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Analysis: ‘Who Is Going to Pay Us When We’re Replaced by Robots?’ The Indian Factory Workers Told to Film Themselves for AI
First-person recordings of human movements and interactions are called egocentric data and are vital for training robots that might one day replace humans on the production line.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Pushing Back from Big Tech: Africa’s Hard Road to AI Sovereignty
The continent’s biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Third Wave of American Philanthropy in Africa
According to Ben Hyman at Africa Jobs Fund, $5bn a year of new philanthropic capital may soon be coming to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Targets Nigeria’s $236 Billion Credit Gap as its $500 Billion MoMo Business Pushes into Lending
MTN Group is moving to turn its African mobile-money empire into something much bigger than a payments business, as the telecoms giant prepares to separate its fintech operations in Nigeria and Uganda, bring in strategic investors, and push into lending across some of the continent’s most underbanked markets.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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2026 Coffee Barometer: Sustainability Cannot be Built on Permanently Cheap Coffee
The newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer exposes systemic flaws in the global coffee industry over the past 20 years.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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MTN Leads Bid to Share African Digital Infrastructure Costs
The GSMA, the industry’s main lobby group, has reinforced the message, calling for “urgent, coordinated action” between governments, regulators and companies to treat telecoms as infrastructure and adopt a “shared responsibility.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India’s AI Deal With the UAE Challenges U.S. Cloud Dominance
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: AI Is Minting New Billionaires, and Workers Want Their Share
From Kenyan data annotators to Hollywood actors, laborers across the supply chain are challenging the surge in “AI billionaires” as automation continues to drive widespread job cuts.
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- Technology
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- Global
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