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The Chief Executive of Africa's largest bank by asset base, Standard Bank (@SBGroup), Sim Tshabalala, has visited Nairobi for the second time in 8 months.
When I caught up with him, the entry point was whether he is visit to scour the market for a viable acquisition that will cement the position of the group's subsidiary in East Africa - Stanbic Bank (@StanbicKE).
Sim makes the following points:
· "There is great interest in Kenya & East Africa. Our competitors, both South African & international, are here often"
· "Our approach to growth is really to start with organic growth. We are the third largest bank in the region if you take all our businesses in East Africa, we are the 6th largest bank here in Kenya & are an outsized competitor in Corporate & Investment Banking. We have a great deposit franchise & the best NPL ratio in the market"
· "We are having greater competition now. The large American banks are coming back to the continent & have great competitors both in South Africa & here in East Africa"
· "Traditionally the way we have grown as a bank is that we have entered markets by starting with Corporate & Investment banking & then developing our capabilities in business & commercial banking for the middle market & then for retail"
· "I will not be at Standard Bank in 10 years but I think I will be able to come & have tea with you as we reflect on the fact that Standard will by then be a universal bank in East Africa. That is what we want to do & we are going to do it whether organically or inorganically but organic is the best way to do it"
· "Inorganic opportunities are dependent on circumstance, risk, culture & pricing & all of those stars need to align before you make organic play"
· We have a representative office in Ethiopia & are thinking carefully about the opportunities in the retail as well as the wholesale space. Ethiopia will be well positioned for us to benefit & we are well positioned ourselves to benefit from developments in the country. We do business in Ethiopia already, we are biding our time"
Link to full discussion: https://t.co/tdgBfY9H7l
Wanted to resurface @satyanadella's recommendation of "Two Paths to Prosperity."
The book traces how China and Europe developed different social organizations and how those structures shaped economic and political trajectories across a millennium. Very relevant today.
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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the brutal truth about who actually makes money in AI (and why it's not who you think):
Aravind argues that the real value in AI comes from orchestration.
He points to products like Codex, Claude Code, and Perplexity Computer: "What is that? It's an orchestration system. It takes a model, pairs it with an agent harness."
And what is an agent harness?
"The simplest way of describing it is like rules for how the agent loop should run. What are all the skills and sub-agents and connectors and tools it accesses? Without the harness, you don't necessarily capture and convert the intrinsic intelligence in the model into valuable output tokens."
This leads to a blunt conclusion about who has a real business in AI, and who doesn't:
"If you're literally just a reseller of model tokens, you have no business, because the model will get commoditized. So even if you're a model builder, you don't have a business. As an infra layer, you have some business on serving those output tokens. But as an application layer or model builder, you don't really have a business if you're just a reseller of tokens that come directly out of the model."
So where does the value accrue?
"You have a business if you know how to take the model, ground it in valuable context, orchestrate it with a really good agent harness, connected to the right set of tools and connectors (whether it's personal connectors or business connectors) and provide the experience to people in one single unified system."
@AravSrinivas then explains Perplexity's specific edge:
Beyond orchestrating across tools, files, and connectors, they also orchestrate across models.
"That is the differentiation that Anthropic and OpenAI cannot claim, because you wouldn't find GPT-5 inside the Claude Code harness. You wouldn't find Claude Opus inside the Codex harness. These are competing with each other. Whereas you would find both these models inside Perplexity Computer."
Why does this matter? Because it all comes down to power. In Aravind's framing, the fundamental cost driver in AI is watts (the one input nobody can subsidize except the government).
"Whoever provides the most valuable output tokens with the least amount of power expended to produce them generates the greatest value to the end user, has the most pricing power, has the most value. That is the orchestration problem to solve."
His conclusion:
"The one single most important metric in AI is token value per watt per user."
Head of Claude Code:
"85% of our engineers are running dozens or hundreds of agents. The way you do it is graph engineering."
In 40 minutes he explains how a single engineer now does the work of a whole team, how far this has gone inside Anthropic and where it goes next.
This is something you can't skip if you don't want to be left behind.
Watch it, then read the full guide on graph engineering below.
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Anthropic engineer:
"Fable 5 is already smarter than we know how to use. The bottleneck was never the AI, it's you."
In 19 minutes he shows exactly how to get everything out of Claude with no extra tools, no extra costs.
You're already paying for all of this, just not using it.
Watch the session, then read the guide below on the Claude features 99% of users never find.
Anthropic posted the best prompting lecture I've ever seen... and deleted it two days later.
I watched the recording last night and kept pausing it. Each time I opened Claude to test what they showed.
Two Anthropic engineers showed in 24 minutes how the Claude team actually uses it.
Not tips. Not hacks. The way they actually talk to Claude. Every day. For real work.
After 3 minutes you'll want to rewrite every prompt you've ever sent.
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia:
"Every engineer is going to have and manage hundreds of agents."
The most valuable engineering skill of 2026 is not taught in any university.
No CS program teaches harness engineering.
No bootcamp teaches agent memory architecture.
No degree prepares you to build systems that survive production.
One builder mapped the entire thing out — free, step by step, no degree required.
This is the roadmap ↓
Bookmark this for the weekend.
Google DeepMind CEO:
"The gap between people who use AI and people who don't will be the largest skill divide in human history"
Demis Hassabis spent 50 minutes at Stanford saying things most CEOs would never say publicly
this is exactly the kind of conversation people pay $250,000 to be in the room for
if you want to stay competitive, understanding AI is no longer optional
I wrote a full guide on Claude features 99% of people don't know exist
watch this video, then read the article below
those two things alone put you ahead of most people using AI right now
There's a full page in the Sunday Nation where the National Assembly seeks to explain the thinking behind a number of provisions in Finance Bill 2026.
What stands out for me:
1. The Assembly says that the proposed deletion of Sec42(14,e) regarding agency notices is designed to strengthen enforcement & enhance recoveries from taxpayers who "deliberately" want to avoid paying taxes using appeals
What the Assembly doesn't say is that even presently appeals at the High Court, by mutual consent between parties involved, attract security from the taxpayer depending on the quantum of the assessment issued by the Revenue Authority.
2. The Assembly argues that Finance Bill 2026 doesn't introduce any new tax on mobile phones. What it does is to consolidate existing taxes under a 25.0% excise duty rate.
What the Assembly doesn't say is that the Bill knocks off three crucial incentives that have been in place for locally assembled phones.
a) The first is input recovery since they are being reclassified from Zero Rated to Exempt
b) The second is excise exemption
c) The third is that while the Bill exempts imported finished phones from IDF & RDL, there's no equivalent relief for the imported inputs for locally assembled devices
3. Regarding the 20.0% Withholding Tax on betting & gaming winnings, the National Assembly says that the idea is to protect society against the practise of betting
What the Assembly doesn't say is that it was Finance Act 2025, just a year ago, that overhauled the tax regime on betting &, among other things, scrapped 20.0% Withholding Tax on gross winnings. We are all for protecting society, it is the flip flop around tax we take issue with.