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- 01 of 10HEALTH
Nigerian tool cuts MRI scan times sharply
Researcher Mary-Brenda Akoda won the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Science and Innovation for GenScan AI, which speeds up MRI scans on machines hospitals already own. More scans from the same kit could mean shorter waits for patients.
OUR TAKENo new hardware, just better use of the old. Rare and welcome.
Read more → - 02 of 10ROBOTICS
Osaka Metro tries a robot station assistant
Osaka Metro, KDDI and robotics firm AVITA have put a humanoid robot in a subway uniform behind an information counter to answer rider questions. The trial tests whether robots can cope with everyday customer service in a busy station.
OUR TAKEIt will be judged, correctly, on whether it knows the way to platform three.
Read more → - 03 of 10BUSINESS
Saudi fund STV picks up a new backer
Saudi venture firm STV has taken fresh money from Bahrain based Arcapita for its emerging tech and AI fund, joining backers that include Google. It points to rising outside interest in Gulf based AI startups.
OUR TAKEMoney is finding the region faster than the region can spend it.
Read more → - 04 of 10ENERGY
Indonesia borrows 3.1 billion dollars for AI data centres
Indonesian firm Zankore has raised a 3.1 billion dollar loan from five banks to build Nvidia backed data centres, starting with a 100 megawatt site. It is part of a wider Southeast Asian rush to host the power hungry machines AI runs on.
OUR TAKEEveryone wants the buildings. Fewer people want the electricity bill.
Read more → - 05 of 10POLICY
Uruguay opens a national AI centre
Uruguay has launched a national AI centre working on health, farming and education projects, funded by a 10 million dollar loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. Officials want home built tools rather than only imported ones.
OUR TAKESmall country, sensible plan. Noted.
Read more → - 06 of 10JOBS
Korea funds six universities to train 14,000 AI and chip workers
South Korea has chosen six universities to run regional training schemes with local firms and councils, each worth up to 30 billion won a year for four years. The goal is to fix a shortage of skilled staff as chip and AI firms expand.
OUR TAKEChips are easier to build than the people who build them.
Read more → - 07 of 10RESEARCH
Korea ranked among the top three AI nations
Assessment group Artificial Analysis places South Korea in the world top three for AI, helped by its state backed effort to build a home grown model. The same report says Korean systems still trail the leading American and Chinese ones.
OUR TAKEThird place, and still being told to try harder. Very Korean.
Read more → - 08 of 10BUSINESS
Brazil plans a billion real supercomputer in the northeast
Brazil will build a supercomputer worth around 1 billion reais in the northeast, part of a 1.8 billion real plan running to 2027 to expand local computing power for AI. Ministers pitched it as reducing reliance on foreign owned machines.
OUR TAKERegional development with a cooling system.
Read more → - 09 of 10POLICY
Xi proposes a shared AI zone for BRICS countries
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, China proposed leading an open source AI zone shared across member nations. It is read as an offer of an alternative to American made tools for developing economies.
OUR TAKEOpen source, with a clear idea of who holds the keys.
Read more → - 10 of 10EDUCATION
IIT Madras startup launches a tutor in 22 Indian languages
Bodhan AI, incubated at IIT Madras and working with AI4Bharat, has released free tools for speech, translation and text reading in Indian languages, plus a tutor for school years six to twelve. It targets students who think in a regional language rather than English.
OUR TAKELearning in your own language should not be a premium feature.
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