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Analysis: AI Safety Is Designed in the West, and Failing Users Everywhere
English-focused guardrails fail in local dialects, causing dangerous medical misdiagnoses and denied public services.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Africa Smartphone Market Set for Sharp 2026 Decline
African smartphone shipments are forecast to decline by 26% this year, according to new research from Omdia, as rising costs place pressure on entry-level smartphone availability and pricing.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Against Malaria Foundation Receives US $276 Million Grant from GiveWell
Approximately 90 million nets will be funded to protect 160 million when they sleep at night from the bites of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, that would otherwise cause severe illness or worse.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Growth Without Work: The Human Cost of the AI Revolution
'In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.'
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Financing AI Transformation in LMICs: What Multilateral Development Banks Must Do Differently
Multilateral development banks have spent the last decade building the foundations of digital economies across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the broadband networks, digital ID systems and other priorities they've financed are helping to make AI deployments in these markets possible. But as Kunal Walia at Dalberg Advisors explains, this funding often goes toward piloting individual use cases, expanding digital infrastructure or creating an enabling environment, rather than uniting these different components into holistic AI systems that aim to scale. He argues that multilateral development banks must rethink their approach to ensure that the infrastructure they've helped build can actually enable AI transformation.
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- Investing, Technology
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Analysis: How One VC Burns Through Hundreds of Millions of Tokens a Day to Find the Next Unicorn
For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets. But as AI advances at breakneck speed, many now believe they need a much deeper understanding of the technology itself — or risk missing breakthroughs that can create entirely new categories overnight.
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- Technology
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Nigeria Launches an Ambitious National Digital Cloud Policy
The final phase will involve scaling government migration, expanding infrastructure, onboarding participating states, strengthening regional interconnection and increasing digital service exports.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Why We Should All Be Worried About AI in Elections
"The more important question is not what happens when AI generates a fake video of a candidate, but what happens when it is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves — in procurement decisions, biometric voter-verification systems, and data-sharing arrangements."
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