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Why MCP and Claude Skills Matter More Than Open Weights Alone
The headlines about open-source AI keep circling back to model weights whether they should be public, who controls …
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How AI, Blockchain, and Tokenization Are Transforming Modern Finance
Over the years, blockchain has moved from being a niche idea to becoming one of the major technologies shaping modern…
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ChatGPT Can Now Tap Into Your Company’s Google Drive and Slack: OpenAI’s New “Company Knowledge”
When OpenAI said ChatGPT was getting smarter, it wasn’t just about reasoning or memory. The company is now giving ChatG…
Oreoluwa Ayannubi
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Rwanda Launches $17.5M AI Scaling Hub with Support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Rwanda is positioning itself as the continent’s nerve center for responsible AI innovation. Backed by a $17.5 million …
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Locstat Secures $2.3 Million to Take South African AI Innovation Global
When a South African startup starts talking about “graph-powered AI,” you know it’s not another run-of-the-mill analyt…
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Cairo’s Nanovate Raises $1M to Build Arabic-Native AI and Expand Across MENA
Cairo-based artificial intelligence startup Nanovate has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to advance its missio…
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Madica Expands North Africa Footprint with Investments in AI Startups Anavid and Hypeo AI
Madica, the pan-African investment initiative backed by Flourish Ventures, has announced new investments in two North A…
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UNILAG Becomes Home to OpenAI’s First African AI Academy
OpenAI has launched its first African AI Academy in partnership with the University of Lagos (UNILAG), marking a milest…
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IBM and Anthropic Partner to Bring Claude AI into Enterprise Software
IBM has partnered with Anthropic to bring the Claude family of large language models into its enterprise software ecosy…
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Ethiopia’s COOP Bank Partners Huawei on AI-Powered Green Data Centers
Ethiopia’s financial sector is entering a new phase of digital acceleration, with Huawei Digital Power and the Coopera…
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Toyota Commits $1.5 Billion to AI, Automation, and Climate Startups Worldwide
Toyota is making another bold move to future-proof its business. The automaker has announced a $1.5 billion commitment…
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CoreWeave Lands $14 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal with Meta
Meta has taken another big step in its race to dominate AI by signing a multi-year, $14.2 billion deal with CoreWeave …
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Nokia and Nscale Join Forces to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure
Nokia has teamed up with Nscale, a UK-based AI-native infrastructure platform, in a move set to reshape the global AI i…
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The Environmental Cost of AI Data Centers in Africa
In Lagos, just outside the bustle of Victoria Island, a sleek new data center stands tall with glass walls and cooling…
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