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President Donald Trump has proposed a new name for artificial intelligence: 'super intelligence.' Trump made the remark during his September 22, 2026 address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Google has finally made a much bigger move in laptops.
Google's September 2026 Pixel Drop, released September 15, adds a real-time "Likely scam" warning directly inside Gboard, Google's keyboard app, that appears above the keyboard when you start typing a reply to a suspicious message.
Apple released iOS 27 to all compatible iPhones on September 14, 2026, closing out a beta cycle that started at WWDC on June 8.
In a late-night X post on September 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined two specific scenarios he says AI progress must avoid: humanity losing control of AI systems outright, and AI enabling an unprecedented concentration of power in a single person, company, or country.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday, September 12, arguing that AI companies must slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities, citing the risk of losing control of increasingly self-improving systems.
Nubia, ZTE's phone brand, will launch the NaviX Ultra in China on September 16, 2026, built jointly with ByteDance around the Doubao Phone Assistant, an AI agent designed to read the screen and complete multi-step tasks across apps from a single spoken request.
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford published a framework called BeyondMimic in Science Robotics on August 26, 2026.
Google released a native Gemini desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on September 10, 2026.
Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, led by Assistant Professor Zhao Na, published HieraScaffold, an AI framework that generates large-scale, realistic 4D LiDAR environments, meaning 3D spatial data that also changes over time, for training autonomous vehicles.
Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 run on a new S11 chip and introduce Audio Intelligence, a feature that includes Siri Recap, which can summarize things like meetings based on audio notes you choose to capture.
Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event brings the company's first foldable iPhone, new Pro models and a delayed budget lineup, all under new CEO John Ternus.
Digital Realty opened its NBO2 facility in Nairobi and is rebranding iColo, adding 6.4MW of capacity as Kenya positions itself as an East African cloud hub.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 have both shipped with agentic AI built into their NPUs. Here's what's real and what's still rumor.
Qualcomm and MediaTek are building hardware and software for AI agents that can reason and act locally, reducing cloud dependence for some tasks.
A leaked Apple video inside macOS Tahoe 26.7 shows camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence. Here is what appears real and what remains unconfirmed.
Google's Pixel 11 family is official, bringing Tensor G6, brighter displays, new camera hardware, Proactive Assistance, Qi2.2 charging and the return of notification lights through HiLight.
Apple appears to be spreading sensing across glasses and earbuds, but privacy, battery life and clinical credibility will determine whether it works.
The CA sandbox gives selected innovators a supervised route to test AI, 5G, 6G, IoT, cybersecurity and digital-content products before full market deployment.
Oracle and the ICT Authority are exploring deeper cooperation on government cloud, AI and certification. Kenya needs skills transfer, interoperability and enforceable data controls.
All three Kenyan university teams returned with global honours. The next test is turning competition success into research, products and well-paid technology careers.
Hosting a major national technology conference in Jos challenges the idea that Nigeria's digital economy begins in Lagos and ends in Abuja.
The conference moved past chatbot demos toward energy, banking, public services and telecom infrastructure. The harder question is who can participate.
Instead of asking developers to find bigger GPUs, the competition asks them to compress, optimise and localise AI for common African hardware.
South Africa's HyperDev, an AI coding platform founded by former OpenAI and Google engineers, raised over 1 million dollars in pre-seed funding as it approaches 100,000 users.
African ICT ministers gathered in Abuja for the ATU's 7th Conference of Plenipotentiaries, aiming for a unified continental strategy on spectrum, AI, and digital infrastructure.
Kenya's MSME ministry is pushing AI adoption across millions of small firms as the Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 moves through the Senate. The plan, the law, and the catch.
Samsung's London Unpacked delivered the first Ultra foldable at 4.1mm, a wider Fold8, the Flip8, two new watches, and Gemini-powered smart glasses. Every announcement, explained.
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI turns a friendly AI partnership into a fight over hardware, trade secrets, talent, and who gets to define the next computing device.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform is a direct challenge to Intel and AMD in Windows PCs, built around local AI, Arm, Blackwell graphics, and huge shared memory.
Microsoft is testing PC Insights for Copilot, a plain-English way to ask why your laptop feels slow, whether your storage is full, or why your battery is fading.
Samsung is pushing AI picture and sound features into its 2026 TV range. That is useful, but buyers should still compare brightness, local dimming, ports and room conditions.
Smartphone AI is moving from photo tricks to agents that act across apps. TECNO's EllaClaw shows why budget phones may become the real test ground.
The old line says America innovates, China replicates, and Europe regulates. China's rocket catch shows why that line is useful, and why it is no longer enough.
Meta's Muse Image rollout turned public Instagram content into AI prompt material by default. Here is what users, creators and brands should know before leaving settings untouched.
Glovo's AI Shopping Assistant lets users discover products through natural-language chat before moving into purchase. It is not magic, but it points to the next interface for quick commerce.
The useful model is the one that solves your repeated task reliably, affordably and inside your workflow. Benchmark leadership is not a personal productivity strategy.
Some smart glasses are headphones in a frame. Others record video or show a private display. Very few deliver the science-fiction AR experience buyers expect.
The model's core was not retrained, but its access and guardrails changed. The episode shows how government policy can alter software overnight.
Routine work once trained junior employees. As AI absorbs it, employers demand judgement and architecture before candidates have had a place to learn them.
Consumers are paying an indirect AI tax through scarcer RAM and storage chips. The mechanism is supply-chain competition, not a direct charge for AI software.
Safari Technology Preview now includes an MCP server, giving compatible AI coding agents official tools to inspect, test, and debug websites in a live browser.
A seat at the table matters, but it can become ceremonial. Africa needs coordinated policy, local research capacity and bargaining power to shape how AI is built and deployed.
Apple's reported Trust Insights framework in iOS 27 is designed to spot live social engineering risk and help apps add warnings before users move money.
Kenya's Nairobi International Financial Centre has certified 15 firms in AI, fintech, digital assets, and capital markets, with projected investment of about Sh25.9 billion.
Kenya is backing a National Cybersecurity Agency as AI-generated deepfakes, online fraud, and attacks on public digital services grow more sophisticated.
South Africa is framing its digital-economy push around six priorities: subsea cables and telecoms, AI, data centres, cybersecurity, startups, and cross-border digital transformation.
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 returns worldwide on July 1 after the United States lifted export controls that had forced the company to suspend its top models.
SARS is using more automation and third-party data to pre-fill tax returns and run auto-assessments for the 2026 filing season.
Kenyan lawmakers and digital knowledge experts say AI adoption needs stronger legal and governance frameworks before harm outruns protection.
Microsoft and partners are expanding practical AI training beyond Nairobi, with 152 participants trained across Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, Taita Taveta, and Embu.
Anthropic has suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 after a United States export-control directive.
A token is a chunk of text an AI reads and writes, and a context window is how much of that text it can hold in mind at once.
An AI hallucination is when a chatbot states something false as if it were true, fluently and with total confidence.
An AI agent is software that does not just answer you, it takes actions to reach a goal you set.
For a lot of people, the free tiers are already enough, but daily users may benefit from a cheap mid-tier.
For two or three years, using powerful AI has felt almost free, but in 2026 that is changing.
Kenya has quietly been doing something most countries have not: writing down what it actually wants from artificial intelligence.
