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Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye founded a new political party, deepening his split with former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and setting the stage for a reelection bid. Faye will lead the new Kiiraay party in local and legislative polls ahead of national elections in 202

Uganda hired two lobbying firms in Washington, DC as Kampala seeks to combat criticism of its rights record and make the case for ending Ebola-related restrictions. The push comes as American lawmakers question the outsized role of Chief of Defense Forces Muhoozi Kainerugaba — Pr

Chinese infrastructure and energy investment in Africa nearly tripled in the first half of 2026, rising to $33.5 billion — the highest half-year total on record and by far the strongest performance of any region under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, a new report found. The su

The sales and GTM sessions at SaaStr AI 2026 in San Mateo was all about where to take agents next. No one was still debating whether to put agents in the revenue org. They had already done it, and they brought the war stories. What broke, and what they would do differently next t

Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy Your buyer doesn't purchase the future; they purchase either proof or math. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts That logo you’re chasing is costing you your market. Founders with great AI products are spending mon

As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century England, people rioted against a mandatory smallpox vaccine, claiming that it violated civil rights and was an affront to human bodily integrity. In the United S

Modernizing the skies: NOAA and Google Cloud collaborate to advance weather forecasting Brent Mitchell Vice President, Go-to-Market, Google Public Sector The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is embarking on a transformative journey to redefine how we underst

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Extreme weather events triggered by a particularly powerful El Niño weather pattern could cost African economies $10 billion to $20 billion and spark mass migration, the African Development Bank’s top climate expert said. Extreme droughts and flooding threaten food and water secu

Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site Every partner lease guarantee Nvidia has disclosed adds up to $3.5 billion. OpenAI is in

AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory Local model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations. When we talk about runn

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Amazon will temporarily shutter a distribution facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida, to renovate it into a sortable fulfillment center where employees pick, pack and ship customer orders, Amazon told sister publication Supply Chain Dive. The facility will cease operations on Sept.

Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Their approaches run the gamut — from studying millions of web videos and conducting computer simulations to

Snapchat is now letting users share the music they’re listening to in real time via a new feature in Snap Map, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Called “Now Playing,” the feature lets users link their streaming service account (starting with Spotify) and share what they’re curr

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. I saw "The Odyssey" over the weekend, but I wasn't able to snag a seat in an elusive Imax 70-millimeter screening. More on that below. Stock futures are jumping this m

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Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery Sometimes you just don’t want to share your precious devices. A Steam Deck devotee was so fed

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic It comes after Hugging Face used a Chinese

AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent — Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza to be applied across AI-focused product stack Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza reverse the single-stack approach AMD took with Zen 5. AMD used its recent

'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room': Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents Some residents have been there for almost 100 years Resident

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Abu Dhabi is building a 100 billion dirham ($27 billion) waterfront expansion on Saadiyat Island, the biggest single addition to the district yet. The emirate has spent two decades turning the area into a cultural hub, home to offshoots of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums. Aldar

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Saudi airlines were the only Gulf carriers with a big shopping list this year at Farnborough, one of the industry’s biggest airshows. Riyadh Air signed a deal for 34 Airbus and Boeing widebody jets, and budget carrier Flynas committed to 25 Airbus aircraft, while the UAE and Qata