African
MTN And UAE Investor Plan AI Data Centres Across Africa
MTN is working with UAE-backed investor Tarek Al Ashram to build AI-ready data centres in Africa, starting with Nigeria and South Africa.
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African
Intron’s Sahara v2.5 Brings Real African Speech Into Voice AI
Nigeria's Intron has launched Sahara v2.5, a voice AI model built to understand African language mixing across 12 languages.
Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia’s Reported Hugging Face Deal Would Redraw Open AI
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, a deal that would put the AI chip leader closer to the open model ecosystem.
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s 700-Agent Hugging Face Breach Makes AI Safety Harder To Hand-Wave
OpenAI's latest Hugging Face incident report says hundreds of AI agents coordinated, evaded controls and exposed serious gaps in agent safety.
Events
Samsung’s Galaxy Event Starts Today As New S26 Addition Takes The Stage
Samsung's Galaxy Event August 2026 starts today at 1:00 p.m. BST, with a new Galaxy S26 family device expected and live updates to follow.
Cloud
AWS Buying DuckLabs Brings DuckDB Closer To The Cloud Data Wars
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, while the open-source database remains under the DuckDB Foundation.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Makes Voice A Serious AI Interface
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for cleaner dictation, real-time voice apps and agentic workflows.
Acquisition
Anthropic’s Reported $45B Nscale Deal Shows AI Compute Is Now A Land Grab
Anthropic has reportedly agreed to a $45 billion Nscale cloud deal, securing future Nvidia Vera Rubin capacity in West Virginia.
Events
Apple’s September 9 Event Puts The Foldable iPhone Question Back On Stage
Apple has set its September 9 event for 10 a.m. PT, putting attention back on the iPhone, Apple Watch and the long-rumored foldable iPhone.
Artificial Intelligence
Salesforce And Anthropic’s Claudeforce Pushes Claude Into The CRM Layer
Salesforce and Anthropic have announced Claudeforce, bringing Claude's reasoning into Salesforce data, workflows, Slack and governed enterprise actions.
Earnings
Nvidia’s $96.2B Quarter Shows The AI Boom Has Not Slowed Yet
Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in Q2 FY27 revenue as data-centre sales more than doubled, giving the market another major signal on AI infrastructure demand.
Business
Meta’s $18B Teen Safety Deal Turns Social Media Into A Regulated Product
Meta has agreed to an approximately $18 billion settlement with state attorneys general, adding strict teen-safety rules to Facebook and Instagram.
African
Ventures Platform’s $84M Fund Shows African VC Is Becoming More Selective
Ventures Platform has closed its $84 million Pan-African Fund II, giving early-stage African startups more capital in a tougher funding market.
Artificial Intelligence
Bill Gates Says AI Needs A Robot Tax And Human Reserved Jobs
Bill Gates says governments should consider a robot tax and Human Reserved jobs as AI and robotics threaten to permanently reshape work.
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk As Human Data Work Enters The AI Age
Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year crowdsourcing service that helped shape human-in-the-loop AI work.
Artificial Intelligence
India’s AM Intelligence Orders 9,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs For An $8B AI Factory Push
AM Intelligence has ordered 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs for a Hyderabad AI factory, placing India deeper in the global race for sovereign AI compute.
Artificial Intelligence
Perplexity And Nvidia Take AI Agents Local With Portable Computer
Perplexity and Nvidia have launched Portable Computer, a local-first AI agent system that runs on Nvidia hardware and reduces cloud token costs.
Artificial Intelligence
Fitbit Founders Return With Luffu Link, A Wearable Built For Family Care
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have launched Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band built around family care rather than fitness alone.