Tech In Africa
- FAO and Smart Africa Launch Third Innovate Africa Challenge to Push AI Agriculture Tools From Pilot to Deployment August 3, 2026
- Africa Is Quietly Becoming the World’s Toughest Test Lab for Stablecoins as Real Payment Infrastructure August 3, 2026
- Coursera Backs Andrew Ng’s LearnVector with $100M Bet on AI-Native Learning August 3, 2026
- Zedcrest Expands Global Payments Ambitions with Leatherback Takeover July 31, 2026
- Nigeria’s Grocery-Tech Dream Takes Another Hit as GoLemon Folds July 30, 2026
- Rentoza enters business rescue after burning through $7.3M in funding July 30, 2026
- Nigeria’s First SEC-Licensed Exchange, Quidax, Expands Stablecoin Infrastructure to Over 21 Countries July 29, 2026
- California’s Bingo Launches Battery-Swapping EV in Kenya, Targeting Ride-Hailing Drivers July 28, 2026
- Egypt Tops Africa’s H1 2026 Startup Funding, But Nigeria Reclaims the Equity Crown July 28, 2026
- Fintech and Logistics Dominated Africa’s H1 2026 Funding, With Spiro Behind a Quarter of All Capital Raised July 28, 2026
TechCabal
- Globacom leads Nigeria’s Internet subscriber growth in May August 4, 2026
- Google Pixel 11 Pro: Release date, price, and specs August 4, 2026
- Nigeria’s 90,000km fibre network will be built by a company that doesn’t yet exist August 4, 2026
- AI agents and state contracts power Côte d’Ivoire’s startup push August 4, 2026
- How one Ghanaian developer is redesigning assistive AI for African users August 4, 2026
- Telkom’s voice era is over. Data now pays the bills August 4, 2026
- CcHUB, Mastercard Foundation select 12 startups for fourth EdTech Fellowship cohort August 4, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Death, taxes, and crypto August 4, 2026
- Nigeria wants to collect 1.5% crypto stamp duty in Bitcoin, USDT August 3, 2026
- JUST IN: Nigeria issues first tax framework for crypto and virtual assets August 3, 2026
How we made it in Africa
- 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
- Nigerian creates business exporting avocados and chillies from Rwanda to European supermarkets July 13, 2026
- How we made it in Africa II recognised at 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award July 7, 2026
- Ghana: From side hustle to 16 stores – a retail entrepreneur’s story July 3, 2026
KachTech Media
- Safaricom Declares Record KES 80.13 Billion Dividend August 1, 2026
- ALP REIT Reports Strong First Financial Results After NSE Listing July 31, 2026
- From Safari Lodges to Small Traders: How Smartphones Are Becoming Payment Devices July 31, 2026
- Craft Silicon TouristTap: Turning Smartphones into Payment Devices for Kenya’s Tourism Sector July 31, 2026
- Football Action is Back on DStv and GOtv SuperSport Channels Just Days After World Cup Finals July 30, 2026
- How Absa Bank Spent Money on Sustainability July 30, 2026
- TECNO POVA Launches Curve 2 5G in Kenya July 30, 2026
- Young Scientists Kenya Winners Inspire Future STEM Innovators July 30, 2026
- AURA Enhances Emergency Response with Google Maps Platform July 28, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- Dimension Data Limited raises US$2.9 million August 3, 2026
- South Africa’s economy depends on what lies beneath the ocean August 3, 2026
- From targeted advertising to targeted attacks: How advertising data is weaponised by cyberthreat actors August 3, 2026
- NjiaPay launches one-click payments to reduce cart abandonment August 3, 2026
- Saviynt Exceeds $300 Million in ARR and Launches Zuma the Enterprise AI Identity Security Platform July 31, 2026
- How China’s Used Car Boom Is Reshaping Ghana’s Import Market July 31, 2026
- South Africa’s digital future depends on cyber resilience July 31, 2026
- How to Cover a Cash Gap Before Payday July 31, 2026
- Kaspersky uncovers new Mirage Kitten malware used in cyber-espionage campaign July 31, 2026
- The value of advisory services for critical infrastructure in West Africa July 31, 2026
TechCity
- 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
- Dangerous Apps in 2026: 10 Types You Should Delete or Avoid July 22, 2026
- How to Use Google Maps Offline in 2026: A Step-by-Step Guide July 22, 2026
- How to Use Your Phone Less in 2026 Without Feeling Like You’re Missing Out July 21, 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
- Google opens applications for 2026 South Africa AI startup accelerator August 4, 2026
- CyFrica Returns to Nigeria with a Bold Mission: Elevating Cyber Resilience Across the Nation’s Critical Sectors, Backed by NDPC August 4, 2026
- Airtel Money Launches Bizna Wallet, to Take on M-PESA Pochi la Biashara August 3, 2026
- SanlamAllianz Launches Flexi Future Plus to Help Kenyans Save for Long-Term Financial Goals August 3, 2026
- How Technology Is Reshaping the Online Betting Experience August 2, 2026
- Carrefour, KCB Bank and Mastercard Launch Prepaid Card for Shoppers July 31, 2026
- Opinion | Why the Right to Repair is Key to Tackling Kenya’s Growing e-Waste Challenge July 31, 2026
- iHUB Selects 12 Startups for Fourth Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Cohort July 31, 2026
WeeTracker
- Africa’s Top-Funded Defencetech Upstart Turns To University To Solve Its Talent Problem July 31, 2026
- Nigeria’s On-Demand Delivery Graveyard Claims Latest Victim Of A Model That Can’t Survive July 30, 2026
- Kenya’s Sevi Secures Oxano Capital Investment To Expand B2B fintech Platform July 29, 2026
- A Startup Processed 1B Transactions To Give 8M Africans A Credit Score Banks Wouldn’t July 29, 2026
- PraxiLabs, Others Get Prize Money As Visa Awards USD 45 K To Egyptian Startups July 28, 2026
- Morocco’s Plan To Build Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Is Afoot With Major Backing July 27, 2026
- Kenyan Court Delivers Blow To Unlicensed Loan Apps Seeking Debt Repayment July 27, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Africa’s space race is becoming a contest over infrastructure, not just satellites August 4, 2026
- Zuku cuts fibre prices as Kenya’s broadband market heats up August 4, 2026
- Kwetu eSIM lets travellers land connected in 190+ countries August 4, 2026
- Airtel nears satellite-to-phone launch in Kenya as it awaits regulatory approval August 4, 2026
- INTERPOL cybercrime report says AI drives 55% of cybercrime in Africa August 4, 2026
- Mintoak acquires ICC Loyalty as it expands beyond payments August 4, 2026
- Kaspersky: Spyware and credential theft rise across Africa August 4, 2026
Techloy
- Why Mercor's $20 Billion Valuation Doesn't Add Up August 4, 2026
- 6 Career Books to Read If You're Starting Out or Advancing Your Tech Career August 4, 2026
- Has AI Made It Harder to Start a Career? Two Young Nigerian Professionals See It Differently August 4, 2026
- Palworld Online: Garena's New Mobile MMO Confirmed for iOS and Android in 2026 August 4, 2026
- Apple OpenAI Lawsuit: OpenAI Says "Apple Is Getting This Wrong" August 4, 2026
- Smart, Connected Air Compressors: How IIoT Is Changing Predictive Maintenance in India August 4, 2026
- Trans Federal Workers Sue Trump Administration Over Healthcare Coverage Ban August 4, 2026
- Everything we Know about Xbox's Rumoured Disc-to-Digital Program August 4, 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
- QuantHealth Raises $45M to Let Pharm Test Clinical Trials with AI Before Spending Billions August 4, 2026
- Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion To Build The First Vertically Integrated Nuclear Company August 4, 2026
- Ore Energy Raises $43 Million to Build Lasting Rust Batteries for the AI Era August 4, 2026
- June AI Raises $20 Million in Pre-Seed Funding To Automate Enterprise AI Deployment August 3, 2026
- Horizon3 Raises $250 Million to Expand AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform August 3, 2026
- Dash Bio Raises $30 Million to Modernise Drug Development Infrastructure August 3, 2026
- Zenity Raises $125 Million to Expand AI Agent Security Platform August 3, 2026
TechCentral
- South Africa’s AI policy collapse shows up in World Bank report August 4, 2026
- Why CambriLearn built the technology behind its own school August 4, 2026
- Canal+ backs MultiChoice payments spin-out August 4, 2026
- Why Canal+ is betting DStv’s future on live sport August 4, 2026
- VALR hits back at proposed cross-border crypto ban August 4, 2026
- Shein seeking up to R660-billion valuation in IPO August 4, 2026
- SA experts split on whether the singularity has begun August 3, 2026
- South Africa’s hybrid boom is masking a flat electric car market August 3, 2026
- SABC+ scales up August 3, 2026
- The Post Office has fixed its books but not its business August 3, 2026
Technext
- MTN Nigeria’s ₦3T revenue hides a fintech business still finding its footing August 4, 2026
- Lagos AI startup, Spitch, bets on owning a third of Africa’s voice data by 2031 August 4, 2026
- How Nigeria’s Banking Sector Can Maximise the Benefits of Recapitalisation August 4, 2026
- Airtel postpones opening of $150m Kenya data centre to July 2027, set to be East Africa’s largest yet August 4, 2026
- PalmPay targets Hong Kong IPO as it seeks $200M for global expansion August 4, 2026
- Kenya moves 15 million certificates to blockchain: Can WAEC, JAMB & Nigerian universities follow suit? August 4, 2026
- MultiChoice-backed Moment raises $22 million to fix Africa’s fragmented payments problem August 4, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 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
- Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83 July 22, 2026
- Following the questions where they lead July 17, 2026
DEV Community
- Browser vs Node — Where the Event Loop Actually Diverges (Part 2/3) August 4, 2026
- I nearly fooled myself validating a wearable IMU classifier — here's the bug and the fix August 4, 2026
- Surviving the Shai-Hulud: Why Agent Eval Harnesses and Local LLMs Are the New Supply Chain Defense August 4, 2026
- Digital Souveränität: Warum EU-Firmen IT-Infrastruktur überdenken August 4, 2026
- You Cannot Tell Which of Your ERD Files Are Under Version Control August 4, 2026
- How I normalize benchmark scores across chip generations (and why raw AnTuTu numbers lie) August 4, 2026
- I built a production-ready MERN boilerplates so you never have to again. August 4, 2026
- IRC-A: Agents on the Wire — The Series Kicks Off 🚀 August 4, 2026
- HTML video,audio and iframe tags August 4, 2026
OpenAI News
- New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex August 4, 2026
- Apple is getting this wrong August 3, 2026
- How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months August 3, 2026
- Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology August 3, 2026
- Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science August 1, 2026
- Building abundant intelligence July 31, 2026
- Advancing responsible AI across Europe July 31, 2026
- Univé builds an AI-ready workforce July 31, 2026
- Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation July 31, 2026
- Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 July 30, 2026
- How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime July 30, 2026
- How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark July 29, 2026
- Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers July 29, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber July 21, 2026
- Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber July 17, 2026
- Our approach to bioresilience July 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore August 4, 2026
- From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations August 3, 2026
- Automated Reasoning policy refinement in Amazon Bedrock August 3, 2026
- Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick July 31, 2026
- Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability July 31, 2026
- Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS July 30, 2026
Databricks
- Databricks joins the Open Secure AI Alliance to advance AI safety and security August 4, 2026
- The New Monday Morning Report: How Generative AI can deliver the insights your executives need. August 3, 2026
- Ingest semi-structured data faster and more efficiently with Variant - Now Generally Available August 3, 2026
- Databricks Completes Acquisition of Panther: Accelerating the Security Lakehouse Era August 3, 2026
- Backstage with Lakebase, part 3 July 31, 2026
- Foundations for an AI-forward healthcare organization July 30, 2026
- Agentic media buying cannot scale without the right foundation. See how buyers and sellers get there on Databricks. July 30, 2026
- Convert proprietary code to open ANSI SQL with Genie Code July 30, 2026
- NBCUniversal’s Seamless Migration: Unlocking Scalable Analytics with Databricks July 29, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- 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
- Why build a bigger model when you can just loop twice for twice the power? June 22, 2026
- Can an AI agent run the entire scientific method without human supervision? June 17, 2026
Techmeme
- Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) August 4, 2026
- Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters) August 4, 2026
- Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) August 4, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- How to Build a 107M-Row GitHub Analytics Agent With Snowflake CoCo August 4, 2026
- This Week at ODSC AI: AI Agents Broke Containment. Now What? July 30, 2026
- How Project Managers Can Build a Career in AI Without Becoming Developers July 28, 2026
- Consider forwarding this newsletter to a friend or colleague so they can also stay up-to-date on… July 25, 2026
- AI Engineering and Agentic Engineering: What Separates the Two July 23, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- DeepSeek’s $0.14 Model Just Beat Its Own Flagship at Agent Work August 4, 2026
- AI Agents Should Think in Operations, Not Commands August 4, 2026
- Why Standard LLM Audits Miss 90% of Safety Failures August 4, 2026
- The Towards AI Mentorship for AI Engineers August 4, 2026
- TAI #216: Frontier Models Now Drive Engineering and Maths Breakthroughs, and Cheaper Intelligence… August 4, 2026
aibusiness
- Microsoft Framework to Cut AI Agent Training Costs August 4, 2026
- Alibaba Unveils Its ‘Most Powerful’ AI Model Yet August 3, 2026
- US Commerce Department Awards GlobalFoundries $300M for Photonics August 3, 2026
- Europe’s New AI Rules Come Into Force August 3, 2026
- Prompt: Enterprises Grapple With Cost of AI Scale July 31, 2026
- OpenAI Cuts Model Prices Amid Enterprises’ Concerns About AI Spend July 31, 2026
- EU Pledges $11.5B for Seven AI Gigafactories July 31, 2026
- Oracle Brings Google Gemini Models to Enterprise Customers July 30, 2026
- Chinese Startups Dominate Humanoid Robotics Patent Rankings July 30, 2026
- FCC Blocks Chinese Humanoid Robot Imports, Citing Security Risks July 29, 2026
- Vendor Developing Self-Improving AI Signs $410M AWS Deal July 29, 2026
- Microsoft Emerges with Cheaper Cyber Model to Rival Mythos, GPT-5.6 July 28, 2026
- Samsung Agrees to Chip Deal With Broadcom July 28, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- 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
- AI Weekly Issue #516: OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next? July 22, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #515: China's AI is redrawing the AI race July 20, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #514: Applied AI Is Here: What's Working, What Got Pulled Back, and Why Now July 15, 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 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
- Weekly Review 17 July 2026 July 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 7, July 2026 July 13, 2026
- Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026 July 12, 2026
- Weekly Review 10 July 2026 July 10, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 7, July 2026 July 8, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive August 4, 2026
- Building an Advanced AI Skill Security Auditing Pipeline with NVIDIA SkillSpector, LangGraph, YARA Rules, SARIF, and CI Policy Gates August 4, 2026
- Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web August 4, 2026
- Genspark Open Sources GenOffice: A Free, Ad-Free AI Office Suite for macOS and Windows with Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF August 4, 2026
