Tag Archives: AI

  African hotel operators are moving beyond pilots, embedding AI to coordinate guest services, streamline workflows, and scale operations across the continent. Rising travel demand and tech-savvy guests are accelerating the shift toward fully integrated, data-driven hotel platforms.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African hotel operators are moving …

Washington has a well-worn playbook: whenever China makes technological progress, it is promptly recast as misconduct. BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | Washington is once again casting Chinese AI firms as culprits, turning a routine engineering method into supposed evidence of intellectual property theft, a familiar tactic to justify another round …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  China will step up efforts to empower traditional industries with artificial intelligence (AI) across all sectors and assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their digital transformation, an expert said. Zhang Xiaoyan, deputy director of the China Center for Information Industry Development, made the remarks during …

  After acquiring MultiChoice, French media giant Canal+ is turning to AI to analyze viewing habits and recommend locally relevant films, series and sports. It is also lowering streaming costs, raising the stakes in Africa’s local content battle.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African streaming subscribers could soon …

BOAO, Hainan | Xinhua |  The global epicenter of artificial intelligence (AI) development is progressively shifting from Europe and the United States toward Asia, according to a report released Tuesday by the Boao Forum for Asia. “Capitalizing on their substantial digital populations, diverse application ecosystems and coherent policy frameworks, Asian …

For years, Uganda’s TB response has relied heavily on symptom-based screening. It is a low-cost approach, but one that experts increasingly describe as blunt and inadequate   Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s response to tuberculosis is entering a new and more technologically driven phase. But as health experts …

ERLIN | Xinhua | A video on social platform X, purportedly showing Israeli soldiers weeping behind a wall, drew more than 1.6 million views before investigators found it was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The incident highlights how AI advances are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and …

Ukraine has become the world’s premier testing ground for AI weapons on Russian troops, foreign mercenaries   COVER STORY | AGENCIES | The Phantom MK-1 looks the part of an AI soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what …

COMMENT | MICHAEL WAMBI | As the world commemorates International Women’s Day, attention is once again turning to the progress women have made in the workplace and the challenges that remain. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the field of computer science and technology focused on creating systems and machines that can …

BEIJING | Xinhua | As China’s annual “two sessions” get underway, “new quality productive forces,” a signature concept proposed by President Xi Jinping, has emerged as a key theme set to shape the nation’s future economic development. While taking part in a deliberation with his fellow deputies from the Jiangsu …