Reddit's r/opensource now bars projects that use or target AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-English posts. Here is what the rules say and why developers are furious.
OpenAI has added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, including Nigeria and South Africa, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns. Only 11 of the new markets are named.
Granite Speech 5.0 is IBM's free, open speech model: transcription in six languages, fast on-device recognition and better meeting notes. What it does, and lacks.
Recursive Flint is a free, Apache 2.0 coding model that runs offline on a laptop. What it does, how fast it is, its limits, and what it means for developers.
Claude Duet is Anthropic's new background AI agent that watches your apps and does tasks while you're away. What it does, its limits, and who can get it now.
Africa-focused digital health platform Waspito has launched AHIM (African Health Intelligent Model), an AI-powered assistant accessible via WhatsApp. Designed to streamline clinical triage and facilitate consultations, laboratory orders, and prescription deliveries, the service aims to expand healthcare access across sub-Saharan Africa.
Software engineer Randy Kimbi has developed an AI framework that uses standard computer webcams to track student attention and issue audio alerts when learners lose focus. The EdTech innovation is set to power Gizami, an emerging online academy for practical tech skills.
Civil society leaders across Africa have called for urgent legal guardrails against artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and digital campaign manipulation. Speaking at the Third Electoral Integrity Summit in Accra, experts warned that unmonitored technology threatens democratic trust across the continent.
Uber was fined €825 million for deactivating drivers by algorithm with no human review. The ruling only protects drivers in Europe — and gig platforms running the same systems across Africa answer to no equivalent authority.
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
Kongnyuy Evans is emerging as a new voice in Cameroon’s digital marketing space. Through Evans Consulting, he is helping businesses, founders and creators understand marketing, build stronger digital brands and use AI more strategically.
Anthropic’s new flagship model Claude Opus 5 has claimed the top position on independent AI benchmark indexes while cutting per-token costs in half. Here is what shipped, how it compares to GPT-5.6, and what it means for enterprise budget allocation.
Streaming responses, hopeful reconnects and generous payloads all assume a connection that a great many users do not have.
Annotation, moderation and evaluation are done by people, a great many of them in East and West Africa, and the conditions attached deserve more attention than they get.
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