Good morning. ☀️

Welcome to another week.

The English Premier League has kicked off. While it wasn’t the best start to the campaign, we (Man United) still had it better than a certain fanbase that outspent us—embarrassing, but yes, I want to take things to a new low. All protests against this logic will fall on deaf ears.

In Silicon Valley, tech bros are fighting about whose AI research model is better; the folks at Inherent say theirs is. Who knows? Anthropic could just be cooling off on research to convince investors that it’s not trying to sell them a bubble ahead of its public listing.

Keep scrolling to see what we’ve got for you today in African tech.