Engineering analysis, policy scrutiny and field reporting on how artificial intelligence is built, funded and governed across Africa.
Paycorp's Pilot has launched Navigator, an AI-driven intelligence layer that analyses restaurant sales, purchasing and operational data.
New benchmark datasets and evaluation frameworks are emerging to measure AI progress on African languages, replacing ad-hoc testing with rigorous, reproducible assessments.
Agentic AI can operate inside processes, reason across information, use approved tools, interact with enterprise systems and take action within defined boundari
Courts across Africa are piloting AI translation systems to process legal documents in multiple languages, improving access to justice for non-English speaking citizens.
Ethiopian researchers are developing NLP tools for Amharic, tackling the unique challenges of the Ge ez script and a morphologically rich language structure.
With the tax deadline just over a month away, fraudsters use AI to make phishing scams targeting SARS taxpayers more convincing.
Funding for African language AI research is unevenly distributed, with major languages receiving disproportionate attention while hundreds of smaller languages remain underserved.
The agentic CRM firm unveiled several agents at its Dreamforce 2026 event this week.
South Africa’s Information Regulator was established nearly a decade ago, but the data environment it oversees has changed significantly, says chairperson advoc
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