6 h. ago Road safety measures ramped up ahead of June 16 long weekend

The National Department of Transport has cautioned motorists about road fatalities

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13 h. ago Don’t Just Adopt AI Adapt It: A Technocritical Future for African Education

Imagine a brilliant student from rural Limpopo. She presents her thorough case study to her class that is locally relevant and grounded in real-world African challenges. Her classmate submits a technically perfect paper filled with American examples and Western solutions that don’t apply to a rural African setting. The difference? Her classmate prompted ChatGPT and submitted a paraphrased version [...]

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3 d. ago Africa’s First Multilingual AI Model Shrunk By 75% in Global Challenge

Africa’s first multilingual small language model, InkubaLM, has been compressed by 75% without losing performance – making it more efficient for low-resource environments. The breakthrough came from the Buzuzu-Mavi Challenge, a global competition hosted by Lelapa AI in partnership with Zindi. The challenge drew 490 participants from 61 countries to reduce the size of InkubaLM, [...]

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3 d. ago LIVE: Minister of Electricity launches the Green Hydrogen Summit

The Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to launch the Hydrogen Hydrogen Summit.

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4 d. ago Free State launches transport initiative with Deaf Association

The Free State Deaf Association pleads with govt to invest in more transport resources for the deaf.

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4 d. ago UPDATE | Missing KZN plane found, all three occupants killed

The aircraft departed from Virginia Airport at around three o'clock yesterday.

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4 d. ago Search, rescue operations under way for missing aircraft in KZN

The aircraft departed from Virginia Airport at around three o'clock yesterday.

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4 d. ago Absa Becomes First African Bank To Launch Agentic AI For Customers

Absa Bank has become the first financial institution in Africa – and one of the first globally – to deploy agentic AI for customer use, according to Salesforce. The announcement was made at the Agentforce World Tour in Johannesburg this week. The bank’s AI-powered chatbot, Abby, runs on Salesforce’s Agentforce platform and offers dynamic, contextual [...]

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6 d. ago Moustapha Cissé: Championing AI for Africa’s Future Beyond Google

Moustapha Cissé sees artificial intelligence not as a looming threat but as a tool to uplift Africa. A trailblazing AI researcher, Cissé has spent years proving that technology can address the continent’s unique challenges—healthcare gaps, agricultural inefficiencies, and educational barriers—while dismantling biases that often plague AI systems. After leading Google’s AI Center in Accra, Ghana, [...]

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6 d. ago Ghana, UAE Ink $1B Deal to Launch Africa’s Largest Innovation and AI Hub

Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a $1 billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the Ghana-UAE Innovations and Technology Hub – an ambitious project aimed at accelerating Ghana’s digital transformation and solidifying its status as a regional leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging tech. The agreement was signed by Ghana’s [...]

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6 d. ago Nigeria, Gates Foundation Launch AI Scaling Hub to Advance Health, Education, and Agriculture

The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy and the Gates Foundation have launched the Nigeria Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scaling Hub, a major initiative to accelerate the responsible growth of AI solutions across key sectors like health, agriculture, and education. Announced during an MOU signing ceremony in Abuja, the AI Scaling Hub aims to [...]

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6 d. ago Nigeria Launches AgriConnect to Digitally Empower Farmers with AI and Connectivity

The Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani, has launched the AgriConnect Initiative – an ambitious program to digitally empower Nigerian farmers through AI, smart devices, and real-time access to agronomic data. Unveiled at the Cultural Centre Complex in Ogun State, the pilot is a collaboration between the Ministry, Huawei Technologies, [...]

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8 d. ago Kenya to Launch Nationwide AI Training for Public Servants in July 2025

In a major move to modernize public service, Kenya will roll out a nationwide artificial intelligence (AI) training program for government workers starting July 2025. The initiative, led by the State Departments for Public Service and ICT & Digital Economy in partnership with the Kenya School of Government (KSG), aims to boost innovation, improve service [...]

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8 d. ago NCC Moves to Bolster Cybersecurity With New National Framework

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has launched efforts to develop a comprehensive cybersecurity framework aimed at safeguarding the country’s critical communications infrastructure. Announced as part of its wider push to enhance national digital resilience, the NCC said the new framework will set clear guidelines, enforce best practices, and encourage collaboration across government agencies, private companies, [...]

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8 d. ago ChatGPT Expands Business Tools With Cloud Integrations, Meeting Notes, and Deep Research Features

OpenAI is rolling out major upgrades to ChatGPT for business users, adding cloud service integrations, meeting transcription, and support for deep research tools. ChatGPT now connects with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Box, allowing users to search across their own files to answer questions. For example, analysts can tap into slide decks and internal [...]

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9 d. ago DeepSeek AI Accused of Training on Google Gemini Outputs Amid Data Contamination Concerns

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is under renewed scrutiny following the release of its updated R1 model, with researchers suggesting it may have been trained on outputs from Google’s Gemini models. Developer Sam Paech pointed to linguistic similarities between DeepSeek’s R1-0528 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, claiming in a post on X that the model’s phrasing patterns [...]

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1 week ago Portuguese police launch new search for Madeleine McCann in Algarve

The last search for McCann was carried out in May 2023.

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1 week ago Daleela: Egypt’s AI Health Assistant Is Transforming Women’s Reproductive Care

In Egypt, the phrase “mabrouk, kibirti” – “congratulations, you are a woman” – often marks a girl’s first period. Yet, behind this cultural rite lies a deep gap in reproductive knowledge, with many women lacking accurate information about their own bodies. Addressing this need, Cairo-based health startup Motherbeing has launched Daleela, an AI-powered reproductive health [...]

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1 week ago Google Quietly Debuts AI Edge Gallery App for Running Offline Models on Phones

Google has quietly launched a new Android app called AI Edge Gallery, allowing users to run open-source AI models from Hugging Face directly on their phones – no internet required. An iOS version is expected soon. The experimental app supports tasks like image generation, text editing, Q&A, and code writing by running compatible models offline [...]

Technology

1 week ago Visa And Mastercard Bet Big On AI Agents To Power The Future Of Shopping

Visa and Mastercard have launched major AI initiatives aimed at transforming how consumers shop online, signaling a pivotal shift in retail tech. Visa’s “Intelligent Commerce” and Mastercard’s “Agent Pay” go beyond traditional recommendation engines, enabling AI agents to make purchases on users’ behalf. Visa is teaming up with Anthropic, IBM, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stripe to [...]

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