Tech In Africa
- South African SME Lender Lula Secures $21M from Dutch Development Bank FMO February 6, 2026
- Google Accelerator Africa Returns with Equity-Free Support, Cloud Credits, and Early Access to AI Products for Startups February 6, 2026
- Rwanda Expands with Zipline to Become First Country in the World with Nationwide Autonomous Delivery Including Africa’s First Urban Drone Delivery Network February 5, 2026
- 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
TechCabal
- Digital Nomads: How 67 countries shaped this risk analyst’s view of African tech February 7, 2026
- Fintechs lead Africa’s digital maturity, but insurers post strongest gains in 2025 February 7, 2026
- Brastorne, the startup bringing rural Africans online, is expanding to Ivory Coast February 6, 2026
- “In 2026, with fraud no longer a major distraction, fintechs will return to massive growth and innovation.” – Adedeji Olowe February 6, 2026
- Why your phone number shows as private and how to remove it February 6, 2026
- 5 African startups powering clouds, compliance tools, and cross-border rails February 6, 2026
- “In 2026, South Africa will see a rapid acceleration of digital payments adoption, both in retail and enterprise.” – Ephraim Modise February 6, 2026
- “After a decade of asset-light evangelism, 2026 will mark the return of the balance sheet as a competitive advantage.” – Olivia Gao February 6, 2026
- “In 2026, Africa’s tech ecosystem will see a further acceleration of strategic mergers and acquisitions.” – Lola Masha February 6, 2026
- “In 2026, we’re going to cross the $1 trillion threshold in tokenised real-world assets, including stablecoins.” – Seun Lanlege February 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
TechCity
- Best Budget Smartphones Nigeria 2024: Top Picks Under ₦200,000 February 9, 2026
- Niger’s Zamani Telecom Chooses Hayo as its Exclusive Partner for A2P Monetisation and SMS Firewall February 9, 2026
- Research centre sets out to build ‘cognitive’ cities of the future February 9, 2026
- Bloomwit Releases 2026 Visibility Report for African SMEs, Highlighting Critical PR Gaps Constraining Business Growth February 9, 2026
- CarPlay to Support Third-Party AI Chatbots: What You Need to Know February 7, 2026
- iOS 26.3 and 26.4: Everything We Know So Far February 7, 2026
- Bloomwit Releases 2026 Visibility Report for African SMEs February 5, 2026
- Egypt to Host the Region’s First Major AI Summit Under Patronage of President El-Sisi February 2, 2026
- Mobile performance in Nigeria: a significant improvement driven by 4G February 2, 2026
- Moniepoint Disburses ₦1 Trillion in Loans to 70,000 Nigerian Businesses January 31, 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
- NCBA Becomes First Bank in East & Central Africa to Achieve Dual ISO 27001 and 27701 Certifications February 9, 2026
- Watu Backs Kenya’s New E-Mobility Policy as Catalyst for EV Financing and Clean Transport Growth February 9, 2026
- Absa, Microsoft and Women in Tech Expand ElevateHer AI Programme Across Nine African Markets February 6, 2026
- LG Positions Africa as Key Growth Frontier for AI-Powered Smart Home Expansion at InnoFest 2026 MEA February 6, 2026
- Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as Chief Product & Technology Officer February 6, 2026
- Pin Up how to play and win instructions for experienced players February 6, 2026
- Why MT5 is Gaining Traction Among Online Traders February 6, 2026
- Deepfake Scams and AI-Generated Malware Are Now Top Cyber Risks for Kenya, ESET Warns February 5, 2026
WeeTracker
- Tech Salaries Soar In SA While Companies Say Jobseekers Aren’t Job-Ready February 9, 2026
- Kenya Bets Big On Tax Cuts To Drive EV Race As Tough Road Lies Ahead February 9, 2026
- Egypt’s Tactful AI Raises USD 1 M To Scale Agentic AI Customer Experience Platform February 9, 2026
- Why Forex Trading is Taking off in Emerging Markets February 6, 2026
- MTN Makes Major U-Turn As It Bids To Buy Back Towers It Sold Off For Years February 5, 2026
- 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
TechTrendsKE
- Paratus Activates Major Fiber Highway Linking Kenya and the DRC February 9, 2026
- Millions Are Listening on Mdundo but the Money Is Not Following at the Same Pace February 9, 2026
- Ethiopia Gave M-Pesa Users in the Millions but Not the Revenue Safaricom Expected February 9, 2026
- A Clean Cooking Dream Runs Into the Hard Politics of Carbon Credits in Kenya February 9, 2026
- Nil Returns Survive But The Old Assumptions Around Them Are Fading February 9, 2026
- Kenyan Creatives Step Forward at Cannes Young Lions as the Industry Searches for Stability February 9, 2026
- Starlink Performance In Kenya Now Runs Through Nairobi February 9, 2026
Techloy
- 5 Top-Rated Sites to Buy YouTube Subscribers in 2026 February 9, 2026
- South Korea Tightens Crypto Oversight With Crackdown on Manipulation, Bots, and Exchange Risks February 9, 2026
- GOG Confirms Native Linux Version of Galaxy Launcher Is in Development February 9, 2026
- Smart Buying: Choosing Tools With Real Utility February 9, 2026
- 5 Safe & Legit Websites to Buy Instagram Reel Views in 2026 February 9, 2026
- Amazon Reports $213B Q4 2025 Sales and Plans $200B AI Spending Surge as Free Cash Flow Drops February 9, 2026
- GPT-4o is Retiring: 4 ChatGPT Alternatives That Actually Capture Its Warmth February 6, 2026
- Roblox Stock Jumps 16% After Blowout Q4 2025 Earnings Beat on Bookings, Users, and Cash Flow February 6, 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
- What Is Aster? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained February 8, 2026
- What Is OpenLedger? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained February 8, 2026
- What Is KGeN? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained February 8, 2026
- XRP (XRP) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028 to 2030 February 8, 2026
- NEAR Protocol Price Predictio 2026, 2027, 2028 to 2030 February 7, 2026
- Bonk (BONK) Price Prediction 2026, 2027 to 2030 February 7, 2026
- 30 Best Bitcoin And Crypto Casino No Deposit Bonuses And Free Spins Feb 2026 February 6, 2026
TechCentral
- SABC says it can’t afford to cover the next election February 9, 2026
- Home affairs’ R10 ID fee is forcing companies to rethink identity verification February 9, 2026
- Paratus lights up new East Africa fibre highway linking Goma and Mombasa February 9, 2026
- EU regulators take aim at WhatsApp February 9, 2026
- Tech salaries in South Africa are bouncing back February 9, 2026
- The new way of working – an Mweb study February 9, 2026
- Vumatel tops a million subscribers in South African broadband milestone February 9, 2026
- Washington takes on Beijing in race for Africa’s critical minerals February 9, 2026
- Beyond the prompt: Why the future of enterprise AI is hybrid and agentic February 9, 2026
- Vodacom dropping R5.6-billion for spectrum in key market February 9, 2026
Technext
- Nigeria targets better, inclusive internet connectivity with telecoms policy review February 9, 2026
- Egyptian startup, Tactful AI raises $1M pre-series A to improve service February 9, 2026
- How 62% Nigerians buy poverty February 9, 2026
- Moltbook and the ethics of invisible AI communities: A conversation with Raymond Odiaga February 9, 2026
- How 62% of Nigerians are spending themselves into poverty – Risevest report February 8, 2026
- ‘Adoption alone not enough’-David Abodunrin on redefining Africa’s AI growth and smarter leadership February 7, 2026
- Women in Tech SA partners microsoft to train women in AI in 9 African countries February 6, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable February 9, 2026
- “This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio February 6, 2026
- Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models February 5, 2026
- 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
DEV Community
- Level Up Your Linux Game: My Journey Through OverTheWire’s Bandit & Natas February 9, 2026
- SPIFFE Identity Federation: Extending Trust Across Boundaries February 9, 2026
- A Silly Idea: A Star Wars Lightsaber Duel in the Terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI February 9, 2026
- From Disorganized Data to Clear Insights: How Analysts Build Solutions with Power BI February 9, 2026
- From Vogue’s Lens to the Web: A Story of Creative Collaboration February 9, 2026
- Variables and Constants February 9, 2026
- Pingora Deep Dive: The Rust Proxy That Retired NGINX February 9, 2026
- Secure Storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage February 9, 2026
- Claude Code Hooks: Complete Guide with 20+ Ready-to-Use Examples (2026) February 9, 2026
OpenAI News
- Korea privacy policy February 6, 2026
- Making AI work for everyone, everywhere: our approach to localization February 6, 2026
- GPT-5 lowers the cost of cell-free protein synthesis February 5, 2026
- Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber February 5, 2026
- Introducing OpenAI Frontier February 5, 2026
- Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex February 5, 2026
- GPT-5.3-Codex System Card February 5, 2026
- 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
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
- Structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock: Schema-compliant AI responses February 6, 2026
- Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters using the HyperPod CLI and SDK February 6, 2026
- Evaluate generative AI models with an Amazon Nova rubric-based LLM judge on Amazon SageMaker AI (Part 2) February 6, 2026
- How Associa transforms document classification with the GenAI IDP Accelerator and Amazon Bedrock February 5, 2026
- A practical guide to Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings February 5, 2026
- Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references February 4, 2026
Databricks
- SAP and Salesforce Data Integration for Supplier Analytics on Databricks February 7, 2026
- How to Build Production-Ready Genie Spaces, and Build Trust Along the Way February 6, 2026
- Databricks Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment February 6, 2026
- Tutorial: 3 Free Databricks Analytics Projects You Can Do In An Afternoon February 5, 2026
- From Data to Dialogue: A Best Practices Guide for Building High-Performing Genie Spaces February 5, 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
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
- Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen began offering coupons on February 6 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) February 9, 2026
- Sources: AI legal software startup Harvey seeks to raise $200M led by Sequoia and GIC at an $11B valuation, up from $8B after raising $160M in December 2025 (Iain Martin/Forbes) February 9, 2026
- How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post) February 9, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- The ODSC AI East Schedule Preview, Agentic AI Workflows, 2026 AI Trends, Agent Costs, and Coding… February 5, 2026
- 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
Towards AI – Medium
- AI Agents Are Stuck in the Terminal February 9, 2026
- Leveraging Emerging AI Agents in Composable CDPs February 9, 2026
- From CS230 Theory to Production Android: Building a Privacy-First Credit Risk Classifier February 9, 2026
- GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6 : Two Titans Launched Minutes Apart February 9, 2026
- LookML: An Alternative Semantic Layer Approach to build a Reliable AI Analytics Agent with BigQuery February 9, 2026
aibusiness
- OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers February 6, 2026
- Enterprises Don't Care About Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad February 6, 2026
- Robotaxi Leader Waymo Confirms $16B Funding Round February 5, 2026
- 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
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
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
- 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
MarkTechPost
- Meet OAT: The New Action Tokenizer Bringing LLM-Style Scaling and Flexible, Anytime Inference to the Robotics World February 9, 2026
- A Coding Implementation to Establish Rigorous Prompt Versioning and Regression Testing Workflows for Large Language Models using MLflow February 9, 2026
- ByteDance Releases Protenix-v1: A New Open-Source Model Achieving AF3-Level Performance in Biomolecular Structure Prediction February 8, 2026
- How to Design Production-Grade Mock Data Pipelines Using Polyfactory with Dataclasses, Pydantic, Attrs, and Nested Models February 8, 2026
