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Mantle Unites Global AI, Tech, and Youth Communities for Its Largest AI Hackathon, Backed by Tencent Cloud, Bybit, Byreal, and Blockchain for Good Alliance

➤ Mantle is hosting the Turing Test Hackathon 2026, a large-scale AI competition with a $120,000 prize pool, focusing on the convergence of agentic AI and on-chain infrastructure. ➤ The hackathon features two phases: ClawHack for on-chain trading strategies and AI Awakening with six tracks, including AI x RWA for dynamic yield strategies and automated risk management. ➤ Key innovations include on-chain AI agent benchmarking, the ERC-8004 agent identity standard, and radical transparency through live-streamed agent execution.

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Zindi’s Rose Delilah Champions AI Solutions by Africans for Africa Using African Data

From the bustling streets of Nairobi to meeting halls packed with aspiring technologists, Rose Delilah Gesicho’s devotion to technology has been fueled not just by curiosity, but by an unwavering drive to solve real-world African problems.  Her journey, beginning with early forays into hardware and software, soon turned toward the vast, collaborative world of data science—where context,…

Zindi’s Rose Delilah Champions AI Solutions by Africans for Africa Using African Data

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No Fancy Tools, Just Tenacity: Stephen Kolesh’s AI Path to 38 Gold Medals on Zindi

Stephen Kolesh On the southern fringes of Kenya, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, a boy once dreamed of becoming a footballer. But a diagnosis of myopia quietly ended that pursuit.  Medicine, the path his father favoured, was never an option, he couldn’t stomach the sight of blood. By the time Stephen Kolesh walked into the dimly lit computer lab at Oloolaiser High School, he was a teenager…

No Fancy Tools, Just Tenacity: Stephen Kolesh’s AI Path to 38 Gold Medals on Zindi

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Crunching Code, Breaking Molds: Zindi’s Jessica Randall Rewrites Data Vision

Jessica Randall South Africa – 27 June, 2025 – Long before she had a name for it, Jessica Randall was already doing the work of a data scientist. She was breaking apart complex problems, reading the world through patterns, and reconstructing meaning from chaos. When she formally encountered the field during university, she knew her approach would be anything but typical. “I do data science, but…

Crunching Code, Breaking Molds: Zindi’s Jessica Randall Rewrites Data Vision

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Crunching Code, Breaking Molds: Zindi’s Jessica Randall Rewrites Data Vision

Long before she had a name for it, Jessica Randall was already doing the work of a data scientist. She was breaking apart complex problems, reading the world through patterns, and reconstructing meaning from chaos. When she formally encountered the field during university, she knew her approach would be anything but typical. “I do data science, but I do it from a very mathematical perspective……

Crunching Code, Breaking Molds: Zindi’s Jessica Randall Rewrites Data Vision

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How Zindi Ambassador, Eric Jagwara became Uganda's Science Evangelist

The year was 2016, and Eric Jagwara was in search of relevant short tech courses that could help him sharpen his tech skills. That was when he stumbled on data science, but he couldn’t afford the course. So, he let it go temporarily, but never lost interest. As a matter of fact, that fleeting encounter ignited a years-long obsession that would later turn him into one of Uganda’s foremost AI…

How Zindi Ambassador, Eric Jagwara became Uganda's Science Evangelist

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Zindi Ambassador Leonce Pidy Is Humanising Data Science, One Girl at a Time

Cameroonian data scientist and Zindi Ambassador, Leonce Pidy, grew up in the quiet town of Dibombari in Cameroon’s Littoral Region. The eldest of five children, she found herself thrust into a leadership position quite early in her life. By the time she was in Class 4, her parents (both nurses by profession) were working in the city of Buea. In their absence, Leoncy became the primary caretaker,…

Zindi Ambassador Leonce Pidy Is Humanising Data Science, One Girl at a Time