Tech In Africa
- ZSystems Raises $1.65 Million to Bring Morocco’s $40 Billion Traditional Retail Sector Online April 16, 2026
- Standard Bank Anchors $330 Million Refinancing for Optasia as Africa’s Banks Line Up Behind the JSE-Listed AI Fintech April 16, 2026
- AI Diagnostics Raises R85 Million to Put a Smarter Stethoscope in the Hands of Frontline TB Fighters April 16, 2026
- 6 Best Virtual Cards Platforms for Online Payments in Nigeria April 16, 2026
- NectarFi Closes $170K Pre-Seed to Build a Full-Stack On-Chain Financial Life for Crypto Users April 15, 2026
- Endeavor South Africa Closes Harvest Fund III at R230 Million to Back the Next Wave of Scale-Ups April 15, 2026
- South Africa’s Refiant AI Raises $5 Million to Make Artificial Intelligence Leaner and Less Energy-Hungry April 15, 2026
- Visa’s Africa Fintech Accelerator Crosses 100-Startup Milestone and Opens Sixth Cohort April 15, 2026
- Belmoney and RwandaCash Partner to Unlock Pan-European Remittances to Rwanda April 14, 2026
- Koto.rw Launches as Rwanda’s First New Car Price Comparison Platform April 13, 2026
TechCabal
- Ted Pantone on building Turaco, surviving Covid, and aiming for a billion people April 17, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Segun Akinnibosun April 17, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – A Standard hack April 17, 2026
- Nigeria’s Enugu State plans AI insitute in bold bet on digital talent exports April 16, 2026
- Sama to lay off over 1,100 Kenyan workers after Meta contract ends April 16, 2026
- Kenya’s LOLC Microfinance Bank directors risk prosecution in data enforcement case April 16, 2026
- What e-invoicing is and why it matters for Nigerian businesses April 16, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya gives credit where it’s due April 16, 2026
- The solar-powered medical kiosks bringing doctors to remote Chadians April 15, 2026
- Three million Nigerians in gig economy, nearly a quarter in ride-hailing, Bolt report says April 15, 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
- Safaricom’s Big Bang / Cold Turkey New My OneApp Rollout: A Brave but Costly Mistake April 15, 2026
- TECNO Unveils EllaClaw Beta, Bringing the First OpenClaw-Powered AI Agent to Kenya April 9, 2026
- What problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve? April 3, 2026
- You may no longer afford to buy a smartphone, thanks to the soaring RAM prices March 31, 2026
- Samsung Brings Pro-Level Features to Mid-Range: Meet the Galaxy A57 5G & A37 5G March 31, 2026
- BAKE partners with UNESCO to empower local content creators March 25, 2026
- How Practical AI and the Camon 50 Series Redefined Tecno’s Global Standing March 18, 2026
- What the NTT DATA Partnership with Absa Renewal Means for Customers and Industry Peers March 5, 2026
- OPPO partners with MOGO to make Lipa Mdogo Mdogo mainstream March 3, 2026
TechCity
- Digital Payment Trends in Emerging Markets: What’s Next April 17, 2026
- The Problem With Always-On Work Culture and the Apps That Enable It April 16, 2026
- Top 9 Sites to Recharge Airtime Online in Nigeria April 16, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence Tools for Small Business That Save Time April 16, 2026
- The Best Free Tools for Managing Your Money Without a Finance Degree April 15, 2026
- Latest Startup Funding News Africa: What’s Driving Growth April 15, 2026
- YouTube Pauses Ads During Live Streams When Engagement Is High April 14, 2026
- How To Start A Fintech Startup: A Practical Founder Guide April 14, 2026
- Access Bank perseveres through economic headwinds and remains Nigeria’s most valuable brand April 14, 2026
- How Baobab Microfinance Bank is Powering Small Businesses from the Inside Out April 13, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- VALR Launches AI Service for Humans and AI Agents April 16, 2026
- Cascador Opens Applications to its 2026 ScaleUp Program to Accelerate Africa’s Next Generation of Growth-Stage Founders April 16, 2026
- Duplo and Ozow Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Local Payments and Expense Management for Businesses in South Africa April 16, 2026
- Paga Group Marks 17 Years of Building Africa’s Financial Services Infrastructure with Major Leadership Evolution April 15, 2026
- M-KOPA South Africa Impact Report Reveals Women are Driving the Country’s Digital Inclusion Charge April 13, 2026
- Verto Expands Business Accounts to Enable Seamless Payments from the US to Africa April 9, 2026
- Madica Expands Portfolio With $600K Investment in Three Startups April 9, 2026
TechArena
- Lua Raises $5.8M to Build “Operating System” for Human–AI Agent Collaboration April 17, 2026
- Genetec highlights why governance defines secure cloud adoption in enterprise physical security April 16, 2026
- Craft Silicon Launches TouristTap Launches in Kenya to Power Cashless Payments for Travelers in Kenya April 15, 2026
- Africa Tech Summit London Returns Marking a 10-Year Milestone April 15, 2026
- Responsible Crypto in Kenya: Moving Beyond Speculation to Sustainable Digital Finance April 15, 2026
- Origin Labs and Intel advance AI skills and innovation across Africa April 15, 2026
- 70% of South Africans Turn to Ride-Hailing for Flexible Earning Opportunities, Bolt’s Gig Economy Report Reveals April 15, 2026
- VALR and Onafriq Deliver Mobile Money Access to Digital Assets for Millions Across Africa April 14, 2026
WeeTracker
- How Losing One Client Suddenly Collapsed 1000+ Jobs In Kenya’s AI Hub April 16, 2026
- SA’s AI Diagnostics Raises USD 5 M To Scale AI Stethoscope For TB Detection April 16, 2026
- The Jobs AI Will Replace First In Africa & The Ones It Can’t Touch (For Now) April 15, 2026
- Kenya’s Telecom King Is Losing Its Grip As Customers Take To Rival April 14, 2026
- SA’s Refiant AI Raises USD 5 M Seed To Build Energy-Efficient AI Models April 14, 2026
- WhatsApp ‘Stole’ USD 635 M From South African Telcos’ Mobile Revenue April 14, 2026
- Musk’s Vulgar Outburst Escalates Tensions In Starlink Standoff In South Africa April 13, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- MultiChoice Champions Africa’s Creative Economy with 19 New Film Graduates April 17, 2026
- Paratus Group Appoints New GM to Lead FAST Congo April 17, 2026
- AfriQloud: From Vision to Execution – Building Africa’s Sovereign Digital Economy April 17, 2026
- Over 1,000 Jobs at Risk as Sama Announces Nairobi Office Redundancies Following Meta Contract Loss April 16, 2026
- Safaricom Apologises Over My OneApp Rollout, Promises Urgent Fixes April 16, 2026
- Africa’s Forex Market in 2026: Key Trends Every Trader Should Watch April 16, 2026
- BasiGo Starts Assembling Electric Vans(Ma3e) in Kenya With AVA April 16, 2026
Techloy
- Asia's Biggest Startup Funding in Week 16 Led by Pangbot, BALLAS Inc., and GobbleCube April 17, 2026
- Latin America’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 16, Led by Inner AI, With Big Bets on AI and Fintech April 17, 2026
- Week 16's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Africa and the Middle East, Led by Aya and Capsule Security April 17, 2026
- How to Overcome Common Security Guard Service Issues April 17, 2026
- When and Why to Call a Personal Injury Lawyer April 17, 2026
- These 6 African Countries Are Making Travel Easier for Africans in 2026 April 17, 2026
- How Lawyers Analyse Crash Reports in Car Accident Injury Claims April 17, 2026
- How Legal Guidance Helps Victims Understand Personal Injury Claims April 17, 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
- Zum Raises $100M to Expand Connected Mobility Platform April 16, 2026
- Topspin Consumer Partners Closes $328M Fund III April 16, 2026
- Accel Raises $5B Fund for AI and Global Startups April 16, 2026
- Wealth.com Raises $65 Million to Expand AI Wealth Planning Platform April 16, 2026
- Can You Use AI Bots for Stock Trading? Tools, Features, and Availability in 2026 April 16, 2026
- K1x Secures $175 Million Growth Investment to Scale AI Tax Infrastructure April 16, 2026
- Joyful Health Raises $22M To Build Unified Financial Infrastructure April 16, 2026
TechCentral
- How a connectivity levy became a tax on telecoms April 17, 2026
- Wits project pits African creators against AI music’s blind spots April 17, 2026
- Prosus offloads 4.5% of Delivery Hero to Uber for €270-million April 17, 2026
- Numsa digs in as Eskom wage pact splits unions April 17, 2026
- Consumers get new weapon against phone call spam April 16, 2026
- Standard Bank data breach fallout deepens April 16, 2026
- Gemini gets personal for South African users April 16, 2026
- South Africa’s AI moment is now – and we risk blowing it April 16, 2026
- Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future April 16, 2026
- Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals April 16, 2026
Technext
- Lua secures $5.8M to power next-gen AI workforces for businesses April 17, 2026
- Breedjr hits $4m milestone, rolls out instant crypto-to-naira payouts April 17, 2026
- Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to leave board after 30 years April 17, 2026
- Ministry of Education launches platform for online verification for academic credentials April 17, 2026
- Nigeria’s tax promise April 17, 2026
- MTN Nigeria pauses airtime and data borrowing to comply with new digital lending requirements April 16, 2026
- Zoho, Guardian push urgent digital shift for women-led businesses in Nigeria April 16, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere April 17, 2026
- Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI April 14, 2026
- Human-machine teaming dives underwater April 14, 2026
- A philosophy of work April 9, 2026
- New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning April 9, 2026
- Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano April 7, 2026
- Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware April 7, 2026
- Working to advance the nuclear renaissance April 3, 2026
- Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems April 2, 2026
DEV Community
- How I Built juanchi.dev on the Most Bleeding-Edge Stack of 2025: Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind v4 & Railway April 17, 2026
- Next.js App Router: The Guide I Wish I Had When I Migrated from Pages Router April 17, 2026
- From DOS to Cloud: My 33-Year Journey with Tech — From an Amiga in 1994 to Deploying on Railway with Next.js April 17, 2026
- Docker for Node.js Developers: From Zero to Production Without Losing Your Mind April 17, 2026
- Canadian NI 31-103 for solo crypto-quant devs: what you can and can't build without registration April 17, 2026
- Databases Are Not Becoming Chatbots April 17, 2026
- How I Built a Fluent PDF Library and Visual Drag-and-Drop Builder for PHP April 17, 2026
- Oracle Cloud Always Free for crypto builders: the $0/mo infra stack for a solo dev April 17, 2026
- WordPress has security plugins. So where are the safety tools? April 17, 2026
OpenAI News
- Codex for (almost) everything April 16, 2026
- Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research April 16, 2026
- Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all April 16, 2026
- The next evolution of the Agents SDK April 15, 2026
- Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense April 14, 2026
- Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI April 13, 2026
- Responsible and safe use of AI April 10, 2026
- Healthcare April 10, 2026
- Personalizing ChatGPT April 10, 2026
- Prompting fundamentals April 10, 2026
- Brainstorming with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
- ChatGPT for research April 10, 2026
- Getting started with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech April 15, 2026
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning April 13, 2026
- Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models April 2, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable March 26, 2026
- Protecting people from harmful manipulation March 25, 2026
- Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more March 25, 2026
- Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework March 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Cost-efficient custom text-to-SQL using Amazon Nova Micro and Amazon Bedrock on-demand inference April 16, 2026
- Transform retail with AWS generative AI services April 16, 2026
- How Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock transform generative AI compliance April 16, 2026
- Create rich, custom tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight April 15, 2026
- Accelerating decode-heavy LLM inference with speculative decoding on AWS Trainium and vLLM April 15, 2026
- Rede Mater Dei de Saúde: Monitoring AI agents in the revenue cycle with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore April 15, 2026
Databricks
- Open Platform, Unified Pipelines: Why dbt on Databricks is Accelerating April 16, 2026
- Why Your Agents Can’t Read Enterprise Documents — and How to Fix It April 16, 2026
- Building with Databricks Document Intelligence and Lakeflow April 16, 2026
- Databricks on Google Cloud: Innovate Faster. Smarter. Together. April 16, 2026
- Introducing the Databricks Connector for Google Sheets: Real-Time, Governed Lakehouse Data in the Sheets Users Love April 15, 2026
- Unity AI Gateway: How to Connect Agents to External MCPs Securely April 15, 2026
- Expanding Agent Governance with Unity AI Gateway April 15, 2026
- Agentic Reasoning in Practice: Making Sense of Structured and Unstructured Data April 14, 2026
- Agent Bricks: The Governed Enterprise Agent Platform April 14, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- The prompt isn't hiding inside the image April 14, 2026
- Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem April 11, 2026
- Meta traded its biggest community asset for a commerce engine April 9, 2026
- Netflix's VOID shows video editing has finally learned the laws of physics April 8, 2026
- Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run? April 2, 2026
Techmeme
- SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months (Financial Times) April 17, 2026
- Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios) April 17, 2026
- Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% (Financial Times) April 17, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Self-Service Data Platforms, Custom Container Images, Agentic Data Engineering, and Optimized AI… April 16, 2026
- Is the Data Scientist Role Dead? No, it’s Transforming April 16, 2026
- Stop Building for the Demo. Start Building for the Decision April 10, 2026
- The Top 10 LLM Training Datasets for 2026 April 9, 2026
- Reasons Why an AI Conference is the Right Idea for Your Career April 8, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- The Autonomy Trap: Why Most Organisations struggle at AI Integration (And How to Actually Ship… April 17, 2026
- AI Is Reshaping the CTO Playbook April 17, 2026
- The Hidden Problem With RAG No One Talks About April 17, 2026
- Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here. So Are the Wallet Jokes. April 17, 2026
- Your Data Science Project Template Is Holding You Back April 17, 2026
aibusiness
- Black Hat USA August 1, 2026
- Black Hat Asia April 21, 2026
- Anthropic Releases Good but not Great Claude Opus 4.7 April 16, 2026
- Stellantis Ramps Up AI Strategy With Microsoft Deal April 16, 2026
- Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap April 16, 2026
- OpenAI Updates Agents SDK, Aims at Building Secure Agents April 16, 2026
- As AI Infosec Woes Heighten, IBM Intros Autonomous Security Service April 15, 2026
- Once Trendy Shoe Company Allbirds Pivots to AI Infrastructure April 15, 2026
- Meta, Broadcom Agree to Mega-Deal to Co-Develop AI Chips April 15, 2026
- Funding Lays Groundwork for Orbital's AI Data Centers in Space April 15, 2026
- Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind Partner on Industrial AI April 15, 2026
- Anthropic Mythos Prompting Calls for More Security Measures April 14, 2026
- Oracle Expands AI Infrastructure Drive with Bloom Deal April 14, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #484: Your AI chats can be used against you in court April 16, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #483: 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract April 13, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #482: AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious April 10, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #481: Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed April 9, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #480: Monday Edition : npm compromised by North Korea, Iran targets AI data centers, and nobody wants OpenAI stock April 6, 2026
Ahead of AI
- Components of A Coding Agent April 4, 2026
- A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs March 22, 2026
- A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026 February 25, 2026
- Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning January 24, 2026
- 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
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 17 April 2026 April 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 April 15, 2026
- Weekly Review 10 April 2026 April 10, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026 April 8, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2026 April 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2025 April 5, 2026
- Weekly Review 3 April 2026 April 3, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2026 April 2, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2026 April 1, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026 April 1, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities April 17, 2026
- OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind: Its First Life Sciences AI Model Built to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Genomics Research April 17, 2026
- Building Transformer-Based NQS for Frustrated Spin Systems with NetKet April 16, 2026
- UCSD and Together AI Research Introduces Parcae: A Stable Architecture for Looped Language Models That Achieves the Quality of a Transformer Twice the Size April 16, 2026
