For years, the advice for interacting with artificial intelligence has sounded almost quaint: be polite, be clear, say “please.” But new research suggests that this instinct, rooted in human social norms, may be quietly undermining how well AI systems perform. A study presented at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop, published in September 2025, titled “ Mind

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Quidax, a Nigerian cryptocurrency startup that lets users and developers buy, sell, and list digital tokens, has terminated the appointment of employees across multiple teams, including sales, design, and operations, as independently confirmed by several former staff with direct knowledge of the matter. TechCabal reliably gathered that during a company-wide all-hands meeting on the morning

Kenya’s draft regulations for virtual asset businesses have proposed detailed standards for reserves, disclosure, and operational controls for firms that want to issue stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to fiat currencies—or tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), such as property or debt broken into digital units and traded online. The proposed regulations, issued by the National Treasury on March

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One in 20 Nigerians now earns above ₦1 million ($723.26) monthly, according to data from savings platform Piggyvest’s new savings report. The share of those earning ₦1 million ($723.26) or more monthly rose to 5% in 2025, from 2% in 2024.  The report, which surveyed over 25,000 Nigerians, shows that while income levels are improving

Kenya’s tier-1 banks have largely exhausted the pool of new digital users, and I&M Group’s disclosure that 98% of its customers now transact digitally shows the next phase of growth will come from extracting more revenue from existing users rather than bringing new ones online. I&M Group serves more than 727,000 customers across five markets

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A dispute over $11.4 million in unpaid fees has put Nigeria’s only operational communications satellite at risk of losing the technical support keeping it in orbit and revealed that the country has lacked direct control of the spacecraft for nearly seven years. Documents and interviews seen by TechCabal reveal that the NigComSat-1R satellite has reportedly