Tech In Africa
- Cape Town’s Tennsa becomes Oakvale Invest’s first-ever portfolio bet, raising about $61,000 August 12, 2026
- Africa50 pulls in $50M from European development banks for a fund that preps green projects for investors August 12, 2026
- African founders are moving past headline funding numbers to chase cross-border payment fixes August 12, 2026
- IFC Backs 4G Capital, Equity Bank and KCB in Kenya SME Financing Programme August 10, 2026
- Silverbacks’ Investment in Moove Tops $37 Million as Mobility Startup Hits $2.1 Billion Valuation August 10, 2026
- AHL Africa Credit Fund secures additional $15 million in debt facility August 10, 2026
- Tokyo State Lenders Back Peach Cars in $3.7M Debt Facility for East Africa Expansion August 10, 2026
- 6 AI Tools That Will Help Grow Your Business August 10, 2026
- Gabon Pushes Back KIMBA Connect Grand Finale After Startups Flag Organisational Gaps August 7, 2026
- Climate Fund Managers Closes $183M for South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Push August 7, 2026
TechCabal
- Mr Eazi’s Choplife is the latest startup to move to digital free zone Itana August 13, 2026
- Kenya says cyber cafés won’t need to monitor users’ browsing history August 13, 2026
- SASSA September 2026 payment dates: Full schedule August 13, 2026
- Standard Bank wants to own more of Africa’s digital payment flows August 13, 2026
- Africa’s cybercriminals are adopting AI faster than the institutions chasing them August 13, 2026
- Nigeria’s identity law raises questions over who regulates digital signatures August 13, 2026
- Everything announced at Made by Google 2026 August 13, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia bags $50 million August 13, 2026
- Shoprite’s Sixty60 is now a $1.6 billion digital commerce business August 12, 2026
- Vodacom taps former Airtel Africa CEO onto its board August 12, 2026
How we made it in Africa
- The making of a multimillion-dollar honey export business in Tanzania August 13, 2026
- The business of fashion in East Africa August 11, 2026
- What it takes to sell African agricultural products in supermarkets abroad August 6, 2026
- Investor upbeat about retail, healthcare, and tech in Africa August 3, 2026
- Five entrepreneurs unlocking Africa’s agribusiness opportunities August 1, 2026
- Investor shares his playbook after a 29x exit in Africa July 31, 2026
- Three promising business opportunities in Somalia July 27, 2026
- The business opportunities in helping Africans land higher-paying jobs abroad July 25, 2026
- Nigeria: How this snack food company won over informal shopkeepers July 20, 2026
- Is this crop Nigeria’s next big agribusiness opportunity? July 15, 2026
KachTech Media
- When AI Writing Sounds Too Formal: 6 Ways to Make It More Conversational August 12, 2026
- Timiza Digital Lending: The mobile loan empowering small and medium businesses August 11, 2026
- TVS iQube Electric Scooter Launches in Kenya August 7, 2026
- Refugee Schools Shine at Young Scientists Kenya Exhibition August 6, 2026
- Nigeria Showcases Digital Growth at GITEX 2026 August 5, 2026
- Samsung Launches Official Online Store in Kenya August 5, 2026
- LG Predicts Growth in On-Premise Laundry Demand August 5, 2026
- Jiji Kenya Reports Rising Prices in Kenya Vehicle Market August 4, 2026
- Safaricom Declares Record KES 80.13 Billion Dividend August 1, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- MTN Launches AI-Powered Job Board August 12, 2026
- 5 Practical Habits Before Applying for an Online Loan in South Africa August 11, 2026
- Ethio Telecom, ZTE Advance Network Modernisation as Ethiopia Pushes 4G Expansion August 11, 2026
- Deloitte Africa and Refuel Partner to Simplify SARS Diesel Rebate Claims August 11, 2026
- Best Free Pokémon GO Spoofer That Still Work (iOS & Android) August 11, 2026
- How to Remove Activation Lock Without Previous Owner August 10, 2026
- SeerBit Integrates PayPal to Expand Global Payment Options for African Merchants August 10, 2026
- The next battleground for business isn’t AI. It’s proving what’s real August 10, 2026
- Absa Deploys AI to Speed Up Debt Review Process August 10, 2026
- The Future of Work Takes Center Stage in Africa: Global Conference on Human Resources in Africa (GCHRA26) Returns to Accra August 10, 2026
TechCity
- Report on Cultural Roadblocks to Digital Infrastructure Revisited: What Happened Next in Niger State August 13, 2026
- Every ₦100M Business Was Once a ₦10M Business. So What Changed? August 9, 2026
- Best Video Calling App in 2026: The Top Apps Compared for Work, School, and Family August 6, 2026
- How to Spot AI Fake Product Reviews July 29, 2026
- Moonshot 2026 Brings OpenAI Africa, Flutterwave, and Nigeria’s SEC Chief Together to Define What It Takes to Build for a New World July 29, 2026
- Cybersecurity Threats Students Need to Know About in 2026 July 29, 2026
- Best Laptop for Students in 2026: The Honest Review of Top Picks for Every Budget July 29, 2026
- Best Free Apps for Students in 2026: 12 Tools That Actually Help You Study July 29, 2026
- Tech Routine for Better Sleep in 2026: How to Use Technology to Rest Better July 27, 2026
- 5G Nigeria 2026: What’s Actually Available and What’s Just Marketing? July 27, 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
- Konza, AWS Explore Launch of AWS Outpost and Startup Centre of Excellence in Kenya August 13, 2026
- World Bank Group Backs Jumia With US$25 Million Investment August 13, 2026
- The Future of Money, Wallets and Financial Super Apps August 13, 2026
- Kaspersky: Mac Users Report More Malware Infections Than Windows Users Despite Perceived Security Advantage August 13, 2026
- Operational Resilience Requires More Than Recovery Plans August 13, 2026
- Spotify to Label AI-Generated Artist Identities With New “AI Persona” Badge August 12, 2026
- Nutanix launches open-source MCP server to bring secure AI automation to hybrid cloud August 12, 2026
- Vertiv Plans Ireland Expansion, Creating Up to 300 New Jobs August 12, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Britam’s new KidNest account turns KSh1,000 into a long-term investment for children August 13, 2026
- Uganda’s cybersecurity conference shifts fraud fight upstream August 13, 2026
- Sanlam Allianz Kenya net profit up fourfold to Sh124.6 million August 13, 2026
- Kenya’s crypto rules put homegrown startups under pressure August 13, 2026
- Western and Nyanza get bigger data bundles and M-PESA savings through Safaricom’s PATA MORE campaign August 13, 2026
- Jumia says profitability is within reach after securing $50 million from IFC and Axian August 13, 2026
- KCB reaches KSh2.3 trillion in assets as profits rise and bad loans fall in the first half August 13, 2026
Techloy
- From Prompt Guesswork to Performance Control: Why Motion Control Is Changing AI Video Creation August 13, 2026
- Epic Sells ArtStation and Sketchfab to KitBash3D as Artists Celebrate a New Chapter August 13, 2026
- Why Japan’s AI Adoption Is Lagging Behind the US and Other Major Economies August 13, 2026
- AI Consulting Services That Turn AI Ideas Into Business Value August 13, 2026
- Canada Offers Open Work Permits to 2,700 Foreign Workers in Manitoba August 13, 2026
- Gears of War Controller for E-Day Costs $89.99. Here's Everything Included August 13, 2026
- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog August 2026: Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Lead 8 New Games August 13, 2026
- Indonesia Plans to Raise Visa on Arrival Fees, But There’s a Catch August 13, 2026
Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch
- Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple June 16, 2026
- These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked June 3, 2026
- 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
Ventureburn
- Thrive Holdings Raises $2B To Expand AI-Powered Business Roll-Ups August 13, 2026
- The Best Crypto To Buy Now: SOL, XRP, ETH Versus Moonberg Crypto Presale August 13, 2026
- Khartis Therapeutics Raises $50M To Advance Oral Immunology Drugs August 13, 2026
- Best Crypto Presale August 2026: MemeToro Builds an Open-Source AI Launchpad as Bitcoin ETF Inflows Reach $853M August 13, 2026
- Orange EV Secures $100 Million To Scale Electric Fleet Infrastructure August 13, 2026
- CodeRabbit Raises $143M To Govern AI Software Development August 12, 2026
- Skan AI Raises $63M to Scale Enterprise AI Context Platform August 12, 2026
TechCentral
- South Africa targets 2030 for its first satellite launch from home soil August 13, 2026
- New poll undermines the case against a Starlink deal August 13, 2026
- Musk’s Terafab: 1 300 Loftus Versfeld pitches under one roof August 13, 2026
- Meet the CIO | Derek Wilcocks on how AI personalised Vitality August 13, 2026
- AI spreads at Standard Bank, but the tech bill barely budges August 13, 2026
- Inside Google’s frantic push to close the AI gap August 13, 2026
- Kaspersky on how to secure a supply chain you do not control August 13, 2026
- Why the AI gold rush may be smaller than Eskom hopes August 12, 2026
- Sixty60 now drives more than a third of Shoprite’s growth August 12, 2026
- Checkers answers Pick n Pay in the grocery AI race August 12, 2026
Technext
- Anambra ICT Agency unveils bold AI, digital transformation plans for 2030 August 13, 2026
- South Africa wants to launch its first satellite from home soil by 2030 August 13, 2026
- Investor stories: Kola Aina explains why he kept faith in ThriveAgric during its darkest hour August 13, 2026
- Instagram debuts new wordmark, its first visual update since 2016 August 13, 2026
- Spiro appoints ex-General Motors engineer, Huy Chieu, as new Chief Development Officer August 13, 2026
- e-hailing drivers reject Cabzero’s ₦80,000 daily target, ₦5,000 daily wages August 13, 2026
- Why Nigeria is extending its $2 billion Project Bridge backbone to Burkina Faso August 13, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios August 10, 2026
- Solving the solvent problem August 4, 2026
- The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise August 4, 2026
- Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center August 3, 2026
- Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize July 30, 2026
- Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill July 30, 2026
- How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing July 29, 2026
- Working to automate nuclear plant operations July 24, 2026
- MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission July 23, 2026
DEV Community
- Database Isolation Levels & Read Phenomena: An Extensive Deep Dive August 13, 2026
- MCP C# SDK Protocol Negotiation: Pin 2026-07-28 When Fallback Is Unsafe August 13, 2026
- gRPC over a Unix socket, not HTTP: a real IPC tradeoff from a HIPAA-postured edge system August 13, 2026
- We measured the "AI review tax" across 5,388 repos. The median repo doesn't pay one. August 13, 2026
- The Difference Between Good Code and Bad Code is 5 Minutes August 13, 2026
- Beyond the Switchover: Using RDS Snapshots to Safely Test MySQL 8.4 Compatibility Before Your Blue/Green Cutover August 13, 2026
- Kyverno allowLatestTag Pitfalls: How Policy Can Stop Pods From Restarting August 13, 2026
- I got tired of SSHing into 10 VMs a day, so I built a live map of my whole infrastructure August 13, 2026
- It's always Doom https://ood.dev/posts/doom/ August 13, 2026
OpenAI News
- The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6 August 13, 2026
- Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed August 13, 2026
- OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer August 13, 2026
- From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work August 12, 2026
- How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops August 12, 2026
- Daybreak models are now available on AWS August 11, 2026
- Testing ads in ChatGPT August 11, 2026
- What building an AI-native finance function taught me August 10, 2026
- OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas August 10, 2026
- Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol August 10, 2026
- Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows August 10, 2026
- Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands August 10, 2026
- How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work August 10, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash August 13, 2026
- Putting sign language AI into users’ hands August 12, 2026
- WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones August 6, 2026
- Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration July 30, 2026
- We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control July 29, 2026
- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots July 28, 2026
- Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission July 22, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability August 13, 2026
- Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool August 13, 2026
- Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore August 13, 2026
- Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work August 13, 2026
- Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS August 12, 2026
- How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS August 12, 2026
Databricks
- What are AI Hallucinations? August 13, 2026
- Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: Match frontier quality with 30%+ lower cost per task August 13, 2026
- Databricks Network Configuration delivery to Tens of Millions of Serverless VMs August 12, 2026
- How a major freight railroad scaled pipeline creation with Genie Code August 12, 2026
- The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI is rewriting the Analyst’s Job Description August 12, 2026
- Taking AUTO CDC to the next level: Solving the hardest real-world use cases August 11, 2026
- Open-sourcing Metals v2: Databricks’ Java and Scala language server for multi‑million line codebases August 11, 2026
- Modern Risk Demands a Real-Time Foundation: The CRO’s Mandate August 11, 2026
- Electric joins Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes August 11, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Model Highlights: Muse-Glimmer-30B August 12, 2026
- Model Highlights: MiniMax H3 August 5, 2026
- Why is your model being careful with email bodies but reckless with bank accounts? August 3, 2026
- Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1 July 27, 2026
- Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up? July 16, 2026
Techmeme
- Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) August 13, 2026
- Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18%+ (Milana Vinn/Reuters) August 13, 2026
- Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) August 13, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- ODSC AI West 2026 Agenda Preview is now live! AI Agents Are Becoming the New Security Risk August 13, 2026
- How to Become an AI Engineer in 2026: A 6-Week Roadmap August 12, 2026
- Coding Agents, Mid-Training LLMs, and the AI Skills Shift August 7, 2026
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Mid-Training Language Models August 6, 2026
- How to Build a 107M-Row GitHub Analytics Agent With Snowflake CoCo August 4, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Start Here: The Words Everyone Uses About LLM Inference August 13, 2026
- Architecture, Unit Economics, and the 2026 AI Stack: Open Source vs. Closed August 13, 2026
- Context Engineering: The Discipline That Quietly Replaced Prompt Engineering August 13, 2026
- 4 New Techniques to Maximize Claude Code August 13, 2026
- I Trained a Neural Network That Fits in 357 Bytes August 13, 2026
aibusiness
- Euro Vibe Coding Standout Lovable Now Valued at $13.3B August 13, 2026
- Grok 4.6 is Out, Undercutting AI Prices of Rivals August 13, 2026
- Mistral Aims to Build 1GB of Compute Capacity by 2030 August 12, 2026
- Microsoft, Seeking to Stay Competitive, Slashes Prices for Coding Model August 12, 2026
- Chinese Company Envisions 100,000 Self-Driving Trucks on Road by 2030 August 12, 2026
- IBM Signs $240M Deal for Nvidia-Powered AI Cluster August 12, 2026
- Nvidia’s New Open Model Is for Specific Use Cases August 12, 2026
- The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intellect August 11, 2026
- OpenAI Expands Daybreak to Tackle Growing AI Security Threat August 11, 2026
- How the US Ban on Chinese Humanoid Robots Could Affect the Industry August 11, 2026
- Nvidia Partners With Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500B for AI August 11, 2026
- New Premium Tier for ChatGPT Business August 11, 2026
- Shutterstock Embraces AI Image Licensing Deals August 11, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #521: The frontier just split into three markets August 12, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #520: What a week: AI became everybody's decision August 9, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #519: AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests August 7, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #518: The White House finished its AI safety framework. It's secret. August 4, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #517: What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal? July 29, 2026
Ahead of AI
- Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs July 18, 2026
- Using Local Coding Agents June 27, 2026
- LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May) June 6, 2026
- Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention May 16, 2026
- 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
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
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 4, August 2026 August 12, 2026
- Complex and Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 2026 August 10, 2026
- Weekly Review 7 August 2026 August 7, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 8, August 2026 August 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 8, August 2026 August 5, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2026 August 3, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2025 August 2, 2026
- Weekly Review 31 July 2026 July 31, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 4, August 2026 July 26, 2026
- Weekly Review 24 July 2026 July 24, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens August 13, 2026
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device August 13, 2026
- Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video August 13, 2026
- SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work August 13, 2026
