In this episode of Next Africa, we dive into the continent’s fast-evolving tech landscape, from booming fintech to startups tackling Africa’s digital divide. Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola says the company is on track to achieve profitability. Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada shares how the firm aims to expand across the continent and abroad after its blockbuster IPO. Plus, we explore how Fibertime is working to close South Africa’s digital divide and Axian Group’s Hassanein Hiridjee discusses how stronger telecom infrastructure can underpin Africa’s AI-driven future.

00:00 - Bloomberg Next Africa
01:02 - Africa's tech ecosystem
01:46 - Rwanda's startup ecosystem
05:51 - VC investment landscape with Deepali Nangia from Speedinvest
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11:05 - Optasia CEO, Salvador Anglada on expansion plans
11:56 - Flutterwave CEO, Olugbenga Agboola on company's path to profitability
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In 2025, Bitcoin bulls finally got everything they wanted. ETFs, institutional adoption, a US president who says the word ‘crypto’ without wincing. But in 2026, that very success might be what breaks BTC.

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“What’s in there about Trump must be really, really bad for him to continue to try to keep these things hidden.”

Trump is angering his own MAGA base by refusing to release the unredacted Epstein files, a move that suggests full disclosure would be even more damaging, says former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh.

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Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded transformative movements especially the 19th Century campaign to abolish slavery. In his series, he argues that small, committed groups can spark moral revolutions, emphasizing the importance of perseverance and long-term vision.

In this fourth and final lecture, he zooms out to reflect on humanity’s strange historical trajectory, warning of the existential risks posed by unchecked tech and AI. He urges privileged individuals to take on an active role in shaping a better future.

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Through an anthropological lens, how can we consider and understand the relationship between religion and AI, when one is often considered to be of the past, and one of the future? Professor Beth Singler  introduces examples from her ethnographic work and considers what kinds of specific entanglements, uses, and imaginaries are involved when AI and religion meet, and what dreams (or nightmares) may come out of their interactions.

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How Humans Became White?

For 99% of human history, every human on Earth had dark skin. Then, only a few thousand years ago, something extraordinary happened: a group of humans gradually transformed into the light-skinned populations we recognize today. But this shift didn’t happen for aesthetic reasons — it was a brutal evolutionary adaptation to one of the most dangerous forces on the planet: sunlight.

This documentary uncovers the true scientific story of how humans became white — a story shaped by migration, climate, ancient diets, and the harsh physics of UV radiation. From the first Homo sapiens leaving Africa to the farmers who settled in Ice Age Europe, each step pushed human skin through one of evolution’s most dramatic transformations.

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• Why ancient European hunter-gatherers were dark-skinned for thousands of years
• How farming diets triggered one last evolutionary push toward lighter pigmentation

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Before Cities helps you fall asleep while learning about the world before buildings, cars, or even farms. In each quiet video, we talk about cavemen, early humans, and what life was like thousands of years ago. You’ll hear true stories about how people made fire, hunted animals, used stone tools, and survived in the wild—all told in a calm, slow voice with soft background sounds.

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In the first of four 2025 BBC Reith Lectures titled 'A Time of Monsters', the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites.

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AI pioneer YOSHUA BENGIO, Godfather of AI, reveals the DANGERS of Agentic AI, killer robots, and cyber crime, and how we MUST build AI that won’t harm people…before it’s too late.

Professor Yoshua Bengio is a Computer Science Professor at the Université de Montréal and one of the 3 original Godfathers of AI. He is the most-cited scientist in the world on Google Scholar, a Turing Award winner, and the founder of LawZero, a non-profit organisation focused on building safe and human-aligned AI systems.

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37:14 National Security Risks of AI
42:51 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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49:27 Would You Stop AI Advancements if You Could?
54:33 Are You Hopeful?
55:32 How Do We Bridge the Gap to the Everyday Person?
56:42 Love for My Children Is Why I’m Raising the Alarm
01:00:30 AI Therapy
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01:07:18 What Do You Think About Sam Altman?
01:09:24 Can Insurance Companies Save Us From AI?
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01:18:11 What Citizens Should Do to Prevent an AI Disaster
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In this episode, I share my eight AI predictions for 2026, not just where the technology is heading, but how it will change daily life, culture, politics, and the systems we live inside.

This episode is about reading the signals early, understanding what 2026 is likely to unlock, and why the choices made in the next year will matter far beyond technology itself.

From the rise of people being more offline and the rise of voice-first technology, to AI glasses, political backlash, and cultural divides in entertainment, I wanted to share where I view the future potentially going.

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05:55 – Prediction #3
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17:00 – Final Thoughts

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Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film. Most of these films have been transformed by colourising them for the first time. They offer a rare portrait of a powerful and prosperous nation on the cusp of great change.
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Silicon Valley billionaires lined the front rows of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, creating a striking image of the tech industry’s shift toward MAGA and authoritarian-style politics. In this episode, Kara sits down with author and neuroscientist Sam Harris to unpack how tech leaders embraced Trump, why they’ve benefited from his presidency, and what it means for democracy, AI, and the future of information.

Harris, the host of Making Sense, has become one of the most outspoken critics of the tech elite — including people he was once close to. He and Kara discuss:

• Why major tech CEOs shifted to the right
  
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• Elon Musk, authoritarianism, and political power
  
• Why conspiracy thinking is exploding online
  
• The dangers of AI
  
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01:40 How tech billionaires started embracing the far right
4:30 Why Sam Harris changed broke off his friendship with Elon Musk
7:08 How the far left turned silicon valley toward authoritarianism
21:48 Conspiracy culture, social media algorithms, and misinformation
25:21 RFK Jr., anti-vax narratives, and the collapse of public trust
30:41 Why tech leaders stay silent, and what real accountability requires
34:50 AI risks, job loss, inequality and tech regulation
42:31 Can America have a post-MAGA future?

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658,172 views Dec 11, 2025 Piers Morgan UncensoredPiers Morgan’s interview with Nick Fuentes on Monday resulted in miles of newspaper columns, endless hours of YouTube commentary and thousands of social media comments.

It was to be expected, what with Fuentes’ rising notoriety - but what we didn’t expect was how incensed Nick’s army of ‘groypers’ would be by some of the events that unfolded in the discussion. Nor the abuse directed towards Piers and his family.

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One of the big stories of 2025 has been the plummeting rates of foreign tourists entering the United States. Whether because President Trump has insulted their countries, or because they just don't fancy visiting the country the US has become - people are staying away in droves. Now, as though that isn't nearly bad enough, the Trump administration seems determined to impose even more onerous and intrusive tests on the way in - with the possibility that if you have the "wrong opinions" about the Dear Leader, you might not be let in at all. Let's discuss.

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The world of AI is trying to slow down for the holidays, but the announcements are still coming in HOT!

This week, we're diving deep into the massive waves coming from OpenAI, including the highly anticipated GPT-5.2 release (which we'll pick up right from the Rivian event!), and the huge leak of their new image model.

Plus, we'll check out the video generation world with a hands-on look at Runway's Gen-4.5 (it's actually demo-able now!), and all the major model updates from the open-source side, including Mistral’s Devstral 2 for coding and the new vision-language model from Zhipu AI.

Finally, we hit the rapid-fire headlines: Meta’s latest acquisition, why an AI Christmas ad failed, and what's next for AI agents thanks to the new Agentic AI Foundation.

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00:18 OpenAI's New GPT-5.2 Model
02:59 Disney Invests in OpenAI (IP Deal)
03:37 New OpenAI Image Model Leaks
07:12 Agentic AI Foundation
08:48 Runway Gen 4.5 Video Model Testing
09:24 Sponsor: Hostinger VPS (Ad Break)
10:55 Runway Test 1: Physical Accuracy (Sphere)
12:15 Runway Test 2: Character Emotion (Rainy Street)
13:13 Runway Test 3: 2D Animation Style (Floating Island)
14:04 Runway Test 4: Macro Shot Detail (Barista Latte)
15:14 Runway Test 5: Cinematic Action (Drone Chase)
17:22 New Open-Source LLMs
17:32 Mistral Devstrol 2 (Coding Model)
18:47 Zhipu GLM 4.6V (Vision & Tool Calling)
19:26 Alibaba Qwen 3 Omni Flash Upgrade
20:29 OpenAI Removes "Ad-like" Suggestions
21:52 ChatGPT Adds Free Adobe Editing
23:47 Meta Acquires Limitless Pendant
24:49 Alibaba Quinn Image I2L (Image to LoRA)
26:08 Rivian AI and Autonomy Day Event
26:55 Rivian's Four Phases of Autonomy
28:49 Rivian Assistant Voice Controls
30:16 McDonald's AI-Generated Ad Backlash
31:26 The AI Slop Fatigue
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A stunning discovery at an archaeological dig in the UK is rewriting the timeline of when humans first made fire.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago.

The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought.

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Kara and Rachel talk about Rachel’s newest podcast, "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order," which unravels how the blatantly unconstitutional incarceration of more than 100,000 Japanese American and Japanese immigrants during WWII was planned and carried out.

They also explore the parallels to President Trump's mass-deportation policies, discuss the recent boat strikes on alleged drug traffickers, the escalating drama around the competing bids for Warner Bros. Discovery (and what it signals for the future of the news business) and MSNBC's evolution into MS NOW.

This wide-ranging conversation connects the past to the present—and asks what we can learn before history repeats itself.

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03:58 How Rachel Maddow chooses stories and avoids the Trump attention machine
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Take a visual journey through New York in 1640.
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In this episode of I’ve Got Questions, I break down the impact AI will have on the workforce.

Companies will change how they hire, job titles will be going away, working with AI will become the expectation, and right now, there are 7 non-negotiable skills you should focus on building for the AI age.

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A US travel association, a top Democrat and would-be travellers from Europe and Australia are bristling at the Trump administration's new plan to require Europeans and other visitors using the visa waiver programme to provide social media handles used over the past five years. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Nadine Strossen, Professor of Constitutional at the New York Law School, and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union. 
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Billy Carson is the founder and CEO of the media company 4BiddenKnowledge Inc., and First Class Space Agency, an aerospace company focusing on alternative propulsion and zero-point energy devices. He is also the host of the “4BiddenKnowledge” podcast and co-host of the “Bio-Hack Your Best Life” podcast.

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Patrick Bet-David sits down with Billy Carson, founder of 4BiddenKnowledge!

Billy Carson is an American entrepreneur, best known as the founder and CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge Inc, where he investigates ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial life, and conspiracy theories, making him a prominent figure in the exploration of the unknown.

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47:40 - The Devil
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1:07:40 - The power of zero point energy
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Why are Americans so interested in Britain's decline? While visiting London, Tucker Carlson has said that the country has ‘shrunken’ and its culture ‘destroyed’, particularly because of mass immigration. Freddy Gray is joined by Tim Stanley and Ed West to discuss whether Britain has become ‘ground zero in the decline of western civilisation’ and if the US has always viewed the UK this way.

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Is Britain truly an independent power, or has it become a vassal state of the United States? From the "America tax" levied by Silicon Valley giants to a critical reliance on US energy and the Federal Reserve, the UK's sovereignty is increasingly called into question. While arguments for a radical "divorce" to reclaim technological and military autonomy clash with the hard economic realities of a middle power, the cultural absorption of British politics into American online discourse suggests the transformation may already be complete.

To debate whether the UK can ever escape Washington's orbit, Professor Helen Thompson, UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington and Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani join UnHerd's Freddie Sayers to chart the US-ification of our everyday lives, and what happens next.

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