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Ghana’s AI Course Boom Raises a Bigger Question About Jobs AI-related micro-credential enrollments in Ghana rose 95% year over year, according to country findings Coursera released on October 19 from its Global Skills Report 2026. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/ghanas-ai-cour…
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Microsoft Wants to Treat AI Agents Like Insider Risks Microsoft is changing how it thinks about the AI agents that can read company files, approve expenses and act inside business software. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/microsoft-want…
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Meta Clarifies Crawling Terms After Publishers Raise AI Alarm Meta has revised language in its commercial terms after publishers raised alarms that a broad crawling clause could be read as permission to collect their websites... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/meta-clarifies…
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Nithio Targets $150M Fund for Africa’s Electric Fleets Nithio has launched FUEL, a pan-African debt fund targeting $150 million to finance electric-mobility companies. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/nithio-targets…
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OpenAI’s 2027 Humanoid Demo Could Test AI Beyond the Screen In a Fortune interview published September 15, chief executive Sam Altman said the company was working on the technology and expected a “cool demo” in 2027. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/openais-2027-h…
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Dangote IPO Puts Africa’s Digital Investment Rails to the Test Dangote Refinery says its share offer has attracted subscriptions from more than 90 countries, including 51 African countries. If those figures hold through final all... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/dangote-ipo-pu…
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Altman’s World Brings Proof-of-Human ID to Banking and Finance Sam Altman’s World is taking its proof-of-human technology into banking and finance, where an AI-generated face, voice or message can have far more serious consequen... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/altmans-world-…
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Musk Promises SpaceX Shares to Every US Child, but How? Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year. The pledge, made in an X post early Monday, October 19, is striking both for its potential... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/musk-promises-…
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Mastercard and Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal Mastercard and Moovn Technologies have signed a five-year agreement to expand digital payments across East Africa, putting cards, merchant acceptance and cross-border... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/mastercard-and…
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Disney’s Character.AI Deal Puts Talent Above Its $20M Rights Bid Disney’s proposed Character.AI deal is drawing attention for a number that is not the $20 million rights bid. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/disneys-charac…
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China’s Q3 Growth Rebounds to 4.5% as Tech Exports Surge China’s economy grew 4.5% from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2026, accelerating from 4.3% in the second quarter, according to official figures released... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/chinas-q3-grow…
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AI Could Lift Global Growth Beyond US and China, Report Says. Will Africa Benefit? Artificial intelligence could become a source of growth for economies far beyond the United States and China, according to a new Financial Times... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/ai-could-lift-…
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Africa AI Policy Tracker: National Strategies, Ministers and Regulation African governments are moving from broad digital-transformation plans to national artificial intelligence strategies, governance frameworks and public-secto... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/africa-ai-poli…
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AI Stocks Stay Volatile as Investors Question the Boom Asian technology shares started the week unevenly, leaving investors with a sharper question than whether one day’s trading was up or down and how quickly can... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/ai-stocks-stay…
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Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to Public Benefit Fund Anthropic says it will put 5% of its shares into a new Public Benefit Fund, a potentially consequential attempt to direct part of the financial upside... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/anthropic-pled…
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DeepSeek Updates V4.1 Flash and Opens Search API DeepSeek has updated its V4.1 Flash model, saying the October 17 release can finish coding and agent tasks faster and with shorter outputs than the previous... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/deepseek-updat…
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Morocco Names AI Minister as It Pushes Digital Strategy Morocco has put artificial intelligence in the name of a cabinet portfolio, appointing Ahmed Rahhou as Minister of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation and Admin... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/morocco-names-…
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Anthropic Staff Expect Faster AI Progress Than Most Americans Anthropic has found a striking gap between what its employees expect from artificial intelligence and what most Americans expect. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/anthropic-staf…
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iPhone Duo Preorders Slip Into 2027 After Launch Stock Sells Out The initial allocation of iPhone Duo units disappeared soon after preorders opened on Friday, October 16, and some configurations on Apple’s online store showed shi... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/iphone-duo-pre…
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China Proposes Wider AI Export Curbs As Registration Rule Takes Effect China is considering a wider gate around the export of advanced technology, including artificial intelligence models and chip design. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/china-proposes…
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