As Valentine’s Day approaches, federal law enforcement agencies across the United States are issuing urgent warnings about a...
EDITOR'S PICKS
Kenya is the world's fifth-largest user of stablecoins, with 6.1 million people (10.71% of the population) now using cryptocurrency for remittances, payments, and savings
“Journalists and media owners in the Global South need to make this scrutiny a central part of our work, especially because our governments aren’t doing it — and show no sign that they plan to anytime soon.”
TOP TRENDING
As companies increasingly integrate artificial intelligence into their operations, a critical question emerges: are we, as a society...
At the DAT Summit Hong Kong, EDENA Capital Partners introduced what it called the world’s first artificial intelligence-driven...
For most British undergraduates, generative artificial intelligence has become less a novelty than a fixture of academic life....
Valentine’s Day in Kenya is shifting from grand gestures to quiet reflection, according to a report from Spotify....
As Valentine’s Day approaches, federal law enforcement agencies across the United States are issuing urgent warnings about a...
Binance launched a community-focused safety campaign in Kenya today, seeking to link everyday physical safety practices with digital...
At Dreamforce, Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Sales, a new vision for customer relationship management built around autonomous agents designed...
Kenya is the world's fifth-largest user of stablecoins, with 6.1 million people (10.71% of the population) now using cryptocurrency for remittances, payments, and savings
“Journalists and media owners in the Global South need to make this scrutiny a central part of our work, especially because our governments aren’t doing it — and show no sign that they plan to anytime soon.”
FUTURISM
You Can Now Create Music Using Google’s Gemini App
Analytically, the introduction of Lyria 3 underscores a broader shift in how technology companies define creativity. Music generation joins text, images and video as media forms that can now be assembled through prompts rather than instruments or studios. By lowering the barrier to composition, Google is effectively redefining music creation as an extension of conversational computing
Britain’s New Data Law Is Reshaping How Students Use AI
As the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 rolls out, British universities are entering a new phase of the artificial intelligence era, one in which widespread student reliance on generative tools collides with stricter rules on automated decision-making, privacy safeguards and accountability, reshaping not whether students use A.I., but how cautiously and consciously they do so
BOOTH: Three Predictions for Fintech in Africa in 2026
"In 2026, we shall likely see regional consolidation, with a few dominant payment rails connecting multiple countries and offering interoperability. For fintechs, this presents a chance to power a new era of digital trade."
AWS Partners in Kenya Can Earn Seven Times the Cloud Sold – Omdia Report
The long-term takeaway is that the $7.13 multiplier is not simply a reward for selling more cloud volume; it is a marker of depth in advisory, in architecture, in AI, and in the ability to retain customers for long
Quantum AI Moves from Lab to Industry, Africa Seeks Role in Global Innovation
The fusion of quantum computing and AI is redefining computational limits and problem-solving capabilities, and African researchers are positioning themselves to make meaningful contributions on the international stage
Ghana Joins the Global Quantum Conversation
If the world was searching for evidence that Africa intends to shape frontier science rather than wait for its outcomes, it arrived in the form of a student-driven hackathon and a campus buzzing with the possibility that quantum tools might one day help solve problems rooted in their own soil
OYETAYO: Why Embedded Finance is the Missing Link for Kenyan Marketplaces
As Kenyan marketplaces expand regionally, they increasingly serve customers in Uganda and Tanzania. Cross-border purchases are a growth vector, but currency fragmentation and manual conversions deter buyers and sellers. Embedded payments with built-in currency routing can solve this
4IR STARTUPS
Can a Swiss Startup Really Make Smartphones Sovereign?
For now, Soverli sits at the uneasy intersection of geopolitical ambition and platform reality, betting that the next battle over digital sovereignty will be fought not in data centers, but in the phones people already carry in their pockets
Latitude59 Targets Africa’s Next Innovation Wave at Nairobi Conference
The expansion of the Estonian event reflects growing interest from European institutions and investors in Africa’s tech markets, where demand for capital, skills and cross-border partnerships continues to rise
Can AI Finally Fix America’s Broken Construction Machine?
America's infrastructure boom demands trillions in factories, data centers, and grids—yet costs have doubled and timelines tripled since the 1960s. Can this AI startup finally hack construction's chaos?
Industrial AR Leader RealWear Seeks to Define the Industry Standard by Licensing Ari OS
With the launch of Ari OS, RealWear is making hands-free, voice first computing a true reality for the frontline workforce through a powerful new voice-first operating system. Launching with the RealWear Arc 3, Ari OS empowers workers to control applications and access AI-assisted workflows using natural language.
AI Startup Onton Raises $7.5M to Reinvent the Way You Decide What to Buy
Its novel neurosymbolic AI foundation, a next generation search and inspiration engine, now helps more than 2 million monthly users cut through complexity, find products they trust, and make confident decisions instantly
Albatross Raises $12.5 Million to Reinvent Real-time Product Discovery
While much of the industry focuses on large language models that generate content, Albatross is building the second pillar of AI: understanding how users perceive and interact with content in real time. It is built on transformer-based architecture with sequential embedding models trained directly on live events
Hummink Raises $17 Million to Repair the Smallest Flaws in Electronics
Behind the funding round is a growing belief that precision at the sub micron level will decide who leads the next wave of microelectronics
METAVERSE
Google is extending its generative artificial intelligence ambitions into music, adding a new feature to its Gemini app...
Unilever and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership aimed at reshaping how consumer packaged goods are discovered, marketed,...
Companies racing to block artificial intelligence bots from scraping their websites may be undermining their own ability to...
For most British undergraduates, generative artificial intelligence has become less a novelty than a fixture of academic life....
At Dreamforce, Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Sales, a new vision for customer relationship management built around autonomous agents designed...
Global data science and AI competition platform Zindi, has partnered with the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre to stage...
Inside the cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week, Amazon Web Services set out an...
Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands...
As artificial intelligence sweeps across economies and governments alike, a quieter crisis is unfolding beneath the excitement: the...
EDITOR'S PICKS
As Valentine’s Day approaches, federal law enforcement agencies across the United States are issuing urgent warnings about a...
Kenya is the world's fifth-largest user of stablecoins, with 6.1 million people (10.71% of the population) now using cryptocurrency for remittances, payments, and savings
“Journalists and media owners in the Global South need to make this scrutiny a central part of our work, especially because our governments aren’t doing it — and show no sign that they plan to anytime soon.”
BLOCKCHAIN
EDENA Unveils AI-Driven ‘Autonomic Financial OS’ Aimed at Sovereign Assets
At a Hong Kong summit that brought together senior government officials and leading blockchain executives, EDENA Capital Partners introduced what it describes as the first artificial intelligence-driven master rail for sovereign and state-linked assets, a system designed to automate issuance, compliance and settlement while moving more than $20 billion in initial public infrastructure and energy projects onto blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
Binance Links Road Safety to Digital Asset Protection in Kenya Campaign
As crypto adoption accelerates in Kenya and the country moves toward ratifying a digital assets law signed by President William Ruto last October, Binance is using a community safety campaign to stress the importance of user protection as more Kenyans enter the regulated crypto market
M-Pesa’s $450 Billion Network Meets the $300 Billion Global Stablecoin Economy
Kenya is the world's fifth-largest user of stablecoins, with 6.1 million people (10.71% of the population) now using cryptocurrency for remittances, payments, and savings
CV VC Deepens Africa Portfolio With Blockchain-Enabled Startups
From digital address verification to cross-border payments, CV VC is backing entrepreneurs who are transforming local challenges into platforms with continental and global relevance, positioning Africa as a critical player in the next wave of technological disruption
Crypto Content Creators Embrace AI and Authenticity to Navigate the Age of Finfluencers
As AI and cultural shifts reshape content creation, the campus highlighted how authenticity remains the essential currency for creators poised to influence the next decade
A Personal Tribute: Monica Singer, the Visionary Who Believed in Blockchain
Prof Monica Singer was more than a pioneer in blockchain and finance. She was a tireless fighter against corruption, a mentor to young women in technology, and a good soul who believed that systems could be fair and people could be trusted
After Kenya Legalized Crypto, Tether Has Invested in Kotani Pay
With Kenya’s new crypto law in place, Tether’s backing of Kotani Pay highlights the growing convergence of regulation, innovation, and financial inclusion across Africa
AI / BIG DATA
You Can Now Create Music Using Google’s Gemini App
Analytically, the introduction of Lyria 3 underscores a broader shift in how technology companies define creativity. Music generation joins text, images and video as media forms that can now be assembled through prompts rather than instruments or studios. By lowering the barrier to composition, Google is effectively redefining music creation as an extension of conversational computing
As Companies Block AI Bots, Assistants Are Quietly Rewriting Their Brands
A new analysis of 66.7 billion bot interactions suggests businesses trying to wall off A.I. training systems may be ceding influence to the assistants that now summarize prices, compare products and shape customer decisions.
Britain’s New Data Law Is Reshaping How Students Use AI
As the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 rolls out, British universities are entering a new phase of the artificial intelligence era, one in which widespread student reliance on generative tools collides with stricter rules on automated decision-making, privacy safeguards and accountability, reshaping not whether students use A.I., but how cautiously and consciously they do so
Salesforce Links ChatGPT Directly to Live CRM Data
The integration links OpenAI’s models with Salesforce’s CRM system, aiming to reduce the friction of modern sales work while expanding the reach of autonomous agents beyond Salesforce’s own products
Zindi Hackathon Aims to Fix What AI Gets Wrong About Caribbean Speech
In a region long overlooked by global technology systems, a new hackathon is using local voices and data to challenge how artificial intelligence understands speech
AWS Bets on Agentic AI as Kenyan Firms Prepare for 2026 Shift
What is unfolding now is less a race against machines than a chance to redesign how work gets done. For Kenyan companies and cloud developers, agentic AI promises something rare in technology: leverage instead of replacement, speed without sacrifice, and scale without surrendering control
Opaque Networks in Kenya are Fueling China’s Global AI Ambitions
While AI promises a future of speed and intelligence, its foundation in Kenya is built on the overlooked labor of young workers, navigating opaque networks and grueling hours for pennies a day. As the world marvels at artificial minds, the human cost of their training remains largely invisible, an unvarnished reminder that the AI boom rests on fragile, undervalued hands
CYBER SECURITY
As Valentine’s Day approaches, federal law enforcement agencies across the United States are issuing urgent warnings about a...
Cyber attacks across Africa are rising fast and becoming more sophisticated, with criminals now leaning on artificial intelligence...
Zerik Security has announced that TekGenio Inc., a global technology solutions company, will participate in the ZerikCyber25 Conference...
Britain’s push to roll out a new national digital identity card, the so-called “Brit card,” is being hailed...
The United Kingdom has taken a dramatic step in its fight against cybercrime: banning public bodies and critical...
A man in his forties has been arrested in connection with a cyberattack that crippled check-in systems at...
Passengers across Europe endured another day of delays on Monday as airports struggled with the fallout from a...
Cybercriminals don’t just target systems, they target people. Nearly 95% of cyber incidents stem from preventable human error,...
Kenya’s digital economy is under unprecedented pressure from cybercrime, with financial losses mounting amid a surge in cyber...