The tech job market in 2026 is being built on contradictions. Companies are laying off staff, insisting artificial intelligence will “do more with less” — yet they haven’t found ways to deploy AI at scale. Recruiters say entry-level pathways are narrowing, but critical roles remain hard to fill. Even as headlines scream “automation,” the day-to-day […]
Kyle Enero, a call-center employee, was at work one night on the 11th floor of an office tower in the Philippine city of Cebu, when the building began to shake violently. He and the others were directed to go to one evacuation site, then another, and told to wait to resume work, even as emergency […]
American big tech companies want to become Africa’s next internet providers. Earlier this month, Amazon acquired an operating license to roll out its low-Earth orbit satellite broadband service, Amazon Leo (earlier called Project Kuiper), in Nigeria. The approval places Amazon in direct competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink, and indirectly against Meta and Google, which are […]
China is beating the United States in the race to control the Gulf’s driverless car market. The latest win came last month when Chinese company WeRide secured an exclusive deal with Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates, to build its entire transport system around driverless cars. The sleepy emirate — preparing […]
I was genuinely impressed the first time Grok replied to me. Elon Musk’s AI tool didn’t sound like a generic chatbot trying to be funny. It sounded like someone I actually knew. It spoke like a Nigerian, like my friends. It knew when to drop “omo” and when to “abeg.” It understood our jokes without […]
In the 2010 film “The Social Network,” early Facebook employees discuss the money-making potential of their new site. “A million dollars isn’t cool,” someone says to Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg). “You know what’s cool? A billion-dollar valuation.” Fifteen years later, the publicly traded company now known as Meta is worth around $1.6 trillion. […]
The European Union has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars. The European Commission, on January 12, issued a guidance document allowing carmakers to submit price undertakings, including “the minimum import price, sales channels, cross-compensation, and future investments in the EU.” This negotiation-driven solution to replace […]
Artificial intelligence adoption has been on the rise globally, but new data shows some countries significantly outperforming others, while the gap between advanced nations and developing nations has widened. The United Arab Emirates and Singapore are the standouts, with over 60% of the population in both countries using some type of generative AI tool in […]
Two days before its general elections, Uganda has turned off the internet across the country. The measure is necessary to mitigate the rapid spread of “misinformation, disinformation, electoral fraud, and related risks,” the Ugandan Communications Commission reportedly told telcos in a letter. President Yoweri Museveni will be on the ballot for the seventh time in […]
Tesla sold fewer cars for the second year in a row in 2025. The company’s annual deliveries fell 8.6% to 1.6 million vehicles, according to its investor relations filing, the steepest annual decline in the company’s history. In Europe, sales dropped 28%, with Germany down 48% and France down 38%. In China, where Tesla faces […]