South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has suspended its Chief Executive Officer Abel Sithole following allegations contained in a whistleblower report. He was placed on precautionary ...

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6, its newest family of artificial intelligence models, while reaffirming that the technology will remain the preferred model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot. The release ...

Last year, Kredete, a startup founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Adeola Adedewe that enables Africans in the diaspora to build credit profiles through their remittance activity, raised a US$22 million ...

Nigeria has launched an investigation into major global technology companies, including Meta, Alphabet, X and several generative AI platforms, following allegations that their business practices are ...

Refiant AI, a California startup founded by South African mathematician Dr Viroshan Naicker, is claiming to have compressed a 120-billion-parameter model to run on a MacBook Pro. It says it has ...

Hong Kong stocks rallied sharply on Wednesday as investors shrugged off concerns over a record wave of post-IPO lock-up expiries, easing fears that a flood of newly tradable shares would trigger ...

The International Monetary Fund cleared $464 million for Ethiopia on July 1, plus a $200 million rephasing tied to war-driven fuel costs, lifting total disbursements under the country’s 48-month, $3.4 ...

Dangote Group plans to finance its proposed 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Kenya through a combination of internal cash flow, bond issuances and an initial public offering, making it one of ...

Companies that have rapidly adopted generative artificial intelligence tools have been undermining institutional knowledge and reducing the quality of their work unless they carefully manage how the ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has rebranded as SpaceXAI, completing its integration into SpaceX as the billionaire consolidates his AI, aerospace and social media businesses. The ...

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Christian Capes-Davies, Global Head of Distribution and Innovation at Relm Insurance, explains how the rapid convergence of artificial intelligence, blockchain ...

Anthropic plans to develop its own drugs targeting neglected diseases, marking one of the clearest moves yet by a major artificial intelligence company into pharmaceutical development, even as experts ...