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From Zero to 12 Million Customers. A decade-long partnership of GoTyme Bank and BPC drives South African digital adoption
March 20, 2026
Angola Parliament Approves Startup Bill
March 20, 2026
Nomba Launches Global Payout API for Cross-Border Payments
March 20, 2026
European Investment Bank Commits €40 Million to Speedinvest Africa Fund
March 19, 2026
Botswana Innovation Fund and Scalar International Launch Startup Programme
March 19, 2026
Sistema.bio Closes $53 Million for FarmCarbon Climate Finance Vehicle
March 19, 2026
Dutch Firm Aqua-Spark Closes $48M Fund to Scale Sustainable Fish Farming Across Africa
March 18, 2026
Afreximbank Opens Registration for 2026 Trade Finance Certification, Offers 50% Scholarships
March 18, 2026
How Africa’s Top Fintech is Reimagining the “Woman in Tech” Narrative
March 17, 2026
Nigus and Elmirate announce $200m initiative to support Africa’s security sector
March 16, 2026
TechCabal
Digital Nomads: Samuel Odeloye left Lagos. He never stopped building for it.
March 21, 2026
“I wasn’t sure I could make money from the industry”: Day 1-1000 of Space in Africa
March 21, 2026
M-PESA to stop sharing full phone numbers with merchants, banks by year-end
March 20, 2026
African startups are ‘over-mentored, over-trained.’ Rwanda wants to fix that.
March 20, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Ibukun Adedeji
March 20, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – A Wise move to Nigeria
March 20, 2026
When tech calls it waste, Nairobi calls it Tuesday
March 19, 2026
Luno wants more than crypto trading. Prediction markets are the first move.
March 19, 2026
What riding Bolt’s electric tricycle in Lagos actually feels like
March 19, 2026
Why African countries are using data protection laws as backdoor to regulate AI
March 19, 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
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
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
African Business Technology News
10 Reasons Why #HISA 2026 Is a ‘Must-Attend’ Healthcare Event
March 21, 2026
The Future of South African Mining
March 20, 2026
How Can AI Transform Retail: 5 Key Ways
March 20, 2026
Kaspersky shares 3 top tips in the financial sector
March 20, 2026
Regional Central Banks Sign Landmark MoU to Implement PSP license Passporting Framework
March 20, 2026
How Are Smartphones Remaking Retail
March 20, 2026
5 Trends Rewriting the Rules in the Financial Sector
March 19, 2026
”Here’s how new skills can keep you employable”
March 19, 2026
AI Video Generators for News Content: Broadcast Quality on a Newsroom Budget
March 19, 2026
Why Are Stablecoins Gaining Real Traction in Africa?
March 19, 2026
TechCity
Complete Online Security Checklist
March 20, 2026
Social Commerce Trends for 2025: Platforms, Strategy, Growth
March 20, 2026
Impact of 5G on Mobile Gaming: Speed, Latency, Cloud and Esports
March 19, 2026
TECNO CAMON 50, CAMON 50 Pro, and CAMON 50 Ultra 5G Redefine Camera Power and AI Productivity in One Flagship Series.
March 18, 2026
Smart Home Automation Ideas To Transform Your Living Space Now
March 18, 2026
Best Noise Cancelling Headphones Review: Top Picks 2026 Guide
March 17, 2026
Electricity’s Critical Role in Nigeria’s Digital Public Infrastructure
March 17, 2026
Battery Optimization Guide: How to Make Your Phone Last All Day (Any Phone)
March 16, 2026
How To Scale A Startup Globally: Practical Playbook For Founders
March 16, 2026
Content Creation Guide for Beginners
March 13, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment
March 20, 2026
Luno Launches First Structured Crypto Prediction Market in Nigeria
March 18, 2026
Absa and Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay, a Next‑Generation Solution for Fast, Affordable Global Remittances
March 10, 2026
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
TechArena
Cellulant Appoints Darren Makarem as CFO
March 20, 2026
Over 50% of Kenyan Gig Workers Rely on It as Primary Income, New Bolt-Ipsos Report Finds
March 19, 2026
AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as Vice President for Africa
March 19, 2026
Equity Group Posts Record KSh 75.5 Billion Profit as Digital Transactions Hit 98%
March 19, 2026
Cassava Technologies Launches AI Factory in Africa, Eyes Kenya in Continental Expansion
March 19, 2026
Safaricom and Indosat Partner to Build AI-Powered Digital and Financial Ecosystems
March 19, 2026
Safaricom to Mask M-Pesa Names and Numbers in New Privacy Changes
March 18, 2026
Safaricom Set to Launch M-Pesa Tap-to-Pay in Kenya After Tanzania Rollout
March 18, 2026
WeeTracker
South Africa’s Deepfake Fraud Rate Highest In Africa As Cheap AI Tools Fuel Scams
March 19, 2026
Speedinvest Secures USD 45 M EIB Backing For USD 230 M Africa Venture Fund
March 19, 2026
Kenya’s Sistema.bio Secures USD 53 M For FarmCarbon Climate Finance Fund
March 19, 2026
Nigus And Elmirate Back USD 200 M Nigeria Defence And Satellite Platform
March 19, 2026
Prediction Markets Quietly Invade Nigeria As Finance & Gambling Intersect
March 17, 2026
Spotify’s Pay Gap Leaves Nigerian Artists With Billions In Streams, Peanuts In Pockets
March 17, 2026
Nigeria Launches iDICE Startup Bridge With Grants & USD 100 K Funding For Founders
March 17, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Stablecoins Took Off in Kenya Now Regulators Are Closing In on the Details
March 20, 2026
Inside Kenya’s AI and Connectivity Plans as Global Partners Move In
March 20, 2026
Cellulant Appoints Darren Makarem as CFO to Drive African Payments Expansion
March 19, 2026
Bolt Report Highlights Economic Gains for Drivers in Kenya’s Gig Economy
March 19, 2026
AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as VP for Africa in Regional Growth Push
March 19, 2026
Showmax to Shut Down at the End of March
March 18, 2026
Beyond Nairobi, BasiGo’s Electric Bus Expansion Begins to Stretch Across Kenya
March 18, 2026
Techloy
How Fast Loans Work in Nigeria: A Complete Beginner’s Guide
March 21, 2026
Alibaba and Tencent Lose $66 Billion as AI Spending Raises Investor Fears
March 20, 2026
👀 Porn in the Age of AI
March 20, 2026
Claude Dispatch vs OpenClaw: Which AI Agent Tool Should You Use?
March 20, 2026
FBI Warns of Fake Tron Token Sending Threats to Crypto Wallets
March 20, 2026
OpenAI Is Merging ChatGPT, Codex and Atlas Into One AI Superapp
March 20, 2026
Discord Voice Not Working? Here’s Why Thousands of Users Were Affected
March 20, 2026
Week 12's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in the Middle East and Africa, Led by Oasis Security, as Cybersecurity and Climate Tech Drew the Biggest Checks
March 20, 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
U.S. Battle Plan Intensifies To Reopen The Strait Of Hormuz
March 20, 2026
Flexzo AI Secures $12M Funding to Scale Smart AI Tools
March 20, 2026
Paraform Raises $40M to Expand AI Infrastructure Reach
March 20, 2026
Cloaked Raises $375M to Protect Privacy in AI Era
March 20, 2026
Bluesky Raises $100M Series B for Open Social Web
March 20, 2026
How to Mine Bitcoin in 2026 Without Expensive Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide
March 20, 2026
9 Most Trusted Crypto Cloud Mining Platforms in 2026 (Beginner-Friendly & Passive Income)
March 20, 2026
TechCentral
MTN and Vodacom dwarf South Africa’s listed tech sector
March 20, 2026
SA firm opens Africa’s largest space hardware factory
March 20, 2026
OpenClaw fever grips China
March 20, 2026
OpenAI plans desktop ‘super app’
March 20, 2026
How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
March 20, 2026
How a WhatsApp bundle exposed a fault line in SA mobile
March 19, 2026
Eskom must build renewables or face extinction: Mteto Nyati
March 19, 2026
IT Leadership Series: Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter
March 19, 2026
Adobe faces fresh probe over subscription cancellation fees
March 19, 2026
Showmax Originals find a new home on DStv Stream
March 19, 2026
Technext
Who’s sending the Ram?
March 20, 2026
Court bars Kenyan telcos from recycling phone numbers without owners’ consent
March 20, 2026
All you need to know about the ‘fly now, pay later’ initiative for local Nigerian flights
March 20, 2026
Block rehires part of 4,000 employees laid off last month, blames clerical errors
March 19, 2026
Avoiding account linking in large-scale online operations
March 19, 2026
Meet Kagi Translator, an AI bot that will turn any idea into a LinkedIn caption
March 19, 2026
Sistema.bio raises $53m to make cheap clean energy affordable for smallholder farmers across Africa
March 19, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
What’s the right path for AI?
March 20, 2026
MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity
March 20, 2026
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
March 19, 2026
Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
March 19, 2026
Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
March 18, 2026
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
March 17, 2026
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
March 12, 2026
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
March 11, 2026
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
March 11, 2026
DEV Community
How to Find Your First AI Automation Client in 2026 (Without a Portfolio)
March 21, 2026
I have a question, I am developing an app. I am having the issue in which my app is logging out my acc, after some time like in 20 Min. Anyone know what the issue could be and how can I fix it. a question from newbee
March 21, 2026
I Run 5 Businesses With Zero Employees. Here's the Exact AI Stack.
March 21, 2026
Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Scaling Enterprise Agents from 8GB RAM to Global Clusters with Fararoni.
March 21, 2026
My First OSS Contribution as a Non-Developer: What I Learned and Why It Matters
March 21, 2026
How (A) I Built Open-Source LLM Guardrails with FastAPI
March 21, 2026
From Notion Idea Graveyard to Founder OS: Run Plan Review (with MCP)
March 21, 2026
Build an AI Code Review Bot with Laravel — Real-World Use Case
March 21, 2026
I Shipped 15 Projects in One Weekend — Here's How AI Changes Everything
March 21, 2026
OpenAI News
How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
March 19, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Astral
March 19, 2026
OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first
March 17, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano
March 17, 2026
Equipping workers with insights about compensation
March 17, 2026
Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
March 16, 2026
Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex
March 11, 2026
Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
March 11, 2026
From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment
March 11, 2026
Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI
March 11, 2026
Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
March 10, 2026
New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT
March 10, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
March 9, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
March 17, 2026
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
March 9, 2026
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
Artificial Intelligence
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock
March 19, 2026
Use RAG for video generation using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova Reel
March 19, 2026
Introducing V-RAG: revolutionizing AI-powered video production with Retrieval Augmented Generation
March 19, 2026
Enhanced metrics for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints: deeper visibility for better performance
March 19, 2026
Enforce data residency with Amazon Quick extensions for Microsoft Teams
March 19, 2026
Kick off Nova customization experiments using Nova Forge SDK
March 18, 2026
Databricks
Business Analytics Tools: A Complete Guide for Data-Driven Organizations
March 20, 2026
MLOps Frameworks: A Complete Guide to Tools and Platforms for Production ML
March 20, 2026
coSTAR: How We Ship AI Agents at Databricks Fast, Without Breaking Things
March 20, 2026
Agentic AI Security: New Risks and Controls in the Databricks AI Security Framework (DASF v3.0)
March 20, 2026
Multi-Cloud Challenges, Intelligent Load Balancing, and AI-Powered Workflows: Databricks at SRECon 2026
March 20, 2026
From Legacy to Lakehouse: How Mazda Accelerated GenAI for Technical Service Operations
March 20, 2026
Semantic Layer Architecture: Components, Design Patterns, and AI Integration
March 20, 2026
Data Science Use Cases: 15 Real-World Applications Transforming Enterprise Operations
March 20, 2026
Introducing AI Runtime: Scalable, Serverless NVIDIA GPUs on Databricks for Training and Finetuning
March 19, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them?
March 21, 2026
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
Techmeme
Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
March 21, 2026
Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
March 21, 2026
CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
March 21, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
ODSC AI East Keynotes, Root Cause Analysis, Outer Loop Agents, and Production Agent Judgment
March 19, 2026
What Boards Should Actually Be Asking About AI in 2026
March 12, 2026
AI Teammates, the Death of SaaS, Capturing Enterprise Intelligence, and Tonight’s D.C. Meetup
March 12, 2026
AI Engineer vs Data Scientist Salary in 2026: Why Production Skills Pay More
March 11, 2026
Managing Human + AI Workflows: The Operating Model Most Teams Are Missing
March 10, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
AI Agent Evaluations: Building Trust for Success
March 21, 2026
Nemotron 3: NVIDIA’s Latest LLM in Plain English
March 21, 2026
From CSS Selectors to Natural Language: Web Scraping with ScrapeGraphAI
March 21, 2026
MiniMax M2.7 Built Itself! Here’s How to Use It Like a Pro
March 21, 2026
Exploration and Exploitation: The Simple Yet Profound Logic at the Heart of Reinforcement Learning
March 21, 2026
aibusiness
Trump Administration Releases AI Legislative Framework
March 20, 2026
Rivian’s Bet on AI Attracts $1.25 Billion Uber Deal
March 20, 2026
Google's Stitch and the Shift in AI-Driven Development
March 19, 2026
Tencent to Double AI Spending to More Than $5B Over Next Year
March 19, 2026
Samsung Pledges $73B to Boost AI Chip Standing
March 19, 2026
How a Nonprofit Transforms Data with Cloudera and AI
March 18, 2026
Mistral Pioneers Sovereign AI in Europe
March 18, 2026
Nvidia Extends its Reach Into Self-Driving
March 18, 2026
Building Resilience in the Age of AI
March 17, 2026
US Startup to Build South Korea’s Biggest AI Data Center
March 17, 2026
Alibaba Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform
March 17, 2026
Nvidia Devises a More Secure OpenClaw Stack for Enterprises
March 17, 2026
Nvidia Intros Data Factory, Robotics Models in Physical AI Push
March 16, 2026
AI News Weekly
AI News Weekly - $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad - Mar 19th 2026
March 19, 2026
AI News Weekly - The godfather of AI bets against LLM's - Mar 17th 2026
March 17, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : Future lost in transation - Mar 15th 2026
March 15, 2026
AI News Weekly - The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee - Mar 11th 2026
March 11, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026
March 9, 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 20 March 2026
March 20, 2026
Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2026
March 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026
March 19, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2026
March 18, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 2026
March 17, 2026
Weekly Review 13 March 2026
March 13, 2026
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
MarkTechPost
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Cascade 2: An Open 30B MoE with 3B Active Parameters, Delivering Better Reasoning and Strong Agentic Capabilities
March 20, 2026
A Coding Implementation Showcasing ClawTeam’s Multi-Agent Swarm Orchestration with OpenAI Function Calling
March 20, 2026
LlamaIndex Releases LiteParse: A CLI and TypeScript-Native Library for Spatial PDF Parsing in AI Agent Workflows
March 20, 2026
Google Colab Now Has an Open-Source MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server: Use Colab Runtimes with GPUs from Any Local AI Agent
March 19, 2026
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