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60 items · last 30 days · 15 from South Africa · updated 2026-09-25

25 SepMeta tries its hand at AI-powered hardware with the Muse Charm25 Sephtxt.africaSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepLightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI25 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
25 Sepcommit-rewriter 0.225 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
25 Sepdatasette 1.0a4125 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
25 SepBring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass25 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
25 SepPrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses25 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
25 SepOracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center25 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
25 SepMeta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend25 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
25 SepIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar25 SepGoogle DeepMind&nearr;
25 SepGemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face25 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
25 SepAccelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark25 SepHugging Face&nearr;
25 SepJensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain25 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
25 SepMeta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone25 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
25 SepBasalt Health Raises $20M to Expand AI Post-Acute Care Platform25 SepVentureburnSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepCould AI threaten humanity? 8 Africans weigh the risks25 SepTechCabalSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepHow Africa’s AI boom is leaving 100 million disabled citizens behind25 SepTechCabalSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepMuse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem25 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
25 SepMuse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw25 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
25 SepRightway Raises $155M to Expand AI-Powered Pharmacy Platform25 SepVentureburnSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepAI can be more comforting than a person – new research shows why25 SepStuff South AfricaSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepThere's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before25 SepArs Technica&nearr;
25 SepAI is supercharging money scams – here’s what you can do to protect yourself25 SepStuff South AfricaSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepHow to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows25 SepHugging Face&nearr;
25 SepGemini 3.8 TTS Playground25 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
25 SepShadow roots, explained with live examples25 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
25 SepAdvancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory25 SepGoogle DeepMind&nearr;
25 SepTwo years of OpenAI Academy25 SepOpenAI&nearr;
25 SepGemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello25 SepGoogle DeepMind&nearr;
25 SepOpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense25 SepOpenAI&nearr;
25 SepR101m UCT project brings AI microscopy to Africa25 SepITWebSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepHarvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra25 SepOpenAI&nearr;
25 SepHow invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra25 SepOpenAI&nearr;
25 SepSam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council25 SepOpenAI&nearr;
25 SepRogue AI agents are already loose inside big companies25 SepTechCentralSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepOnline gambling boom prompts tighter ad monitoring25 SepITWebSouth Africa&nearr;
25 SepThe AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating25 SepMIT Tech Review AI&nearr;
25 SepSF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering25 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
25 SepMicrosoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts25 SepArs Technica&nearr;
25 SepIT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records25 SepArs Technica&nearr;
25 SepRoundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall25 SepMIT Tech Review AI&nearr;
25 SepDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype25 SepMIT Tech Review AI&nearr;
24 SepOpenAI model hacks Australian government website, and Disney+ raises prices24 SepMyBroadbandSouth Africa&nearr;
24 SepYeastar Launches NovoOne, an AI-Native Multi-Tenant Communications Platform Built for Service Providers24 SepMyBroadbandSouth Africa&nearr;
24 SepEverything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse24 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
24 SepMeta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent24 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
24 SepMeta introduces camera-free AI glasses24 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
24 SepAnthropic says its biology lab has already found something big24 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
24 SepBird.com Secures $450M to Expand Agentic AI Infrastructure24 SepVentureburnSouth Africa&nearr;
24 SepNumeral Raises $100M to Scale AI Sales Tax Compliance24 SepVentureburnSouth Africa&nearr;
24 SepMeta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget24 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
24 SepMuse is coming to Meta smart glasses24 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
24 SepMeta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses24 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
24 SepEnveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials24 SepTechCrunch AI&nearr;
24 SepMeta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too24 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
24 SepMeta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements24 SepThe Verge AI&nearr;
24 SepSnorkel AI Raises $350 Million To Build Data Factory for Frontier AI Labs24 SepVentureburnSouth Africa&nearr;
24 SepClaude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war24 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
24 Sepllm 0.3624 SepSimon Willison&nearr;
24 SepHow UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible24 SepHugging Face&nearr;
24 SepJun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community24 SepHugging Face&nearr;

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