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Tech In Africa

Nigeria’s Proposed AI Rules Could Set a Continental Precedent for Digital Governance January 14, 2026
Arab Coordination Group and African Development Bank Group Launch a Structured Strategic Partnership to Scale Co-Financing and Investment in Africa January 14, 2026
CDC-CI Takes Equity Stake in Ivorian Fintech Green Pay, Joining Orange on Cap Table January 13, 2026
Hashgraph Ventures Pledges $1 Million to the Hedera Africa Hackathon to Accelerate Web3 and AI Innovation across Africa January 13, 2026
Ethical AI: Navigating Governance and Compliance in Africa January 12, 2026
Data Sovereignty: The Push for African-Hosted Cloud Infrastructure January 12, 2026
AUTO24.africa Expands Its New-Car Pricing Platform Across Africa Following Koto.ci Acquisition January 12, 2026
Generative AI in African Banking: Enhancing Customer Experience January 11, 2026
Zoho Insights: Why “Augmented Teams” Are Africa’s AI Future January 11, 2026
Microsoft AI Report: Top 10 African Countries for AI Readiness January 10, 2026

TechCabal

U.S. tariff ruling delay prolongs uncertainty for South African online exporters January 15, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Climbing the Ladder to microfinance January 15, 2026
US latest visa freeze puts African founders’ global mobility at risk January 14, 2026
After big rounds, Francophone Africa investors want ecosystem depth in 2026 January 14, 2026
Stronger capital, bigger loans: Africa’s banking outlook for 2026 January 14, 2026
How Malik Afegbua is using AI to rescue Nigeria’s fading oral histories January 14, 2026
Lebara Nigeria turns to agent onboarding after missed 2025 launch January 14, 2026
Airtel Money plans overdraft service to break Safaricom’s Fuliza monopoly January 14, 2026
Paystack Inc. acquires Nigerian microfinance bank as it expands beyond payments January 14, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Is AGOA making a comeback? January 14, 2026

ICT Archives – How we made it in Africa

Africa’s data centre boom August 2, 2023
Elon Musk’s Starlink could fuel competition for internet customers in Africa January 20, 2023
Influx of affordable devices in Africa fuels adoption of 5G smartphones September 13, 2022
As internet speeds rise, Africans are spending more time streaming May 26, 2022
Africa connects: High demand for internet services spurs investment in undersea cables April 3, 2022
High-tech internet solution across the Congo River links Kinshasa, Brazzaville September 25, 2021
Africa’s data centre market poised for massive growth July 2, 2021
Why Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund invested in Africa June 24, 2021
Reviewing the trends driving Africa’s allure: Leapfrogging through technology May 5, 2021
Data centres are a growing investment opportunity in Africa April 26, 2021

KachTech Media

The BAKE Awards 2026: Digital Storytelling’s Trillion-Shilling Moment January 14, 2026
A New Gas-Powered Commute: Proto and OLA Energy Bet on LPG in Kenya January 14, 2026
OPPO’s Reno15 Series: The “Sponge” Strategy for Smartphone Longevity January 14, 2026
The Math of the Win: How Betika “Must Be Won” Jackpot Ends the Rollover Era December 23, 2025
As Festive Season Arrives, Digital Fraud Surge December 23, 2025
Africa Investment Conference 2025: The Gap Between Ambition and Action December 12, 2025
DTB Kenya and Uganda Ordered to Pay KSh 500,000 for Breaching Kenyan Customer’s Data Rights December 3, 2025
Top 10 Startups Revealed for Latitude59 Kenya Pitch Competition December 1, 2025
UK court dismisses Ndung’u’s fraud claims against SportPesa November 28, 2025

IT News Africa | Business Technology, Telecoms and Startup News

Sage Copilot launches in Sage Operations January 15, 2026
Fasset To Appoint Digital Banking CEO, Rafiza Ghazali January 15, 2026
World’s Largest Online Info Source Turns 25 January 15, 2026
5 Reasons Retailers Can’t Miss Digital Retail Africa 2026 in Cape Town January 14, 2026
Agentic AI Unveiled: The Future of Intelligent, Autonomous Systems January 14, 2026
Global Company in Network Video & Surveillance Joins CISA’s Secure by Design Program January 14, 2026
South Africa’s Most In-Demand Jobs for 2026 January 14, 2026
Pokémon GO Hack (2026): 7 Working Hacks for Android and iPhone January 14, 2026
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Unveils a World First Hybrid AI Campaign January 14, 2026
2026 Predictions: Human Behaviour, Not AI, Will Determine Who Wins in 2026 January 14, 2026

TechCity

Apple Picks Google Gemini to Power Siri January 14, 2026
Why Technology-Enabled Banking Is a Multiplier for Nigeria’s 2036 Goal January 12, 2026
Joint Statement between United Arab Emirates, African Union Commission January 12, 2026
Sora Technology Raises $2.5M to Scale Drone-AI Solutions in Africa January 11, 2026
Unexpected Instagram Password Reset Email? Here’s What You Need to Know January 11, 2026
Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail January 11, 2026
Meet the Keychron Nape Pro January 10, 2026
Why Nigerian Travelers Are Driving a Budget-First Shift in Travel Tech January 8, 2026
Motorola and Lenovo Launch Qira, a System-Wide AI Assistant That Works Across Devices January 7, 2026
FiiO unveils the M33 R2R: a fully featured music player for hall audiophiles January 7, 2026

AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa

Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 14, 2026
Fincra Announced as Headline Supporter of Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2026 to Drive Dialogue on Building the Rails for an Integrated Africa January 12, 2026
Levene Energy Secures $64M Facility from Afreximbank to Acquire Strategic Stake in Axxela Limited January 12, 2026
Luno Partners with AltSchool Africa to Launch Crypto Education Programme for 15,000 Nigerians January 5, 2026
Cassava Technologies and Gebeya Inc. Partner to Launch Africa’s First AI Powered Creator Platform December 17, 2025
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Opens Applications for 2026 Investment Showcase December 2, 2025
Tola Mobile Expands Platform to Include Card Payments December 1, 2025

TechArena

Capital.com Secures CMA Licence to Operate as Online Forex Broker in Kenya January 15, 2026
Kenyans Borrowed Ksh. 109.8 Billion via Digital Lenders in 2025 as Cost Pressures Persist January 15, 2026
Vertiv Introduces New Modular Liquid Cooling Infrastructure Solution to Support High-Density Compute Requirements in North America and EMEA January 15, 2026
Dubai in 2026: The Future of Travel, Family Adventures & Green Escapes January 14, 2026
Human Behaviour, Not AI, Will Determine Who Wins in 2026 January 14, 2026
Uganda Temporarily Suspends Public Internet During Election Period January 14, 2026
OPPO A6x Specifications and Price in Kenya January 13, 2026
Kenya’s Mamy Eyewear Lands Strategic Investment from Japan’s Ikemori Venture Support January 13, 2026

WeeTracker

The Jobs Every Kenyan Company Is Hiring For (And The Ones They Aren’t) January 15, 2026
Paystack’s Foray Beyond Payments Faces Rugged Rivals In Belated Push January 14, 2026
Paystack Acquires Microfinance Bank To Enter Nigeria’s Banking Sector January 14, 2026
Uganda Orders Internet Blackout Ahead Of Vote, Reversing Earlier Shutdown Denials January 13, 2026
Nigeria Moves To Enforce Strict AI Rules Amid Adoption Challenges January 13, 2026
Ivorian Fintech Green Pay Secures Investment From State-Backed CDC-CI January 13, 2026
Egypt’s Business For Teens Raises Pre-Seed Funding To Expand Youth Entrepreneurship January 13, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Mobile money still runs the country, just not through the counter anymore January 15, 2026
Kenyan Regulators Back Government’s Safaricom Stake Sale January 15, 2026
Paystack Enters Nigeria’s Banking Sector with Acquisition of Ladder Microfinance Bank January 14, 2026
Kenya’s Satellite Internet Market Is No Longer a One-Name Story January 14, 2026
Uber Drops Visa Cards in Kenya Amid Payment Cost Squeeze January 14, 2026
Faulu Bank Increases Mobile Loan Limit to Ksh. 100,000 to Meet Rising Credit Demand January 14, 2026
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi: 12 Startups Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 14, 2026

Techloy

Understanding Online Auction Processes for Collectibles January 15, 2026
As India Tightens Crypto Rules, What Does the Industry Look Like Next? January 15, 2026
Google’s Gemini Can Now Read Your Gmail and Photos — Here’s How It Works January 15, 2026
United States Halts Immigrant Visa Processing for Applicants From 75 Countries January 15, 2026
Nintendo Surprises Players With a Free Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update a Day Early January 15, 2026
Why Nigeria’s Crypto Investment Scam Problem Is Forcing Regulators to Call in the Police January 15, 2026
Can You Get Central Heating If You Have No Boiler? January 15, 2026
Deadpool Joins Marvel Rivals Season 6 With a First-of-Its-Kind Three Role Playstyle January 15, 2026

Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch

Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised another $64M November 6, 2025
Spiro raises $100M, the largest-ever investment in Africa’s e-mobility October 21, 2025
Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI co-worker for fintech September 16, 2025
Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora August 29, 2025
Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator August 11, 2025
Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search July 9, 2025
Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC June 25, 2025

Ventureburn

Listen Labs Raises $69 Million To Expand AI Customer Research Platform January 15, 2026
depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security January 14, 2026
Alpaca Raises $150M Series D, Valuation Hits $1.15B January 14, 2026
Upexi Secures $36 Million Through Solana-Backed Convertible Note January 14, 2026
osapiens Secures US$ 100 Million To Advance Sustainable Growth Software January 14, 2026
Cronos (CRO) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 January 14, 2026
Zircuit (ZRC) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 January 14, 2026

C55 Technology | Latest Tech news | Guardian Nigeria

Global data centre development needs $3tr in five years January 14, 2026
AI founders, developers to meet at Lagos conference January 14, 2026
Access, Visa partner on new card solution for Nigerian businesses January 14, 2026
Nigeria ranks 72nd in AI readiness as Egypt leads region January 13, 2026
UK regulator opens probe into X over sexualised AI imagery January 12, 2026
Grok restricts AI image editing to paid users after backlash over fake nude images January 9, 2026
From FTSE 100 to Nigerian SMEs: The journey behind Kemi Osinibi’s Countam, Nigeria’s first accounting+ software January 2, 2026
Africa to establish digital economy accelerator initiative December 31, 2025

TechCentral

Big solar and energy storage projects going live across South Africa January 15, 2026
Why enterprises are turning to Cohesity for cyber resilience January 15, 2026
Breaking free from legacy thinking in banks: AI, automation and the agentic operating model January 15, 2026
Visa moves to plug stablecoins into the global payments system January 15, 2026
Oracle sued as bondholders allege AI debt plans were hidden January 15, 2026
Learn before you leap with Binance: why crypto education matters January 15, 2026
South Africa’s maths pipeline is collapsing – and the economy will pay January 14, 2026
Billions flow into renewables as South Africa races to fix its grid January 14, 2026
Activists call for X, Grok to removed from app stores January 14, 2026
BNPL market hots up as Shoprite enters space January 14, 2026

Technext

Meta braces up for another round of layoffs January 15, 2026
Nigerian Immigration adds ‘Produced’ feature to passport application after alleged delay in production January 15, 2026
Grok: X to limit how users edit images of real people after international backlash January 15, 2026
Nollywood dominates Nigerian cinemas with 53% of ticket sales in 2025 January 15, 2026
Moniepoint launches 2nd cohort of DreamDevs initiative to double down on tech talent pipeline January 14, 2026
Google introduces new feature that will make Gemini serve as your personal assistance January 14, 2026
Nigerian startups raised $343 million in 2025 as venture funding declined by 16.3% January 14, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

At MIT, a continued commitment to understanding intelligence January 14, 2026
Generative AI tool helps 3D print personal items that sustain daily use January 14, 2026
3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid January 9, 2026
Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather January 8, 2026
Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work Launches at MIT January 7, 2026
MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI January 5, 2026
Using design to interpret the past and envision the future January 5, 2026
MIT in the media: 2025 in review December 22, 2025
Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential December 18, 2025

DEV Community

Solved: Cloudflare is down again January 15, 2026
The Tiny Revolution January 15, 2026
Solved: What’s up with insurance companies doing lame security asseessments and selling MDR? January 15, 2026
What Happened When I Let the Internet Decide What Code Gets Merged (Week 1) January 15, 2026
My go-to patterns for full-stack/frontend projects January 15, 2026
How I Built a Climate-Aware Garden Planner as a Solo Developer January 15, 2026
From experts to speakers: No pressure included January 15, 2026
Most People Don’t Actually Use Next.js as a Backend January 15, 2026
The Neural Command Center: Building a Generative UI Portfolio with Gemini 1.5 & Python January 15, 2026

OpenAI News

OpenAI partners with Cerebras  January 14, 2026
Zenken boosts a lean sales team with ChatGPT Enterprise January 13, 2026
OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy January 9, 2026
Datadog uses Codex for system-level code review January 9, 2026
Netomi’s lessons for scaling agentic systems into the enterprise January 8, 2026
OpenAI for Healthcare January 8, 2026
How Tolan builds voice-first AI with GPT-5.1 January 7, 2026
Introducing ChatGPT Health January 7, 2026
Announcing OpenAI Grove Cohort 2 January 2, 2026
One in a million: celebrating the customers shaping AI’s future December 22, 2025
Continuously hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection December 22, 2025
Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability December 18, 2025
Deepening our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy December 18, 2025

Google Deep Blog

Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control January 13, 2026
Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 December 23, 2025
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed December 17, 2025
Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior December 16, 2025
Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice experiences December 12, 2025
Deepening our partnership with the UK AI Security Institute December 11, 2025
Strengthening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era December 10, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

How AutoScout24 built a Bot Factory to standardize AI agent development with Amazon Bedrock January 14, 2026
Transform AI development with new Amazon SageMaker AI model customization and large-scale training capabilities January 14, 2026
Securing Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference: Geographic and global January 13, 2026
How Omada Health scaled patient care by fine-tuning Llama models on Amazon SageMaker AI January 12, 2026
Crossmodal search with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings January 10, 2026
Accelerating LLM inference with post-training weight and activation using AWQ and GPTQ on Amazon SageMaker AI January 9, 2026

Databricks

Algonomy + Databricks Built On Partnership for RetailAI January 14, 2026
Databricks Genie Powers Conversational Insights in Atlassian Rovo January 14, 2026
Open Sourcing Dicer: Databricks’ Auto-Sharder January 13, 2026
How 7‑Eleven Transformed Maintenance Technician Knowledge Access with Databricks Agent Bricks January 9, 2026
Thumbtack Powering Safe, Smart Home Services on Databricks with GenAI January 9, 2026
Securing the Grid: A Practical Guide to Cyber Analytics for Energy & Utilities January 8, 2026
From Chaos to Scale: Templatizing Spark Declarative Pipelines with DLT-META January 7, 2026
Instructed Retriever: Unlocking System-Level Reasoning in Search Agents January 6, 2026
BCBS 239 Compliance in the Age of AI: Turning Regulatory Burden into Strategic Advantage January 5, 2026

AIModels.fyi

Can an AI *finally* react like a real person during a video call? January 11, 2026
Model of the Month: chatterbox-turbo January 7, 2026
Can text *finally* make robots dance exactly how we want them to? January 3, 2026
Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction? December 27, 2025
AI ASMR videos that fool humans AND VLMs? How close are we to peak fakery? December 21, 2025

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

Paco Nathan on Entity Resolution, Graphs, and the Future of Anti-Fraud AI January 14, 2026
Emmett Shear on AI Alignment, Agency, and Raising a New Intelligence January 13, 2026
Agent-Ready APIs: The Foundation of Scalable Agentic AI January 12, 2026
Top AI Tools for Sales and Marketing in 2026 January 11, 2026
AI and Creativity: Why Human Imagination Still Matters in an Algorithmic World January 10, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

From Brains to Agents: My Journey Building LLM Systems That Act January 15, 2026
Stop Wasting PDFs — Build a RAG That Actually Understands Them January 15, 2026
Learning CUDA From First Principles January 15, 2026
Decision-Making Algorithms with Python: Thompson Sampling January 15, 2026
The Context Advantage: How Palantir AIP Operates the Modern Enterprise January 15, 2026

aibusiness

Tech Giants, Thomson Reuters Form Alliance to Advance Trust in AI January 14, 2026
Phenom's Acquisition: AI, Automation and the Future of Work January 14, 2026
Salesforce Recasts Slackbot as a Personal AI Agent for Work January 13, 2026
Arm Launches Physical AI Unit January 13, 2026
Anthropic Introduces Claude Cowork January 13, 2026
Meta Launches Meta Compute to Build out AI Architecture January 13, 2026
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol Drives AI Shopping January 12, 2026
Apple to Overhaul AI Efforts, Siri With Google Gemini January 12, 2026
OpenAI, SoftBank Invest $1B in SB Energy as AI Buildout Continues January 12, 2026
Meta Signs Deals With Nuclear Energy Companies January 9, 2026
Infosys, AWS Partner on Enterprise AI January 9, 2026
Siemens Unveils Tech Pipeline to Accelerate Industrial AI January 9, 2026
Synopsys Targets Automotive With AI, Software Push at CES January 9, 2026

AI News Weekly

AI News Weekly - Issue #459: Is Elon Musk the worst in Tech? - Jan 13th 2026 January 13, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #458: From "Slop" to Cinema: Can AI Cross the Quality Chasm? - Dec 16th 2025 December 16, 2025
AI News Weekly - Issue #457: - Dec 3rd 2025 December 3, 2025
AI News Weekly - Issue #456: How AI could radically change schools by 2050 - Sep 19th 2025 September 19, 2025
AI News Weekly - Issue #455: Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister - Sep 11th 2025 September 11, 2025

Ahead of AI

The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions December 30, 2025
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December) December 30, 2025
From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates December 3, 2025
Beyond Standard LLMs November 4, 2025
Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) October 5, 2025
Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch September 6, 2025
From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances August 9, 2025
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison July 19, 2025
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June) July 1, 2025
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch June 17, 2025
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course May 10, 2025
The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning April 19, 2025
First Look at Reasoning From Scratch: Chapter 1 March 29, 2025

The Stanford AI Lab Blog

LinkBERT: Improving Language Model Training with Document Link May 31, 2022
Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at ACL 2022 May 25, 2022
Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at ICLR 2022 April 25, 2022
Discovering the systematic errors made by machine learning models April 7, 2022
Grading Complex Interactive Coding Programs with Reinforcement Learning March 28, 2022
Understanding Deep Learning Algorithms that Leverage Unlabeled Data, Part 1: Self-training February 24, 2022
Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at AAAI 2022 February 22, 2022

Computational Intelligence

Weekly Review 9 January 2026 January 9, 2026
Weekly Review 2 January 2026 January 2, 2026
Weekly Review 26 December 2025 December 26, 2025
Journal Special Issues December 23, 2025
Weekly Review 19 December 2025 December 19, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2025 December 18, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 17, Issue 6, December 2025 December 17, 2025
Weekly Review 12 December 2025 December 12, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2025 December 11, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 29, Issue 6, December 2025 December 10, 2025

MarkTechPost

DeepSeek AI Researchers Introduce Engram: A Conditional Memory Axis For Sparse LLMs January 15, 2026
How to Build a Stateless, Secure, and Asynchronous MCP-Style Protocol for Scalable Agent Workflows January 14, 2026
Google AI Releases MedGemma-1.5: The Latest Update to their Open Medical AI Models for Developers January 14, 2026
Anthropic Releases Cowork As Claude’s Local File System Agent For Everyday Work January 13, 2026