Talent Nation Raises Pre-Seed Round to Train One Million African AI Engineers
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji’s new venture wants to turn Africa’s raw engineering potential into a certified workforce for companies worldwide. The target…
Nigeria Looks to Togo’s Electricity Supply to Address AI Data Centre Challenges
At Build 2026 in Abuja, Dr Olubunmi Ajala highlighted electricity supply as a major constraint on Nigeria’s AI infrastructure ambitions,…
Africa Wants a Seat Where the Digital and AI Rules Are Written
At a ministerial meeting in Libreville, the African Union pressed for homegrown AI capacity, stronger cybersecurity and a common continental…
INEC Reviews Suspected AI-Generated Voter Photos, Promises Corrections Before December Certification
Nigeria’s electoral commission says it is investigating suspicious photographs in the preliminary voter register following public concerns, while acknowledging that…
Vambo AI Opens the Weights on MORENA, a Small Model Built From Scratch for African Languages
The South African startup says its 1.5 billion parameter model beats much larger rivals at predicting African text and costs…
South Africa Promises a Replacement AI Policy by March 2027, Six Months After a Citation Scandal Sank the First Draft
Minister Solly Malatsi says Cabinet will have a cleaner document in hand by the end of the financial year. The…
Kenya’s Senate Committee Turns Down First AI Bill and Tells Government to Finish Policy First
Lawmakers say the proposed law was too heavy for a young industry, with fines of up to KES 5 million…
AI Lets Scientists Send Smells Over the Internet, But Only Five of Them
Researchers in the United States and China have built an AI-assisted system that detects a smell in one place and…
Nigeria Proposes Shared AI Computing Infrastructure With Kenya, Rwanda and Senegal
The proposed regional initiative aims to pool computing resources to help African researchers and developers build advanced AI models, as…
Can African AI Platforms Compete for Users’ Attention Against ChatGPT and Claude?
As global generative AI platforms attract hundreds of millions of users, African developers face a difficult question: can homegrown AI…