💀👻 Literally stealing money from the hands of the most needy. <> Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

Watch the AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote from the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. We discussed the progress different countries are making, key challenges, and what is needed to build responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI ecosystems across the continent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWA...

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change

Nova SBE| TIDES Videocast Episode 4 – Building Africa’s Data & AI Future with Prof. Vukosi Marivate

Read G20 the South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration Of importance in the screenshot of the AI part of the declaration. We had a lot of hard work at the Digital Economy Working Group and AI Task Force, congratulations to everyone. dirco.gov.za/g20-south-af... #G20SouthAfrica

Read G20 the South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration Of importance in the screenshot of the AI part of the declaration. We had a lot of hard work at the Digital Economy Working Group and AI Task Force, congratulations to everyone. dirco.gov.za/g20-south-af... #G20SouthAfrica

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Honoring the Legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at Lanfrica - Lanfrica Blog

At #AfriCHI2025, our lead @vukosi.bsky.social asked a the question: 👉🏾 Do Africans really want chatbots? For us at, it’s a reminder that Africa’s AI future isn’t just about building smarter systems, it’s about building technologies that listen, understand our languages, and reflect our values. 1/

A major part of computational history unearthed<> Unix v4 Tape Found | discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...

Let's see if this form factor of compute will take off. We just received a DGX spark last week at DSFSI. Thank you to NVIDIA for the research grant. Now this -> Asus Ascent GX10 |

Back in Cairo after 20 years. Attending and talking at AfriCHI 2025 (1st AfriCHI since the inaugural one in Nairobi). African AI won't build itself, and it won't be built without Human Computer Interaction researchers!

The missing slide from my Keynote this morning at African Research Universities Alliance Biennial Conference @ARUA_News inspired by Tshwane Mayor @nasiphim You can watch the keynote here youtube.com/live/kalkMuv...

A trust mindset can spur effective data protection – and put people at the center of DPI and AI.

Stop Citing AI stopcitingai.com

The continental assignment takes me to Uganda at Makerere (finally!!) this morning and honouring the invitation to give a Keynote talk on AI and the Grassroots in the African continent. For those on campus today. I am around until late afternoon.

Where is the Palestinian Mandela? sisonkemsimang.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

We are still going down this dangerous road, after we have been warned for almost a decade 😩😩😩 <> Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

Why Millions of South Africans Are Returning to Trains | Gauteng + JHB Rail Recovery. Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTL...

'The Interview': The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

Tributes — Translating Ngugi | Celebration of the Life and Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o ngugi.cargo.site/tributes

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just wrapped an insightful #WEF Global Future Councils meeting in Dubai with the Data Frontiers Council. Great to meet the team in person after months online & bring perspectives from Africa & low-resource contexts. Themes: synthetic data, AI governance & AI sovereignty.

For those at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, I will be giving a seminar talk tomorrow (13 Oct 2025)

A History of Large Language Models

A wow <> Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI | Qualcomm

Why an Ed-Tech Behemoth Unraveled www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... #HigherEd

😬😬😬😬 NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen

5 Things Managers Do That Leaders Never Would, According to Simon simonsinek.com/stories/5-th...

Whoop Whoop

Much of this applies to the South African case with our insane online Sports betting <> Sports Betting: What DraftKings & FanDuel Don’t Want You To Know youtube.com/watch?v=unks...

Sports betting is killing the youth <> South Africa has a new crisis – and it’s getting worse – BusinessTech businesstech.co.za/news/governm...

AI Chatbots: Are They Dangerous? pocketcasts.com/podcast/scie...

How a $1.5 Billion Settlement Could Alter the Course of AI pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

Artificial Intelligence boom across Africa | BBC News

My Inaugural Lecture is now online 🎥 Beyond the Symbols: Natural Language Processing as an Adaptive Problem I reflect on my journey in advancing AI & NLP for African languages, tackling data scarcity, building communities & imagining inclusive futures. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwef...

Disciplined-AI-Software-Development: This methodology provides a structured approach for collaborating with AI systems on software development projects. github.com/Varietyz/Dis...

Consent, Credit, Compensate <> Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Next was an excellent talk by @vukosi.bsky.social on natural language processing for low resource languages and the importance of Africans developing their own solutions at @dsfsi.bsky.social youtu.be/hwefANMnSxo?... (5/8)

My Inaugural Lecture is now online 🎥 Beyond the Symbols: Natural Language Processing as an Adaptive Problem I reflect on my journey in advancing AI & NLP for African languages, tackling data scarcity, building communities & imagining inclusive futures. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwef...

Fuelling the AGI hype: The Recruitment Playbook to land Big Tech contracts - Africa Uncensored africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings

The boy child has been left behind. We have to do more as it is a ticking time bomb even in SouthAfrica. <> Why Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind youtube.com/watch?v=B257...

1/ It happened. I professed. I am now your Professor 😃 I am so thankful for the giants MIchael Littman and Tshilidzi Marwala on whose shoulders I stand. @dsfsi.bsky.social

We gathered in Kigali 🌍 for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. Nearly 3,000 applied, 1,294 joined in person, 400 virtually. 6 days of AI research, debate, teaching & learning. From 300 in 2017 → to a pan-African Baobab tree. 🌳 #DLI2025 @DeepIndaba 1/

What Does AI Look Like In An African Context? - Prof Vukosi Marivate on KayaFM iono.fm/e/1589359

Prof Tshilidzi Marwala -> Can AI Revitalise Indigenous Languages? - Abstracts into Indigenous Voices www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaJB...

Can AI Revitalise Indigenous Languages? - Abstracts into Indigenous Voices www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYC1...

Great writing from Sisonke Msimang <> Dying of hunger: Palestine and the politics of Western pity sisonkemsimang.substack.com/p/dying-of-h...