AI in Africa: Ministers confront AI anxiety and the data divide driving it
Before the exhibition halls opened at the Africa Tech Festival and before the big-name tech sponsors took the stage, the conversation about AI in Africa had already turned philosophical at the 2025 Ministerial Forum. Hover Gao, Huawei’s President for Sub-Saharan Africa, had just closed his keynote with a rallying cry for “national computing power” and […]
Africa’s AI leap won’t come from copy-pasting global trends
Africa’s AI leap needs power and vision
Solly Malatsi: ‘Wise choices’ will define the AI era, not machines
When South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, took the stage at the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town on Monday, the message was clear: Africa’s AI future must be built, not borrowed. Each year, a day before the Africa Tech Festival begins, Huawei and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) team up […]
Google AI in Action event shows just how fast the future is moving
From isiZulu chatbots to AI filmmaking, here’s what went down in Johannesburg this week.
Axel Springer’s CEO set the new global standard for AI in newsrooms
If Axel Springer can mandate AI, why can’t SA newsrooms follow suit?
AI Agents are coming for your workflow (in a good way)
A quarter of companies using Gen AI will launch agentic AI pilots this year.
A robot artist painted King Charles III. Yep, at the UN…
Meet the robot artist making royal history with oil and code.
‘Reckless’: AI experts say xAI’s Grok 4 safety practices are a hot mess
xAI’s ‘reckless rollout’ of Grok 4 could do more harm than good.
Stanford study: When AI therapy chatbots go wrong
More people than ever are turning to AI chatbots for help with mental health.
Grok update: xAI blames code tweak for Grok’s offensive outbursts
Grok went rogue after a 16-hour update made it mirror hate speech on X.