A software designer from Lagos has built Captain, an AI travel agent that operates as a Telegram bot, using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 as its generalist model and specialist models for tasks like tri…
The AI Salon, a nonprofit founded in San Francisco in 2023, has expanded to Bengaluru and Lagos, hosting small-group discussions to humanize the AI boom, while the AI Collective, a Silicon Valley nonp…
Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI development must outpace adversaries, claiming that whoever builds advanced AI first shapes the world's defaults. The piece critiques this…
A developer explains the real-world latency behind LLM API calls, tracing the journey from user prompt through submarine cables to data centers and GPUs. The post highlights how geographic distance, e…
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…
An 18-year-old developer in Lagos, Nigeria, built and launched a premium restaurant landing page template with a dark, cinematic design featuring gold accents. Using AI-assisted development tools, the…
The article introduces "Software Sovereignty," the principle that AI applications should function fully on local hardware without relying on cloud servers. It argues that Google's Gemma 4 models, part…
GDP statistics in many poor countries are often unreliable, citing examples like Nigeria and Ghana, where methodological changes (such as updating base years) caused reported GDP to suddenly increase …