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Tech In Africa

Payment Platform NjiaPay Raises $2.1 Million Seed Funding March 9, 2026
African Startups Raised $272 Million in February 2026 March 9, 2026
Canal+ to Shut Down Showmax Streaming Platform March 9, 2026
African Development Bank Approves €6.5 Million Investment in Saviu II Venture Capital Fund March 6, 2026
SolarAfrica Acquires Full Ownership of Commercial Energy South Africa in ZAR 635 Million Transaction March 6, 2026
Google brings AI Overviews and AI Mode to 13 African languages, including Kiswahili and Somali March 6, 2026
ALP REIT raises $34.55 million in oversubscribed offer, becoming NSE’s first Dollar-denominated security March 6, 2026
AI adoption succeeds or fails on skills, not software March 5, 2026
Noah and Nafolo Launch Stablecoin Virtual Accounts to End Cross-Border Payment Friction in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 4, 2026
UNICEF Venture Fund Opens Applications for Blockchain Solutions March 3, 2026

TechCabal

Two funds, two continents: Why VC firm Satgana is doubling down on climate tech March 9, 2026
For every $1 Showmax made, it lost $2.50 March 9, 2026
South African payment routing startup NjiaPay raises $2.1 million seed round March 9, 2026
Kenya rolls out automated traffic fines system for road offenders March 9, 2026
Next Wave: Kenya rules that you have a right to be wrong, but no right to be invisible March 9, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – M-PESA’s big 40 March 9, 2026
Passported out: How Africa grounds its own leaders March 8, 2026
Digital Nomads: A new visa wants to lure short-term travellers to South Africa March 7, 2026
“We are building on top of an immature ecosystem”: Day 1-1000 of Bujeti March 7, 2026
Kenyan court strikes down law criminalising false information online March 6, 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

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
TECNO’s CAMON 50 and the New Visibility of the Kenyan Spirit March 1, 2026
No More Peeking: How the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Solving Privacy in Public Spaces February 28, 2026
The Invisible Engine: How Daraja 3.0 is Scaling Kenyan Tech Through MPESA February 17, 2026
Sports Betting in Kenya: Odds, Live Betting, and Platform Guide February 6, 2026
Sun King HomePlus Max Brings USB-C Laptop Charging to Solar Homes January 21, 2026
Creative Entrepreneurship: Why Filmmakers Must Start Thinking Like Founders January 21, 2026
Legal Clarity and Tech Innovation: SportPesa Strategic Pivot for 2026 January 21, 2026

African Business Technology News

FNB on Track to Launch Smart ID Card Services March 9, 2026
Uber SA Hosts Driver Appreciation Event, Announces Strategic Partnerships Package March 9, 2026
iPhone Locked to Owner: How to Unlock with/without Computer March 9, 2026
How to Track Last Seen on WhatsApp: Complete Guide March 9, 2026
Capitec’s Innovation Enables Smart ID Access at Scale March 9, 2026
10 Questions to Ask a Telecoms Provider before Signing Up March 6, 2026
Showmax to Close: Industry Expert Weighs in on what this means for the streaming landscape March 6, 2026
Google Brings AI Overviews & AI Mode to 13 African Languages March 6, 2026
StanChart Appoints Head of Digital Assets for GCNA, South Asia & ASEAN March 6, 2026
Ethio telecom and Ericsson Sign Landmark Network Expansion and Modernization Agreement March 5, 2026

TechCity

Learning to Code in 2026: The Honest Guide Nobody Else Will Give You March 9, 2026
Budget Smartphones March 2026: We Tested 5 Under $200. Here’s the Honest Truth. March 9, 2026
How Tradition Shapes Nigeria’s Digital Divide March 9, 2026
Struggling to Land Job Interviews? This AI Job Application Tool Does the Heavy Lifting. Here’s Our Honest Take March 9, 2026
Top Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Workers To Stay Safe Today March 9, 2026
Samsung Galaxy S26: The Price Increase, New Features and Whether It’s Actually Worth Buying” March 9, 2026
Top Feature Phones to Buy in 2026 (it2167 Type-C, it5363 & it5600 New) March 6, 2026
How to Start Contributing to Open Source: A Beginner’s Guide March 6, 2026
Startup Funding Rounds Explained: A Practical Guide for Founders March 6, 2026
Smartphone Photography Tips: How to Take Better Photos With Any Phone March 5, 2026

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

PawaPay Partners with Deriv to Support Mobile Money Deposits Across African Markets March 4, 2026
Vantage Capital Leads R635m Investment into SolarAfrica Energy March 2, 2026
Symbiotics Invests $5.5 in Fido Ghana to Boost AI-Powered Financial Inclusion March 2, 2026
How Bitnob is Reshaping Enterprise Payments in Africa: Insights from Africa Tech Summit Nairobi February 18, 2026
Why Digital Identity is Becoming Africa’s Most Critical Tech Infrastructure February 16, 2026
Delta40 Completes $20M Capital Raise to Build, Invest in & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa February 12, 2026
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 27, 2026

TechArena

Banking on security: Why threat intelligence is a compliance imperative for Kenya’s financial sector March 6, 2026
Powering the telco to techco evolution through polycloud, agentic AI, and digital trust March 6, 2026
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2026 March 6, 2026
Exploring the Growth of Online Slot Games in the Digital Gaming World March 6, 2026
Google Expands AI Search Features to 13 African Languages Including Kiswahili March 5, 2026
Document Fraud Dominates Identity Verification Rejections in East Africa, Report Finds March 5, 2026
Why Digital Trust Matters: Secure, Responsible AI for African SMEs? March 5, 2026
Eight Million DDoS Attacks in Six Months: NETSCOUT Warns of a Hyper-Scale Cyber Threat Era March 5, 2026

WeeTracker

Fintech Innovation in Africa & The Rapid Evolution of Digital Trading Platforms March 9, 2026
SA’s Orca Fraud Raises USD 2.35 M Seed To Expand Real-Time Fraud Intelligence Platform March 9, 2026
SA’s NjiaPay raises USD 2.1 M Seed To Scale Payment Orchestration Platform Across Africa March 9, 2026
Zeno Raises USD 25 M Series A To Scale Electric Motorbikes In East Africa March 9, 2026
A Nigerian Startup’s Newest Model Is Crushing OpenAI And Google March 6, 2026
How M-KOPA Put 5,000+ Electric Bikes On Kenyan Roads—Fast March 5, 2026
Canal+ Pulls Plug On Showmax As African Streaming Losses Mount March 5, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Gebeya Partners with InterNetX to Enable Local Domain Registration in Africa March 9, 2026
Nedbank’s Ecobank Loss Drives NCBA Deal Strategy March 9, 2026
Safaricom’s Ziidi Platform Wins Global Fintech Award at MWC 2026 March 9, 2026
Treasury Backs Sh2bn Konza Facility as Tax Authority Expands Its Digital Backbone March 9, 2026
MTN Zambia Connects a Smartphone to Starlink Satellites in a First Field Test March 9, 2026
Ethio Telecom Advances 4G Expansion and 5G Preparation Through New Vendor Deals March 9, 2026
Kenya’s Communications Authority Takes a Closer Look at the Airtel–Starlink Direct-to-Cell Plan March 9, 2026

Techloy

Top PayFac Platforms That Help You Monetize Payments Faster March 9, 2026
Microsoft Introduces Copilot Cowork: What It Is and How It Works March 9, 2026
Why Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display Could Replace Screen Protectors March 9, 2026
Why Remote Work Looks Busy Even When Real Progress Isn’t Happening March 9, 2026
The Quiet Revolution in Aircraft Navigation Technology March 9, 2026
What to Watch at GDC 2026: AI, Major Studios, and the Future of Game Development March 9, 2026
Television Advertising: A Complete Guide for Marketers March 9, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic Turn to Consulting Firms to Help Businesses Adopt AI March 9, 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

SolveAI Secures $50M to Expand Enterprise AI Platform March 9, 2026
Zodl Raises $25M to Accelerate Privacy-Focused Zcash Development March 9, 2026
Isembard Raises £37.5M to Rebuild Europe’s Industrial Base March 9, 2026
Axiomatic AI Raises $18 Million to Advance Verified Engineering Intelligence March 9, 2026
KAST Raises $80 Million to Expand Global Stablecoin Payments March 9, 2026
Nscale Raises $2 Billion to Scale Global AI Infrastructure March 9, 2026
Augur Raises $15M to Expand AI Security for Infrastructure March 9, 2026

TechCentral

DStv’s new owner to reveal its game plan March 9, 2026
Capitec, home affairs launch self-service smart ID machines March 9, 2026
Global memory crunch threatens laptop value for business buyers March 9, 2026
Rand under severe pressure March 9, 2026
Payments start-up NjiaPay in R35-million seed funding round March 9, 2026
South Africa secures World Bank backing for grid overhaul March 9, 2026
World hit by worst oil shock since the 1970s March 9, 2026
Telkom to hike mobile and fixed tariffs from 1 April March 6, 2026
GSMA warns geopolitics could split global mobile standards March 6, 2026
iStore prices MacBook Neo at R11 999 in South Africa March 6, 2026

Technext

IWD: PalmPay champions female inclusivity with tech skills training for 100 women March 9, 2026
Spiro, Terra lead as African startups raised $272m in February, a 56.3% monthly increase March 9, 2026
Tech Trivia with Rukhayat Orekoya, Brand designer at Chowdeck March 9, 2026
Zeno raises $25m to increase e-motorbike production across East Africa March 9, 2026
E-hailing drivers encouraged to rest more as Bolt and FRSC hold road safety awareness program March 9, 2026
South African anti-fraud startup, Orca raises $2.35M to enhance fraud detection March 9, 2026
Airtel and Starlink satellite-to-phone service under scrutiny in Kenya March 9, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions March 9, 2026
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster March 4, 2026
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics February 27, 2026
New method could increase LLM training efficiency February 26, 2026
Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world February 25, 2026
AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology February 25, 2026
Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy February 25, 2026
Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users February 19, 2026
Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models February 19, 2026

DEV Community

A decade of shaping teams, and the book that made sense of it March 9, 2026
IDMerit's 3 Billion Record Breach: How Your Federal ID Ended Up On The Dark Web March 9, 2026
FAQ: Supply-Chain Attacks — 10 Questions You're Asking (And Answers That Matter) March 9, 2026
Memory System v2: Solving the Context Bloat Problem March 9, 2026
5 days to build the app, 1 month to publish it: I survived Google Play and I have proof March 9, 2026
Debian Linux Complete Guide 2026: From Installation to Production Server March 9, 2026
Enforcing voice and tone with Claude Code hooks March 9, 2026
How to Build a Custom MCP Tool in Under 10 Min March 9, 2026
How to Build a REST API in Zig (Using Spider Web Framework) March 9, 2026

OpenAI News

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo March 9, 2026
Codex Security: now in research preview March 6, 2026
How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale March 6, 2026
How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing March 6, 2026
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good March 5, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4 March 5, 2026
GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card March 5, 2026
Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity March 5, 2026
Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations March 5, 2026
Introducing the Adoption news channel March 5, 2026
The five AI value models driving business reinvention March 5, 2026
Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons March 4, 2026
How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism March 4, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale March 3, 2026
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed February 26, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks February 19, 2026
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music February 18, 2026
Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education February 17, 2026
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering February 12, 2026
Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think February 9, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock March 9, 2026
Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference March 9, 2026
Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline March 5, 2026
Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints March 5, 2026
Embed Amazon Quick Suite chat agents in enterprise applications March 4, 2026
Unlock powerful call center analytics with Amazon Nova foundation models March 4, 2026

Databricks

Business Intelligence Analytics: A Complete Guide for the AI Era March 9, 2026
Decoupled by Design: Billion-Scale Vector Search March 9, 2026
The Professional Impact of Becoming Databricks Certified March 9, 2026
Introducing Kasal March 9, 2026
Transforming Healthcare Referrals with Fivetran, Agentic AI, and Databricks Genie March 9, 2026
Building a near real-time application with Zerobus Ingest and Lakebase March 6, 2026
LogSentinel: How Databricks uses Databricks for LLM-Powered PII Detection and Governance March 6, 2026
Turning Insight Into Impact with Databricks and Global Orphan Project March 5, 2026
Meet KARL: A Faster Agent for Enterprise Knowledge, powered by custom RL March 5, 2026

AIModels.fyi

Can AI *really* research like us? This new framework puts it to the test. January 16, 2026
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

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

AI Copilots at Work: Practical Tools, Open-Source Options, and Strategy March 9, 2026
AI in Museums: How the Cleveland Museum of Art Built AI-Powered Experiences That Actually Work March 8, 2026
2018: AI Tools. 2022: AI Assistants. 2025: AI Copilots. 2026: AI Teammates March 8, 2026
Migrating to the Lakehouse Without the Big Bang: An Incremental Approach March 7, 2026
AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job. Your Company Is: What to Do About It March 7, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

My First Month With OpenClaw: The Setup, Mistakes, and Fixes No One Tells You About March 9, 2026
How Image Augmentation Turns 1,000 Photos Into 1,000,000 Training Examples March 9, 2026
Model Switching in Production: How We Evaluated LLMs for a Conversational Chatbot March 9, 2026
LLM Quantization Explained: The Complete First-Principles Guide March 9, 2026
What AI Interviewers Actually Want in a Take-Home March 9, 2026

aibusiness

ABB, Nvidia Partner to Deliver Physical AI at Scale March 9, 2026
OpenClaw Forces Enterprise Strategy Questions March 9, 2026
Nscale Valued at $14.6B After Raising Another $2B March 9, 2026
Microsoft Recommits to AI Agents With New Copilot Features March 9, 2026
OpenAI Launches Codex Security to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities March 9, 2026
Anthropic Report Says It’s Too Early for AI to Affect Jobs March 6, 2026
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Meta AI Glasses Privacy Claims March 6, 2026
Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode Available in Google Search in US March 5, 2026
Underwater Data Center Project Aboard Offshore Wind Turbine March 5, 2026
Perplexity, CoreWeave Deal Boosts Inferencing March 5, 2026
Euro Regulators Question Meta Over AI Glasses Privacy Fears March 5, 2026
Nvidia Takes on Telco Industry With Open Source Model March 4, 2026
Humanoid Robots Now Assembling Cars in Europe and China March 4, 2026

AI News Weekly

AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026 March 9, 2026
AI News Weekly - GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes - Mar 6th 2026 March 6, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time - Mar 3rd 2026 March 3, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI. - Feb 26th 2026 February 26, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition - Feb 19th 2026 February 19, 2026

Ahead of AI

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
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 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 6 March 2026 March 6, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2026 March 1, 2026
Weekly Review 27 February 2026 February 27, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2026 February 25, 2026
Weekly Review 20 February 2026 February 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2026 February 17, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2026 February 16, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026 February 15, 2026
Weekly Review 13 February 2026 February 13, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026 February 12, 2026

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