Ghana wants artificial intelligence to become a new engine of economic growth, with its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy targeting applications across healthcare, agriculture, education, public services and industry.
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has revealed that artificial intelligence is now a critical enabler in more than half of all cybercrimes reported across Africa, marking a dangerous new chapter in the continent's digital evolution.
This week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all - and which started like a sci-fi thriller.
Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI.
The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: "a swarm of sandboxes", "agentic attacker", and "self-migrating command and control".
Smartphones have become the primary internet device for the majority of people worldwide, yet security habits have not kept pace with the growing volume of sensitive data stored on these devices, a new Kaspersky survey has revealed.
The Pan African AI Summit team has announced that Mr Lacina Koné, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Africa, will speak at PAAIS 2026, which will take place on September 22-23, 2026, at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra.
What do you do when the app you trust to track your most intimate health details turns out to be sharing them with advertisers? A new Mozilla privacy investigation has found that some of the world's most popular period-tracking apps are quietly exposing sensitive reproductive-health data to analytics and advertising systems, with one app scoring a perfect privacy rating and another ranking last due to extensive third-party data sharing.
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a consumer alert warning the public about the growing threat of task scams, also known as gamified job scams, which are increasingly being used to defraud individuals through messaging platforms.
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot has unveiled a massive new artificial intelligence model it says can rival top American firms.
The company launched Kimi K3, containing 2.8 trillion parameters, which serves as a measure of an AI's scale and processing power.
Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees.
In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products, claiming it has engaged in "a pattern of theft" of Apple's confidential product development and related work.
Microsoft has announced it has cut 4,800 jobs - roughly 2.1% of its workforce - with Xbox to bear a large number of its latest layoffs.
Amy Coleman, executive vice president at Microsoft, told employees in a memo that the tech giant needed to focus on areas that can deliver for customers amid a "fast-changing industry".
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics says it expects to post a 19-fold jump in its profits, driven by global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips.
The company forecast that it made 89.4tn won (£43.6bn; $58.4bn) between the start of April and the end of June, marking its third record quarterly operating profits in a row.
More than 11 million people received life-saving warnings before devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela last month, thanks to a built-in feature on Android phones that turns billions of devices into a global seismic detection network.
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Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found.
The ads, seen by the BBC World Service, use terms including "rape video" and "child video" and link users to channels on the messaging app Telegram, where they can buy the material for as little as 99 rupees (about $1).
Europe's top court has ruled Google must pay a €4.1bn (£3.5 bn) fine handed down for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals.
The European Commission had originally handed out a €4.3 bn (then £3.9 bn) fine in 2018, but this was trimmed to €4.1 bn in 2022. An appeal brought by the tech giant has now been dismissed.
Police in Singapore have seized a multi-million dollar luxury home that was allegedly bought using proceeds from smuggling Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
