OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, its next frontier artificial intelligence model, after delaying parts of its development to strengthen protections against cybersecurity misuse and unauthorised actions. The company said Astra would become available soon, although access to its most advanced cybersecurity functions will initially be limited. The phased approach reflects concerns about the model’s […]

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reportedly reached a $35 billion cloud-computing agreement with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed infrastructure provider specializing in graphics processing unit capacity. The deal ranks among the largest AI infrastructure commitments announced to date, reflecting the intensifying competition among leading technology companies to secure electricity, data-center space and advanced chips for future development. […]

The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat and Quest Ghana Limited have signed a joint venture agreement to establish the AfCFTA Digital Trade Corridor, a $5.17 billion project intended to integrate commerce and payment systems across Africa. The agreement was signed in Accra following a series of preliminary negotiations formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding […]

The Ghana Scout Association has taken steps to strengthen its institutional safeguarding systems as part of efforts to protect young people, volunteers and other participants from abuse, discrimination and preventable harm. The initiative was organized under the Association’s Safe from Harm Capacity Enhancement Project, with support from the World Organization of the Scout Movement through […]

Intron Health has launched Sahara v2.5, an upgraded voice artificial intelligence platform designed to understand how Africans naturally alternate between languages during conversations. The new release addresses code-switching, a common practice in multilingual societies where speakers combine a local language with English, French or another language within the same sentence or dialogue. Many global speech-recognition […]