Gates Foundation Offers Up to $500,000 for AI Family Planning Tools in Nigeria
Gates Foundation Backs AI-Powered Family Planning Solutions The Gates Foundation is offering up to $500,000 in support for the development...
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Nigerian Entrepreneur Uses AI to Tackle Africa’s Persistent Business Payment Challenge
Nigerian Entrepreneur Targets the Challenge of Getting Paid For many businesses, making a sale is only the beginning of the...
Kenyan AI Startup Flowt Raises Funding to Unlock Climate Finance for Small Businesses
Kenyan AI Startup Raises Funding for Climate Finance Kenyan artificial intelligence startup Flowt has secured undisclosed pre-seed funding as it...
Egypt Emerges as New Battleground in Global Race for AI Infrastructure
Egypt Emerges as a New AI Infrastructure Battleground Egypt is increasingly becoming a strategic centre in the growing global competition...
Nigerian Scientist Leads AI Research Team in Search for Safer Breast Cancer Treatment
Nigerian Scientist Leads AI Research Into Safer Breast Cancer Treatment A Nigerian scientist, Dr Elijah Kolawole Oladipo, has led an...
Nvidia Reportedly Agrees $12.9 Billion Deal to Acquire Hugging Face
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a...
Nvidia Forecasts Strong Growth as AI Spending Boom Shows No Sign of Slowing
Nvidia has reinforced its position at the centre of the global artificial intelligence investment boom after delivering strong financial results...
Stability AI Raises $76 Million as Generative AI Race Intensifies
Stability AI, the company behind the widely known Stable Diffusion image-generation technology, has raised $76 million in a new funding...
AI Is Making Africa’s Cheapest Smartphones More Expensive for Consumers
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is beginning to create an unexpected challenge for Africa’s digital-inclusion ambitions: the smartphones needed...
Namibia’s AI Contract Cancellation Raises Questions About Digital Governance
Namibia’s cancellation of a US$2.4 million contract with US-based 6th Grain Corporation offers an important lesson for African countries pursuing...