Tag: Technology
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🇳🇬 Flutterwave CEO Joins Global Technology Advisory Board Backed by Silicon Valley Leaders
Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola has joined the Founders Council of the Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board, a global technology initiative co-chaired by leaders including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and AMD’s Lisa Su. The appointment gives Africa a prominent voice in discussions surrounding artificial intelligence, technology…
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🇺🇸 T.I. Invests in Black-Owned AI Content Company Pocstock
Rapper and entrepreneur T.I. has invested in Pocstock, a Black-owned content and data licensing company working to expand culturally representative AI datasets while giving creators greater control over how their work is licensed, used and monetized.
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🌍 panafrican.email Enters a New Phase: Explore the Latest Upgrades Before the App Store Launch
Panafrican.email is entering a new phase with upgrades to its Messenger and Intelligence / Recon platforms. Explore the latest web-based experience for a limited time before the platform moves toward its App Store release, and help shape the next generation of the Panafrican.email ecosystem through testing and feedback.
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🇨🇩 KoBold Metals uses AI to search for critical minerals in Congo
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in Africa, African Business, Bauxite, Geopolitics, Gold, Investment, Iron Ore, Lithium, Minerals, MiningKoBold Metals is using artificial intelligence, geological data, satellite imagery and thousands of soil samples to search for lithium and other critical minerals around Manono in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project highlights a new phase of African mineral exploration — where AI and geological intelligence are becoming as strategically important as the resources…
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🇬🇭 Ghana Is Open for Business: Mahama Takes Investment Message to Nasdaq
The core event details are confirmed by Nasdaq, Ghana’s Information Services Department, and the Ghana News Agency. Nasdaq lists the closing-bell ceremony for September 23, 2026, and explicitly describes it as highlighting Ghana’s openness to business. President John Dramani Mahama has used a high-profile Nasdaq closing-bell ceremony in New York to declare that Ghana is…
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🇨🇳 Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Meets a New AI Reality: Chinese Open-Source Models, Flagship Pressure and Pentagon Ties
By Panafrican.email Staff Anthropic is preparing for what could become one of the most closely watched technology initial public offerings in the artificial-intelligence era. But as the U.S. AI company builds its case for public-market investors, it is confronting a rapidly changing competitive landscape in which expensive frontier models are no longer guaranteed to dominate…
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Former Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Race Could Put Humanity at Risk
By Panafrican.email News DeskSeptember 10, 2026 A former researcher at artificial intelligence company Anthropic has issued a stark warning about the direction of the global AI race, arguing that the world’s leading technology companies may be moving toward increasingly powerful systems faster than researchers can establish reliable safeguards. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked in AI…
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🇺🇸 Bill Gates Warns AI Industry Is Underplaying the Risks as Calls Grow to Protect Human Jobs
By Panafrican.email News Desk Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has issued one of his strongest warnings yet about the rapid development of artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology industry may be moving faster than society can safely manage. Gates says some people inside the technology sector are privately far more concerned about artificial intelligence than they…
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🐻From LinkedIn to the AI Economy: Why Its Founders Sold—and What They Saw Coming for the Future of Work
By Pan African News When LinkedIn was launched in 2003, the idea of building a global digital network around a person’s professional identity was still largely untested. The internet had social networks, job boards and corporate websites, but there was no dominant platform designed to connect a person’s identity, skills, career history, professional relationships and…
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Kofi Asante Makes History as First Black Founder of a Nuclear Energy Startup to Raise $10 Million
By Staff Writer In a landmark achievement for innovation, clean energy, and Black entrepreneurship, Kofi Asante has become the first Black founder of a nuclear energy startup to raise $10 million in venture capital funding. His company, Bluecore Energy, secured an oversubscribed pre-seed investment round, marking a historic milestone in one of the world’s most…