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Safaricom’s Fintech 2.0 Upgrade Sets Stage for Faster, AI-Driven M-PESA Services

Safaricom has migrated M-PESA to a cloud-based Fintech 2.0 platform, promising faster transactions, AI-powered security and capacity for over 10,000 transactions per second, signalling a new era for Kenya’s mobile money industry.

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Sep 19, 2025

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AI startups drive Google Cloud’s surge as it signs Lovable and Windsurf

Google Cloud’s deals with AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf underline a push to attract AI customers; the division boasts strong revenue growth, works with nine of the top 10 AI labs and offers generous credits and GPU clusters to startups.

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Sep 18, 2025

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Google brings Gemini to Chrome, promising agentic browsing and AI-powered tasks

Google is bringing its Gemini AI assistant to all Chrome desktop users in the U.S., introducing agentic browsing, AI Mode search and safety features that automate everything from information retrieval to password resets.

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Sep 18, 2025

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Google and PayPal forge alliance to pioneer agentic shopping experiences

PayPal and Google inked a multi-year deal to develop AI-powered agentic shopping, integrating PayPal’s payment services into Google products and championing an open protocol for purchases initiated by digital assistants.

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Sep 18, 2025

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Nvidia's $5 billion lifeline makes Intel a major AI ally

Nvidia's surprise investment makes it one of Intel's largest shareholders and launches a co-development partnership aimed at redefining AI chips and challenging industry leaders.

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Sep 18, 2025

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Meta's Ray-Ban Display smart glasses bring AI and hand-gesture control to your face

Meta's new Ray-Ban Display combines a heads-up display with a wrist-mounted Neural Band controller, offering users AI-powered notifications, translations and hands-free control for $799.

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Sep 17, 2025

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Tesla quietly settles fatal Autopilot crash lawsuits as robotaxi ambitions face scrutiny

Tesla settled two lawsuits over 2019 fatal crashes involving Autopilot, highlighting growing legal and regulatory pressure on the carmaker's self-driving ambitions.

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Sep 16, 2025

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Google debuts Agent Payments Protocol to standardise AI-driven shopping

Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol to provide a common framework for purchases made by AI agents, outlining user approvals, audit trails and examples of agentic shopping while opening the specification to the industry.

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Sep 16, 2025

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Oracle and OpenAI ink $300 billion cloud deal, sparking questions about power and scale

OpenAI and Oracle signed a surprise $300 billion, five-year compute agreement, revealing OpenAI’s huge demand for cloud power and raising concerns about how the company will fund and power its supercomputing ambitions.

SDShiftpulse Digital

Sep 12, 2025

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DCI Reveals How Investigators Use IMEI Numbers to Track Stolen Phones

DCI Director Mohamed Amin said investigators use unique IMEI numbers and cooperation with mobile networks to recover stolen phones. He noted that the IMEI remains constant even when SIM cards are swapped, and that police recovered over 574 phones in Nairobi despite a rising theft rate.

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Sep 16, 2025

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Cortex Hub’s MCP Hackathon Aims to Infuse African Context into AI Models

The Cortex Hub has launched the MCP Hackathon Africa 2025, an eight-week programme that will see developers across 40 cities build servers embedding African languages and priorities into AI models, with finalists showcasing their solutions in Cape Town and competing for a US$9,500 prize pool.

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Sep 15, 2025

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Senator Allan Chesang Urges Government to Engage Content Creators to Promote Projects

Trans Nzoia Senator Allan Chesang, speaking at the launch of the Konza Technopolis, urged the government to involve content creators in promoting public projects and policies.

SOStreamline Official

Sep 12, 2025

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