Spiro Secures Additional $55M From NewTrails Capital, Pushing Round to $270M Spiro has raised an additional $55 million from Chinese investor NewTrails byBetty WangariJune 23, 2026
Lesaka Pushes Bank Zero Acquisition Deadline to 2027 as Regulators Stall Lesaka Technologies has given itself another five months to close its R1 byBetty WangariJune 19, 2026
DFIs and Philanthropies Back $176M Zafiri Clean Energy Platform A consortium of IFC, the African Development Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, byBetty WangariJune 19, 2026
Nigeria Targets 70% Digital Literacy by 2027 with New Strategic Roadmap Nigeria has announced a strategic roadmap to achieve 70% digital literacy by byBolu BabalolaJune 18, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 4, 2026 Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu Babalola
News Rest of the WorldFebruary 24, 2026 Anthropic Just Accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Running a $450 Million Heist — Using 24,000 Fake Accounts In the most detailed public accusation of AI model theft to date, Anthropic says byBolu Babalola
Opinion ReportsJanuary 19, 2026 ChatGPT’s Ad Reckoning: When ‘Last Resort’ Becomes Inevitable Reality But strip away the PR language about "user trust" and "accessible AI," and byBetty Wangari
News Rest of the WorldJanuary 10, 2024 The GPT Store From OpenAI is Now Open For Business. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched the GPT Store, an app store for specialized AI byFatima Oladunni
News Rest of the World StartupDecember 15, 2023 OpenAI Welcomes AI Startups Worldwide to Apply for Converge 2. OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, is now accepting applications for byBolu Babalola
