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Tech In Africa

From Figma to SheCode Africa: How Mfonobong Umondia Is Building a Mentorship Pipeline for Aspiring Community Managers February 4, 2026
South Africa Joins Afreximbank, announces US$8bn Country Programme February 4, 2026
LekeeLekee, Nigeria’s Indigenous Social Media Platform, Pioneers Africa’s Digital Sovereignty February 4, 2026
WAXAL: Google and African Institutions Unite to Empower Indigenous Languages in AI February 4, 2026
Qualcomm Unveils Make in Africa Programme to Empower African Startups February 4, 2026
Africa’s Tech Sector Surges as Japan and Gulf Investors Lead $180 Billion Influx February 4, 2026
Yakeey Raises $15 Million to Revolutionize Morocco’s Real Estate Market February 4, 2026
Digital Twins: The 2026 Shift to 3D Player Avatars in Professional Football February 4, 2026
Liberia’s Surna Technologies Gains Global Recognition for Advancing Sovereign AI February 4, 2026
Rafiki Works Launches petl pay: A New Fintech Solution for Project-Based Teams February 3, 2026

TechCabal

Fintechs ask CBN for growth fund, regulator says it can only play matchmaker February 5, 2026
Inside Kasi Cloud, Nigeria’s first 100MW AI data centre in Lagos February 5, 2026
Cellulant names long-serving engineer to lead product and technology February 5, 2026
MTN Group in talks to buy 75% of IHS Towers in landmark deal February 5, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – AGOA returns—for now February 5, 2026
Everything you need to know about 2026 UTME registration February 4, 2026
AGOA extension buys time for Kenya’s digital export economy as US tightens rules February 4, 2026
T2 Mobile adds internet users for third straight month, NCC data shows February 4, 2026
S&P sees Nigerian banks staying profitable in 2026 on payment volumes, not windfalls February 4, 2026
CWG grows profit 84% on strong software and IT services sales February 4, 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

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
Bridging the Digital Gap: How Wikipedia Next 25 Years Will Depend on the Global South January 16, 2026
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

African Business Technology News

South Africa Joins Afreximbank, Announces US$8bn Country Programme February 5, 2026
Binance Pay Brings Crypto Payments to 650,000 SA Merchants February 5, 2026
Ethio telecom, Djibouti Telecom & Sudatel Sign Landmark Fiber Connectivity Agreement February 5, 2026
”Phishing & Social Engineering are the most Significant Risks for South African organizations” February 4, 2026
Superbalist Adopts Generative Engine Optimization to Future-Proof E-commerce February 4, 2026
How to Use AI to Solve South Africa’s Biggest Challenges February 4, 2026
Iress Appoints Dominic Rey to Lead Wealth Management in South Africa February 4, 2026
Uber Eats & Gauteng Govt Partnership Delivers Record Growth February 4, 2026
Employee Monitoring Software: Best Practices for Ethical Monitoring February 4, 2026
Vodacom Foundation Drives Tech‑Powered Disaster Relief in Mozambique & South Africa February 3, 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 27, 2026
Flutterwave Partners with Turnkey to Power Secure Stablecoin Wallets for Customers January 27, 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

TechArena

Google Opens Applications for 10th Cohort of Startups Accelerator Africa February 5, 2026
LG Electronics Sets Strategic Direction to Drive Growth, Innovation and Profitability February 5, 2026
Old Mutual Partners with Paystack to Strengthen Digital Payments Across Its Insurance and Investment Platforms February 4, 2026
The Smartphone as an AI Platform: What On-Device AI Really Means for Africa February 4, 2026
What You Need to Know About Kenya’s National Electric Mobility Policy (e-Mobility Policy) February 4, 2026
LG Electronics Showcases “Affectionate Intelligence” at CES 2026 February 4, 2026
Infinix Note Edge Launched in Kenya with Dimensity 7100, Android 16 & Self-Healing Battery February 3, 2026
Onafriq and PAPSS Pilot First Wallet-Based Naira Cross-Border Payments From Nigeria to Ghana February 3, 2026

WeeTracker

Rwanda Expands Drone Delivery Nationwide, Now Includes Groceries February 5, 2026
Lula Raises USD 21 M To Expand SME Lending In South Africa February 4, 2026
The USD 5 B Invisible Lending Machine That Is Rwanda’s Oldest Fintech February 4, 2026
LemFi Launches Remittance Services in Australia as Global Expansion Continues February 4, 2026
TikTok’s Kenyan Business Grows, But Creators Question Their Share Of The Pie February 4, 2026
GoCab Raises USD 45 M To Scale ‘Ethical’ Mobility Financing In Africa February 3, 2026
Egypt’s IPO Market Roars Back To Life, Powered By Tech & Consumer Brands February 3, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Electric Matatus Are Forcing Order Into Nairobi’s Most Chaotic Industry February 5, 2026
Rwanda Scales Zipline Partnership to Achieve Total National Coverage February 5, 2026
Google Opens Applications for 10th Cohort of Startups Accelerator Africa February 5, 2026
Data Sovereignty is Africa’s Next Great Infrastructure Frontier February 5, 2026
Interview: Samsung’s Product Lead Ryan Mule on The Smartphone as an AI Platform February 5, 2026
LG CEO Outlines Bold Strategy for AI and B2B Growth Amid Rapid Industry Shifting February 5, 2026
The TechTrends Podcast | When a Nation Talks: The Safaricom Sale Question February 4, 2026

Techloy

Substack CEO Chris Best Confirms October 2025 Data Breach, Aplogise to Users February 5, 2026
Google Pixel 10a Launches February: Early Access Offer, Specs, and What to Expect February 5, 2026
Rockstar to Begin GTA 6 Marketing Campaign Soon, Release Still Set for November 19, 2026 February 5, 2026
PayPal Vs BitPay: Which Payment Platform Is Better for You? February 5, 2026
Anthropic Positions Claude as the Ad-Free Alternative to ChatGPT February 5, 2026
5 AI Tools Startups Need to Scale Operations in 2026 February 4, 2026
YouTube Blocked Background Play for Free Users — Here’s How Brave Browser Lets You Bypass It February 4, 2026
Apple Brings AI Coding Agents to Xcode in New 26.3 Update February 4, 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

Morpho (MORPHO) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 February 4, 2026
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270M To Scale Autonomous Construction February 4, 2026
Opinion Labs Raises $20M For Onchain Prediction Expansion February 4, 2026
TRM Labs Raises $70 Million To Expand Blockchain Crime Intelligence February 4, 2026
Responsible Gambling Technology: AI That Detects Problem Behavior Before It Escalates February 4, 2026
Positron Raises $230 Million To Expand AI Memory Chips February 4, 2026
Ares Interactive Raises $70M Series A for New Franchises February 4, 2026

TechCentral

South Africa is losing its film industry – one delay at a time February 5, 2026
Crypto markets reel as bitcoin slides February 5, 2026
NEC XON achieves an African first with full Fortinet accreditation February 5, 2026
Clickatell: Agentic AI turns automation into consequence February 5, 2026
Enterprise connectivity has moved from utility to strategy February 5, 2026
Smartphone market hit by deepening memory crisis February 5, 2026
MTN Group in talks to buy out IHS Towers February 5, 2026
Google goes from laggard to leader in AI February 5, 2026
Estonia’s digital ID lesson for South Africa February 4, 2026
Vodacom’s real growth story isn’t mobile February 4, 2026

Technext

Senate’s rejection of e-transmission sparks backlash from civil society, Nigerians February 5, 2026
MTN in talks to take full control of IHS Holdings with 75% stake acquisition February 5, 2026
NCC and NSCDC threaten legal action against road construction companies over cable cuts February 5, 2026
Senate rejects compulsory e-transmission of election results, passes new law February 5, 2026
Vodacom’s $500B secret February 5, 2026
10 female-led platforms to learn and master tech skills in 2026 February 5, 2026
AI deepfake fraud surges by more than 2,000% in 3 years, costing millions of dollars February 4, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing February 4, 2026
Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows February 4, 2026
3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs February 4, 2026
Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship February 3, 2026
Counter intelligence February 3, 2026
SMART launches new Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care research group February 3, 2026
How generative AI can help scientists synthesize complex materials February 2, 2026
The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence January 30, 2026
Why it’s critical to move beyond overly aggregated machine-learning metrics January 20, 2026

DEV Community

Shipping a Location-Based App in NYC: Subway Dead Zones, Urban Canyons, and What Actually Works February 5, 2026
Currying in JavaScript February 5, 2026
Why Automated Image Cleanup Breaks Resolution (And the "Clean & Clarify" Workflow) February 5, 2026
Reducing LLM API Costs by 43%: A Technical Deep-Dive into Intelligent Prompt Routing February 5, 2026
Agentic Commerce: Dive into ACP & UCP Protocols February 5, 2026
From Chatbots to Agentic AI: Why Autonomous Systems Are the Next Enterprise Shift February 5, 2026
64-bit bootloader from scratch in AT&T assembly, Part-3 February 5, 2026
Common Form Mistakes to Avoid When Using Short Form Builder February 5, 2026
GDPR for Developers: What You Actually Need to Know February 5, 2026

OpenAI News

Navigating health questions with ChatGPT February 5, 2026
Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server February 4, 2026
VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability February 4, 2026
The Sora feed philosophy February 3, 2026
Snowflake and OpenAI partner to bring frontier intelligence to enterprise data February 2, 2026
Introducing the Codex app February 2, 2026
Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent January 29, 2026
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT January 29, 2026
Taisei Corporation shapes the next generation of talent with ChatGPT January 29, 2026
The next chapter for AI in the EU January 28, 2026
EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant January 28, 2026
Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link January 28, 2026
PVH reimagines the future of fashion with OpenAI January 27, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds January 29, 2026
D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions January 16, 2026
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

Artificial Intelligence

Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references February 4, 2026
Democratizing business intelligence: BGL’s journey with Claude Agent SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 3, 2026
Use Amazon Quick Suite custom action connectors to upload text files to Google Drive using OpenAPI specification February 3, 2026
AI agents in enterprises: Best practices with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 3, 2026
Agentic AI for healthcare data analysis with Amazon SageMaker Data Agent February 3, 2026
How Clarus Care uses Amazon Bedrock to deliver conversational contact center interactions February 2, 2026

Databricks

From Data to Dialogue: A Best Practices Guide for Building High-Performing Genie Spaces February 5, 2026
The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 2) February 4, 2026
The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 1) February 4, 2026
Unlocking the Future of Energy with Smart Meter Innovation February 4, 2026
Data Quality Monitoring at scale with Agentic AI February 4, 2026
How enterprises are preparing for agentic AI February 4, 2026
Accelerating Drug Discovery: From FASTA Files to GenAI Insights on Databricks February 4, 2026
Delta Lake Explained: Boost Data Reliability in Cloud Storage February 3, 2026
Self-Optimizing Football Chatbot Guided by Domain Experts on Databricks February 3, 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

From Graphs to Generative AI: Building Context That Pays — Part 1 January 30, 2026
AI in Clinical Research: From Pilot Studies to Real-World Scale January 30, 2026
Taking Back the Math: How Everyday Numbers Can Empower Us in an Algorithmic World January 29, 2026
AI Agents for Business Leaders: Benefits, Risks, and What to Ask Before Deploying January 29, 2026
Leading AI Teams in the Agentic Era January 28, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

Moltbook: The First Social Network Where Humans Are Just Spectators February 5, 2026
Stock Market Freefalls, But ElevenLabs Just Hit $11 Billion February 5, 2026
Moltbook: Inside the AI-Only Social Network (A Deep Dive) February 5, 2026
Customer Segmentation and Retention Strategy using Transactional Data February 5, 2026
Autogen: A Basic Understanding February 5, 2026

aibusiness

Opinion Divided on Moltbook Social Network for AI Agents February 4, 2026
Panic Rises in Legal Industry Due to Anthropic’s AI Plugins February 4, 2026
Nvidia, Dassault Systèmes to Build Industrial AI Platform February 4, 2026
Claude Plots a Route for NASA Rover on Mars February 3, 2026
Change is Coming to xAI After Musk Merges it with SpaceX February 3, 2026
Snowflake Deal Latest Move into Enterprise Market by OpenAI February 3, 2026
Combatting Cultural Bias in the Translation of AI Models February 2, 2026
New York Robotics Consortium Launches with 160 Startups February 2, 2026
Process Mining Matures in the Age of Generative AI February 2, 2026
ServiceNow and Anthropic Disclose AI Deal January 30, 2026
Apple Acquires Israeli Startup Q.AI January 30, 2026
Google DeepMind Introduces Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash January 29, 2026
Google's AI-Powered Chrome Further Transforms Search January 29, 2026

AI News Weekly

AI News Weekly - Issue #464: 5 reasons will will not get AGI soon - Feb 5th 2026 February 5, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #463: All about The "Moltbook" Phenomenon - Feb 2nd 2026 February 2, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI? - Jan 29th 2026 January 29, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #461: - Jan 21st 2026 January 21, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #460: - Jan 20th 2026 January 20, 2026

Ahead of AI

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 State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning April 19, 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

Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2025 February 4, 2026
Weekly Review 30 January 2026 January 30, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2026 January 29, 2026
Weekly Review 23 January 2026 January 23, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2026 January 21, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2026 January 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026 January 19, 2026
Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence 2025 January 18, 2026
Weekly Review 16 January 2026 January 16, 2026

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