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How Much Water Does One AI Prompt Use? It Depends Who Counts
Estimates run from a few drops to a few litres. Most of the gap comes down to what each company or research team decides to count.
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InnovationNewsNew
South Africa Eyes R2.5B to Train 20,000 More Youth
Yellowwoods says R2.5 billion ($152M) from existing skills funds could put 20,000 more young people into digital jobs by 2028.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Chicken Republic Adds Tap-to-Pay Through CashAfrica
CashAfrica's phone tap-to-pay starts at select Lagos outlets, then Abuja, Ibadan and Ogun. It wants contactless at 5% in 18 months.
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Brand StoriesNewsNew
Meta Bans TikTok Ads in Seven Markets, Egypt Included
Meta now blocks TikTok and ByteDance ads, and ads that link to them, in seven markets. Egypt is the only African one.
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StartupsNewsNew
Cascador and Sterling Launch $200M Loan Backstop
The fund shares default risk with Sterling Bank so Nigerian startups and small firms can borrow. It aims to back up to $1B in loans.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
CBN Holds Line on 2027 Payment Data Deadline
Banks and fintechs must host Nigerian payment data at home by 1 January 2027. The CBN says the date will not move.
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Growth StakNewsNew
Ghana Banks Now Collect 20% Tax on Digital Services
From 15 October, Ghana's banks collect the 20% on Netflix, ChatGPT and more. The GRA says the tax itself is not new.
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Brand StoriesOpinionNew
Xiaomi's Fold Looks Like the iPhone Duo. Who Copied Whom?
Xiaomi showed its 18 Fold two days before Apple announced the iPhone Duo. The resemblance is real, but the copying story is more complicated.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Apple's HomeView Is a $299 Smart Home Screen With Siri AI
A 7-inch display on a speaker base, for the kitchen counter or the wall. It ships on 13 November, and it comes with conditions.
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InnovationNewsNew
AfDB and UNDP Back a $10B AI Plan for 25M Jobs
$1 billion a year for ten years, starting in five countries and growing to 20 by 2027.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Nearly Half of UK Job Seekers Have Faced an AI Interviewer
A Greenhouse survey found 47% of UK job seekers have sat an AI interview, and 30% walked away from one. What it says about hiring.
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AI and Tech StakChecklistNew
AI at Work Without Leaking Company Data
Most leaks are not hacks. They are a pasted spreadsheet. Here is a set of rules a small team can adopt this afternoon.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Kenya's Senate Committee Kills the AI Bill, for Now
Concerns about fines of up to KSh5 million and a powerful new regulator. The committee heard from 143 stakeholders.
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StartupsNewsNew
African Startups Raised $2.49B in Nine Months
315 deals so far in 2026. Nigeria leads, with Egypt, Benin, Kenya and South Africa behind it: the money is spread wider than the headlines suggest.
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Brand StoriesNewsNew
Tesla Claims a One-Second Roadster. Production: 2028.
The number is Tesla's own claim, and nobody outside Tesla has checked it. The car was first shown in 2017.
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AI and Tech StakChecklistNew
How to Read an AI Launch Post: Five Questions
Every new model arrives with a leaderboard and a chart. Here is how to tell what has been shown from what has been claimed.
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InnovationNewsNew
ASML Posts a Record Quarter and Raises Its Outlook
Net sales of €11.7 billion and net income of €5 billion, as chipmakers keep buying the machines that make AI chips.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Gemini 4 Argon Is Out. The $2 Price Won't Last.
The model is broadly available from 13 October. The introductory price runs to 30 November, then doubles. The benchmark claims are Google's own.
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Brand StoriesNewsNew
Airtel Takes Aim at M-PESA With a Kenyan Virtual Card
The Airtel Money Global Pay Card is already live in three countries. A Kenyan launch date has not been announced.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
62% of Firms Added AI Duties, Not Titles or Pay
Oyster's survey of HR leaders finds the job description grew while the paperwork stayed put.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
OpenAI and Anthropic Ask UK MPs to Regulate Them
At a UK parliamentary hearing on 13 October, two leading AI labs backed legal rules, including mandatory incident reporting. Two others were more cautious.
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Growth StakPlaybookNew
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users on Campus
Your first 1,000 users are sitting in a hostel. Here is the five-step playbook for reaching them before anyone else does.
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Growth StakChecklistNew
A One-Page Launch Plan for a Small Product
Before the logo and the landing page: six questions a launch should answer.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Bitcoin Slips Below $82,000 on Hot Inflation Data
Core prices rose more than expected. Crypto fell, and one analyst says an October hike is back on the table.
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AI and Tech StakNewsNew
Microsoft Patches a Record 1,413 Vulnerabilities
More fixes than in all of 2025. The article's explanation: AI is finding bugs faster than people did. Update now.
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InnovationNewsNew
Nvidia Pledges $250M in Compute to UK AI Safety
It is five years of donated computing time, not cash. About $50 million a year, delivered through UK-based partners.
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StartupsNews
Nigerian Startup Funding Fell 97%. Read the Fine Print.
$364.1M in August, $11.3M in September. One deal explains most of the gap, and the deal count tells a calmer story.
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StartupsNews
Google Backs 15 South African AI Startups
Each can receive up to R1 million, from more than 1,000 expressions of interest. The aim is to support 50 South African startups by 2028.
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Growth StakNews
Kenya Is the Fastest-Growing Digital Ad Market, Says PwC
About 14% a year through 2030, according to PwC's Africa outlook released on 13 October.
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StartupsNews
East Africa Foods Raises $26M to Feed Africa's Cities
PIDG's InfraCo led the Series B, part of a $40 million round. The company buys from more than 28,000 farmers and plans to enter Kenya.
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Growth StakInteractive
CAC and Payback in Naira, Explained Simply
CAC, payback and LTV, with naira and no jargon. Then plug in your own numbers and see where you stand.
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AI and Tech StakNews
M-PESA Gets Tap and Scan on Pesapal Terminals
Safaricom and Pesapal are rolling out three new ways to pay in shops: tap your phone, scan a code or photograph a receipt. Target: 500,000 outlets in a year.
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Growth StakNews
WhatsApp Starts Charging Kenyan Businesses Per Reply
About KES 0.52 per reply on the paid Business Platform. The free WhatsApp Business app is not affected.
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InnovationExplainer
Africa Wants AI Sovereignty. Big Tech Holds the Keys.
Africa has about 18% of the world's people and less than 1% of its data centre capacity. A look at who supplies what, and what control really means.
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