6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (217+ words) An Ethiopian self-taught software developer has won a major international Amazon technology competition with an artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline " addressing one of Africa's most persistent infrastructure challenges. Natnael Getenew Zeleke, 24, emerged as the global winner of…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (786+ words) i Africa. com How AI, innovation and technology are transforming the way Africans live, work and play. Dariel Warns AI-Assisted Coding Could Hollow Out South Africa's Junior Developer Pipeline AI-assisted software development is reshaping South Africa's technology workforce, with growing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (852+ words) i Africa. com A team of four Nigerian graduates under 25 is building Reedapt, an AI-powered dubbing and real-time multilingual streaming platform aimed at Nollywood filmmakers, churches and African content creators whose work struggles to travel beyond English-speaking audiences. The startup…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (417+ words) From software engineering to policy engineering The fundamental bottleneck in traditional customs systems is the "translation gap." When a tariff schedule is amended or a new risk indicator is introduced, software engineers must manually translate legal text into system code....

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (449+ words) Open AI has entered the race for open-access artificial intelligence by launching two new "open weight" models " gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b-two " intensifying competition with Meta and China's Deep Seek. Unlike Chat GPT, which remains closed-source, these models are freely downloadable…...