Author: Ahmad Ibrahim

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its long-running crowdsourcing platform that connected businesses and researchers with people willing to complete small online tasks, bringing the service to an end after more than two decades. AWS says Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The platform will no longer be available to either workers or requesters after that date. Amazon’s notice to Mechanical Turk users says the company regularly evaluates its programmes, tools and services and makes changes based on those assessments. “Following an assessment, we’ve made the decision to close AWS Mechanical Turk,” the company said, with the…

A new agricultural technology initiative, GreenFlow, is seeking to use artificial intelligence, soil-moisture sensors and solar power to help African farmers make more informed irrigation decisions as unpredictable weather patterns increasingly threaten agricultural productivity. In an exclusive interview with AIBase reporter Ahmad Ibriam, Aisha Ilham Isa, the founder of  GreenFlow explained that the project was inspired by repeated crop losses experienced by a family member as a result of increasingly unpredictable weather. “GreenFlow started with my uncle,” Ilham, said. “I watched him lose harvests repeatedly, flooding one season and drought the next. He was an experienced farmer, but the weather…

As artificial intelligence reshapes economies, industries and societies around the world, one question continues to loom large across Africa: will the continent become a meaningful producer of AI technologies, or simply a consumer of systems built elsewhere? For Dr Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, the answer may determine whether Africa captures the economic and social benefits of the AI revolution or remains dependent on technologies designed for other realities. In an exclusive interview with AIBase.ng reporter Ahmad Ibrahim, Abdulhamid shared his perspectives on the future of AI in Africa, the risks of technological dependence, the opportunities for Nigerian innovators and why local…

Food safety remains one of Nigeria’s most persistent yet often overlooked public health challenges. From poor storage conditions and post-harvest losses to limited testing facilities and inconsistent inspection standards, ensuring that food reaching consumers is safe remains a complex task. Kenneth Sambo believes artificial intelligence could become part of the solution. In an exclusive interview with AIBase.ng reporter Ahmad Ibrahim, Sambo, an expert in artificial intelligence, shared his views on how AI, computer vision, and sensor technologies could help improve food safety monitoring across Nigeria’s food supply chain. According to him, his interest in AI-driven food-safety systems emerged from concerns…

While Nigeria’s food delivery market is dominated by large players focused on major cities such as Lagos and Abuja, a student entrepreneur in Minna believes some of the biggest opportunities lie in underserved university communities. That belief led to the creation of Foody Takeout, a food delivery startup founded by a student who experienced firsthand the challenges of accessing affordable, reliable food delivery services in the Gidan Kwano community near the Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA). In an exclusive interview with AIBase Nig reporter Ahmad Ibrahim, the founder said the company was born not from market research reports or…

Nigerian startup HUBBU is betting that the future of real estate operations lies not in replacing people with artificial intelligence, but in combining AI systems with human expertise to automate repetitive back-office work while keeping critical decisions in human hands. In an exclusive interview with  AIBase reporter Ahmad Ibrahim, HUBBU founder Taofeek Onimisi Adam said the company is building AI-assisted workflows designed to help real estate businesses become more efficient and scale their operations without significantly increasing staff numbers. “I help real estate companies build systems around their processes to make them more efficient and scale without increasing headcount,” Adam told…