Tech In Africa
- Chimoney Had the Licences, the Product, and the Team. It Didn’t Have Enough People Who Knew About It May 14, 2026
- Naked becomes the world’s first to give a final car insurance quote in ChatGPT May 14, 2026
- JuiceMe Acquires Ajiraworks and Appoints Founder Catherine Ochako as Global Director, EOR to Lead African Expansion May 14, 2026
- Paymentology Raises $175 Million co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners to Support Next Phase of Growth May 13, 2026
- Cauridor Raises $2M from Proparco to Fix Africa’s Remittance Last Mile May 13, 2026
- L’Oréal Opens 2026 Big Bang Program to Beauty Tech Startups Across SAPMENA May 13, 2026
- MAX Lands First International Institutional Lender as Triple Jump Backs $8M EV Expansion May 13, 2026
- Africa Needs Grid-Scale Energy to Power AI Data Centres May 11, 2026
- Dangote Targets Nigeria’s Power Crisis With 20,000MW Generation Plan May 7, 2026
- African Startups Are Raising Bigger Rounds, But Few Make It To Series A May 7, 2026
TechCabal
- How to fix Samsung One UI 8.5 problems May 15, 2026
- Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy May 15, 2026
- The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over prestige May 15, 2026
- Samsung phones that lost software support in May 2026 May 15, 2026
- Trazo built a food delivery business in smaller cities. Now it wants to enter Lagos. May 15, 2026
- AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs May 15, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia plans job cuts May 15, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Babatunde Onadipe May 15, 2026
- Kenya plans 16% VAT on electric vehicles, batteries, e-bikes imports May 14, 2026
- Nairobi’s traffic police may soon give way to AI May 14, 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
- oraimo’s AI-Powered “Space” Upgrade May 15, 2026
- betPawa Equips 575 Players Across 25 Kenyan Teams in Major Sports Development Drive May 14, 2026
- Safaricom Signals Post-Expansion Maturity as Profits Hit KES 100 billion. May 10, 2026
- Kenya to host Global Flyways Summit as Over 40% of Migratory Birds Face Decline May 4, 2026
- Connected Africa Summit 2026 opens in Nairobi with sharp focus on Innovation and delivery April 28, 2026
- Healthy Links, Higher Rankings: Monitoring Your Backlink Profile April 27, 2026
- Safaricom’s Big Bang / Cold Turkey New My OneApp Rollout: A Brave but Costly Mistake April 15, 2026
- TECNO Unveils EllaClaw Beta, Bringing the First OpenClaw-Powered AI Agent to Kenya April 9, 2026
- What problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve? April 3, 2026
TechCity
- Digital Skills Hiring in 2026 May 15, 2026
- Nigerian Fintech Infrastructure Is Shaping the Future of Global Payments May 14, 2026
- A Guide to AI for Agriculture and Food Security in Africa May 14, 2026
- The Honest Review: Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Work-From-Home in 2026 May 13, 2026
- Google Just Redesigned Every Emoji on Android – and They Are Now 3D May 12, 2026
- Smart Doorbell Privacy: The Problem Nobody Is Talking About May 12, 2026
- Google I/O 2026: What the Announcements Actually Mean for Everyday Users May 12, 2026
- How to Block Spam Calls on iPhone and Android (Under 2 Minutes) May 12, 2026
- How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on Any Phone (Step-by-Step for Everyone) May 12, 2026
- How to Set Screen Time Limits That You’ll Actually Stick To May 11, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- Africa Tech Summit London Returns to London Stock Exchange on May 29 for its Landmark 10th Edition April 20, 2026
- Kredete Partners with Visa Africa to Advance Stablecoin-Backed Card Innovation Across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council April 20, 2026
- VALR Launches AI Service for Humans and AI Agents April 16, 2026
- Cascador Opens Applications to its 2026 ScaleUp Program to Accelerate Africa’s Next Generation of Growth-Stage Founders April 16, 2026
- Duplo and Ozow Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Local Payments and Expense Management for Businesses in South Africa April 16, 2026
- Paga Group Marks 17 Years of Building Africa’s Financial Services Infrastructure with Major Leadership Evolution April 15, 2026
- M-KOPA South Africa Impact Report Reveals Women are Driving the Country’s Digital Inclusion Charge April 13, 2026
TechArena
- Tecno AI Identified as Catalyst for Africa’s Digital Economy in New Omdia Report May 15, 2026
- oraimo Launches SpaceBuds 2: AI-Powered Flagship Earbuds Endorsed by Grammy Award-Winning Excellence May 15, 2026
- Kenya Is Not Catching Up, It is Building the Future of Finance, Says NIFC CEO May 15, 2026
- Why Safaricom Thinks Local Cloud Infrastructure Can Beat AWS and Azure in Kenya May 15, 2026
- Red Hat Introduces New Sovereign and Private Cloud Capabilities to Power Digital Autonomy May 15, 2026
- VALR Targets Institutional Crypto Adoption in Kenya Amid Growing Regulatory Clarity May 15, 2026
- How 58% free transactions have propelled the growth of M-PESA May 15, 2026
- JuiceMe Acquires Ajiraworks May 15, 2026
WeeTracker
- Fresh Effort To Toll Kenya’s EV Sector Clashes With Funding Boom May 15, 2026
- Jumia To Replace 200 Jobs With AI To Reach Profitability By End Of 2026 May 14, 2026
- ‘Reverse Royalties’ Order In Developer’s Case Against Safaricom Sets Precedent May 14, 2026
- Nigeria’s E-Hailing Drivers Are Taking ‘Offline Trips’ To Dodge Fees Amid Rising Unease May 14, 2026
- Digital Africa Launches EUR 50 M Seed Fund To Back Underserved African Startups May 14, 2026
- Radical Pivot From Soaps To Stones Puts Upstart On Top In Nigeria May 13, 2026
- Two Ghanaian Startups Raise USD 350 K From Facility Managed By Village Capital May 13, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- How 58% Free Transactions Have Propelled the Growth of M-PESA May 15, 2026
- Kenya Airways Cargo Signs Ground Handling Partnership With FedEx May 15, 2026
- Equity’s James Mwangi Champions Technology-Driven Trade and Inclusion at Africa CEO Forum May 15, 2026
- Kenya’s Crypto Industry Is Entering a Harder Compliance Era May 15, 2026
- Kenya’s Regulators Are Starting to Treat Stablecoins Like Payments Infrastructure May 15, 2026
- Green Shift and Econews Carry Sustainability Reporting Into the BAKE Awards 2026 Race May 15, 2026
- Proparco Commits €300 Million to Back AXIAN’s Digital and Clean Energy Push Across Africa May 15, 2026
Techloy
- 🎭 The Performance of Employability May 15, 2026
- Grok Build Early Beta: 6 Ways xAI's New AI Coding Agent Plans to Take on Claude Code May 15, 2026
- Meta Opens Ray-Ban Display Glasses to Developers: New Apps, Features and What It Means for Users May 15, 2026
- Google May Now Require Your Phone Number to Unlock the Full 15GB of Free Storage May 15, 2026
- Cerebras Systems IPO Surges 68%, Pushing the AI Chipmaker to a $95 Billion Valuation May 15, 2026
- Jumia Plans to Cut 10% of Staff as AI Takes Over More Internal Work May 15, 2026
- Panasonic LUMIX L10 vs Lumix LX100 II May 15, 2026
- Asia's Biggest Startup Funding in Week 20 Led by ROBOTERA, Degron Therapeutics, and Konvy May 15, 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
- AI Trading Tools in 2026: How Bots Are Changing Crypto, Stocks, and Forex Automation May 15, 2026
- How Ethereum Casinos Are Driving Payment Innovation May 15, 2026
- WIRobotics Raises $68M To Scale Wearable And Humanoid Robotics Platform May 15, 2026
- Exponent Raises $40M To Build Financial Platform For Franchise Operators May 15, 2026
- 15 Free AI Trading Bots for Crypto, Stock, and Forex Markets May 15, 2026
- Crew Carbon Raises $25M To Scale Wastewater Decarbonisation Technology May 15, 2026
- GovWell Secures $25M Series A From Insight Partners May 15, 2026
TechCentral
- South Africa marks a full year without load shedding May 15, 2026
- Absa’s defence against frontier AI cyberthreats: more AI May 15, 2026
- Green ID’s days numbered as smart ID roll-out accelerates May 15, 2026
- Malatsi pitches Reit overhaul to channel capital into digital infrastructure May 15, 2026
- The lessons Seacom learnt from its massive 2024 outage May 14, 2026
- US, China to coordinate on AI threats May 14, 2026
- Telkom recovering after Cape storms disrupt network May 14, 2026
- 7 key digital platforms to market your business online May 14, 2026
- Major new security feature coming to WhatsApp May 14, 2026
- Starlink wait set to drag on as Icasa flags legal hurdle May 13, 2026
Technext
- 8 Ponzi schemes that wiped out trillions from Nigerian investors May 16, 2026
- “AI cannot benefit all of humanity if Africa is not included”— Emmanuel Lubanzadio, OpenAI’s Africa lead May 15, 2026
- Bolt partners with China’s Dongfeng to accelerate EV growth in South Africa after $180m investment May 15, 2026
- AI investments key to sustaining Africa’s telecoms growth – Cassava Tech May 15, 2026
- 8 months after roaming deal, T2mobile (9mobile) struggles to win back Nigerians May 15, 2026
- The Hub: inside Ibukun Awosika’s workspace with a $1,500 membership plan May 15, 2026
- EFCC arraigns Blessing CEO in court over N36 million property fraud May 15, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars May 14, 2026
- Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere” May 12, 2026
- Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning May 12, 2026
- Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages May 7, 2026
- Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI May 5, 2026
- Improving understanding with language May 1, 2026
- Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep May 1, 2026
- Making the case for curiosity-driven science April 30, 2026
- Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models April 29, 2026
DEV Community
- I Tested 7 Free AI Startup Idea Validators — Most Are Useless, 3 Are Worth Your Time May 16, 2026
- Per-feature quota in Apify KeyValueStore — no DB, no cron, no drift May 16, 2026
- The Whitepaper Thunderdome: HAGE vs Storage Is Not Memory May 16, 2026
- How I Built a Unicode Sanitizer to Stop Hidden Prompt Injection Attacks May 16, 2026
- Xolito: I built a VS Code extension that hides your screen when your boss walks by May 16, 2026
- Imagine Wild. I'll Compile. — I Built a Self-Hosted Portfolio System with Built-In UI/UX Audit May 16, 2026
- Human-in-the-Loop: The Runtime Enforcement of requires_approval May 16, 2026
- Why AI Coding Tools Over-engineer Your MVP — And the One Fix May 16, 2026
- CSS Container Queries: how to forget about Media Queries in 2026 May 16, 2026
OpenAI News
- Databricks brings GPT-5.5 to enterprise agent workflows May 15, 2026
- A new personal finance experience in ChatGPT May 15, 2026
- How data science teams use Codex May 15, 2026
- How business operations teams use Codex May 15, 2026
- How sales teams use Codex May 15, 2026
- Sea's View on the Future of Agentic Software Development with Codex May 14, 2026
- Work with Codex from anywhere May 14, 2026
- Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations May 14, 2026
- Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows May 13, 2026
- Our response to the TanStack npm supply chain attack May 13, 2026
- How finance teams use Codex May 12, 2026
- How NVIDIA engineers and researchers build with Codex May 12, 2026
- What Parameter Golf taught us about AI-assisted research May 12, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields May 6, 2026
- Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician April 30, 2026
- Announcing our partnership with the Republic of Korea April 27, 2026
- Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training April 22, 2026
- Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation April 21, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech April 15, 2026
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning April 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Restrict access to sensitive documents in your Amazon Quick knowledge bases for Amazon S3 May 15, 2026
- Improve bot accuracy with Amazon Lex Assisted NLU May 14, 2026
- Real-time voice agents with Stream Vision Agents and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic May 14, 2026
- From siloed data to unified insights: Cross-account Athena Access for Amazon Quick May 14, 2026
- Control where your AI agents can browse with Chrome enterprise policies on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore May 14, 2026
- Build financial document processing with Pulse AI and Amazon Bedrock May 13, 2026
Databricks
- PipelineIQ: Forward‑Looking Sales Intelligence That Drives Action May 15, 2026
- Backstage with Lakebase, part 2 May 15, 2026
- From manual to autonomous: how AI agents are transforming electric grid operations May 14, 2026
- Data quality is the AI strategy May 13, 2026
- The Rosetta stone of CPS: Claroty’s AI-powered library May 13, 2026
- Clinical operations intelligence belongs on the Lakehouse May 13, 2026
- ABAC row filtering and column masking policies, governed tags, and data classification are now generally available in Unity Catalog May 13, 2026
- The Rise of Sports Intelligence: How the Lakehouse Turns Tracking Data into Competitive Advantage May 12, 2026
- How CFOs in consulting can recover margin with Databricks May 12, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them? May 15, 2026
- Can we build elite search agents without the massive industrial RL pipelines? May 10, 2026
- Xiaomi just open-sourced a 1T-parameter model and almost nobody noticed April 29, 2026
- The prompt isn't hiding inside the image April 14, 2026
- Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem April 11, 2026
Techmeme
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg) May 16, 2026
- LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) May 16, 2026
- Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick (Anirban Sen/Reuters) May 16, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- AI Tutors Explained: The New Career Path Behind Intelligent Systems May 15, 2026
- How to Evaluate AI Tools Without Being a Data Scientist (A Practical Framework That Actually Works) May 15, 2026
- Architectural Patterns for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs May 14, 2026
- What is No-Code AI? A Practical Guide for Business and Data Teams May 14, 2026
- Claude Code: Why Everyone’s Talking About It May 13, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Why Researchers Are Excited About Mamba-3 May 16, 2026
- OpenAI Said ChatGPT Was Private. The May 13 Complaint Says Otherwise. May 15, 2026
- Beyond the Jupyter Notebook: How to Build a Dockerized RAG Pipeline in Python using Haystack. May 15, 2026
- When Telling an LLM What to Look At Means It Looks at Nothing Else: The System Prompt Is the Attack… May 15, 2026
- What DeepL Got Right That No LLM Can Copy May 15, 2026
aibusiness
- Prompt: The More Operational AI Becomes, the Bigger the Security Challenge May 15, 2026
- Cerebras Must Overcome Obstacles to Maintain IPO Value May 15, 2026
- Anthropic and PwC in New Push to Embed Claude in Corporate World May 15, 2026
- Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots May 14, 2026
- Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI May 14, 2026
- Anthropic Targets Small Businesses With Latest Claude Release May 14, 2026
- Anthropic Further Targets Legal With New Connectors May 13, 2026
- Bosch, Researchers Develop AI for Humanoid Dexterity May 13, 2026
- OpenAI Launches Daybreak, a New Initiative to Challenge Glasswing May 12, 2026
- Startup That Aims to Widen Access to Compute Draws $1.3B May 12, 2026
- Nokia Launches Agentic AI for Networks May 12, 2026
- Nscale Gets $790M in Financing for Norway AI Buildout May 12, 2026
- OpenAI Launches AI Consulting Company, Following Anthropic May 11, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #492: AI slop : A $725B bet on what no one wanted May 13, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #491: 100 years from now : The Last Election May 10, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #490: Anthropic just had AI's biggest week of 2026 May 7, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #489: PE built AI's new distribution layer May 4, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #488: OpenAI lost three things in five days April 30, 2026
Ahead of AI
- My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures April 18, 2026
- Components of A Coding Agent April 4, 2026
- A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs March 22, 2026
- 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
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 15 May 2026 May 15, 2026
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 5, May 2026 May 12, 2026
- Weekly Review 8 May 2026 May 8, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2026 May 5, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2026 May 5, 2026
- Weekly Review 1 May 2026 May 1, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2026 May 1, 2026
- Weekly Review 24 April 2026 April 24, 2026
- Weekly Review 17 April 2026 April 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 April 15, 2026
MarkTechPost
- How to Build Repository-Level Code Intelligence with Repowise Using Graph Analysis, Dead-Code Detection, Decisions, and AI Context May 16, 2026
- How to Build an MCP Style Routed AI Agent System with Dynamic Tool Exposure Planning, Execution, and Context Injection May 15, 2026
- Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup May 15, 2026
- Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field May 15, 2026
