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Builder.ai, once one of the AI industry’s fastest-rising startups with a $1.5 billion valuation, has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S.—a collapse triggered by overstated sales and alleged fake revenue. On June 2, the UK-based company filed a Chapter 7 case in Delaware after creditors seized most of the funds in its bank accounts. It’s…
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To harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) for national development, the Federal Government of Nigeria, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, has inaugurated the Nigeria AI Scaling Hub. This initiative, unveiled during a Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, June 3, comes with a funding commitment of up to $7.5 million over three years.…
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For over a decade, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was the default strategy for online visibility for businesses and brands. However, since the start of the AI era, with the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in 2022, a new force is rising fast — Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). As generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google…
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The newly released Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination results in Nigeria appear to give credence to the widely held belief that the standard of education in Africa’s most populous nation urgently needs revitalization. JAMB, an entrance examination conducted for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria, recently released its results—and it was…
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The future of filmmaking might have just been significantly disrupted with Google’s newly released Veo 3. On Tuesday, May 20, Google unveiled Veo 3, an AI tool capable of generating hyper-realistic videos, now enhanced with human-like audio. “Veo 3 excels from text and image prompting to real-world physics and accurate lip syncing,” said Eli Collins,…
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It’s almost impossible, with the fast-paced and revolutionary nature of Artificial Intelligence, for any sector or industry to remain untouched by this transformative technology. Much has already been written about how AI is reshaping core sectors within the tech industry — software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, fintech, and big data. While the dominant conversation focuses…
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has predicted that within the next five years, robots will be better than the best surgeons at performing surgical operations. The tech billionaire, who owns Neuralink — a company developing implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — made this claim on his X account while retweeting a post by Mario Nawfal.…
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Different age groups, according to Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI—creators of ChatGPT —are using generative artificial intelligence in distinctly different ways. Older generations, he said, have adopted the chatbot primarily as a search engine, often preferring it over Google. “Gross oversimplification, but like, older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement,” Altman…
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Google has unveiled an upgraded version of its experimental medical chatbot, the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), showcasing a significant leap in its diagnostic capabilities. This new iteration can now analyze smartphone photos of rashes and interpret a variety of medical imagery, including electrocardiograms and lab result PDFs, pushing the boundaries of AI in healthcare.…
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Open AI, owners of popular chatbox, ChatGPT, released a 32-page document that detailed how to build an AI agents, and I am here to give you an over view on what you need to kickstart your journey. But first, what is AI agents? For starters, Ai agents aren’t just smart chatbots or automated scripts; they’re…