The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will a…
Adebayo Alonge's RxScanner, which uses AI to detect counterfeit medication, failed during a 2019 demo in Cape Town due to unreliable network connectivity. His team quickly developed a smaller, offline…
Visa forecasts 2.6% global economic growth in 2026, citing a surge in business investment in artificial intelligence and clean energy, along with digital commerce helping to contain inflation, as cons…
A developer built FarmOps Desk, an AI-powered operations SaaS for smallholder livestock farms, and chose a Nigerian poultry and catfish farm as its first customer. Nigeria's dense poultry and catfish …
A developer built Placemappr (placemappr.com), a free AI-powered relocation tool that compares 95 countries and 668 cities. The platform uses Next.js, Supabase, and Groq API to provide personalized re…
Global stock markets are surging on AI-driven profits and optimism about US tech giants, but warning signs from the World Bank and economists about slowing GDP growth, high debt levels, and hawkish mo…
The World Bank approved $650 million in programs for Morocco on June 12, 2026, including a $250 million digital transformation program supporting AI innovation centers and startup financing under the …
A new analysis identifies critical gaps in AI governance, including the lack of standardized metrics for regulatory adequacy and efficacy, as existing indices like OECD.AI and Stanford HAI measure onl…
Fortune's 2026 analysis shows Nvidia's $4.24 trillion market capitalization exceeds Japan's $4.03 trillion GDP, making the chipmaker larger than the world's fourth-largest economy if treated as a coun…
The article describes the AfriData Pipeline, a production-grade ETL system built with Python, DuckDB, and the free World Bank API that extracts and processes economic data for all 54 African countries…
A developer's hands-on testing of Google's Gemma 4 models for a healthcare AI project in Africa. The author found that the 26B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model outperformed the larger 31B dense model fo…