Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked …
A developer in Nairobi argues that the European Union AI Act is unfit for African contexts, citing assumptions about regulatory capacity, data quality, and consumer recourse that do not hold in Kenya.…
African Union ministers met in Tangier, Morocco, in April to discuss AI as governments across the continent race to develop strategies and attract investment, but concerns grow over foreign control of…
PowWater, a startup building an operating system for water delivery, is expanding to Mexico City after processing billions of liters in Kenya. The company uses a Python/FastAPI/PostgreSQL stack and in…
A developer has built 31 MCP servers providing AI agents with structured access to East African institutional data, including M-PESA, county government, drought classifications, land titles, and healt…
President Lee Jae Myung will attend the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss global challenges including wars in Ukraine and Iran, financial instability, and AI risks. This marks the secon…
On April 20, 2026, Moonshot AI shipped Kimi Agent Swarm K2.6, featuring 300 parallel sub-agents and 4,000 coordinated steps per run. The system's effectiveness in East Africa is enhanced by a pre-exis…
The 52nd G7 Leaders Summit convenes in Evian-les-Bains from 15 to 17 June 2026, with the agenda dominated by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, global economic imbalances, critical mineral sourc…
SharkFlow Legal has deployed a mobile-first AI legal advice platform designed to address Africa's severe lawyer-to-business ratio, where Kenya has fewer than 15,000 lawyers for over 5 million register…
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat…
Engineering behind TitleTrust, an AI-powered land fraud detection system built for Kenya to combat systematic land theft, including "air supply" scams where non-existent plots are sold. The system use…