Fisk University is receiving backlash for its Quantum Leap project. The $1 billion project plans to improve the student experience by building a data and tech centre, renovating the student area, and upgrading student classrooms, according to a press release. The Quantum Leap project The innovation centre will be a $400 million project spanning a 100,000-square-foot facility with 30,000 square feet of academic space and 70,000 square feet of technology centre. The centre will provide students with new and existing curricula, as well as tech-forward interdisciplinary studies. “Reflecting Fisk University’s
CreditChek, a Nigerian credit data company, has raised $600,000 to enter the East African market. Janngo Capital led the round, with participation from previous investor Assembly Investors and new investors Vastly Valuable Ventures and Unipeg Capital. The Nigerian company plans to expand in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. “We’re building the data infrastructure that allows lenders to access richer, more reliable insights,” Kingsley Ibe, co-founder and chief executive of CreditChek, told TechCabal. ‘This funding allows us to scale our infrastructure and partnerships in East Africa, bringing us closer to a future
Black Women’s unemployment rate has reached 7.3% in 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last year, Black women’s unemployment rate increased from 5.1% in March to 6.1% in April, reached an all-time high of 6.2% in May, then dropped to 5.8% in June, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data reported by The 19th. DEI and AI affecting Black women’s employability Black women are more likely to be in departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, which have been targeted for cuts by DOGE.
will.i.am has completed his first semester teaching agentic AI at Arizona State University, as reported by Fox 11. The course is a credit-bearing, 15-week class open to all students; a second semester is in the works for later this year. will.i.am teaching an AI course During the course, students created their own personal companion called an agent. They presented their AI projects at the end of the course, with one student using his work to support veterans. Another student wrote a song related to the healthcare journey. “This professorship marks
On May 6th, the NAACP filed a request for a preliminary injunction to stop air pollution from Elon Musk’s company, xAI, and its parent company, MZX Tech. The request comes after the organization filed a Clean Air Act enforcement last month. The Clean Air Act requires major sources of pollution to obtain air permits, which include stringent pollution limits and require the use of pollution controls before being constructed or operated. xAI violating the Clean Air Act The NAACP informed xAI and MZX Tech that their personal power plant, comprising 27 gas-fired
White Influencer Lauren Blake Boultier used AI to place her face on a photo of Black influencer Tatiana Elizabeth, according to People Magazine. The image was a 2-year-old photo of Elizabeth at the US Open. Boultier shared the image to her 1.6 million followers last month, leading them to believe she attended the Miami Open. Social media users started to notice that the image belonged to Elizabeth. On March 30, Elizabeth posted a screenshot of Bouliter’s photo next to her original on threads. The image showed that Boultier was wearing the
Victor Glover will be the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon. Clover is part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which includes Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will embark on a 10-day trip around the moon. The launch will be the first time astronauts have traveled to the moon in more than 50 years, according to NBC News. Whilst the astronauts will not land on the moon, the launch hopes to pave the way for a moon landing in two years. Glover will
On Tuesday, 9th March, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) issued an air permit allowing Elon Musk’s xAI to operate tons of gas turbines at its facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The permit board’s decision comes weeks after community members held a hearing to share concerns about xAI’s potential health effects, according to a press statement. Internal documents from MDEQ and EPA indicate that the agency faced intense pressure to approve xAI’s air permit swiftly. “We are outraged that, despite the community’s clear demand to move the Election Day hearing,
Target Hospitality, a company that holds families detained by ICE, is pivoting to build an AI data center. As the rise in AI data centres continues, companies are using temporary villages, or “man camps,” to house workers. “Man-camps” are temporary housing communities created for oil and gas workers in remote locations, but they are now being repurposed as AI data centers. For example, a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas, has been converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, according to Bloomberg. Workers have access to a gym,
Morehouse College, a historically Black college and university, has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a supercomputer. The Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing has received the initial $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to start building the supercomputer Horizon. Further capital will be donated to support similar initiatives. The grant is part of a wider $457 million project to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the southeast. The college will become a national hub by introducing
