The Agentic Shift: AI Has Stopped Answering Questions and Started Taking Action
Everyone spent 2023 and 2024 building chatbots. The smart money in 2026 is somewhere else entirely. AI systems are no longer answering questions — they are completing tasks, making decisions, and moving money. The front…
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Nigeria's AI Shield: The Government Just Weaponised Artificial Intelligence for National Defence
Nigeria's defence ministry just signed on to deploy AI-powered surveillance and anti-drone systems at its borders and urban centres. This is not a proposal or a whitepaper. The delegation already flew to Monaco. The…
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NITDA's AI Hub, Nigeria's DSO Date, Ecobank's $3B Pledge, and the Falconets Draw: Your Nigeria-Africa Tech Roundup
Not every story gets its own deep dive. But the stories that don't often add up to something bigger than any individual headline. Here is everything else from a week that had a lot going on. Week of May 12–14, 2…
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Global Tech
AI Just Paid for a Ride. Mastercard, PhotonPay, and Baidu Are Building the Infrastructure for Money That Moves Itself.
An AI agent booked a ride, selected the car, and paid the bill without a human touching the transaction. That happened this week in Hong Kong, and it was not a demo. It was a live payment on a real network. Agentic comm…
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Policy
Nigeria Applies to Join the IEA. It Is a Bigger Deal Than It Looks.
Africa's biggest oil producer just knocked on the door of the world's most powerful energy club. Nigeria applied to join the International Energy Agency as an associate member this week, and the move says as muc…
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Startups & VC
Chimoney Shuts Down, Prince AI Launches, and Apple Comes to South Africa
A Nigerian fintech that served hundreds of businesses across three continents announced it is closing. Google says Nigerians are searching for AI skills 90% more than last year. Jiji just made its first acquisition outs…
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