Fab AI's Kiswahili reading model, trained on children's voices, beat Gemini 3.1 and ElevenLabs by wide margins, and the smaller version beat the bigger one

Google is handing students across 27 Sub-Saharan African countries a free year of premium AI, and citing a Sierra Leone trial as evidence the tool teaches rather than answers

American schools took the same free tools Google is now offering across Africa, and a decade later found the vendor had shaped their curriculum, their teacher training and their state law

Bill Gates says the AI transition is arriving with no plan behind it, and names endlessly agreeable tutors as a risk to how children develop