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Rafiki Works Launches petl pay: A New Fintech Solution for Project-Based Teams
February 3, 2026
7 Best Apps to Create a USDT TRC20 Wallet in Africa
February 3, 2026
GoCab Raises $45M to Scale Vehicle Ownership Platform for African Gig Workers
February 3, 2026
Best AI Agents for Customer Support in Africa: WhatsApp, CRM Automation, and Lead Conversion
February 2, 2026
OpenAI “Agents” Explained: What African Startups Can Build With Agentic AI in 2026
February 1, 2026
How Much Does It Cost to Launch a Satellite in Africa? Budget Breakdown + Real Examples
February 1, 2026
Which African Countries Have Satellites? Full List + What Each Satellite Is Used For (2026)
January 31, 2026
Botswana’s First Satellite Explained: Name, Launch Partner, Payload, and Real Use Cases
January 31, 2026
Starlink vs OneWeb vs SES in Africa: Who Will Dominate Satellite Internet in 2026?
January 30, 2026
Somalia Approves Starlink: What It Means for Internet Access, Telecom Operators and Pricing
January 30, 2026
TechCabal
Nigerian gig workers struggle with tax rules. KeepAm wants to guide them
February 3, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber exits, again
February 3, 2026
Investors often overlook promising startups. This VC program trains scouts
February 2, 2026
Moniepoint went from PoS scale to full-stack lock-in in two years
February 2, 2026
Google joins push to localise AI for African languages with speech database
February 2, 2026
Valentine’s Day cash bouquets could land Kenyans in legal trouble, Central Bank warns
February 2, 2026
Airtel Africa hits 81,500km fibre network as data demand surges
February 2, 2026
Amazon’s ambitions for satellite internet in Nigeria hinge on two critical licences
February 2, 2026
Africa’s creatives face pressure as Canal+ plans content and operations cuts
February 2, 2026
Uber exits Tanzania as pricing rules squeeze ride-hailing model
February 2, 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
Vodacom Foundation Drives Tech‑Powered Disaster Relief in Mozambique & South Africa
February 3, 2026
Growthpoint Launches Strategic R270 Million Expansion of Paarl Mall
February 3, 2026
SOFTSWISS 2026 Roadmap Responds to SA iGaming Regulatory Shift
February 3, 2026
5 Ready-to-Go AI Use Cases for South African businesses
February 3, 2026
Superbalist’s Chief Product & Marketing Officer to Share CX Excellence Insights at #DRA2026
February 2, 2026
Google & African Institutions Launch New Project
February 2, 2026
MTN MoMo Uganda Names New CEO Amid Leadership Transition
February 2, 2026
African Digital Transformation Company Enters Strategic Partnership with AeroCloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
February 2, 2026
How to Unlock iPhone Without Passcode: 2026 Complete Guide
February 2, 2026
Vertiv Announces New AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Service for Data Centers & AI Factories
January 31, 2026
TechCity
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
Microsoft Tests ‘Command Palette Dock’: A macOS-Style Top Bar for Windows 11
January 31, 2026
African Corporate Travel AI Startup TripDesk Hits $2.3M Revenue 4 Months After Launch
January 30, 2026
NISSAN MAGNITE MAKES ITS TUNISIA DEBUT, REDEFINING THE COMPACT SUV SEGMENT
January 30, 2026
How to Check Internet Speed
January 29, 2026
AfricAI Secures Exclusive Continental Rights to Deploy Advanced Robotics Platforms Across Africa in Landmark Deal with Micropolis Robotics
January 29, 2026
The Gender Gap in Rural Niger State’s Digital Identity
January 28, 2026
AI-ENABLED TECH IS AFRICA’S GROWTH CATALYST, IF THE CONTINENT CAN OVERCOME CHALLENGES
January 26, 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
Onafriq and PAPSS Pilot First Wallet-Based Naira Cross-Border Payments From Nigeria to Ghana
February 3, 2026
LG Electronics Posts Record 2025 Revenue Amid Operating Challenges
February 3, 2026
TikTok for Business Is Reshaping How Kenyan Brands Do Digital Advertising
February 3, 2026
Bboxx Names Ene Adesanya as Nigeria Managing Director
February 3, 2026
How Data Centers Are Reshaping Africa’s Power Market
February 2, 2026
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks Partner to Launch Africa’s First End-to-End Operator-as-a-Service Platform
February 2, 2026
Konza Brings MSMEs and Innovators Together to Build Tech Solutions for Kenya’s Growth Sectors
February 2, 2026
Google and African Institutions Launch WAXAL to Give 100 Million Africans a Voice in AI
February 2, 2026
WeeTracker
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
AGX Consultant Studio Expands Operations Across North and West African Markets
February 3, 2026
Uber Quits Tanzania After Turbulent Decade Of Disputes In Market Deemed Hostile
February 2, 2026
Sudden Collapse Of Kenyan Clean-Energy Startup Leaves Many In The Lurch
February 2, 2026
Visa Unveils Fifth Cohort for Africa Accelerator Program
February 2, 2026
Flutterwave-Backed CinetPay Owes Partner USD 1.1 M Lost To Fraud Incident
February 2, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Bboxx Appoints New Managing Director for Nigeria
February 3, 2026
Google and African Partners Launch WAXAL to Map 21 Languages Into the AI Future
February 2, 2026
Tech Leaders Shift Focus From AI Hype to Practical Implementation at Ai Kenya Breakfast Summit
February 2, 2026
Kenyan Clean Cooking Startup KOKO Networks Abruptly Shuts Down Amid Carbon Credit Standoff
January 31, 2026
Airtel Money Processes $210 Billion Annually as 2026 IPO Nears
January 31, 2026
NCBA Sets Regional Record as First Bank to Achieve ISO Data Privacy Certification
January 31, 2026
Borrowing Became Easy, Getting Out of Debt Became Harder
January 31, 2026
Techloy
Crypto Fear and Greed Index Explained: What It Is and How It Works
February 3, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion Deal, Eyes June IPO
February 3, 2026
Binance Resumes Withdrawals Following Short Disruption Over Technical Glitch
February 3, 2026
Notepad++ Says Hackers Hijacked Updates to Target Select Users
February 3, 2026
8 South Asian Countries With the Fastest E-Visa Processing Times — and How to Apply
February 3, 2026
Apple Releases Updates for Older iPhones, Macs, and Watches to Fix Connectivity Issues
February 3, 2026
OpenAI Releases Codex App on macOS
February 3, 2026
How to Apply for the UK High Potential Individual (HPI) Visa in 2026
February 2, 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
Kasada Raises $20 Million To Expand Global Digital Trust Platform
February 3, 2026
Artificial Labs Raises $45M To Expand Global Insurance Technology Platform
February 3, 2026
Avalanche Energy Secures $29M After Plasma Physics Gains
February 3, 2026
Bluff Raises $21M : How a Crypto Betting Startup Spends
February 3, 2026
Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hiring
February 3, 2026
Constructor Capital Secures $110M Fund to Back Deeptech and Science-Led Startups
February 2, 2026
CesiumAstro Bags $470M Ahead of SpaceX Satellites
February 2, 2026
TechCentral
Heavyweights backing ZARU, a new rand-based stablecoin
February 3, 2026
China’s Haier takes aim at Samsung, LG and Hisense in South Africa
February 3, 2026
South African tech start-ups that sold big on the world stage
February 3, 2026
Standard Bank branches are going cashless
February 3, 2026
Xneelo breaks ground on second Samrand data centre
February 3, 2026
OpenAI chip rethink signals turning point in AI hardware market
February 3, 2026
SpaceX acquires xAI in record-breaking deal
February 3, 2026
Haier plants its flag in South Africa
February 2, 2026
Microsoft’s winning formula may be starting to fray
February 2, 2026
Meet the CIO | Inside the JSE’s tech engine with CIO Tebalo Tsoaeli
February 2, 2026
Technext
From summative to formative assessment: How ‘Listening Trivia’ uses AI to humanise soft skills assessment
February 3, 2026
How to check your NECO 2025 external result online and via SMS
February 3, 2026
GoCab raises $45M to expand its drive-to-own model across Africa
February 3, 2026
Canva hikes Pro subscription price by nearly 100%, pushes daily and weekly options
February 3, 2026
$2.5Bn Bitcoin leverage flush is a reset, not a funeral – Heritage Falodun
February 3, 2026
Obiex eyes Africa expansion
February 3, 2026
Nigeria’s fintech paradox: 11bn transactions, system failures, lingering trust issues – CBN report
February 2, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
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
At MIT, a continued commitment to understanding intelligence
January 14, 2026
Generative AI tool helps 3D print personal items that sustain daily use
January 14, 2026
3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid
January 9, 2026
Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather
January 8, 2026
Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work Launches at MIT
January 7, 2026
DEV Community
Rethinking Test-Driven Development in the Age of AI Code Generation
February 3, 2026
Unveiling the MEMORY-NATIVE-NEURAL-NETWORK (MNNN) Family: Rewriting AI's Approach to Memory
February 3, 2026
Build an Agentic Blog Generator with Pieces in Flutter
February 3, 2026
Overcoming IP Bans in Web Scraping with Rust: A DevOps Approach for Enterprise Scalability
February 3, 2026
Schemas and Data Modelling in Power BI
February 3, 2026
Building a Containerized GenAI Chatbot with Docker, Ollama, FastAPI & ChromaDB
February 3, 2026
C is for Cybersecurity
February 3, 2026
Stop Shipping Bugs: How Bun + Hono Gave Me Rust-Level Confidence
February 3, 2026
Mitigating IP Bans During Web Scraping: A TypeScript Approach for Legacy Codebases
February 3, 2026
OpenAI News
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
Taisei Corporation shapes the next generation of talent with ChatGPT
January 29, 2026
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
January 29, 2026
EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant
January 28, 2026
The next chapter for AI in the EU
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
Powering tax donations with AI powered personalized recommendations
January 27, 2026
Introducing Prism
January 27, 2026
How Indeed uses AI to help evolve the job search
January 26, 2026
Unrolling the Codex agent loop
January 23, 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
How Clarus Care uses Amazon Bedrock to deliver conversational contact center interactions
February 2, 2026
Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI
January 30, 2026
Simplify ModelOps with Amazon SageMaker AI Projects using Amazon S3-based templates
January 30, 2026
Scale AI in South Africa using Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference with Anthropic Claude 4.5 models
January 30, 2026
Scaling content review operations with multi-agent workflow
January 29, 2026
Build reliable Agentic AI solution with Amazon Bedrock: Learn from Pushpay’s journey on GenAI evaluation
January 27, 2026
Databricks
AI Agent Examples Shaping The Business Landscape
February 2, 2026
AI Risk Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Securing AI Systems
February 2, 2026
Understanding AI Security
February 2, 2026
Infrastructure & Strategies Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise AI
February 2, 2026
MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges From Human Feedback With Scalable Memory
February 2, 2026
Announcing Databricks New York R&D Hub
January 31, 2026
Getting AI Governance Right Without Slowing Everything Down
January 30, 2026
Hidden Technical Debt of GenAI Systems
January 30, 2026
7-Eleven’s Journey to Unity Catalog Success
January 28, 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
Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
February 3, 2026
Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989 (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
February 3, 2026
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over "serious concerns" about Grok's data use and "its potential to produce harmful sexualized" content (Financial Times)
February 3, 2026
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
AI Coding Assistants Make You Faster, But Worse at Your Job
February 3, 2026
Navigating AI Model Selection in the Enterprise (Part 1)
February 3, 2026
A Sanity Check on the Moltbook Hype.
February 3, 2026
9 RAG Architectures Every AI Developer Must Master in 2025
February 3, 2026
The Architecture Mismatch at the Heart of Modern AI
February 3, 2026
aibusiness
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
Mistral AI Upgrades Vibe Coding Agent
January 29, 2026
UK Watchdog Pushes for Google AI Opt-Out
January 29, 2026
OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store
January 29, 2026
Nvidia Introduces New AI Weather Forecast Models
January 29, 2026
Google Launches Low-Cost AI Plus Subscription in the U.S.
January 28, 2026
AI News Weekly
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
AI News Weekly - Issue #459: Is Elon Musk the worst in Tech? - Jan 13th 2026
January 13, 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
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
Weekly Review 9 January 2026
January 9, 2026
Weekly Review 2 January 2026
January 2, 2026
MarkTechPost
How to Build Multi-Layered LLM Safety Filters to Defend Against Adaptive, Paraphrased, and Adversarial Prompt Attacks
February 3, 2026
Google Releases Conductor: a context driven Gemini CLI extension that stores knowledge as Markdown and orchestrates agentic workflows
February 2, 2026
The Statistical Cost of Zero Padding in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
February 2, 2026
NVIDIA AI Brings Nemotron-3-Nano-30B to NVFP4 with Quantization Aware Distillation (QAD) for Efficient Reasoning Inference
February 2, 2026
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