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Generative AI is rapidly changing the fraud landscape, enabling criminals to create highly convincing synthetic identities, cloned voices, fake documents and realistic digital interactions at scale. As live deepfake technology becomes more accessible, scams are set to become even harder to detect.
Yet the same technology presents a significant opportunity for banks....
Egypt has been elected to chair both the AI Governance Working Group and the Quantum Computing Working Group under the Arab Permanent Committee for AI and Emerging Technologies — two of the committee’s six working groups, and the two that align most directly with Cairo’s own domestic institutional build-out.
The elections took place at the committee’s second foundin...
Côte d’Ivoire has opened applications for two programmes that will support 30 digital companies over 24 months, launched alongside a ministry roadmap that places AI adoption among seven strategic pillars for the next three years.
Minister of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation Djibril Ouattara launched Ivoire Tech Next 15, for startups, and Ivoire Tech S...
Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority has granted initial approval for two more AI insurance projects to enter its regulatory sandbox, bringing the total to seven in the programme’s first year — with insurance now the most represented sector among applicants.
The approvals go to Ameen, an AI assistant developed by Egyptian software firm EG InsurTech with Assurex In...
Moove, the mobility company founded in Lagos in 2020, has raised $250 million at a $2.1 billion valuation to expand its autonomous vehicle business — a round that ranks among the largest ever raised by a company with African founding origins, and one whose expansion plans do not include an African market.
The Series C was led by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Compa...