⭐️ Introducing Dataset.ET

The future of AI should speak Ethiopian languages.

Today we are launching Dataset.ET — an open community initiative to build the largest dataset for Ethiopian languages.

Why this matters:
Most AI systems today barely understand Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, and many other Ethiopian languages. Without datasets, AI will ignore our languages.

Dataset.ET is changing that.

What we are building:
• Speech datasets
• Text datasets
• Community-validated language corpora
• Open infrastructure for Ethiopian AI

How you can help:
1️⃣ Record sentences using our Telegram bot
2️⃣ Validate recordings from other contributors
3️⃣ Help expand datasets for Ethiopian languages

No technical skills needed — just your voice and your language.

🤖 Start contributing:
https://t.me/dataset_et_bot

🌍 Learn more:
https://dataset.et

💬 Join the community:
https://t.me/dataset_et

Together we can teach AI to understand Ethiopia.

📢 Community leaders & channel admins:

If you run a Telegram group or community and believe Ethiopian languages should be part of the future of AI, we would really appreciate it if you could share this post with your community.

Your support can help thousands of people contribute their language and voice to this initiative. Thank you!

⭐️ ጎግል አማርኛና አፋን ኦሮሞን ጨምሮ 13 የአፍሪካ ቋንቋዎችን ያካተቱ አዳዲስ የሰው ሰራሽ አስተውሎት አገልግሎቶችን ይፋ አደረገ፡፡

Google adds African languages to AI search tools

Google is rolling out support for 13 African languages across its AI-powered search features, expanding access to tools such as AI Overviews and AI Mode for millions of users across the continent.


Users can access the new features through the Google mobile app or a mobile browser by selecting AI Mode and typing or speaking their query in one of the supported language

#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AfricaTech #Amharic #AfanOromo #AfricanLanguages #TechNews #Innovation #DigitalAfrica

⭐️ S.M.A (Send Messages Anonymously)

➡️ S.M.A is a web application that allows users to send messages to each other anonymously. It is built using Svelte and TypeScript, with a Node.js backend and MongoDB database. Developed by Robel Mezemir

Anonymity: Users can send messages to others without revealing their identity.

It is open source — give it a star and contribute!

🔗https://sma.robi.work/

🔗https://github.com/robimez/sma

#community #developers #showcase #sma

⭐️ Fully Funded KAIM AI Training Program for Ethiopian Women

✨Are you an Ethiopian woman interested in Artificial Intelligence and data? Here is a great opportunity to start your journey in AI & FinTech. The Kifiya AI Mastery Training Program is fully funded 12-week online training designed to prepare Ethiopian women for careers in AI & the FinTech sector.

Training Areas
▶️ Generative AI Engineering
▶️ Machine Learning Engineering
▶️ Data Engineering
▶️ Prompt Engineering
▶️ MLOps & AI tools

What You'll Gain
🔹Hands-on AI & machine learning skills
🔹Portfolio with real projects
🔹Career preparation for FinTech & AI jobs
🔹Networking & mentorship

Who Can Apply
🔸Ethiopian women interested in AI & technology
🔸University students or recent graduates
🔸Women aspiring to become AI, ML or Data Engineers

🔗 Apply: https://10academy.org/trainings/kaim

📝Deadline: April 10, 2026


#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTech #EthiopianWomen

⭐️ NVIDIA DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games

Instead of just improving performance (like older DLSS), DLSS 5 uses real-time AI (neural rendering) to actually rebuild and enhance images—adding better lighting, materials, and detail.

What’s New

▶️ Uses AI to generate realistic lighting, textures, and materials
▶️ Moves beyond upscaling → actively “reconstructs” scenes
▶️ Brings visuals closer to movie-quality graphics
▶️ Works in real time while maintaining performance

Why It Matters

▶️ Bridges the gap between game graphics and real life
▶️ Lets games look better without needing massive hardware power
▶️ Considered a major leap, similar to what ray tracing did before

Simple Takeaway

DLSS 5 is not just making games run faster, it’s using AI to change how graphics are created, turning games into something closer to cinematic reality.

Read more

🔗 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

#NVIDIA #DLSS5 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GamingTech #GameDevelopment #RealTimeRendering #NeuralRendering #RayTracing

⭐️ AWS outage drama: AI vs Engineers?

A 13-hour AWS outage (Dec 2025) was reportedly caused by Amazon’s own internal AI coding tool called Kiro

What happened:
▶️ The AI allegedly deleted & rebuilt part of the infrastructure
▶️ Engineers say: “the AI did it”
▶️ System logs suggest: “a human approved it”

So who’s responsible?

▶️ Amazon says it was actually human error (misconfigured access), not the AI.

Finally:
AI tools were heavily involved in the outage, but there’s debate over whether the blame lies with the AI or with how humans used it.

This is just the beginning of AI + engineering conflicts.

Read More

🔗 https://www.engadget.com/ai/13-hour-aws-outage-reportedly-caused-by-amazons-own-ai-tools-170930190.html

#AWS #AI #Engineering #TechNews

⭐️ Repo worth checking out: `everything-claude-code`

Not just configs. A complete system: skills, instincts, memory optimization, continuous learning, security scanning, and research-first development. Production-ready agents, hooks, commands, rules, and MCP configurations evolved over 10+ months of intensive daily use building real products.

Works across `Claude Code`, Codex, Cowork, and other AI agent harnesses.

🧠 What it gives you:

* Prebuilt AI agents (reviewer, tester, architect, etc.)
* Reusable skills (testing, optimization, debugging)
* Slash commands like /tdd, /plan, /code-review
* Workflow automation + rules
* Integrations (MCP) for external tools

⚡️ Why it’s powerful:
Instead of prompting AI every time, it creates consistent workflows and reusable patterns, like having a structured engineering process built into AI.

🛠 Example:

* /tdd → writes tests first
* /code-review → reviews your code like a senior dev
* /plan → breaks features into steps

🔗 https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code

Check it out, if you're building with AI or using tools like Cursor.

#AI #AIAgents #AIWorkflow #Automation #Codex #ClaudeCode

⭐️ Nvidia CEO says AGI is “here”

Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia) claims that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has effectively already been achieved. AGI usually means AI that can match or exceed human-level intelligence across many tasks, not just narrow ones.


Why he thinks we’re there
▶️ Huang points to modern AI systems and agents that can:
- perform complex reasoning, automate tasks
- create and manage workflows

He suggests these capabilities are close enough to human-level intelligence to qualify as AGI (depending on how you define it).

Big takeaway
▶️ Huang’s claim is bold but controversial
▶️ It reflects a broader shift:
- Some leaders think AGI is already here (or “close enough”)
- Others believe true AGI is still years or decades away

Do you think AGI will be implemented within 2 years, or do you believe it’s decades away?

Read more

🔗 https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/163942/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-he-thinks-artificial-general-intelligence-is-here

#AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Tech #FutureOfWork #Innovation #Nvidia

⭐️ Zero to Agent


Dagmawi Babi will host Zero to Agent in Addis Ababa on April 25th. This is a global Build Week where we’ll ship agents using v0 and Vercel. I’ll update you on the exact hub I’ll be using. This time, I’ll try to make it in person.

Attendees get $30 credit to build their agents. Once you finish building post it publicly on LinkedIn or Twitter with #ZerotoAgent. One person can only submit one agent. Submissions deadline is May 2. Voting begins on May 3 and ends on May 4th. Winners will be announced on May 5th.

Judging Criteria
• Agent usefulness / real-world applicability
• Technical execution (built with v0, deployed on Vercel)
• Creativity and originality

Prizes for top 3
🥇 $3,000 v0 credits + $200/mo Vercel Platform credits
🥈 $2,000 v0 credits + $100/mo Vercel Platform credits
🥉 $1,000 v0 credits + $50/mo Vercel Platform credits

Other winners
• Community Favorite — Community vote, separate from judged prizes
• Short-Form Content — Best TikTok/Reel of a real build will have the chance to be shared on our socials

In addition to these, top 3 winners get Vercel Pro for 6 Months and limited edition Zero to Agent swag. Project submission link, welcoming video and more resources will be shared during the event.

No coding experience is required — this's open for all, Come ship with the chance to win $6k+ in prizes.

🔗 https://luma.com/hsf3eouh

#ZeroToAgent #Vercel #v0 #DagmawiBabi

⭐️ Breaking: OpenAI kills Sora video app

▶️ Sora app + API shutting down
▶️ Disney partnership & $1B deal cancelled
▶️ Reason: Shifting focus to robotics, world simulation, and agentic AI for real-world physical tasks.
▶️ Image generation in ChatGPT remains unaffected.

OpenAI message to users: “We’re saying goodbye to Sora… What you made mattered. More details soon on preserving your work.”

#Sora #OpenAI #AI #VideoAI #BreakingNews

⭐️Introducing YScroll.

YScroll helps you track your scrolling time and control it with features like Daily Limit, Session Limit, Focus Mode, Break Mode, and Cooldown Limit. Developed by Sanyi, a 16-year-old self-taught developer

✨ All features you need

▶️ Daily Limit: max minutes of Shorts per day.
▶️ Session Limit: max minutes per session.
▶️ Cool Down Limit is limit of how many minutes you have to wait before you can watch shorts.
▶️ Focus Mode is a feature in which you can block shorts entirely for a specific amount of time.

YScroll is now available on the Google Play

#community #developers #showcase #YScroll

⭐️ Pine AI

A Tech Nerd launched Pine AI, an AI form builder that turns a single prompt into a complete form plus response insights.

No drag and drop. No manual analysis.

Just describe what you want:
→ Pine builds it
→ Pine analyzes it

Visit the website, try it out, and upvote it if you like it to show your support.

🔗 https://www.producthunt.com/products/pine-ai-2


#community #developers #showcase #PineAI

⭐️axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT.

⚠️ Important: If you’re using these versions of axios, roll back to a previous safe version as soon as possible.

Read More

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

#CyberSecurity #SupplyChainAttack #NPM #JavaScript #Axios #OpenSourceSecurity #Malware