The GSMA has announced two major initiatives aimed at closing Africa’s digital divide — one focused on smartphone affordability and…
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In a continent where more than 40 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs) remain offline, Nigerian startup Kofounda is breaking…
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Google, and musician, tech founder, and philanthropist will.i.am have announced a new initiative to equip…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled N-ATLAS, an open-source multilingual and multimodal large language model designed to support Yoruba,…
South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, opened the G20 Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance…
A team of African researchers has unveiled African Next Voices, the largest known AI-ready dataset for African languages, aiming to…
While large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini are transforming work, education, and communication globally, most remain…
More than 20 countries worldwide have restricted access to ChatGPT, including nine in Africa, according to a July 2025 report…
Orange has announced a major deepening of its collaboration with OpenAI, bringing African language support and sovereign AI infrastructure into…
South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, has called for a unified national approach to artificial intelligence…