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.
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
India’s Airbound Raises $37M As Drone Delivery Looks For Its Trucking Moment
India's Airbound has raised $37 million to scale ultra-light autonomous drones, giving drone logistics another chance to prove it can ...
Situational Awareness Probe Shows AI Finance Is Entering Its Reckoning
The SEC is reportedly probing Wall Street banks over Situational Awareness, showing how quickly AI-driven finance can move from market ...
Egypt’s Women In Tech Accelerator Returns With $35K Grants
Standard Chartered Foundation, Entlaq and Village Capital have launched the second Women in Tech Accelerator cohort in Egypt.
Kenya’s Cybersecurity Agency Gets Its First Board Chair
Kenya has appointed Dr Martin Koyabe as inaugural board chair of the National Cybersecurity Agency as digital risks rise.