Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is designed to let AI agents operate instruments like this one directly Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a specification that lets AI agents discover and operate physical devices – microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms, lasers – without a custom integration for each one. The claim…
Washington, DC — The inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit saw a target of $500m of structured commitments, a royal keynote and an unusually candid accounting of why capital still hesitates. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had been speaking for barely five minutes when he put the question the rest of the day would attempt to answer….
The U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. Multiple current and former U.S. officials told CBS News the decision to nix the unit…
MTN has approximately 24.7% shareholding in IHS. MTN Group has moved a step closer to taking full ownership of telecommunications tower operator IHS Towers, after shareholders of the infrastructure company approved the proposed acquisition at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM). The JSE-listed telecommunications group today announced that IHS shareholders voted in favour of the transaction…
Washington DC — A farmer in Kenya gets weather and planting advice on a basic phone. A teacher in Nigeria uses a chatbot to help students catch up in math. South Africa’s revenue authority uses data analytics to better target tax audits. These are not futuristic examples from Silicon Valley. They are early signs of…
The African Union (AU) and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) have begun preparing African diplomats for what could become one of the continent’s biggest climate financing opportunities, training more than 80 ambassadors, senior diplomats and policy experts to negotiate a stronger African position in the rapidly expanding global carbon market. The high-level training, held…
NewsFeed Huge crowds filled the streets of Tehran as the funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began moving slowly through the capital. A week of ceremonies are taking place after Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air attacks in February. Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026 Click here to share on…
The South African Post Office’s joint business rescue practitioners have asked the high court to end the entity’s business rescue, declaring the adopted plan substantially implemented nearly three years after the troubled state-owned company was placed under supervision. Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons launched the application in the Pretoria high court on 12 June, seeking…
South Africa’s banking MVNOs were conceived as a defensive weapon. Banks watched mobile operators build payments platforms, accumulate transaction data and push into financial services from the connectivity side. The mobile virtual network operator was the answer: own the mobile relationship, generate behavioural data between transactions and build switching costs that make the customer harder…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks via video stream with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s Build developer conference. Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters Microsoft has announced a sweeping slate of AI initiatives, from autonomous workplace assistants and gadgets to Nvidia-powered PCs and a new in-house reasoning model, in a push to move beyond apps and remake computing around AI….
