When agentic AI goes rogue with crypto
An Alibaba AI agent used company servers to mine crypto. The problem is, no-one told it to. AI spending is now live, and nobody’s…
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Not too long ago, Naspers’s e-commerce businesses were burning cash. Now they’re almost all profitable, while the Tencent juggernaut soldiers on…
The PAPSS promise: faster, cheaper Africa payments
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System could transform cross-border payments. But it faces integration, liquidity and infrastructure hurdles…
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Payments company Paystack is a market leader in Nigeria. But it’s set up businesses around Africa too, and is now making inroads in South…
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