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Microsoft joins AI-driven tech layoff wave with 4,800 job cuts
Microsoft is cutting about 2.1% of its workforce, or roughly 4,800 jobs, the latest in a wave of tech layoffs as the Windows maker spends heavily on AI infrastructure and uses the technology to improve efficiency across its business.
Ghana opens continental AI hackathon as Accra positions itself at the centre of Africa’s push from AI ambition to execution
Africa is not short of artificial-intelligence strategies. Nearly a dozen governments have published national AI plans in the past three years, and Ghana added its own earlier in 2026.
India orders Meta to remove ads promoting child sexual abuse
The Indian government has directed Meta to immediately disable advertisements and content on Instagram that promote or facilitate child sexual abuse material, a senior official said.
10 years of Pokémon Go and the millions still trying to catch ’em all
Pokémon fans have spent the past three decades trying to catch 'em all - and since the beginning this hunt has often taken place outside the home.
A new era for digital trust: Sam George leads charge to secure mobile money system
Ask anyone in Accra’s Makola Market whether they know someone who has lost money to mobile money fraud. You will not wait long for an answer. A trader whose savings were wiped out overnight by someone using a SIM card registered under a stolen identity. A driver who received a call from a number that […]
AI is a tool for economic growth, not merely technological agenda – Deloitte Technology & Transformation Partner
According to him, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth occurs when people and institutions create more value with available resources, and therefore AI can support this by reducing inefficiencies, improving decision-making, increasing speed and opening new avenues for innovation.
We need to stop AI developing without humans, says Anthropic co-founder
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has called for the ability to slow the progression of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that the technology is nearing a point at which it could develop without human input.
“The world has enough strong nations; what it needs are ethical ones” – Ace Ankomah challenges Africa’s youth
Ghanaian lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah has urged Africa’s next generation of leaders to place ethics, integrity and service at the centre of technological advancement, arguing that the future will be determined not by the power of nations or machines but by the moral character of those who lead them. Speaking at the 2026 gra...
Africa must build its own AI future, not merely consume it – Ace Ankomah
Prominent Ghanaian lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah has called on African countries to move beyond being passive consumers of technology and become active creators of the artificial intelligence systems that will shape the future, warning that the continent risks being left behind if it fails to assert itself in the emerging AI...
Start creating job opportunities: Ebenezer Gavua to computer science students
The Head of the Computer Science Department of the Koforidua Technical University Ebenezer Gavua says the Cyber Security Act and the Data Protection Act are there to protect users of the internet so as not to get to the hands of scammers. He has noted that every internet platform has security features that protect the....
Deploy technology, resources to tackle illegal developments and flooding — Physical Planners
The National General Secretary of Local Government Service Association of Physical Planners has said more resources and technology must be deployed to strengthen planning systems and address illegal developments contributing to flooding.
University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor urges inclusion of African languages in AI development
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, has called for the intentional inclusion of African languages in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, warning that the continent risks being marginalised in the global AI revolution if its voices and knowledge systems remain underrepresent...