This article was written by Neema Tavakolian and first published on Tech Square ATL’s website. Artificial intelligence is ...

A South Africa-founded startup is challenging the AI industry's energy-intensive growth model, securing $5 million in seed ...

Overview: Africa is fast becoming one of the top regions worldwide in machine learning, especially in developing new ...

South African startup Refiant AI has raised $5 million in a seed round to develop tools that reduce the size and energy use of artificial intelligence models. The funding will support product ...

Audit-driven security and fragmented tooling are leaving South African organisations exposed, cybersecurity experts warn.

A South African medtech company has obtained R85m in funding to develop its AI-driven tool, enhancing the accessibility of TB ...

Across Africa, the African Union Continental AI Strategy provides a continental framework for an Africa-centred approach to ...

A year after more than 50 African countries signed the Africa AI Declaration at the inaugural Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali in April 2025, early steps toward implementation are taking shape, ...

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.

In July, Senegalese director Hussein Dembel Sow spent two days in Dakar shooting footage of his niece and a local actor for his latest project, a short film about a colorblind girl who undergoes ...