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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde criticizes federal FAAC allocations as inflation-eroded, masking widespread hunger. Omoyele Sowore sues President Tinubu, and Peter Obi pledges fuel subsidy restoration if elected in 2027.
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Tinubu promises to lift millions from poverty, Wike demands Rivers and FCT delivery, and Sowore clashes with retired general as Nigeria marks 66 years of independence.
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Meta has appealed a Nigerian High Court ruling that barred it from forcing users to accept ad tracking, after the court found the company's non-consensual data profiling violated privacy rights under Nigeria's Data Protection Act.
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MTN's $2.2 billion IHS Towers takeover clears South African regulators with conditions ensuring fair, non-discriminatory access for rival operators. The deal advances MTN's infrastructure control while protecting market competition.
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Dangote Refinery's $1.62 billion IPO tests whether Nigeria's capital markets can provide a credible exit path for venture-backed startups, beyond the dominant M&A route.
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LTIF 2026 lands in Accra as Ghana reforms capital rules and a new Nigeria-Ghana payment corridor lower entry barriers for founders. The forum connects investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs ready to expand across West Africa.
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How a University of Ghana geophysics student turned a $100 Birkenstock struggle into Cedisaver, a bootstrapped marketplace connecting 6,000 monthly users with 37 informal vendors.
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A maker builds a push-to-talk AI charm on M5StickS3, routing questions between Gemini Live and Hermes Agent. Lessons on power, routing, and dual-brain architecture for pocket AI.
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The CMO role is transforming as AI agents take over marketing execution. Leaders must shift from managing teams to designing guardrails that enable safe, scalable autonomy.
Business
An author revises his stance on AI slowdowns, revealing that frontier labs aren't halting due to data exhaustion but are instead leveraging regulation to choke open-source competition and protect billion-dollar cloud monopolies.
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South Korea's KISA is developing new AI-security guidance as agent-to-agent handoffs create unexpected authority risks. Experts warn that semantic drift between agents can transform local decisions into unchecked actions across multi-agent...
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An author revises his stance on AI slowdowns, revealing that frontier labs aren't halting due to data exhaustion but are instead leveraging regulation to choke open-source competition and protect billion-dollar cloud monopolies.
Entertainment
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Netflix is recalibrating its content strategy as major director partnerships conclude, shifting focus toward lower-budget series, live events, and sports to sustain subscriber growth amid streaming competition.
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A six-month competition pushes 500 participants to reverse their biological age, even as experts question whether AI can ever truly reason. Here's what the race reveals about health tech and machine limits.
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This week's The Download features MIT's 2026 climate tech company spotlight, an AI discovery controversy involving Anthropic, and major updates from SpaceX, OpenAI, and beyond.
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Researchers found every modern vehicle transmits data to third parties, often without clear driver consent, exposing location, behavior and identification details to advertisers and brokers.
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AMD is acquiring World Labs, the AI research startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an approximately $8.2 billion all-stock deal that strengthens its AI hardware and software capabilities.
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The Nothing Headphone 1 Pro delivers a $399 flagship experience with triple-driver audio, a physical Flat EQ switch for studio monitoring, and ANC that punches above its price point. It's the brand's most capable headphone yet, blending pro...
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus reveals stark warnings about catastrophic AI risks, discloses massive losses, and pursues a $2 trillion valuation backed by $518 billion in planned infrastructure spending.
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Rep. Ro Khanna is urging a US-China AI safety treaty, pressing Chinese firms and US intelligence for safeguards against recursive self-improvement. His effort highlights rising congressional worry over unchecked frontier AI growth.
