TechCabal
- 179 ports on paper, seven days at the gate: Inside Africa’s cargo bottleneck October 26, 2026
- The brutal financial reality behind government AI adoption in Africa October 26, 2026
- DPI closes $112 million Nclude fund with 93% of capital from Africa October 26, 2026
- The Next Wave: The high cost of cutting out the middleman October 26, 2026
- DStv slashes Kenya prices as Canal+ tries to revive subscriber growth October 26, 2026
- Raenest expands beyond cross-border payments with stablecoins and savings October 26, 2026
- South African banks could lose their grip on fintech payments October 26, 2026
- Nigeria to get two new AI-ready data centres in a $1 billion investment October 26, 2026
- Tanzania’s Medikea raises $1.2 million to expand integrated healthcare network October 26, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – OPay wants $336 million October 26, 2026
TechCity
- The Arc browser stops working on Dec. 22. Here is how to save your tabs and move on October 26, 2026
- How to Set Up a Password Manager in 15 Minutes October 26, 2026
- Some iPhone Duo screens are cracking at the fold. Here is what to do in the first 14 days October 26, 2026
- The new Xbox cloud gaming price is by the hour. Here’s which pack to buy October 25, 2026
- The GTA 6 price is $79.99, and the boxed copy has no disc. Here’s what to buy October 25, 2026
- Spotify audiobooks in Nigeria cost ₦2,300 a month. Here’s what that gets you October 25, 2026
- Operation Serengeti led to 1,462 cybercrime arrests across Africa. Here are the scams police found October 25, 2026
- Connected Gmail to Google Search? Google personalized ads can now use it. Here is how to check October 25, 2026
- Walmart AI shopping agents will buy for you, up to a spending limit you set October 23, 2026
- iPhone Duo is in stores today. Here are the apps already built for its big screen October 23, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- 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
- VALR Launches AI Service for Humans and AI Agents April 16, 2026
TechArena
- Tanzanian Healthtech Startup Medikea Raises $1.2 Million Pre-Seed Funding October 26, 2026
- Kaspersky Supports INTERPOL Operation That Arrested 1,462 Cybercrime Suspects in Africa October 26, 2026
- MultiChoice Unveils New DStv Packages in Kenya Starting at KES 750 October 26, 2026
- Safaricom Launches Fuliza Ya Pochi for Small Businesses October 26, 2026
- Nutanix Partners With NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris on AI Infrastructure October 26, 2026
- Why Trust Is Becoming Essential to Kenya’s Digital Payments Economy October 23, 2026
- MultiChoice is Set to Lower DStv Prices in Kenya October 23, 2026
- Vertiv, Deloitte Introduce Guide to Help Enterprises Deploy AI October 23, 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
- APA Apollo takes control of two Tanzanian insurers as regional expansion gathers pace October 26, 2026
- Uber Kenya must face court case over rider account deactivations October 26, 2026
- Safaricom Family Share offers convenience as rivals push down fibre prices October 26, 2026
- Dangote secured KPC stake after pension funds failed to get Sh9.50 per share October 26, 2026
- Airtel Money revenue jumps 34% to $830m in first half October 26, 2026
- Kenya puts tech diplomacy at heart of foreign policy October 26, 2026
- Kenya Airways sells 5m Asante Rewards points to Art of Luxury October 26, 2026
Techloy
- Anthropic Files for IPO as ANT: $16.3 Billion Revenue, $80.7 Billion Loss October 26, 2026
- How to turn a Single Image into a 3D Asset October 26, 2026
- iPhone Duo Owners Report Cracked Displays as Hinge Concerns Grow October 26, 2026
- Peter Claffey Could Play Beast: Meet Marvel’s New X-Men Cast October 26, 2026
- This City Is Ours Season 2 Cast: Who Is Returning and Who Is New? October 26, 2026
- OnePlus 15 Gets ColorOS 17 Before Schedule. Here's How to Download It October 26, 2026
- Why Riders Are Switching to a Wireless Motorcycle Headset for Safer, Clearer Rides October 26, 2026
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Trailer: 5 Things We Noticed October 26, 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
- Inside Anthropic’s IPO Filing: Massive Cloud Bills and Soaring AI Sales October 26, 2026
- Meta Plans to Raise $95 Billion in Historic Stock Sale for AI Expansion October 26, 2026
- Binance Launches $1.7M Halloween Pumpkin Frenzy Trading Campaign October 26, 2026
- Opply Secures $7.5M to Scale Agentic AI for CPG Supply Chains October 25, 2026
- Coast Raises $35 Million to Expand AI-Powered Financial Platform October 22, 2026
- Xona Raises $250M to Scale Commercial GPS Satellite Network October 22, 2026
- Mave Raises $34M to Expand AI Cybersecurity Platform October 22, 2026
TechCentral
- SA banks warn customers not to share logins with AI agents October 26, 2026
- Former Icasa chairman Paris Mashile has died October 26, 2026
- The start-up turning township addresses into alternative credit data October 26, 2026
- Anthropic’s IPO filing lays bare the cost of the AI race October 26, 2026
- Vodacom’s summer deals undercut its own smartphone data prices by two-thirds October 26, 2026
- Blu Label starts building its first power plant October 26, 2026
- Paratus connects Tanzania to Africa and beyond with new Dar es Salaam PoP October 26, 2026
- Pick n Pay’s online sales jump while store sales barely grow October 26, 2026
- TCS+ | Vox on AI, data rules and omnichannel communication for SMEs October 26, 2026
- MTN and Huawei claim industry first in microwave spectrum reuse October 26, 2026
Technext
- Nigeria targets single-digit inflation by 2027. Can it finally make borrowing cheaper? October 26, 2026
- Tech news platform Rest of World to shut down in January 2027 following a collapse in search traffic October 26, 2026
- Anthropic officially files for IPO, eyes up to $1.75 trillion valuation October 26, 2026
- How Nigeria taxes streaming, cloud services and other foreign digital platforms, PwC explains October 26, 2026
- FemNest Lab plans six-week incubator for women building FemTech and FamilyTech startups October 26, 2026
- Airtel Money’s profit jumps to $228 million as payments and transfers revenue grows 33% October 26, 2026
- PwC warns of costly uncertainty over e-invoicing rules for foreign digital platforms in Nigeria October 26, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 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
- Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world October 18, 2026
- Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation October 16, 2026
- State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind October 15, 2026
DEV Community
- 👻 GhostShell: A Haunted AI Terminal Powered by Local AI October 26, 2026
- How We Let Silicon Valley Steal the Future (And How Developers Can Take It Back) October 26, 2026
- Automate Gmail Attachments: Organize Files in Google Drive and Notify Telegram October 26, 2026
- I got tired of reading CSS bugs in a tiny overlay, so I made my debugger print a report October 26, 2026
- Serve a styled PDF invoice from FastAPI October 26, 2026
- Hermes Skills Just Got Easier: One-Command Installation for AI Agent Setup October 26, 2026
- Shopify App Creation: Embedded Admin App or Standalone Dashboard? October 26, 2026
- Me dijeron que mi portafolio parecía una plantilla genérica de IA: así fue cómo lo rediseñé October 26, 2026
- Créer une API REST Node.js avec Express en 2026 : le tutoriel pas à pas October 26, 2026
OpenAI News
- 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
- Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding October 26, 2026
- Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II) October 23, 2026
- Securing our frontier model training environment October 23, 2026
- OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security October 23, 2026
- Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API October 22, 2026
- What FDE means at OpenAI October 22, 2026
- Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI October 22, 2026
- Broad access through consistent standards October 21, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems October 13, 2026
- EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model October 6, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Fleet-wide computer vision lifecycle at the edge with SageMaker SDK v3 October 26, 2026
- Groundhog Day for AI agents: Prompt caching patterns for using OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock October 26, 2026
- Build agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with CDK October 26, 2026
- Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide October 23, 2026
- Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK October 23, 2026
- Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps October 23, 2026
Databricks
- 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
- The media industry is becoming a prediction economy October 26, 2026
- Real-time energy trading and analytics on Databricks October 23, 2026
- Built for Agents: The Case for Spark Declarative Pipelines October 23, 2026
- The new economics of AI cost management October 22, 2026
- The Fraud Analyst AI Coworker: Detecting Telecom Fraud in Real-Time on One Platform October 22, 2026
- The AI Bill is coming October 22, 2026
- Databricks AI Runtime and NVIDIA make it easier to customize open models with enterprise data October 21, 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
- OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI) October 26, 2026
- Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) October 26, 2026
- Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees (Ian King/Bloomberg) October 26, 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
- 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
- AI Careers Weekly: What Six New Reports Say About Hiring October 19, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- How to Check Your Python Environment for the LiteLLM Credential Stealer (and Protect Your AI API… October 26, 2026
- How to Invert a Matrix That Has No Inverse October 26, 2026
- I Keep Two Markdown Files So My Coding Agent (and I) Never Lose Track October 26, 2026
- ResNet Finally Explained: Why Deeper Networks Got Worse, and the Shortcut That Fixed It October 26, 2026
- When AI Solves the Problem, Does Understanding Still Matter? October 26, 2026
aibusiness
- 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
- Smartsheet takes a people approach with AI adoption October 20, 2026
- Microsoft could hold an advantage with Copilot for Legal October 19, 2026
- How Boston is becoming a physical AI hub October 19, 2026
- Robot company bets touch, sound can give bots an edge over vision AI October 19, 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
- Nace AI Releases Drex for Search for AI Agents: 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus With 12.6 Search Calls October 26, 2026
- Tsinghua AI Open-Sources AKV, a Cache Engineering Server for LLM Agents on SGLang October 26, 2026
- Nanbeige Releases Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 33B Open Agentic Coding Model October 25, 2026
- Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the First Time October 25, 2026
