3C Coding School has closed a $3 million seed round led by MRG Economic Group, with investor Amr Saad and a group of angels joining. Two things get the money: a Saudi Arabia launch and an AI-powered personalised learning platform. Hossam Hosny and Ahmed Khallaf started the company in 2015, teaching coding, technology and AI […] The post Egypt’s 3C Coding School Raises $3M Seed, Sets Sights on Riyadh appeared first on Tech In Africa.

Greg Abel is stepping into one of the most difficult succession jobs in corporate America: running Berkshire Hathaway after Warren Buffett. Since taking over as chief executive at the start of 2026, Abel has largely allowed Berkshire’s investment decisions to speak for themselves. But in a wide-ranging CNBC interview on Wednesday, he offered a clearer […] The post Greg Abel Signals Berkshire Is Embracing AI, but in a Very Different Way From Silicon Valley appeared first on Tekedia.

Financial markets are delivering a mixed but revealing signal as capital continues to rotate between digital assets and artificial intelligence. U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded approximately $101 million in net inflows. While spot Ether ETFs experienced about $48 million in net outflows. Snowflake shares surged more than 22% after the data-cloud company delivered stronger-than-expected […] The post Bitcoin ETFs Attract Capital as Snowflake’s AI Boom Lifts Tech Stocks appeared first on Tekedia.

Anthropic has accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies and other foreign actors of using large-scale networks of fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude models and build cheaper competing systems, escalating a broader battle over AI model distillation, intellectual property and national security. Jacob Klein, Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence, said the company supports legitimate […] The post Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Labs of Using Fraudulent Accounts to Distill Claude Models appeared first on Tekedia.

The final week of August delivered a sharp reminder that modern financial markets rarely wait for the official opening bell before repricing risk. Nvidia’s earnings, oil-market tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, and shifting expectations across equities and commodities demonstrated how quickly information can move from headlines into asset prices. Nvidia’s after-close earnings report was […] The post Nvidia, Oil and Geopolitics Put Investors on a Market Knife Edge appeared first on Tekedia.

India’s unexpectedly strong economic growth has triggered a debate over the reliability of the country’s newly revised GDP data, with a former senior finance ministry official and an ex-central bank governor questioning whether the headline expansion overstates underlying momentum. India’s economy grew 7.8% in the three months through June from a year earlier, government data […] The post India’s 7.8% Growth Triggers Debate Over Whether Economy Is Stronger Than Data Suggest appeared first on Tekedia.

Artificial intelligence companies are confronting a new cybersecurity problem as malicious actors increasingly exploit powerful AI models not only to generate phishing messages or malicious code, but also to automate attacks, bypass safeguards, and extract capabilities from the models themselves. The threat is changing the security equation for AI developers. The same models that companies […] The post AI Models Are Becoming Cyber Weapons as Hackers Exploit Distillation and Other Technologies Behind Them appeared first on Tekedia.

Career is about more than making money. Yet money helps to remove many of life’s inconveniences. That is why it remains strange that someone can attend a university, graduate and enter the workforce without receiving any practical education on personal finance and wealth management. Universities teach corporate finance and equip people to make money for […] The post Physics of Capital and How To Invest; Register for Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass appeared first on Tekedia.

Nigerian digital banking platform Nomba, has secured a $3 million debt facility from CardinalStone Financial Company Limited to expand it’s cross-border payments infrastructure, with a focus on its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The funding is expected to provide Nomba with additional USD liquidity to support its near-instant cross border payment network […] The post Nomba Secures $3 Million Debt Facility to Expand Cross-Border Payments Infrastructure appeared first on Tekedia.

Uber Technologies is cutting about 3,300 jobs, or roughly 10% of its global workforce, in its largest round of layoffs since the COVID-19 pandemic as the ride-hailing company restructures its operations, reduces management layers and prepares for a transportation market being shaped by autonomous vehicles. At the same time, Uber is winding down its operations […] The post Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs as Robotaxis Reshape Ride-Hailing, Exits Nigeria and Uganda appeared first on Tekedia.

Trade relations between the United States and Canada have entered another tense phase, with negotiations effectively frozen after a breakdown in talks and a sharp escalation in rhetoric from Washington. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made clear that Ottawa is not prepared to return to the negotiating table simply for the sake of reaching […] The post US-Canada Trade Talks Freeze as Carney Demands Serious Negotiations appeared first on Tekedia.

South Korean foreign exchange authorities bought roughly $20 billion of U.S. dollars sold by SK Hynix following the chipmaker’s record $26.5 billion American depositary receipt listing in July, using the transaction to replenish foreign-exchange reserves and help stabilize the won, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The Foreign Exchange […] The post South Korea Bought $20bn of SK Hynix’s Dollar Proceeds to Rebuild FX Reserves appeared first on Tekedia.

Apple is increasingly emerging as an unlikely defensive play for investors as concerns over the durability of the artificial intelligence boom and the risk of a global bond-market sell-off push money away from some of the technology sector’s biggest AI beneficiaries. Shares of Apple rose 2.6% on Tuesday even as technology stocks broadly declined, extending […] The post Apple Emerges as Investors’ Safe Haven as AI Trade Faces Growing Doubts appeared first on Tekedia.

Donald Trump Jr. has positioned himself in an unusually advantageous corner of America’s rapidly expanding prediction-market industry: one where he could benefit regardless of which major platform ultimately emerges as the dominant player. Through his venture firm, 1789 Capital, Trump Jr. is reportedly committing $300 million to Polymarket’s $1 billion financing round, giving the prediction-market […] The post Donald Trump Jr’s Prediction Market Conflict of Interest appeared first on Tekedia.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is calling on Nvidia to dramatically expand its share-repurchase program, noting that the artificial intelligence chipmaker’s extraordinary growth is not being adequately reflected in its stock price. “I think, from Nvidia’s perspective, there’s nothing more valuable in this market than Nvidia,” Cramer said Monday on CNBC’s “Mad Money.” His argument comes as […] The post Cramer Urges Nvidia to Launch $500bn Buyback as AI Growth Fails to Lift Shares appeared first on Tekedia.

Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal that combines technology licensing with the acquisition of the startup’s six-member team, giving the software giant additional technology for automating increasingly complex marketing and customer-experience workflows. The financial terms were not disclosed. Adobe confirmed the acquisition but declined to provide further details. The transaction […] The post Adobe Acquires Indian AI Marketing Startup Rilo to Expand Automated Workflow Tools appeared first on Tekedia.

Palo Alto Networks Chief Executive Nikesh Arora said Tuesday that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is forcing companies to reconsider roughly $1 trillion of cybersecurity infrastructure built for a pre-AI environment, as automated attacks increasingly operate at speeds that legacy defenses were never designed to handle. “Nothing that was deployed seven or 10 years […] The post Palo Alto Networks Sees $1 Trillion Cybersecurity Upgrade Wave as AI Accelerates Attacks appeared first on Tekedia.

The global economy is entering a period in which geopolitical risk, political instability and monetary tightening are increasingly colliding. Markets already have plenty to worry about, but fresh revelations about Russia’s military assistance to Iran, uncertainty surrounding the US military establishment and a hawkish Federal Reserve are creating a more complicated environment for investors. A […] The post Russia-Iran Missile Cooperation and Hawkish Fed Put Global Markets Under Pressure appeared first on Tekedia.

A sharp split now characterizes the digital asset landscape. Market participants actively compare short-term chart patterns against structural growth trends when evaluating top crypto coins. Projects like Sui Crypto and Worldcoin demonstrate robust fundamental expansion, even as their token valuations undergo temporary consolidation phases.At the same time, alternative protocols draw substantial market attention by launching […] The post BlockDAG Buybacks Go Live, While Sui Crypto & Worldcoin Advance: What You Need to Know appeared first on Tekedia.

Two very different stories are unfolding across the technology landscape, but both reveal the growing influence of digital infrastructure. On one side, X users are facing a fresh wave of phishing and account-takeover attempts. On the other, Dell Technologies is demonstrating how the enormous spending on artificial intelligence is translating into extraordinary demand for hardware. […] The post X Phishing Wave Collides With Dell’s AI-Fueled Earnings Boom appeared first on Tekedia.

The cryptocurrency market is entering another phase in which institutional conviction, new token launches and regulatory battles are increasingly shaping the direction of the industry. Three developments capture this changing landscape: Strategy CEO Phong Le’s commitment to continue acquiring Bitcoin regardless of its price, Ethos Network’s launch of the WHUF token sale, and a Southern […] The post Bitcoin Conviction, WHUF’s Token Sale and a Legal Win for Solana appeared first on Tekedia.

The U.S. Treasury market is sending a warning that investors can no longer afford to ignore. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield has climbed back above 4.80%, reaching its highest level since early 2025 and moving toward a threshold that could reshape expectations across global financial markets. The move is part of a broader selloff in […] The post 10-Year Treasury Yield Climbs Above 4.80% as Bond Market Anxiety Deepens appeared first on Tekedia.

The artificial intelligence boom is transforming the global economy, but its costs are increasingly extending far beyond the technology industry. Behind every AI chatbot, image generator and automated agent sits a rapidly expanding network of data centers packed with powerful chips. These facilities require enormous amounts of electricity, water, land and construction materials, creating a […] The post How AI Data Centers Are Making Everything More Expensive appeared first on Tekedia.

Robinhood Chain is rapidly becoming one of the most intriguing experiments in the evolving relationship between traditional finance, tokenized assets and crypto speculation. In a striking display of onchain activity, the network generated more fees than major blockchains including Solana, Base and Ethereum during a recent period, while decentralized exchange volume approached or surpassed $1.49 […] The post Robinhood Chain’s Memecoin Surge Signals a New Era for Onchain Trading appeared first on Tekedia.