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African Film Industry Weighs AI as Tool, Threat or Advantage
Who owns the infrastructure, and who owns what it produces? That was the central question for African film and television as industry figures debated AI at FAME Week Africa 2026 in Cape Town. Panellists were asked whether AI is a tool, a threat or a competitive advantage. Most…
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Finland Offers South African Researchers a Route to Lumi Supercomputer — But No Deal Yet
Finland has offered to help South African researchers gain access to Lumi, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, as the two countries try to turn long-standing goodwill into a formal AI partnership. The offer came at a South Africa–Finland AI dialogue hosted by the…
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African Union Calls for AI Threats and Online Abuse of Women to Be Built Into Peace and Security Plans
The African Union has called for AI-driven threats and technology-facilitated gender-based violence to be written into countries’ Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans and early warning systems, warning that digital attacks are being used to intimidate, discredit and…
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South Africans Won’t See Redrafted AI Policy Before March 2027, Official Says
South Africa’s redrafted national AI policy will not be made public until Cabinet approves it for comment — and that is now not due before March 2027, months later than the department first promised. Even then, March is only the first Cabinet step. Approval at that stage is…
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US-Based ACMC Signs AI Deal With Scepter to Hunt for African Critical Minerals
US-based Africa Critical Minerals Corporation (ACMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with AI company Scepter to use its technology to evaluate critical minerals projects in Africa. The companies will combine satellite, geological and geospatial data to identify mineral…
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Oxide Cloud Services Adds Private AI Pod at Digital Parks Africa’s Samrand Data Centre
Oxide Cloud Services, a subsidiary of Data Sciences Corporation, has installed a dedicated AI pod at Digital Parks Africa’s Samrand data centre in Centurion, as it expands enterprise AI services aimed at organisations that want their AI workloads kept in South Africa. The Tier…
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Naked Launches AI-Driven Pet Insurance, With Some Claims Paid in Minutes
Digital insurer Naked has launched pet insurance for cats and dogs that uses AI and automation to assess claims and pay out — in its fastest case so far, 12 minutes from submission to payment. Accident-only cover starts at R40 a month for cats and R55 for dogs. How the claims…
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Honeywell Launches Industrial AI Platform at Dangote Refinery, Estimates $60m a Year in Gains
Honeywell has launched a new industrial AI platform, Forge Plant Cognition, at Dangote’s refinery in Lekki, Nigeria, and estimates it could deliver about $60 million a year in gross operational benefits. The platform uses NVIDIA and Dell Technologies capabilities and is designed…
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Idris Elba’s Akuna Group Opens Free AI Filmmaking Programme to South African and African Creators
Akuna Learning, part of actor Idris Elba’s Akuna Group, has opened applications for a free AI filmmaking programme for aspiring and emerging creators in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Applications close on 15 November 2026. The programme is free to apply…
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Flutterwave Co-Founder Iyin Aboyeji Launches Talent Nation to Train 1 Million African AI Engineers
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, co-founder of Andela and Flutterwave, has launched Talent Nation, a startup that aims to train and place 1 million African AI engineers with companies worldwide over the next decade. The company has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round co-led by Enza Capital…
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Two in Three Learners Use AI Chatbots to Prepare for Exams, Oxford Survey Finds – But South Africa Has the Widest Device Gap
Two-thirds of school learners surveyed across four countries use AI chatbots to prepare for exams, according to an Oxford University Press report — published as hundreds of thousands of South African matriculants sit their final National Senior Certificate papers. But the same…
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AI for Africa’s Development Initiative Wins Campaign of the Year at the 2026 PRNEWS Platinum Awards
Global Advisors Communications (GA) has won Platinum Elite – Best Campaign of the Year and Campaign of the Year in the Technology Category at the 2026 PRNEWS Platinum Awards for “AI Powers Africa,” its campaign highlighting the UAE’s US$1 billion “AI for Development” initiative…
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When AI Gets It Wrong: Why Governance Can No Longer Be An Afterthought
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly shifted from a futuristic idea to a useful business tool. Across South Africa, organisations are using AI to create content, analyse data, automate tasks, and improve decision-making. At the same time, the government is starting to look…