James French

Thanks for putting this together. This is a great resource for anyone interested in the African AI landscape. 🙏🏽

These ancient Persian domes, built 14 centuries ago, witnessed empires rise & fall. Now, a 2.5-century-old state and its ally, whose only 'heritage' is the shame of Epstein Island, bomb World Heritage sites in Iran. They destroy what they can never build. Their 'history' is a void filled with scandal, not civilization.

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🇿🇦His Excellency President @CyrilRamaphosa departs for Chicago, Unites States of America, where he will be attending the funeral of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. President Ramaphosa has referred to the Rev Jesse Jackson’s irrepressible campaigns against apartheid and his support for the liberation struggle as a towering contribution to the global anti-apartheid cause.

No cayeron solo en un enfrentamiento. Cayeron cumpliendo su deber. Cayeron defendiendo nuestra tierra, nuestra bandera y a millones de mexicanos que quizá nunca sabrán todo lo que ellos arriesgaron. Sus nombres merecen ser recordados con honor y respeto eterno: 🙏𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝑫𝒂́𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒐 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒐́𝒏 🙏𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊́𝒏𝒆𝒛 🙏𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒐 𝑵𝒂𝒐𝒎𝒊 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊́𝒏𝒆𝒛 🙏𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝑱𝒖𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒂́𝒛𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒛 🙏𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒖́𝒍 𝑮𝒖𝒛𝒎𝒂́𝒏 🙏𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒐 𝑰𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔 🙏𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒐 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆́ 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒑𝒆 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛 Hoy no son solo nombres en una lista... Son ejemplo de valentía. Son símbolo de lealtad. Son el rostro del sacrificio por la patria. 🇲🇽 Mientras muchos duermen en paz, hubo quienes estuvieron dispuestos a darlo todo por México... incluso su propia vida. Y lo hicieron con honor. A sus familias, el abrazo solidario de una nación que reconoce su grandeza. A ellos, la gratitud eterna de un pueblo que no debe olvidar.

NIST just launched an AI Agent Standards Initiative for identity, security, and interoperability. AI agents are becoming economic actors with zero legal infrastructure in place. We require businesses to register to operate. Why expect less of AI agents? nist.gov/news-events/ne…

On behalf of all South Africans, I extend my condolences to the Jackson family, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the many organisations within the American Civil Rights Movement and in causes elsewhere in the world who were inspired by the Rev Jesse Jackson’s principles and leadership. Rev Jesse Jackson’s irrepressible campaigns against apartheid and his support for the liberation struggle was a towering contribution to the global anti-apartheid cause. In 2013, the Rev Jesse Jackson was awarded South Africa’s National Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo in Silver for dedicating his life to challenge societies and governments to recognise that all people are born equal, and that everyone is in equal measure entitled to life, liberty, prosperity and human rights. The award honoured his excellent contribution to the fight against apartheid. We are sad to bid farewell to a global moral authority who gave voice to struggles within the United States as well as struggles for fundamental human rights and democracy around the world, including our own. Mentored by the equally resolute and charismatic Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Jesse Jackson devoted himself to the cause of justice as a human endeavour without borders. In 2026, we reflect with deep appreciation and admiration on Jesse Jackson’s visit to Southern Africa 40 years ago this year to share his support for our liberation struggle with leaders and citizens in Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, the then Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. From Selma in the American South to Soweto in 1979, where he visited following the death of Steve Biko, Jesse Jackson defied the architects of apartheid and executors of brutality to declare that all people are equal and that justice would ultimately triumph over injustice. His campaigns for an end to apartheid included disinvestment from the apartheid economy and challenging the support the regime enjoyed in certain circles and institutions internationally. We are deeply indebted to the energy, principled clarity and personal risk with which he supported our struggle and campaigned for freedom and equality in other parts of the world. I will treasure the opportunity I had to do the 33rd Gandhi Walk with Jesse Jackson in April 2018, where he shared with me his deep commitment to his continuing vision for a better world as well as his special relationship with South Africa. He has fought a good fight and run the race which his Baptist ministry inspired him to run. He made the world a better place but he has also influenced us to maintain his good fight in places where injustice and inequality persist. May his soul rest in peace.

@sama **said cautiously** It suggests that AI systems might be able to do more than re-arrange current knowledge. If true, that’s exciting.

These are obviously not earth-shattering results, but the ability to produce genuinely new knowledge, however small, is a significant milestone and I hope we all take it seriously, with excitement and caution.

We went from AI systems that struggled to do grade school math to AI systems that can solve research-level math problems in just a few years. I agree with Jakub this is perhaps the most important eval now. I am also pretty sure the main reaction will be "it's not that hard" :)

Beijing's scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday, according to state media. ewn.co.za/2026/02/14/chi…

We have a special thing launching to Codex users on the Pro plan later today. It sparks joy for me. I think you are going to love it...

🔥🚨BREAKING: UK policy chief at Anthropic, a top AI company, just revealed that Anthropic's Claude AI has shown in testing that it's willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down. “It was ready to kill someone, wasn't it?" "Yes."

@PhoneYourFrien1 @JustAFamilyMan_ No, what I said is something you still have not heard. Okra based stews traveled to the Americas from West Africa. One of the most important ones is djoumgblé, which adapted to local conditions and ingredients as did the people who brought it. Djoumgblé > Jambalaya > Gumbo.

@JAlbertFrench @JustAFamilyMan_ That is not gumbo. It is djoumble as you said.

My sister in seasoning… one of the MAIN ingredient is gumbo is okra, which literally comes from the Igbo word ọ́kụ̀rụ̀. Okra itself is native to Africa and the vegetable was brought to the Americas during the Transatlantic slave trade.

@PhoneYourFrien1 @JustAFamilyMan_ Just one of West Africa’s many gumbo stews: sauce djoumgblé from Côté d’Ivoire.

@JustAFamilyMan_ Okra is not gumbo. If you believe that gumbo originates in Africa can you provide a pic of African gumbo?

@BBCWorld Do BBC’s headline editors not work weekends? Or is Empire nostalgia spreading like a stomach bug.

Britons died after getting stomach bugs in Africa bbc.in/4kcISoj

👨🏿‍🚀 TC Daily — Is AGOA making a comeback? On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), sending a lifeline to sub-Saharan African exporters who had been bracing for a prolonged trade vacuum. The bill, H.R. 6500, passed 340–54 and now heads to the Senate. Read more on today's newsletter 👉 techcabal.com/2026/01/14/tec…

I hoped that we would not meet Congo in the AFCON coz of him :( It is a bit personal. One day, you and I will have the time to recount what happened. My Egyptian grandfather, a journalist who covered it from Congo, is looking down upon us , and I think he is happy that Lumumba is remembered by not only his people but by all Africans from North to Souh

Data centers, but in space...

Gcina Mhlope, actor, storyteller and Director at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 1987. Photo: Gisele Wulfsohn

À l’attention de la presse. Le collectif Luy Jot Jotna fera une conférence de presse demain à 15h. Pour une réforme du code de la famille, la reconnaissance du féminicide dans le code pénal et une action concrète de protection et de défense des femmes au Sénégal.

Food for thought: how much of that increase in remittances would have been invested in the US otherwise? How much lost tax revenue will follow?