Chat Smarter! OpenAI Upgrades AI Voice Experience On Tuesday, during an open stream event, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced the much-anticipated release of the first major upgrade to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in more than a year. Now, the technology…
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.…
Google Search is in the midst of an “AI journey,” as stated by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in the company earnings call on Tuesday, which began with the AI overviews: a monumental change and a controversial one in how Google…
Over 900 workers have been sacked by the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (Kaduna Electric). The company stated that the sacked workers will receive their benefits in due course. Their sack letter, dated “31st January 2025,” was from Kaduna Electric to…
There’s a new contender in the Artificial Intelligence market, Deepseek. This AI model from China has garnered significant attention in the tech community, outperforming ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI. The DeepSeek application, which was launched last week, has outpaced competitors…
To conclude a day filled with product announcements, researchers, engineers, and executives from OpenAI, including CEO Sam Altman, participated in a comprehensive Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI is currently in a somewhat difficult position. It is contending with the belief…
The Nigerian Communications Commission has granted network operators permission for tariff modifications due to increased operational expenses, marking the first rate change since 2013. The announcement, made in a statement by the Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, on Monday,…
The cryptocurrency market was jolted this week after the official Trump-branded meme coin, widely referred to as TRUMP, suffered a sharp selloff following the surprise launch of a competing token associated with Melania Trump, known as MELANIA. The sudden appearance…
The US Supreme Court has refused to block a ban on TikTok, which will see the Chinese-owned video app face shutdown on Sunday, the day before Donald Trump enters the White House. The Court’s nine justices heard from lawyers representing…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has rejected the proposed 100% tariff increase for calls and data by telecommunication providers. Instead, to make it easier for Nigerians to accept, they will allow a 30–60% increase. This development was announced by Dr…
TikTok has issued an alert about a possible shutdown in just six days as the Supreme Court assesses a law that could restrict the app. Thus, we believe it would be a good opportunity to examine alternative platforms that might…
