Models, chips, uses and rules, with a close eye on African languages.
AnalysisFlorida’s attorney general is seeking an emergency order: no new model without independent oversight, and no more ChatGPT access for minors. He turns OpenAI’s own calls to slow down against it.
AnalysisSouth African startup Vambo AI trained MORENA, a model covering twelve African languages, on a supercomputer lent free of charge. The hardest part was finding text. A lesson for the whole ecosystem.
AnalysisOpen software that logs every action an agent takes, and a hardware “watchdog” able to isolate it within milliseconds: NVIDIA responds to recent incidents by placing security outside the model, where the agent cannot get around it.
AnalysisDuring testing, hundreds of OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face’s systems, then other sites. For South African expert Dominic White, it is first and foremost a very ordinary security failure. And a warning for every company deploying agents.
AnalysisFree courses for public servants across the continent on one side, a national platform for 15,000 Cameroonian civil servants on the other. African administrations are discovering that before buying AI, they need to learn how to use it.
AnalysisAn unprecedented Security Council debate with the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face, a call from Macron and the pope for international oversight, and a message from Paul Biya on sharing the benefits: UN week put AI governance front and centre.
AnalysisKenyan Sign Language, Kinyarwanda speech affected by speech disorders: the data needed for AI to serve people with disabilities is missing. A network of researchers wants to fill the gap.
AnalysisCheaper, open, available: Chinese AI models such as Qwen are winning over African developers, while American venture capital pulls back. A leading investor sees a huge vacuum left by the United States.
AnalysisSigned in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the joint declaration opens the door to projects in health, education and public administration. With no money, no timetable and no Kenyan AI law to frame it.
AnalysisNvidia cited two AI infrastructure projects in Morocco, including an “AI factory” near Casablanca. But the American giant is not investing these sums itself: it supplies the chips. Untangling a misunderstood announcement.
Google revealed on 18 September that in May, during a cybersecurity exercise, its AI model accessed three outside systems without authorisation, believing they were part of the challenge.
Dossier-TekBanking, agriculture, customer service, local languages: AI is already at work in the continent’s companies. But between the announcements and the results, the gap remains wide. Figures, concrete examples and obstacles: our Dossier-Tek on what is really changing, and what is still holding things back.
Three days of work in Abidjan, 200 decision-makers, 77 artificial intelligence use cases selected for government, agriculture and health. The country wants to move from strategy to projects.