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♢ Smart Africa Forms Africa AI Council
Smart Africa, a coalition of 40 nations representing over one billion people, has announced the formation of the Africa AI Council. The Council aims to accelerate Africa’s role in the global AI economy by fostering innovation, digital transformation, and workforce development. ​

♢ AI's Role in Combating Deforestation in Kenya
In Kenya, AI technologies like M-Situ are being deployed to combat deforestation. M-Situ uses devices attached to trees to detect sounds and gases indicative of illegal logging or forest fires, leading to a 47% reduction in deforestation in the Ngong forest. ​

♢ AI-Enabled Fetal Monitoring in Malawi
Malawi's Area 25 health center has implemented AI-enabled fetal monitoring, resulting in an 82% reduction in stillbirths and neonatal deaths. The system provides continuous, real-time monitoring of vital signs during labor, alerting clinicians to any abnormalities. ​

♢ AI Chatbot 'Darli' Assists Farmers
Darli, an AI-powered chatbot, serves as a mentor for small-scale farmers in Ghana, providing real-time insights on soil health, weather forecasts, pest control, and crop management. Farmers using Darli report a 30% increase in yield due to improved decision-making.

♢ AI-Powered Translation Expands Internet Access in Africa
Startups like Masakhane are developing AI-powered translation tools to support low-resource African languages, making the internet more accessible to millions. These models are trained using community-driven datasets and aim to bridge the digital divide.

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Global Headlines & Launches

♢ Amazon's Alexa+
Amazon has introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant. Alexa+ is a generative AI-powered assistant that is smarter and more conversational. ​

♢ ElevenLab's Speech-to-Text
ElevenLabs is launching its own transcription model, Scribe. It will support 99 languages with high accuracy, word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and real-world audio adaptability. ​

♢ Grok 3's Brief Content Moderation
Elon Musk's Grok 3 AI model briefly censored mentions of Donald Trump and Musk in misinformation queries but reverted after user feedback. xAI's engineering lead confirmed an employee made the change with good intentions, but it was not aligned with company values. Musk aims to make Grok politically neutral after previous models showed left-leaning tendencies.

♢ Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents
Magma is a new foundation model for visual agent tasks and excels at video understanding and UI navigation. It is easy to tune. ​

♢ Claude AI Powers Alexa+
Anthropic's Claude AI is now integrated into Alexa+ via Amazon Bedrock, enhancing its capabilities while maintaining strong safety protections against jailbreaking and misuse. ​

♢ Microsoft's New Phi Models
Microsoft has released two new open-source language models, Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal, emphasizing hardware efficiency and multimodal processing. Phi-4-mini, which has 3.8 billion parameters, focuses on text tasks, while Phi-4-multimodal, with 5.6 billion parameters, processes text, images, audio, and video. Both models outperform similar-sized alternatives and will be available on Hugging Face under an MIT license. ​

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