Nigeria’s startup ecosystem is changing rapidly — and at the heart of this transformation is the rise of private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC). Once considered distant, foreign-driven financial models, they are now shaping how Nigerian startups grow, scale,…
In a major move that highlights the escalating importance of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, New York-based company Dataminr has announced its intention to acquire cyber-threat intelligence specialist ThreatConnect for approximately US$290 million. The deal is not just about one company…
It is without an iota of doubt that’s software technology is the future . What this means is that, with everyday that passes, the world moves even more close towards smart software and technology as established time and time again.…
In a striking move that spans politics, entertainment and technology, over 800 public figures have joined forces to call for a moratorium on the development of superintelligent artificial intelligence systems. Among the signatories are the contentious American political strategist Steve…
Global e-commerce giant Amazon appears poised to undertake one of its most dramatic operational shifts yet – preparing to replace up to 500,000 human jobs with robotics and automation by 2033. According to internal documents and multiple reports, one of…
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has launched a new platform called Claude for Life Sciences, an initiative aimed at helping scientists and researchers integrate AI into their everyday research work. The product, built on Anthropic’s powerful Claude model, is designed to…
In Lagos this week, the team at Teach For Nigeria (TFN) formally unveiled the outcomes of its 2025 Incubation Hub programme — showcasing a dozen trail-blazing alumni whose projects aim to tackle Nigeria’s deep-seated educational challenges. The air in the…
In a step that signals deepening global ties and educational ambition, the municipality of Chongqing has announced notable progress in its drive to expand international education cooperation and to elevate the quality of its education system. At a press briefing…
OpenAI Just Dropped a Game-Changer: Meet ChatGPT Atlas, the Super-Assistant Browser OpenAI, the team behind the world-conquering chatbot, ChatGPT, isn’t just content with dominating the AI conversation. They’re making a bold move into your daily digital life with the launch…
According to Elon Musk in a recent post on X, xAI, his AI startup, has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock deal, where this acquisition, in the opinion of Musk, would best be described by the merged…
A gig market such as Fiverr wants freelancers to train their AI with their own work and later automate jobs for them. Fiverr unveiled its new plans to entice gig workers onto the platform with generative AI to do their…
Musk spent almost his entire life establishing a universe of companies that have stood as a nursery for aspiring engineers and a testing ground for his innermost circle. That universe-an ecosystem built around Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans from his…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek went substantially mainstream this week after its chatbot app climbed to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play as well). The compute-efficiently trained AI models raised doubts among Wall Street analysts-and technologists-about…
Coinbase is reluctantly resuming operations in India more than a year after it permanently ceased operations within the world’s most populous country. The American crypto exchange is interacting with multiple authorities in India, including the FIU, an India-based agency of…
On the authority of the House of Representatives, the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have been asked to suspend the impending increase in telecommunications tariffs until improvement is achieved.…
