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Moniepoint Restructures Engineering Teams as Roles Face Redundancy
Moniepoint is reorganising its engineering and product teams as the Nigerian fintech tries to put smaller groups in charge of building and running individual pro...
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AMD Tests Helios AI Systems at Meta and Plans $1B Investment
AMD says the first systems built on its Helios rack-scale AI platform have been installed at Meta and are undergoing testing.
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Medikea Raises $1.2M to Expand Hybrid Healthcare in Tanzania
Tanzanian healthtech startup Medikea has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding to expand a care model that combines online consultations with its own physical clinic...
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Former GitHub CEO Launches Entire to Rethink AI Code Review
Former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has launched Entire, a Git-compatible platform built around a problem that AI coding tools have made harder to ignore.
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Apple Unveils M6 MacBook Pro With Wi-Fi 7 From $1,999
Apple has introduced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by its M6 chip, giving the base professional laptop a faster CPU and GPU, Wi-Fi 7 and...
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Anthropic’s November IPO Could Raise $100B at $1.5T-$2T Valuation, Report Says
Anthropic is reportedly aiming to float on the stock market in the week beginning 16 November, in an offering that could raise about $100 billion and...
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OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved a Major Computing Hypothesis
OpenAI says one of its internal AI systems has produced a result that could overturn a long-standing assumption in computer science.
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South Africa Fines FNB R1 Million Over Customer Data Failures
South Africa’s Information Regulator has imposed a R1 million penalty on First National Bank after finding failures in how the bank protected and handled personal inf...
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DPI Closes $112M Nclude Fund, 93% From African Investors
DPI Venture Capital has closed its Nclude Fund at more than $112 million, giving it a larger pool of capital to back fintech and businesses that...
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Dangote Refinery Is First to Deploy Honeywell Industrial AI
Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lekki will be the first site to deploy Honeywell Technologies’ Forge Plant Cognition, an industrial AI system built with Nvidia and Dell...
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Anthropic Publicly Files for IPO as Claude Costs Face Scrutiny
The maker of Claude said on Monday, 26 October, that it had filed a public registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a...
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Meta Seeks Up to $95B in Equity to Fund AI Expansion
The Facebook and Instagram owner announced on Monday, 26 October, a financing plan that could reach $95 billion. It has launched approximately $35 billion in public offerings...
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Klump Shuts Down as Funding and Bank Delays Stall Nigerian BNPL
Klump, the Nigerian buy-now-pay-later startup that offered instalment payments at checkout for merchants including Jumia and Konga, is shutting down after five years.
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Airtel Money Revenue Hits $830M in First Results Since London IPO
Airtel Money has reported $830 million in revenue for the six months to 30 September 2026, its first results since joining the London Stock Exchange.
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TechBooky Intelligence Launches With a New Look at Africa’s Tech Economy
TechBooky is launching TechBooky Intelligence to make those differences easier to see, question and explain. The new, open-to-all research collection begins...
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Canva Builds Its Own Image Model With Craft Launch
Canva has launched Craft, its first image-generation model built from scratch by its own research team. It is available through Canva’s Dream Lab and a public API, moving the c...
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OpenAI Decisions API Targets Faster, Cheaper Agent Workflows
OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available, offering developers a model designed to answer small, bounded questions quickly rather than generate a long resp...
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Rwanda Enlists MTN and Airtel to Train Cybersecurity Talent
Rwanda’s National Cyber Security Authority has signed agreements with MTN Rwanda and Airtel Rwanda to expand training, internships and early-career opportunities throug...
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1Password Gives AI Agents Access Without Sharing Passwords
1Password for Agents, announced on Thursday, is designed to let an agent sign in to a service without seeing or storing the credential itself.
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Tesla-SpaceX Merger Could Create a $3.5T Giant and Overtake Amazon
A merger between Tesla and SpaceX would not merely unite two of Elon Musk’s best-known businesses. At recent market prices, it could produce a company valued at...
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