Category: A.I.
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Silicon Valley and the Ghosts of Empire: How Surveillance Capitalism Became Africa’s New Colonial Frontier
From the streets of Nairobi to the boardrooms of Lagos, African users are being sold a seductive promise: that Big Tech and digital currencies represent liberation, leapfrogging, and a break from old power structures. But beneath the glossy veneer of innovation lies a far more sinister inheritance. A recent forensic examination of Silicon Valley’s origins…
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Adobe Acrobat can now generate presentations and audio podcasts from your documents
The features build on PDF Spaces. Back in August, Adobe debuted Acrobat Studio. The new service saw Adobe bring the humble PDF into the 21st century with support for a handful of new genAI features, including PDF Spaces, a hub where you can upload up to 100 documents and have AI summarize them. Now the…
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Beyond Science Fiction? Harvard Study Suggests Aliens Could Walk Among Us
A provocative new study from researchers at Harvard University is challenging not just what we know about extraterrestrial life, but where we should be looking for it. The paper posits a startling theory: that aliens may not be arriving in glowing saucers, but could already be living on Earth, seamlessly integrated into human society. The…
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 U.S. Cracks Down on AI Export Network, Raising Questions for Africa’s Tech Ambitions For Pan African News Wire
Federal authorities in the United States have unveiled a major international operation, arresting several individuals implicated in a complex scheme to illegally export advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The operation, which investigators describe as “widespread,” has identified links to China, reigniting global debates about tech sovereignty, innovation access, and the geopolitical race for AI supremacy—a…
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Oracle, TikTok & algorithms: Manipulating minds on Israel
Oracle’s Ellison in TikTok Takeover: A Bid to Sway US Youth on Israel, Analysts Claim A controversial plan to reshape American public opinion on Israel through the powerful algorithms of TikTok is reportedly underway, led by a powerful consortium of U.S. tech and political figures. According to a new analysis, the potential takeover of TikTok’s…
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AI in the Courtroom: Is ChatGPT Replacing Lawyers in Africa?
The future of African law is not just in law libraries, but in algorithms and data clouds. Imagine a lawyer in a Johannesburg courtroom, citing a precedent that doesn’t exist. Not by intention, but because an artificial intelligence tool invented it . This recent case in South Africa underscores a profound transformation sweeping across Africa’s…
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🇺🇸 Gavin Newsom signs first-in-nation AI safety law
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will force major AI companies to reveal their safety protocols — marking the end of a lobbying battle with big tech companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Meta and setting the groundwork for a potential national standard. The proposal was the…
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🇦🇱 Albania’s Digital Dawn: Meet Diella, The World’s First AI Minister
In a move that has captured global attention, the Balkan nation of Albania has become the first country in the world to appoint an artificial intelligence to a cabinet-level position. Named Diella, which means “sun” in Albanian, this virtual minister is tasked with a critical mission: eradicating corruption in public procurement [citation:1][citation:9]. The appointment was…
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The linguistic diversity of Africa and Its absence in AI development
Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world’s languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates – many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is both an issue of a lack of investment and readily available data. Most AI tools, such as ChatGPT,…
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Geoffrey Hinton: The Benediction AI Pioneer
In October 2024, Geoffrey Hinton, alongside John Hopfield, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work in neural networks and deep learning—foundational to today’s AI systems . Known as the “Godfather of AI,” Hinton has played a central role in advancing machine learning—from backpropagation to Boltzmann machines and beyond . However, in 2023, he…
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