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Africa Urged to ‘Mainstream’ Homegrown Climate Adaptation

eriinfo.com5 hours ago05 mins

This article was supported by Global Health Strategies [NAIROBI, SciDev.Net] Mainstreaming locally-led adaptation interventions is vital to building resilience against escalating climate risks, which are threatening livelihoods, ecosystems and development in Africa, according to new analysis. However, adaptation efforts on the continent remain fragmented, unevenly financed, and dominated by external priorities, finds the study, published…

Crypto has gone mainstream – will South African regulators catch up in 2026?

eriinfo.com1 month ago010 mins

The author, Luno’s Marius Reitz By the end of 2025, it had become clear, even to the most hardened sceptics, that digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology were no longer on the fringe of the traditional finance system but rather embedded in global finance, investment markets and payment systems. The real question for 2026 is…

Discovery Bank taps Luno as crypto becomes mainstream

eriinfo.com4 months ago08 mins

Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank. Discovery Bank today unveiled new offerings, including the integration of crypto-currencies into the digital bank’s mobile app. Under a partnership with Luno, Discovery Bank will add crypto trading in over 50 crypto assets from December. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, says: “The financial world is evolving fast, and…

AI slop goes mainstream as YouTube cashes in

eriinfo.com8 months ago09 mins

There’s a prevailing wisdom that AI-generated content, or “slop” as it’s colloquially known, should make our skin crawl. AI models tend to generate uncanny faces, mangled hands and fantastical scenarios. Take this YouTube Short video of a baby that finds itself being shimmied up a baggage loader onto a jumbo jet, before donning an aviation…

Crypto industry shoots for mainstream adoption

eriinfo.com8 months ago07 mins

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a law to create a regulatory regime for dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins, a milestone that could pave the way for the digital assets to become an everyday way to make payments and move money. The bill, dubbed the Genius Act, passed in the US house of representatives…

As AI goes mainstream, job-loss fears persist, shadow AI continues

eriinfo.com9 months ago07 mins

AI adoption in the workplace increasing, but job fears and shadow AI remain concerns. Organisations across the Global South are rapidly integrating AI into the workplace, with widespread adoption reported even as concerns about job displacement intensify, particularly among frontline workers. This is according to the third edition of Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) annual AI…