Africa’s first multilingual small language model, InkubaLM, has been compressed by 75% without losing performance - making it ...

Botlhale AI, a South African startup founded in 2019, is helping enterprises understand what’s said in the 70% of customer calls that aren’t in English.

EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) have joined a €10-million Africa-EU initiative to scale an AI-powered tool that improves tuberculosis (TB) ...

In a major move to modernize public service, Kenya will roll out a nationwide artificial intelligence (AI) training program ...

As AI reshapes the world, Shneiderman’s advocacy for Human-Centered AI (HCAI) is more relevant than ever. He argues for ...

AI is no longer just a buzzword - it’s driving the next wave of transformation, says Timo Elliott, vice president and global innovation evangelist at SAP.

Absa Bank has become the first financial institution in Africa - and one of the first globally - to deploy agentic AI for customer use, according to ...

Applications are now open for the 2025 Llama Impact Accelerator, an AI-focused program supporting startups in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Senegal. The ...

For Sarah Franklin, CEO of $3 billion employee performance platform Lattice, the word “balance” is key - especially as ...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is under renewed scrutiny following the release of its updated R1 model, with researchers suggesting ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told shareholders that the company’s generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) ...

Kenya, with general elections due in two years, is taking early steps. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been consulting ...