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In brief LA Superior Court is testing Learned Hand’s AI to help judges prep cases without replacing judicial decisions. The company’s CEO warns that AI-assisted legal filings will flood courts with a “bots versus bots” dynamic if left unchecked. The system uses a closed set of legal materials and verification layers designed to catch hallucinations before a judge sees the output. Courts around the world are straining under growing caseloads, and a pilot program in Los Angeles is hoping to change that by testing whether AI can assist judges without offloading their judgment.The Los Angeles Superior Court is testing an…

Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the container’s edge. Godstime Aburu explains why this happens and offers practical solutions to fix it.The scenario is almost always the same, which is a data table inside a scrollable container. Every row has an action menu, a small dropdown with some options, like Edit, Duplicate, and Delete. You build it, it seems to work perfectly in isolation, and then someone puts it inside that scrollable div and things fall apart. I’ve seen this exact bug in three…

By Adesoji Solanke, Head of Fintech & Banks Investment Banking Origination, Absa CIB Back in 2014, two blockchain pioneers set out to solve a problem confronting the early cryptocurrency ecosystem: the extreme price volatility of Bitcoin and the first generation of altcoins made them difficult to use for everyday transactions and impractical as a reliable medium of exchange. Their answer came from an experimental blockchain platform called BitShares, where a token known as BitUSD was designed to track the value of the US dollar. Users could create the token by locking up the network’s native cryptocurrency, BitShares (BTS), as collateral…

** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **A MESSAGE FROM OUR SUPPORTERSSAVCA Private Equity Conference 2026: Igniting the next era of private capitalThe SAVCA Private Equity Conference 2026 marked the largest gathering in the event’s history. Read moreHere are summaries of the five most widely read stories the past week on Africa Private Equity News.1. Adenia Partners fund reaches $180m hard capAfrica-focused investment firm Adenia Partners announced the first close of its Adenia Entrepreneurial Fund I (AEF) at its hard cap of $180 million. This comes less than a year after…

African startups raised more than $272 million in February 2026, according to Africa: The Big Deal. Funding increased 56% from January, signaling a rebound in tech investment. Six companies captured nearly 80% of total funding, reflecting more selective investor strategies. African startups raised more than $272 million in February 2026, according to the monthly report by Africa: The Big Deal, a platform that tracks funding deals above $100,000 across the continent. Around 40 technology companies announced fundraising rounds during the month through a mix of instruments, including equity, debt, and hybrid financing. The total marks a sharp increase from the $174 million recorded…

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The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora.Stablecoins have become a meaningful settlement layer, lending markets continue to expand, and tokenized real-world assets keep growing. Visa said global stablecoin transaction volume rose from more than $3.5 trillion in 2023 to more than $5.5 trillion in 2024. That is not the profile of a niche experiment. It is the profile of infrastructure finding real demand.The problem is that DeFi still measures itself with a bootstrap metric.TVL is a misaligned scoreboardFor most of the last cycle, Total Value Locked became the default scoreboard. TVL was…

There is a particular kind of person who, before they know what a career is, is already doing the work. They are not prodigies in the traditional sense. They do not write code or build an app at age twelve; they are simply restlessly curious, and that curiosity, left to blossom, eventually becomes a profession. Daniel Anomfueme is that kind of person. Today, Anomfueme is a technical project manager and community builder, though he is quick to add that the description does not fully capture how he sees himself. “I think of myself as ambitious,” he says. “Someone who can…