William Babigumira

A Certified Trade Adviser and export promotion expert, an entrepreneur and free thinker.

[Financial Times @FT]

We must not grant AI agents legal personhood https://t.co/ONzKd5uGU8

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”
Milan Kundera

[Bloomberg @business]

Banks are gearing up for widespread job cuts due to AI and it's not just junior positions that are at risk https://t.co/R4EYejqqPh

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

How do some skills become second nature? MIT researchers are uncovering how the brain turns repeated actions into automatic behavior, offering new insight into learning, habit formation, and performance. https://t.co/oyCKDXx39n

[William Babigumira @babzo]

Africa faces new competition for critical minerals investment as U.S. secures Greenland rare earth deal in bid to cut China reliance https://t.co/iqJuako901

[William Babigumira @babzo]

Russo-Indian partnerships in aviation. https://t.co/gKI9Q7DmGb

[William Babigumira @babzo]

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[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

Prof. Mondo Kagonyera: "Fortunately, I was in Parliament when we passed the law allowing dual citizenship. We deliberately excluded certain positions from being held by people with other nationalities. The main concern was dual loyalty."Mondo is a former cabinet minister.

[Bloomberg @business]

SpaceX has already received orders for more than the shares available in its record-setting $75 billion initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, shortly after starting to formally market the deal. https://t.co/aHRDB5hI6g

[William Babigumira @babzo]

3 African countries team up to supply Europe with 30 billion cubic metres of gas as it cuts reliance on Russia https://t.co/szPOWggXwV

[William Babigumira @babzo]

Industrial policy in action - Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas

https://t.co/CgXB8VyUQj

[BusinessDayNG @BusinessDayNg]

Nigeria's demand for foreign exchange eased at the start of 2026 as growing domestic refining capacity reduced the country's fuel import bill and helped lower overall dollar usage, supporting the naira and contributing to a sharp rise in net foreign exchange inflows.

https://t.co/pU2to3bQXT

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

A newspaper essay about the president’s uncle, MIT Prof. John G. Trump, tells the extraordinary history of his role in D-Day. But there is much more to the story. We’d like to share more about Prof. J.G. Trump as we knew him—a scientist, engineer, educator, entrepreneur, patriot, and MIT legend whose work still impacts us all today. ⚡️🧵1/10 https://t.co/sQG3cN9n1n

[FT Technology News @fttechnews]

NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks https://t.co/V6B6PZEYsp

[Bloomberg @business]

The Africa Finance Corp. has raised $2 billion via a syndicated loan, with more than half provided by Asian and European banks https://t.co/w3mfR2MRLk

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Bloomberg @business]

Morgan Stanley sees Zambia revise upward its bond buyback offer in a bid to break an impasse with a group of bondholders resisting an initial price tabled almost a week ago https://t.co/ds8CWjULKV

[William Babigumira @babzo]

Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal's Vedanta seeks New York IPO to fund Zambia’s copper expansion https://t.co/KjEg4REyoF

[ISED @ISED_CA]

Canada is building a stronger, safer and more sovereign AI economy. Today, the Government of Canada officially launched Canada’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All.

#AIForAll #CanadaAIStrategy

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We just launched Canada’s new AI Strategy: AI For All. 

We’re taking control of our future — with AI that’s governed by Canadian values, AI that’s accountable to Canadians, and AI that serves all Canadians.