Artificial Intelligence (AI)

GSMA’s new State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2026 warns that AI is making internet-enabled devices less affordable, even as digital services become increasingly important to everyday life.

Nigeria is extending its technology training programme to 15 additional tertiary institutions, with construction underway across 15 states. For prospective learners, however, the announcement provides locations to watch rather than courses they can apply for immediately.

Some of his predictions are only months away. Others stretch across the next decade. Taken individually, they sound extraordinary. Put together, they describe a much more radical idea about where technology is taking the economy.

Selected companies will receive coaching, technology and infrastructure support, corporate connections and other resources aimed at strengthening their products and commercial traction.

Artificial intelligence is finding practical uses in Nigeria beyond chatbots and content generation. Founders are applying it to medical documentation, agriculture, pharmaceutical data, education, financial analysis, customer service and African languages.

Apple built a custom artificial intelligence model with direct assistance from Alibaba to secure regulatory clearance in mainland China. Aggressive market pressure from domestic rivals like Huawei forced Apple to abandon its standalone global software strategy. The Chinese...

Anthropic is launching invisible text watermarks inside its Claude AI models to make machine-written text detectable. The hidden signals are designed to help teachers, editors, and bosses instantly spot work generated by AI. Students and casual users can...

Jerry Falade's debut novel sparked a 14-publisher bidding war before the deal fell apart. His literary agency withdrew the manuscript after raising concerns about AI use. Falade insists AI was used only for research, not writing or editing. ...

Musk predicts AI will surpass all human intelligence combined by 2031. Robotics and AI could make traditional jobs and retirement savings obsolete. Machines will beat humans at almost everything, except actually being human. Musk admits AI carries real...

Global air cargo rates shot up by 41% year-on-year in May 2026. High-tech shipping of microchips and servers has officially replaced cheap e-commerce as the main driver of air shipping. Cargo planes flying from Asia to North America...