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"More medicine is not actually better." — A former head of Switzerland's largest health fund, in @MasukuAndile's iFHP Biennial Conference panel on who global health capital sees, and who it forgets. 📰 👇🏾 #TechTidesTuesday
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“Dubious legalese tends to favour the well-heeled and the well-lawyered.”
This week’s #TechTidesTuesday weighs Big Tech’s T's & C's against the 1888 Rudd Concession that King Lobengula signed. Can owning our data protect us? @MasukuAndile goes in.
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Do we really want a world where a machine is mistaken for a human? 🤔
@tavus' Griffin model reportedly passed for human with nearly half its testers on a live video call. This #TechTidesTuesday from @MasukuAndile makes the case for a family safe word.
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My brief observations in Hong Kong suggest that the fintech rails everyday citizens use to keep their lives moving are the digital infrastructure plays to watch.
Here's my #TechTidesTuesday dispatch on who builds, owns and stewards the city’s everyday fintech rails... and what (South) Africa should mind. 📰 👇🏾
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"I'm the top agent, and these are all the sub-agents doing the work for me."
Part three of three on Francois Rautenbach, who's doing the work of five with AI, and picking a fight with the way we tap and pay. 💳 👇🏾 #TechTidesTuesday
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"You make your most money from a company in pain." 💊
Francois Rautenbach tells @MasukuAndile about a friendly coffee chat at Novell in '99, code the firm couldn't crack and a doctrine he's applied ever since.
Part two of three. #TechTidesTuesday 📰 👇🏾
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In other news... It's #TechTidesTuesday! 📰
Stoked for this week’s #TechTidesTuesday article featuring one of the most gifted (and genuinely humble) hardware+software specialists I know, Francois Rautenbach.
This is the first instalment in a three-part series exploring his singular journey through computing, from the early days of hardware to wrangling agents in the AI era. Enjoy! 📰 👇🏾
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"The real(est) African infrastructure gap is money that won't move." 🛞
@Tayo_Akinyemi on why fintech's real job in Africa is velocity: unsticking capital so the same pool funds more transactions.
The Trajectory Africa Distilled #06 📩👇🏾
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"China's courts already lean on AI. The lawyers are next."
A Suits actor is selling an AI tool upending a profession built on privileged access and scarce expertise. New #TechTidesTuesday from @MasukuAndile 📰👇🏾
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"The prize sitting inside an African bank or telco is decades of transaction data nobody else on earth holds." 📰
@MasukuAndile on Kimi K3, Bridgewater's modest-model coup, and why the finesse layer beats the space race. #TechTidesTuesday
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"A USD 1,500 hearing aid is a very different proposition against Lagos wages than against Amsterdam ones." 📰
@MasukuAndile on @bryan_johnson, the @wef's $5.8T longevity dividend and which of its low-tech fixes actually travel to Africa. #TechTidesTuesday
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"He said I'd misread him, then sent me the tape. He was right, from where he was standing."
@MasukuAndile goes back to @iAboyeji's big week: a concession on sovereignty and a forthright fund manager impairing his own fund on the record. #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/op-ed…
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Your weekend reading, sorted, courtesy of my colleague Maya Loon and me at Future in the Humanities (FITH).
Spoiler: The Chinese academics we encountered recently don't seem especially intimidated by AI. 📰 👇🏾
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RT @MasukuAndile: Well, what do you know... It's #TechTidesTuesday and Youth Day in South Africa.
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"The boundaries of community shifted as soon as the narrative did."
@Tayo_Akinyemi was in Amsterdam for @KatapultFutureF 2026. Here's her #TechTidesTuesday hijack on belonging, narrative, and what it costs to build in Africa's asset-heavy sectors. 📰 👇🏾
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"The sovereignty narrative and the institutional reality are, at minimum, in tension with each other." —@MasukuAndile reads @iAboyeji's big week and probes Africa's competing investment theories. 📰 👇🏾#TechTidesTuesday
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"Card technology doesn't really fit that well into modern financial infrastructure."
That's @pawapay CEO Nikolai Barnwell making the case for why his company doesn't touch credit cards and where they reckon African payments are heading. Get it! 🎧 👇🏾 africantechroundup.com/pod-n…
Standard Chartered’s CEO apologised for calling people “lower value human capital.”
Meanwhile: Microsoft drops Claude Code internally and Uber torched its 2026 AI budget by April.
@MasukuAndile reflects on the implications in this #TechTidesTuesday 📰👇🏾
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When the AI subsidies end, the cheaper option might be... human? ✂️ 💸
@MasukuAndile's #TechTidesTuesday op-ed riffs on @MelisOutlever's State of Brand piece, Calacanis/Chamath burn-rate calcs, and what it all means for Corporate Africa.
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