Interview with Futurist Alex Tsado: Why African Leaders Have it Wrong About AI’s Transformative Power

Industrial nations are competing for the lead on policy making, adoption and proprietors of Artificial intelligence solutions. The vibrations at the UAE at Ai Everything and France’s Ai Action Summit were reaching new heights. While much of the global conversation on AI is centered around weaponisation and cyberattacks, many have taken a quiet lead on technological innovation especially in the US and in Asia. Lagging … Continue reading Interview with Futurist Alex Tsado: Why African Leaders Have it Wrong About AI’s Transformative Power

Impact Newswire27/02/202527/02/2025

Global

Nvidia CEO: AI’s Next Leap Will Demand 100 Times More Computing Power

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the next wave of artificial intelligence will require 100 times more computing power than previous models, driven by advances in reasoning-based AI that processes information step by step to determine the best possible answer. “The amount of computation necessary to do that reasoning process is 100 times more than what we used to do,” Huang told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in … Continue reading Nvidia CEO: AI’s Next Leap Will Demand 100 Times More Computing Power

Faustine Ngila27/02/202527/02/2025

United States

MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI to Enable Organizations to Build Trustworthy AI Applications

News Release – February 24, 2025 MongoDB to integrate Voyage AI’s industry-leading embedding and reranking models, delivering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval to power sophisticated AI use cases NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading database for modern applications, today announced it has acquired Voyage AI, a pioneer in state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models that power next-generation AI applications. Integrating Voyage AI’s technology … Continue reading MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI to Enable Organizations to Build Trustworthy AI Applications

Impact Newswire26/02/202526/02/2025

(From left to right) Amine Chouki, Taoufik El Jamali, and Omar AlShoubaki, the co-founders of Journify.io. Image by Journify (Photo: AETOSWire)

United States

Journify Raises $4M to Define the Future of AI-Powered, Privacy-First Data Activation

Press Release – February 24, 2025 – SAN FRANCISCO & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Journify, a global provider of Conversion API (CAPI) and Composable Customer Data Platform (CCDP), has secured $4 million in funding. The round was led by global VC firm Silicon Badia, with participation from RZM and other strategic investors. This investment fuels Journify’s mission to empower brands with ethical, data-driven marketing … Continue reading Journify Raises $4M to Define the Future of AI-Powered, Privacy-First Data Activation

Impact Newswire25/02/202525/02/2025

Europe, Middle East

Ashish Puri Believes AI Can Reshape Economies but Only If Costs Come Down

Dubai – Ashish (Ash) Puri has spent two decades investing in technology, so he has seen it all. And only a few innovations excite him as much as AI’s potential to reshape the world. In this interview, he explains why Deepseek is a game-changer, how emerging economies can overcome AI’s biggest barriers, and why AI could soon become as commonplace as the smartphone. He also … Continue reading Ashish Puri Believes AI Can Reshape Economies but Only If Costs Come Down

Impact Newswire20/02/202526/02/2025