, according to a new MIT study — a finding likely to intensify pressure on employers, workers and policymakers to prepare for rapid changes in the economy. The research, written in October and released Wednesday, estimates […]

Experts are calling on Nigeria to accelerate the development of homegrown artificial intelligence tools to strengthen data privacy and protect Africa’s digital resources from external exploitation. The appeal was made at the AI Summit hosted by the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development on Wednesday in Abuja, where technology practitioners and policy specialists gathered to […]

Chinese startup DeepSeek caused turbulence in the global AI market earlier this year with its claim that its large language model, R1, was developed at a fraction of the cost of U.S. competitors. The company said it trained the open-source model for $6 million, compared with the roughly $100 million OpenAI invested in training ChatGPT-4. […]

Little more than a year ago, AI was widely heralded as the absolute game-changer of business process outsourcing (BPO)—and as a potential wrecking ball for employment in the industry. AI was viewed as a universal solution poised to revolutionize every facet of our industry, but this was balanced by concern that such a powerful technological […]

NVIDIA has identified Morocco as a priority market for its African expansion, signaling the continent’s rising role in global artificial intelligence infrastructure. The move follows the company’s June launch in South Africa, where it partnered with Cassava Technologies to establish Africa’s first AI factory. A company delegation recently visited Rabat to meet key economic stakeholders, […]

Zipline, the U.S.-based drone logistics company backed by Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital, could receive $150 million from the U.S. Department of State — but only if governments in Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Nigeria sign national expansion agreements. The funding is structured as a “pay-for-performance” initiative aimed at scaling the company’s AI-driven medical-delivery infrastructure […]

South Africa’s mining sector may have recorded its lowest fatality rate in 2024, but with 30 deaths reported so far in 2025, companies are pursuing new approaches to achieve “zero harm.” Impala Platinum (Implats) is among the firms turning to artificial intelligence to strengthen safety at its Rustenburg operations in the North West. “We need […]

A new cloud partnership will launch Africa’s first “neutral multi-tenant AI factory,” aiming to give cloud providers across the continent access to scalable AI infrastructure. The project is a collaboration between Backbone Connectivity Network (BCN), Zadara and Touchnet. The new infrastructure, built on Zadara’s multi-tenant platform, will allow cloud providers to deploy and scale AI […]

Vodacom Group has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, adopting the company’s data-analytics tools and generative AI models to create new digital services for African consumers and businesses. Under the agreement, Google Cloud will consolidate and modernize Vodacom’s dispersed data assets through its data cloud platform, including BigQuery. Vodacom said the overhaul will establish a […]

AI took center stage at TICAD9, the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development, held in Yokohama in August 2025 under the theme “Co-create Innovative Solutions with Africa.” In opening remarks, Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru highlighted AI, digital transformation, green transformation and satellite data as priority areas, saying Japan would strengthen public–private...

Samsung may be preparing to charge for upcoming Galaxy AI features, signaling a shift familiar to users of “free” AI services. While current Galaxy AI functions will remain free for now, new capabilities could fall behind a paywall, according to language spotted on Samsung’s US Newsroom by SammyFans. The company states that basic Galaxy AI […]