Binance Africa believes African businesses can lead in adopting agentic AI, drawing parallels to the continent's success with mobile money.

• Larry Cooke, Director of Government Relations and Strategy, Binance Africa, highlighted Africa's opportunity to lead rather than follow in agentic AI adoption.
• Industry research projects that more than 40 percent of enterprise applications will incorporate task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026.
• Binance has launched Agent OS, a platform enabling AI applications to connect to financial functions, with segregated subaccounts for security.

Kenya's lending sector is already heavily reliant on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for credit scoring, making the discussion now about governance rather than adoption.

• Over 8.37 million loans worth more than KES 150 billion have been disbursed by digital lenders, with AI models making the decisions.
• The article proposes that Kenya should regulate the *use* of AI in lending, not ban the technology itself, drawing lessons from past issues with credit scoring.
• The author, Kevin Mutiso, Chairman of the Digital Financial Services Association of Kenya, advocates for clear rules that ensure lenders can explain automated declines and that data moves with the borrower.

Nairobi can learn valuable lessons from Beijing's approach to traffic management, which leverages technology and data to create a more responsive urban infrastructure.

• Beijing is developing a "smart traffic brain" and a unified data platform to integrate traffic monitoring, signal control, emergency response, and data analysis.
• Key organizations involved include Zhejiang Dahua Technology, which provides AI-powered video analytics for traffic violations and scene understanding.
• The crucial takeaway for Nairobi is not just advanced cameras but the integration of existing infrastructure and data to manage traffic as a connected system, moving from monitoring to dynamic control and public service enhancement.