TechCabal
- Grey launches Paycheck, targets growth beyond three million users October 28, 2026
- Africa’s digital economy needs more than apps to scale October 28, 2026
- Flutterwave CEO on why African fintechs want to become banks October 28, 2026
- How Africa’s fragmented payment systems are holding back cross-border trade October 28, 2026
- Tap, pay, go: Mastercard and Interswitch bring Google Pay to Nigeria October 28, 2026
- Airtel Africa appoints Goriola Bakare to lead home Internet business October 28, 2026
- Gates Foundation says Nigeria must build AI around real-world problems October 28, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Safaricom cleans house October 28, 2026
- Flourish Ventures invests fresh $6 million in Madica’s startup programme October 27, 2026
- How technology on the factory floor is driving manufacturing’s next leap October 27, 2026
Kachwanya.com
- OPPO Reno16 Series Arrives in Kenya With a New Design and Prices Starting at KSh 69,999 October 27, 2026
- “Nionyeshe Message”: How M-PESA Jumbe Makes Payment Confirmation More Private October 23, 2026
- “AI Powers Africa” Wins Two PRNEWS Awards for Campaign on UAE’s $1 Billion Initiative October 23, 2026
- How E-Hailing and Card Payments Helped Kenya Learn to Trust Digital Commerce October 21, 2026
- Samsung Galaxy A08 LTE: A Bigger Battery and a Longer Life for the Everyday Smartphone October 21, 2026
- Me-Nasoma Wants to Make Reading Easier, With Kiswahili at the Centre October 19, 2026
- A Scan Is Only the First Step. Kenya’s Neural Labs Africa Wants to Help Get It Read October 19, 2026
- I Had Two Bank Cards. So Why Was I Stuck at the Checkout? October 19, 2026
- From Melbourne to Nairobi, Eliud Kipchoge Begins a New Chapter with Absa October 13, 2026
TechCity
- Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro costs $2,899. Here is what changes and who should wait October 28, 2026
- Microsoft is offering buyouts. Here’s what to check before you take one October 28, 2026
- Anthropic plans to list as ANT. Here’s what public shareholders get October 28, 2026
- The Best Fitness and Health Tech Gifts of 2026 October 28, 2026
- Meta’s Muse AI agent can shop for you. Check these 6 settings first October 28, 2026
- Home Office Setup Guide 2026: Work Without Wrecking Your Back October 28, 2026
- GPT-6.1 Terra lets ChatGPT use your apps for you. Here is what to know first October 28, 2026
- Why your MTN data finishes fast: 5 phone settings to change today October 27, 2026
- Apple’s M6 MacBook Pro starts at $1,999. Wait until after Wednesday’s event to order one October 27, 2026
- Nosh vs Prestmit: we priced 4 gift cards on both. Here is which pays more October 27, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- Disrupt Africa, Touch Inspiration Launch Accelerator to Help Non-Technical Founders Build and Launch Apps October 27, 2026
- FCSL Launches InvestEd+, Turning Market Literacy into Habit August 25, 2026
- Moment Raises $22M Series A to Accelerate Africa’s Most Comprehensive Payments and Billing Platform August 20, 2026
- Blockchain.com Admitted to Nigeria SEC’s Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme August 20, 2026
- Terra Industries Raises $18M, Closing Its Seed Round at $52 million August 19, 2026
- 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
TechArena
- Spiro and ESP Launch Women in E-Mobility Programme in Rwanda October 28, 2026
- Westcon-Comstor and Palo Alto Networks Launch Partner Growth Circle Across EMEA October 28, 2026
- Madica Secures Additional $6M from Flourish Ventures to Back African Startups October 28, 2026
- Datacentrix Partners with Utimaco to Expand Cybersecurity Solutions Across Africa October 28, 2026
- Visa to Open Dakar Office Ahead of 2026 Youth Olympic Games October 28, 2026
- How the Rise of AI Is Changing Cybersecurity October 28, 2026
- Cassava Technologies to Resell Anthropic’s Claude AI Models in Africa Through Amazon Bedrock October 28, 2026
- Vertiv and NVIDIA Target 30% More AI Output With Faster Data Centre Deployment October 27, 2026
WeeTracker
- Nigerian E-Mobility Startup MAX Raises USD 29 M In Series B3 Funding With Nithio Investment October 14, 2026
- OPay’s Lending Business Has Quietly Overtaken Its Payments Empire As IPO Nears October 13, 2026
- Tech Giants’ Retreat From Africa Continues As Microsoft Guts Kenyan Engineering Hub October 13, 2026
- The Unlikely Fintech Breakthrough Of Africa’s Biggest Clothing Retailer Rocked By Dispute October 12, 2026
- Beyond A Button: SeerBit Takes On The Real Gap In African Cross-Border Payments October 12, 2026
- SA Accommodation Booking Platform LekkeSlaap Acquired by Investec-Backed Consortium October 9, 2026
- SA’s WalaPay Raises USD 4.6 M Seed Funding For Stablecoin Payments October 9, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- FirstRand renews its search for a Kenyan bank as regional rivals compete for growth October 28, 2026
- NTT DATA expands AI Factory network to Riyadh, Paris, Singapore October 28, 2026
- Samsung opens new retail store in Kitui October 28, 2026
- Safaricom reports KSh21.1 billion in assets under M-PESA wealth management October 28, 2026
- M-PESA processed 46.4 billion transactions as Safaricom expanded merchant services October 28, 2026
- Fuliza borrowers rise to 18.1m as merchant loans sour October 28, 2026
- Safaricom joins Jamii’s legal fight over Kenya’s revised spectrum fees October 28, 2026
Techloy
- Nintendo’s Indie World Dropped 4 Free Demos You Can Play Right Now October 28, 2026
- How to Use an Online Metronome for Piano Practice October 28, 2026
- 15 Best Horror Games to Play This Halloween, Solo or With Friends October 28, 2026
- New Netflix Docuseries Revisits Matthew Perry’s Life Through Family Archives October 28, 2026
- I Tested Filmcraft as a Free Premiere Pro Alternative and It Crashed October 28, 2026
- Is Your Ethernet Cable Holding Back Your Gaming Setup? Cat6 vs Cat6A October 28, 2026
- Free Fire India Is Live, but Under-18s Get Just 3 Hours a Day October 28, 2026
- I Updated My iPhone, and iOS 27.2 Barely Made a Difference October 28, 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
- Upwind Raises $400M to Expand Cloud Security Platform October 29, 2026
- Fragment Raises $56M to Expand Enterprise Procurement AI October 29, 2026
- Numeracle Raises $28 Million to Stop Your Bank’s Calls Showing Up As Spam Likely October 28, 2026
- Rendezvous Robotics Raises $20 Million to Build Self-Assembling Spacecraft October 28, 2026
- BioGeometry Raises $100 Million to Scale AI Models That Design Drugs From Scratch October 28, 2026
- Foundry Robotics Raises $100 Million To Build America’s First AI-Powered Assembly Factory October 28, 2026
- Goldman and BlackRock Alumni Secure $4M to Bring Farm and Apartment Loans Onchain October 28, 2026
TechCentral
- South Africa’s 3G networks could go dark within two years October 28, 2026
- Vodacom books R23-billion Safaricom gain as court fight rages October 28, 2026
- Canal+ takes a knife to DStv prices October 28, 2026
- South Africa risks return to money-laundering grey list October 28, 2026
- The hidden cost of owning a folding phone October 28, 2026
- Ramokgopa: a rushed power market could collapse the economy October 28, 2026
- The key to AI search visibility is human attention: media agency Connect October 28, 2026
- Why customers still feel unheard when automation works exactly as designed October 28, 2026
- How online ads were used to hunt Starlink users October 28, 2026
- Companies rein in AI spending as running costs mount October 27, 2026
Technext
- “They gave me a ‘free’ router, then came to take it back”: Inside the hidden broadband clause many don’t know about October 28, 2026
- Visa card holders in Nigeria can now use Google Pay for fast, secure digital payments October 28, 2026
- 8 women in cybersecurity you should know October 28, 2026
- OPay: building trust through local investment and customer service October 28, 2026
- Kalvia wants to tackle unreliable artisan services with new digital marketplace October 28, 2026
- Nigerians can now tap to pay with Android phones as Google Pay goes live October 28, 2026
- NELFUND unveils tokenised system that puts fee approval in students’ hands October 28, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era October 28, 2026
- Making machines that can listen October 28, 2026
- Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights October 27, 2026
- At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network October 26, 2026
- At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI October 23, 2026
- Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT October 23, 2026
- Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind October 23, 2026
- This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices October 22, 2026
- Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable October 19, 2026
DEV Community
- The quiet failure of scheduled work: how to notice when automation stops working October 29, 2026
- How to Plan a Game Vertical Slice in 7 Days with a One-Page GDD October 29, 2026
- I looked up what nine speech APIs charge per million characters. Here is what repeated lines really cost. October 29, 2026
- How to Make Your AI Coding Agent Prove Its Work October 29, 2026
- PC Engine CD BIOS Progress: 14 DEV Entries and a Synthetic Boot-Media Testbed October 29, 2026
- VoltReflex: a free reaction time test, and what browser scores really measure October 29, 2026
- 알고리즘 스테이블코인, 반복되는 실패의 굴레: 탈중앙 무담보 스테이블코인의 위험한 안정성 추구 October 29, 2026
- The Perilous Pursuit of Algorithmic Stability: Why Decentralized Non-Collateralized Stablecoins Repeatedly Fail October 29, 2026
- The model wrote six sentences about a grandmother. Two were allowed on the altar. October 29, 2026
OpenAI News
- OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows October 28, 2026
- The future of the firm October 28, 2026
- Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work October 28, 2026
- Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls October 27, 2026
- OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT October 27, 2026
- How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak October 27, 2026
- Greptile takes bug detection beyond code review with GPT-6 Astra October 26, 2026
- Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding October 26, 2026
- GPT-6.1 Sol helps CodeRabbit strengthen security across complex codebases October 26, 2026
- ChatGPT’s expanding world of work October 26, 2026
- How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI October 26, 2026
- How Fanatics and OpenAI streamline the fan experience October 26, 2026
- Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra October 26, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model October 28, 2026
- Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation October 27, 2026
- Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types October 22, 2026
- Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity October 15, 2026
- Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection October 14, 2026
- Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely October 13, 2026
- Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics October 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore October 28, 2026
- Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS October 28, 2026
- Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3 October 28, 2026
- AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service October 27, 2026
- Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs October 27, 2026
- Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock October 27, 2026
Databricks
- How Procore is powering construction analytics with OpenSharing October 29, 2026
- Voice Agents are here. Context turns them into real customer value. October 28, 2026
- Vital Skills: Upskilling Genie Code with Healthcare and Life Sciences skills October 27, 2026
- From spot fixes to measured gains: improving document extraction accuracy with ai_extract and MLflow Prompt Registry October 27, 2026
- Unlocking Investment Insights Without Migrating Your Data: Lakehouse Federation October 27, 2026
- BigQuery to Databricks: A Strategic Framework October 27, 2026
- Unify your productivity and AI data with Lakeflow Connect October 26, 2026
- How to teach with Databricks Free Edition October 26, 2026
- Building live intelligence: Databricks AI Search supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed tables using Iceberg October 26, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Hemmingway-1 October 25, 2026
- What if your search agent’s biggest gains are just its proposer and solver cheating together? October 6, 2026
- What if AI agents could organize their memories without asking an expensive LLM every time? September 30, 2026
- Jev is an AI Model that outputs decisions instead of text September 21, 2026
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra September 3, 2026
Techmeme
- Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 127% YoY to a record ~$146.3B and a record operating profit up 783% to ~$80.5B, both roughly in line with estimates (Jenny Lee/CNBC) October 29, 2026
- Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) October 29, 2026
- The personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, including CBP and ICE agents, leaks online after hackers claim they breached DHS' Okta login system (Wired) October 29, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Week in AI Careers: Who Gets the AI Jobs, and Who Doesn’t October 26, 2026
- What’s new this week in AI: Agents, Evals, and Careers October 22, 2026
- Self-Improvement & MLflow: Automate via CI/CD October 22, 2026
- What Does It Really Cost to Run an AI Agent in Production? A Framework for Agent ROI October 20, 2026
- How to Build an Agent Eval Suite Before You Ship: A Practical Checklist for AI Engineers October 19, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Reading, Writing, Sharing, and Interacting with the World through Video October 29, 2026
- ConvNeXt Explained: How CNNs Borrowed From Vision Transformers October 28, 2026
- Can We Kill the Term “Artificial Intelligence” Yet? October 28, 2026
- How the LLM (and the World Around It) Changed Forever — 2022 to 2026 October 28, 2026
- Agent Memory Doesn’t Fail at Remembering. It Fails When Facts Change. October 28, 2026
aibusiness
- Chinese AI invasion gives enterprises a new way to control cost October 28, 2026
- Nvidia bets on personal agents in new Meta partnership October 28, 2026
- OpenAI slashes price for model again October 28, 2026
- The rise of 'agentic' in the enterprise workforce October 27, 2026
- Anthropic maintains its focus on safety in IPO filing October 26, 2026
- Honda demonstrates remote-controlled robot for complex physical tasks October 26, 2026
- Inside the push to make workers trust and use AI October 26, 2026
- Siemens, Nvidia deploy industrial AI to reduce engineering effort October 23, 2026
- Prompt: AI moves beyond the screen October 23, 2026
- Anthropic rolls out Claude Duet, but enterprises aren’t ready October 22, 2026
- OpenAI, Google partnership targets enterprise model choice October 22, 2026
- How payroll giant ADP practices AI governance and human oversight October 21, 2026
- DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs October 21, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #541: Big Tech reports AI spending Wednesday as CoreWeave debt hits distress October 25, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #540: AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them October 19, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #539: AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label October 17, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #537: AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says October 13, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #536: Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research October 8, 2026
Ahead of AI
- Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Full Video Course October 24, 2026
- Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev September 29, 2026
- GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning September 9, 2026
- How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text August 22, 2026
- Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch August 15, 2026
- 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
Computational Intelligence
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 10, October 2026 October 26, 2026
- Weekly Review 23 October 2026 October 23, 2026
- Weekly Review 16 October 2026 October 16, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2026 October 14, 2026
- Complex and Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2026 October 12, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2026 October 11, 2026
- Weekly Review 9 October 2026 October 9, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 10, October 2026 October 8, 2026
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 9, September 2026 October 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2026 October 5, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding October 28, 2026
- MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily October 28, 2026
- Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding October 28, 2026
- Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio October 28, 2026
