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Safaricom Says AI Blocks 94% of Fraud as Government Warns of Deepfake Threats to Children

East Africa’s biggest company Safaricom uses artificial intelligence to prevent 94% of attempted fraud in real time, its ...
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PwC: AI Could Help African Stories Travel, But the Growth Story Is in Advertising and Streaming

AI could help African creators, languages and stories reach wider audiences through translation, subtitling, localisation and ...
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AfDB and UNDP Move AI 10 Billion Into Implementation, Starting With Five Countries

The African Development Bank and the UN Development Programme are moving their AI 10 Billion Initiative into implementation, ...
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UCT Wins $1.6m From Google to Map How African Bodies Process Medicines

UCT is one of 17 organisations selected worldwide for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, from more than 3,000 ...
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AI Microdramas Cost 99% Less Than Real Productions. They’re Now Competing for South African Soap Viewers.

Microdramas evolved from China’s “duanju” industry: self-contained serialised stories of 25–50 episodes, each one to two minutes long, originally shot with ...