Google I/O 2025: What Africa’s tech builders need to know

More AI tools, yes, but also a strong signal to African developers, startups, and creators that the next wave of innovation is mobile, multimodal, and deeply local.

Africa Data Centres, Gold Synergy unveil self-cooling AI rack

Africa Data Centres has installed a self-cooling rack at its CPT1 facility in partnership with Gold Synergy, marking a significant step towards energy-efficient, scalable infrastructure solutions for high-density computing across Africa.

Kenyan Logistics Startup Leta Secures $5M to Scale AI-Powered Platform

Nairobi-based logistics startup Leta has secured $5 million in seed funding to expand its AI-driven optimization platform. With backing from Speedinvest and Google’s Africa Investment Fund, Leta aims to reduce logistics costs and improve supply chain efficiency across Africa.

Airtel Nigeria launches AI-powered spam alert system to combat SMS fraud

The AI system analyses message content, sender behaviour, and scam patterns to identify suspicious SMS messages.

The complete starter pack to hosting Deepseek R1 chatbot locally (CodeGPT, Ollama and LM Studio setups)

This guide shows you how to take advantage of open-source AI to design your own private and flexible chatbot.

Rivals, Getty and Shutterstock to merge as competition heats up in the AI image generation space

Getty and Shutterstock, two rivals who have gone toe-to-toe for 20 years are merging off the back of competition from new AI image-gen startups. Who's next?

In major rejig, Uganda is jumping into deep tech

The East African country aims to address challenges in healthcare, agriculture, and energy through innovation and collaboration among stakeholders

7 AI Research Assistants you can use in 2024

AI simplifies research and data gathering. Below are 7 top AI tools that can make your research tasks easier.

Alliance for AI facilitates practical session on scaling artificial intelligence solutions

Alliance for AI had a practical session with Facebook Accelerator startups on how they can scale their artificial intelligence solutions across Africa and beyond.