Tech In Africa
- Novastar Ventures closes $147 million fund for African startups April 2, 2026
- Ghana launches payment-enabled national ID system April 2, 2026
- Flutterwave Secures Nigerian Banking License to Accelerate Payment Efficiency April 2, 2026
- Angolan edtech startup Kukubela grows African language learning platform April 1, 2026
- Japanese investors back Africa-focused VC fund April 1, 2026
- Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 1, 2026
- AfDB Backs Breega Africa Seed Fund with €7.5M to Boost Early-Stage Startups March 31, 2026
- Ghana’s Ci-Gaba Fund Hits $35M First Close, Targets $91M for West Africa SME Investments March 31, 2026
- ITIDA, Plug and Play Wrap Aswan Bootcamp as Upper Egypt Startups Secure EGP 200M March 30, 2026
- Tunisian Solo Founder Lands FasterCapital Backing for Arabic-First Causal AI Platform March 30, 2026
TechCabal
- Why Africa’s crypto sector is entering its ‘pay the milkman’ era April 3, 2026
- Kenswitch taps Visa as Kenya’s national payments switch race heats up April 3, 2026
- MTN completes Ghana mobile money spinoff in major fintech push April 3, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Semiloore Akoni April 3, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Banking on Flutterwave April 3, 2026
- How to file tax on the LIRS eTax portal: A step-by-step guide for Lagos residents April 2, 2026
- Kenya’s AI bill creates a new digital sheriff with sweeping powers April 2, 2026
- Flutterwave secures Nigerian banking licence after crossing $40 billion in lifetime payments April 2, 2026
- Lasbery Oludimu: Nigerian lawyer who abandoned oil and gas for digital assets April 2, 2026
- Nigeria invests $9m in research to drive digital economy ambitions April 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
- What problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve? April 3, 2026
- You may no longer afford to buy a smartphone, thanks to the soaring RAM prices March 31, 2026
- Samsung Brings Pro-Level Features to Mid-Range: Meet the Galaxy A57 5G & A37 5G March 31, 2026
- BAKE partners with UNESCO to empower local content creators March 25, 2026
- How Practical AI and the Camon 50 Series Redefined Tecno’s Global Standing March 18, 2026
- What the NTT DATA Partnership with Absa Renewal Means for Customers and Industry Peers March 5, 2026
- OPPO partners with MOGO to make Lipa Mdogo Mdogo mainstream March 3, 2026
- TECNO’s CAMON 50 and the New Visibility of the Kenyan Spirit March 1, 2026
- No More Peeking: How the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Solving Privacy in Public Spaces February 28, 2026
African Business Technology News
- Bamburi Cement Plc appoints Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as its new CEO April 3, 2026
- Truecaller Opens Global Market Access For Its Business Chat Platform April 3, 2026
- Infobip South Africa appoints Lauren Potgieter as new Country Manager April 3, 2026
- Cascador Appoints Oyin Solebo as COO April 2, 2026
- Virgin Bet Marks Its First Expansion Beyond the UK April 2, 2026
- FNB Launches 4 Smart ID-enabled Branches in South Africa April 2, 2026
- Why is financial health just as critical as physical well-being April 2, 2026
- Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 2, 2026
- Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration April 1, 2026
- Kaspersky Warns of a New Phishing Technique April 1, 2026
TechCity
- Smart Home Gadgets For Beginners: A Simple Starter Guide April 3, 2026
- Top Cybersecurity Threats For SMEs And How To Fight Back April 2, 2026
- March 2026 Tech Roundup: What Mattered Most March 30, 2026
- Best Laptops For Remote Work: Top Picks For 2026 March 30, 2026
- Building Your Developer Portfolio: A Complete How-To Guide March 27, 2026
- How to Secure Digital Wallets: Smart, Practical Protection March 27, 2026
- Git and GitHub: A Complete Beginner’s Guide March 26, 2026
- AI Tools for Small Businesses That Save Time and Money March 26, 2026
- How to Spot Online Scams March 25, 2026
- AWIT Hosts ‘Give to Gain: Balancing the Scale’ IWD 2026 Convening in Lagos March 25, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- IFC Partners with Cashi to Expand Digital Payment Services into Central Africa April 1, 2026
- Madica Releases Guidebook on Fundraise for Early-stage Founders March 31, 2026
- Four Climate Ventures to receive US$273,000 in Follow-on Support from BFA Global and FSD Africa March 27, 2026
- Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC in Africa March 26, 2026
- littlefish Raises $9.5M Series A to Power Merchant Infrastructure Across Africa March 24, 2026
- South Africa’s Happy Pay Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Partech March 24, 2026
- Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment March 20, 2026
TechArena
- LOOP Easter Campaign: BNPL Galaxy S26 Deal, 90,000 Monthly Discover Users April 3, 2026
- Sophos Report: Lack of Trust in Cybersecurity Vendors Raising Risk for Businesses April 2, 2026
- CA Report: Safaricom Tops Kenya’s Network Quality as Industry Performance Declines April 2, 2026
- Wingu Africa Launches Local Cloud Platform WCX in Ethiopia April 2, 2026
- Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 2, 2026
- Safaricom to Unveil My OneApp, Merging M-PESA and MySafaricom Apps April 1, 2026
- M-PESA Is No Longer Just Payments as Safaricom Positions it as a National Infrastructure April 1, 2026
- Truecaller Hits 500 Million Global Users April 1, 2026
WeeTracker
- Flutterwave Becomes Bank As Fintechs Figure Payments Aren’t Enough April 2, 2026
- AfDB Commits USD 8.5 M To Breega Africa Fund To Back Early-Stage Startups April 1, 2026
- Egypt’s Qualiphi Acquires Career Club To Expand AI Career Platform In GCC April 1, 2026
- Angolan Mobility Startup ANDA Raises USD 1.2 M To Scale Drive-To-Own Model April 1, 2026
- Why A Fintech CEO Isn’t Losing Sleep Over Kenya’s Steep New Licensing Fee April 1, 2026
- Novastar Ventures Closes USD 147 M Fund III To Back African Climate & Impact Startups April 1, 2026
- South Africa’s Gig Economy Becomes A Bargain With AI Skills Shortage Looming March 31, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Almost No Organizations Fully Trust Their Cybersecurity Vendors, New Study Finds April 2, 2026
- The Africa We Build Summit Targets Mobilising Domestic Capital for Industrial Transformation April 2, 2026
- Safaricom Announces Decode 5.0 As Pan-African AI Supergrid Initiative April 2, 2026
- Safaricom Baze Platform Opens Interactive Demo to Showcase Creator Economy Model April 2, 2026
- Westcon-Comstor Expands Cybersecurity and Networking Portfolio with Infoblox in Southern Africa April 2, 2026
- Safaricom Hosts a Hard Conversation on Creator Monetization in Kenya at Decode 4.0 April 2, 2026
- Safaricom Decode Ethics and Representation Panel Focuses on Creator Ownership April 2, 2026
Techloy
- Asia's Top Startup Funding in Week 14 Led by Rebellions, EPG, and Nazara Technologies April 3, 2026
- Week 14 Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Africa and the Middle East, Led by ScaleOps, as AI and Cybersecurity Drew the Biggest Checks April 3, 2026
- Latin America’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 14, Led by Somos Internet, With Big Bets on Telecom and Healthtech April 3, 2026
- Ghana Introduces Visa-Free Access for Africans in Rebuke of Anti-African Bias April 3, 2026
- The Non-Technical Founder's Survival Guide to Building Software April 3, 2026
- Alabama Becomes Second US State to Grant DAOs Legal Status Under DUNA Act April 2, 2026
- Nigerian Regulators Select Private Companies to Oversee Crypto in New Pilot Programme April 2, 2026
- Big Tech Is Turning AI Into a Job Requirement and a Performance Score April 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
- Monarch Quantum Raises $55M to Scale Photonics Infrastructure April 2, 2026
- ThinkLabs AI Raises $28M to Modernize Power Grid Systems April 2, 2026
- Carbon Upcycling Technologies Raises $10M To Advance Low-Carbon Cement Systems April 2, 2026
- Cloud Mining in 2026: How It Works and What to Consider April 2, 2026
- 2026 Quant Trading Guide: Overview of Free AI Bots for Crypto Trading April 2, 2026
- Alcatraz Raises $50 Million To Expand AI Security Platform April 2, 2026
- 2026 Review of 7 AI Crypto Trading Bot Apps for Mobile Users April 2, 2026
TechCentral
- Gaping holes in South African government cyber defences April 2, 2026
- EV charging start-up Charge bypasses JSE for token-based raise April 2, 2026
- Ring, reject, repeat: South Africa’s spam call crisis April 2, 2026
- Amazon in talks to buy satellite operator Globalstar April 2, 2026
- Four astronauts begin humanity’s return to the moon April 2, 2026
- Synthesis helps financial enterprises transform with new Gemini Enterprise April 2, 2026
- The next churn wave is already in your contact centre conversations April 2, 2026
- Sars to give every taxpayer a digital identity in sweeping tech overhaul April 1, 2026
- R12.1-billion wasted as government IT projects collapse April 1, 2026
- R99 DStv deal to keep Showmax subscribers from bolting April 1, 2026
Technext
- The PewBeam effect: like Nigeria’s fintech gold rush, a worship AI boom is coming April 3, 2026
- How mastering no-code tech skills improved the livelihood of these 5 university students April 3, 2026
- On Flutterwave’s roadmap April 3, 2026
- Anchor secures Nigerian and Canadian licences as it crosses $2.5bn in transactions April 2, 2026
- When the Cloud burns: What Iran’s AWS strikes mean for African fintech April 2, 2026
- Flutterwave secures Nigerian banking licence, signals growth from payments firm to full bank April 2, 2026
- COVID19 lockdown anniversary: 7 ways technology has changed work culture since the Pandemic April 2, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems April 2, 2026
- Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects April 1, 2026
- MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials March 30, 2026
- Seeing sounds March 26, 2026
- MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape March 26, 2026
- AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly March 26, 2026
- Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring March 25, 2026
- Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements March 25, 2026
- How to create “humble” AI March 24, 2026
DEV Community
- Your Company Is Using AI to Skip Junior Hires. You'll Regret That in 5 Years. April 3, 2026
- Small bugs aren’t always about coding April 3, 2026
- How to Connect MiniMax-M2.7 to Cursor April 3, 2026
- Really Fun! April 3, 2026
- About Layoffs, Side Hustles, and Vibe Coding April 3, 2026
- 418 Teapot in Your Terminal April 3, 2026
- How to Architect Your Ecommerce Platform for Growth: Startup to Enterprise April 3, 2026
- How We Built an Autonomous Growth Engine with OpenClaw, MCP, and Clura April 3, 2026
- I Benchmarked 3 Ways to Log in .NET : One Allocates Nothing April 3, 2026
OpenAI News
- OpenAI acquires TBPN April 2, 2026
- Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams April 2, 2026
- Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager April 1, 2026
- Accelerating the next phase of AI March 31, 2026
- Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia March 29, 2026
- STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company March 27, 2026
- Inside our approach to the Model Spec March 25, 2026
- Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program March 25, 2026
- Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens March 24, 2026
- Update on the OpenAI Foundation March 24, 2026
- Powering product discovery in ChatGPT March 24, 2026
- Creating with Sora Safely March 23, 2026
- How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment March 19, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models April 2, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable March 26, 2026
- Protecting people from harmful manipulation March 25, 2026
- Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more March 25, 2026
- Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework March 17, 2026
- From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact March 9, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale March 3, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Simulate realistic users to evaluate multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals April 2, 2026
- Scaling seismic foundation models on AWS: Distributed training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and expanding context windows April 2, 2026
- Control which domains your AI agents can access April 2, 2026
- Rocket Close transforms mortgage document processing with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract April 2, 2026
- Persist session state with filesystem configuration and execute shell commands April 2, 2026
- Automating competitive price intelligence with Amazon Nova Act April 1, 2026
Databricks
- Accelerate business insights with Lakeflow Connect, now with a Free Tier April 2, 2026
- Why agentic analytics starts with a well-governed data layer April 2, 2026
- How Addepar Scales Investment Workflows with Databricks AI Agents April 2, 2026
- Announcing General Availability and Open Sourcing of Unity Catalog Business Semantics April 2, 2026
- Announcing the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge April 1, 2026
- How agentic software development will change databases March 30, 2026
- Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse March 27, 2026
- Zero-Downtime Patching in Lakebase Part 1: Prewarming March 27, 2026
- Fizz accelerates ecommerce analytics with Databricks SQL March 25, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run? April 2, 2026
- Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline? March 27, 2026
- Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them? March 21, 2026
- 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
Techmeme
- The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters) April 3, 2026
- Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg) April 3, 2026
- Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) April 3, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Agentic AI Training Datasets, GraphRAG for Healthcare, the ODSC AI East Schedule, and AI Project… April 2, 2026
- In-Silico Perturbation Meets Single-Cell Foundation Models: From Zero-Shot Potential to Fine-Tuned… April 2, 2026
- The AI Revolution in Development: Why Outer Loop Agents Are the Next Big Thing April 1, 2026
- What Will AI Coworkers Look Like for the Rest of 2026? March 31, 2026
- When Not to Use AI: Strategic Restraint as a Leadership Skill March 30, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- 4 Observability Layers Every AI Developer Needs for Production AI Agents ( A Complete Guide) April 3, 2026
- Microsoft Agent Framework Just Changed in a Big Way — Here’s What Developers Need to Know April 3, 2026
- Gemma 4: Google Just Dropped Its Open Source Nuclear Option And Community Went Feral With It April 3, 2026
- dbt Explained Simply — and How AI Makes It Even Easier April 3, 2026
- CCA Exam Prep: Structured Data Extraction April 3, 2026
aibusiness
- Black Hat USA August 1, 2026
- Black Hat Asia April 21, 2026
- MCP is Alive, but Faces Challenges April 2, 2026
- Microsoft Goes Beyond LLMs With New Voice, Image Models April 2, 2026
- Neocloud Pioneer CoreWeave All In on Inference April 2, 2026
- Microsoft to Invest $5.5 billion in AI in Singapore April 2, 2026
- Florida University Rolls Out Autonomous Delivery Robots April 1, 2026
- OpenAI Now Valued at $852B After Funding Round April 1, 2026
- Microsoft Commits $1B to Thailand's AI future April 1, 2026
- Nvidia Invests $2B In Custom Chip Vendor Marvell Technology March 31, 2026
- Databricks to Invest $850M in UK AI Operations March 31, 2026
- Nebius to Build One of Europe’s Largest AI Factories in Finland March 31, 2026
- South Korean AI Chipmaker Raises $400M for Inference March 31, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Artificial Intelligence Newsletter
- AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else April 3, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #477: Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%. March 31, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #476: Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy March 27, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #475: 100 years from now : The Case for Artificial Stupidity March 23, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #474: $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad March 19, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- 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
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
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2026 April 1, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026 April 1, 2026
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2026 March 29, 2026
- Weekly Review 27 March 2026 March 27, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026 March 26, 2026
- Upcoming Journal Special Issues March 25, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026 March 22, 2026
- Weekly Review 20 March 2026 March 20, 2026
- Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2026 March 20, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026 March 19, 2026
MarkTechPost
- TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts April 3, 2026
- Step by Step Guide to Build an End-to-End Model Optimization Pipeline with NVIDIA Model Optimizer Using FastNAS Pruning and Fine-Tuning April 3, 2026
- Arcee AI Releases Trinity Large Thinking: An Apache 2.0 Open Reasoning Model for Long-Horizon Agents and Tool Use April 2, 2026
- Defeating the ‘Token Tax’: How Google Gemma 4, NVIDIA, and OpenClaw are Revolutionizing Local Agentic AI: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark April 2, 2026
