South African startup Vambo AI has released MORENA, an open-weight 1.5-billion-parameter language model trained from scratch for 12 African languages…
Author: Sean Whitehead
African countries should not settle for being consumers of AI technology, users of solutions, or even producers of data, according…
Mastercard is partnering with the Mojaloop Foundation and AfricaNenda to bring AI fraud detection — and, more significantly, dispute resolution…
South Africa’s response to AI in higher education must go beyond whether students use the technology to complete assignments, Higher…
A cybercrime campaign investigated by Gambit Security launched 105 attack projects in five days, compromised at least 27 companies and…
Morocco’s National Defense Administration and French defence technology company Harmattan AI have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop…
Angola Cables is increasing capacity across its transatlantic submarine cables to handle AI and cloud traffic, on a route that…
Google received 1,057 applications for 15 places in its 2026 South African accelerator — its largest pool to date, and…
Standard Bank Group has expanded its partnership with Huawei to cover cloud, AI and data capabilities — including modernisation of…
Licensed electricity trader Discovery Green has launched EnergyOS, a renewable-energy operating system combining AI forecasting with the group’s actuarial modelling…