Tech In Africa
- DR Congo Signs AI-Powered Geological Mapping Deal With US Investment Firm February 11, 2026
- Prop Trading Career in Nigeria: Market Reality, Income Potential, and Long-Term Outlook February 9, 2026
- Africa Must Rewire US$29.5 Trillion Mineral Endowment Around Industry, Infrastructure and Demand, Africa Finance Corporation Study Say February 9, 2026
- Wave, Visa and Ecobank Senegal launch virtual card to expand online payments February 9, 2026
- Amid the AI boom, Ijeoma Eti Is Solving the Harder Problem Everyone Is Ignoring: Infrastructure Trust, Security, and Compliance February 9, 2026
- Why Trust and Community Will Define the Next Wave of African Social Platforms February 9, 2026
- South African SME Lender Lula Secures $21M from Dutch Development Bank FMO February 6, 2026
- Google Accelerator Africa Returns with Equity-Free Support, Cloud Credits, and Early Access to AI Products for Startups February 6, 2026
- Rwanda Expands with Zipline to Become First Country in the World with Nationwide Autonomous Delivery Including Africa’s First Urban Drone Delivery Network February 5, 2026
- From Figma to SheCode Africa: How Mfonobong Umondia Is Building a Mentorship Pipeline for Aspiring Community Managers February 4, 2026
TechCabal
- Jumia’s China bet drives 82% surge in international sales February 11, 2026
- Why GetEquity’s COO thinks processes matter more than presence February 11, 2026
- Is your phone banned in Kenya? Full list of prohibited brands February 11, 2026
- Onafriq taps Conduit as Africa’s stablecoin push reaches cross-border payments February 11, 2026
- Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, the man who reimagined M-PESA, leaves for Absa Bank February 11, 2026
- Delta40 closes $20 million fund to back and co-found early-stage African startups February 11, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Access denied in South Africa February 11, 2026
- This Kenyan startup promises school pickups digital paper trail February 10, 2026
- After years on the sidelines, Africa’s telecoms return to the bond market February 10, 2026
- North Africa rises on deals as MENA AI funding hits $858 million February 10, 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
- Sports Betting in Kenya: Odds, Live Betting, and Platform Guide February 6, 2026
- Sun King HomePlus Max Brings USB-C Laptop Charging to Solar Homes January 21, 2026
- Creative Entrepreneurship: Why Filmmakers Must Start Thinking Like Founders January 21, 2026
- Legal Clarity and Tech Innovation: SportPesa Strategic Pivot for 2026 January 21, 2026
- Bridging the Digital Gap: How Wikipedia Next 25 Years Will Depend on the Global South January 16, 2026
- The BAKE Awards 2026: Digital Storytelling’s Trillion-Shilling Moment January 14, 2026
- A New Gas-Powered Commute: Proto and OLA Energy Bet on LPG in Kenya January 14, 2026
- OPPO’s Reno15 Series: The “Sponge” Strategy for Smartphone Longevity January 14, 2026
- The Math of the Win: How Betika “Must Be Won” Jackpot Ends the Rollover Era December 23, 2025
African Business Technology News
- How SaaS supply chains became cybersecurity’s new weak link February 11, 2026
- Sun King Launches EZ 1 Smartphone in Kenya February 11, 2026
- Is it Dangerous to Use AI for Medical Advice? February 11, 2026
- Safaricom Partners with the Nairobi Securities Exchange to Launch a New Platform February 10, 2026
- SA’s Renewable Energy Divide: ‘Jobs Lie in Installation, Not Manufacturing’ February 10, 2026
- SolarAfrica Raises R1.5 Billion to Deliver Renewable Energy in South Africa February 10, 2026
- Meet Nigeria’s Chief Tech & Information Officer February 10, 2026
- DuxNet Launches Premium Switching Range with built-in Cloud Management for South African SMBs February 10, 2026
- How African Retailers Can Stay Competitive Against Global Entrants Like Shein and Temu February 9, 2026
- Sedna Africa Enables Autonomous Drilling at First Quantum’s Sentinel Mine February 9, 2026
TechCity
- How to Protect Yourself Against Romance Scams: Expert Tips to Stay Safe Online During Valentine’s Day February 11, 2026
- Why SMBs can no longer ignore backup and disaster recovery February 11, 2026
- How to Start an Ecommerce Business in Kenya: Step-By-Step Guide February 11, 2026
- Clooper vs TravelPerk vs Wakanow for Business: Which Is the Best AfricanCompany? February 10, 2026
- Lagos vs Nairobi vs Cape Town Tech: Comparing 3 African Hubs 2026 February 10, 2026
- What Is Fintech Regulation in Ghana: Practical Guide for Startups and SMEs February 10, 2026
- Niger’s Zamani Telecom Chooses Hayo as its Exclusive Partner for A2P Monetisation and SMS Firewall February 9, 2026
- Research centre sets out to build ‘cognitive’ cities of the future February 9, 2026
- Bloomwit Releases 2026 Visibility Report for African SMEs, Highlighting Critical PR Gaps Constraining Business Growth February 9, 2026
- CarPlay to Support Third-Party AI Chatbots: What You Need to Know February 7, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 27, 2026
- Flutterwave Partners with Turnkey to Power Secure Stablecoin Wallets for Customers January 27, 2026
- Fincra Announced as Headline Supporter of Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2026 to Drive Dialogue on Building the Rails for an Integrated Africa January 12, 2026
- Levene Energy Secures $64M Facility from Afreximbank to Acquire Strategic Stake in Axxela Limited January 12, 2026
- Luno Partners with AltSchool Africa to Launch Crypto Education Programme for 15,000 Nigerians January 5, 2026
- Cassava Technologies and Gebeya Inc. Partner to Launch Africa’s First AI Powered Creator Platform December 17, 2025
- Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Opens Applications for 2026 Investment Showcase December 2, 2025
TechArena
- What You Need to Know About Ziidi Trader on M-PESA February 10, 2026
- Wimbart Launches “Wimbart Lite” to Support Africa’s Early-Stage Startups Raising Under $1M February 10, 2026
- NCBA Becomes First Bank in East & Central Africa to Achieve Dual ISO 27001 and 27701 Certifications February 9, 2026
- Watu Backs Kenya’s New E-Mobility Policy as Catalyst for EV Financing and Clean Transport Growth February 9, 2026
- Absa, Microsoft and Women in Tech Expand ElevateHer AI Programme Across Nine African Markets February 6, 2026
- LG Positions Africa as Key Growth Frontier for AI-Powered Smart Home Expansion at InnoFest 2026 MEA February 6, 2026
- Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as Chief Product & Technology Officer February 6, 2026
- Pin Up how to play and win instructions for experienced players February 6, 2026
WeeTracker
- The Invisible Breach: How SaaS Supply Chains Became Cybersecurity’s New Weak Link February 11, 2026
- South Africa Weighs Social Media Age Ban But Grapples With Enforcement Realities February 10, 2026
- South Africa’s Talk360 Secures USD 1.4 M Investment Led By HAVAÍC February 10, 2026
- Tech Salaries Soar In SA While Companies Say Jobseekers Aren’t Job-Ready February 9, 2026
- Kenya Bets Big On Tax Cuts To Drive EV Race As Tough Road Lies Ahead February 9, 2026
- Egypt’s Tactful AI Raises USD 1 M To Scale Agentic AI Customer Experience Platform February 9, 2026
- Why Forex Trading is Taking off in Emerging Markets February 6, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Agridex Partnership Signals Shift in How Trade Finance Reaches African SMEs February 11, 2026
- Infrastructure Defines the Limits of Agritech in Africa February 11, 2026
- Africa’s AI Future Tests Ambition, Infrastructure, and Control of Value February 11, 2026
- Cross Border Income Grows Across Africa as Banking Struggles to Keep PaceBanking Reality February 11, 2026
- The Point Where African Fintech Has to Prove It Can Hold Together February 11, 2026
- Inside Moniepoint: How One Fintech is Wrestling with Growth, Chaos, and African Payments February 11, 2026
- Talent Is No Longer the Problem but the Systems Around It Still Are February 11, 2026
Techloy
- 5 Tips for Building an Online Store That Sells Without Any Drama February 11, 2026
- Marvel Rivals Season 6.5 Adds Elsa Bloodstone, New Team-Ups, and Deadpool Events February 11, 2026
- Google Now Lets You Delete Government ID Data From Search — Here’s How to Use "Results About You" February 11, 2026
- Jailed FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks New Trial in Federal Fraud Case February 11, 2026
- Valentine’s Day Tech Gift Ideas: What the Techloy Team Wants in 2026 February 11, 2026
- Why Consumers Trust Curated Product Lists More Than Ads February 11, 2026
- Spotify Hits Record User Growth as Q4 2025 Revenue Reaches €4.5 Billion February 11, 2026
- Why Restaurant Orders Go Wrong During Rush Hour—and How a Smarter Workflow Prevents Costly Mistakes February 10, 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
- Jacks or Better Poker: Why Strategic Players Keep Coming Back February 11, 2026
- Entire Raises $60M Seed at $300M Valuation February 11, 2026
- Primary Ventures Raises $625M Fund V for Seed Bets February 11, 2026
- 5 Trading Strategies Using Solana On-Chain Analytics February 11, 2026
- Newo Raises $25M to Power SMB Front Desks With Voice AI February 10, 2026
- Backslash Security Raises $19M to Secure Enterprise AI Code February 10, 2026
- Runway Raises $315 Million To Advance AI Video And World Models February 10, 2026
TechCentral
- Why Acer is the strategic choice for South Africa’s educational future February 11, 2026
- Standard Bank joins smart ID push with fee-free launch February 11, 2026
- Zscaler assets seized from South African data centres February 11, 2026
- Fyndae wants to turn lost-item recovery into Africa’s trust infrastructure February 11, 2026
- How NEC XON tackled identity risk for a major telco February 11, 2026
- SA app wants to end guesswork in online grocery shopping February 11, 2026
- Absa appoints M-Pesa boss to lead personal and private banking February 11, 2026
- David Ellison just won’t quit February 11, 2026
- Sentech is in dire straits February 10, 2026
- A million reasons monopolies don’t work February 10, 2026
Technext
- Onafriq and Conduit partner to power stablecoin payments across Africa February 11, 2026
- Deepfake: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says viral investment promotion video is AI February 11, 2026
- Cybersecurity: Resilio Africa launched to support 200 institutions across Africa February 11, 2026
- Nigerian user sues Chowdeck over alleged hidden prices on app February 11, 2026
- A New Voice in Business Media: Marasoft CEO Launches The Emmanuel Maraks Podcast February 11, 2026
- Social media proposed ban in SA, AI police station in Ethiopia, and other tech news February 11, 2026
- Jumia ceases operation in Algeria February 11, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat February 11, 2026
- AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways February 10, 2026
- 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint February 10, 2026
- Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable February 9, 2026
- “This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio February 6, 2026
- Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models February 5, 2026
- Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing February 4, 2026
- Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows February 4, 2026
- 3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs February 4, 2026
DEV Community
- I Built an AI Health Coach That Actually Knows Me February 11, 2026
- 👻 PowerShell In-Memory Bypass Tactics February 11, 2026
- Architecting Durable AI Agents: Solving the Volatile State Problem February 11, 2026
- Build an Instagram Highlights Archiver to Save Any Brand's Best Content February 11, 2026
- Building a WhatsApp Chat Exporter: From Concept to Production February 11, 2026
- The Odin Project: Learn Full-Stack Development for Free February 11, 2026
- When I Hired Multiple Generative AIs as Subordinates, Parallel Development Processing Never Stopped February 11, 2026
- The Hidden Complexity of HTML Tables (Why Parsing Them Is Harder Than You Think) February 11, 2026
- The Feynman Technique 2026: A Cognitive Algorithm to Kill the 'Illusion of Competence' February 11, 2026
OpenAI News
- Testing ads in ChatGPT February 9, 2026
- Bringing ChatGPT to GenAI.mil February 9, 2026
- Making AI work for everyone, everywhere: our approach to localization February 6, 2026
- GPT-5 lowers the cost of cell-free protein synthesis February 5, 2026
- Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber February 5, 2026
- Introducing OpenAI Frontier February 5, 2026
- Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex February 5, 2026
- Navigating health questions with ChatGPT February 5, 2026
- GPT-5.3-Codex System Card February 5, 2026
- Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server February 4, 2026
- VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability February 4, 2026
- The Sora feed philosophy February 3, 2026
- Snowflake and OpenAI partner to bring frontier intelligence to enterprise data February 2, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds January 29, 2026
- D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions January 16, 2026
- Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control January 13, 2026
- Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 December 23, 2025
- Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed December 17, 2025
- Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior December 16, 2025
- Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice experiences December 12, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
- How Amazon uses Amazon Nova models to automate operational readiness testing for new fulfillment centers February 10, 2026
- Iberdrola enhances IT operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 10, 2026
- Building real-time voice assistants with Amazon Nova Sonic compared to cascading architectures February 10, 2026
- Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation February 9, 2026
- Scale LLM fine-tuning with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI February 9, 2026
- New Relic transforms productivity with generative AI on AWS February 9, 2026
Databricks
- Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent is Now GA: Orchestrate Enterprise Agents February 10, 2026
- How to improve patient outcomes with next best actions using a Composable CDP on Databricks February 10, 2026
- Introducing the new Databricks Partner Program and Well-Architected Framework for ISVs and Data Providers February 10, 2026
- Why Apache Spark Real-Time Mode Is A Game Changer for Ad Attribution February 9, 2026
- SAP and Salesforce Data Integration for Supplier Analytics on Databricks February 7, 2026
- How to Build Production-Ready Genie Spaces, and Build Trust Along the Way February 6, 2026
- Databricks Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment February 6, 2026
- Tutorial: 3 Free Databricks Analytics Projects You Can Do In An Afternoon February 5, 2026
- From Data to Dialogue: A Best Practices Guide for Building High-Performing Genie Spaces February 5, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- 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
- Model of the Month: chatterbox-turbo January 7, 2026
- Can text *finally* make robots dance exactly how we want them to? January 3, 2026
- Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction? December 27, 2025
Techmeme
- Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) February 11, 2026
- TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) February 11, 2026
- An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to "deep reservations" about ads and OpenAI's strategy (Zoë Hitzig/New York Times) February 11, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- 4 Shifts Defining AI Governance in 2026 February 10, 2026
- Why “Data Scientist” is Becoming “AI Engineer” and What That Actually Means February 10, 2026
- From Agents to ROI: Why Your AI Agent Probably Costs More Than it’s Worth February 9, 2026
- AI Integration Strategy Dos and Don’ts: How Leaders Deliver Real Business Value February 9, 2026
- The ODSC AI East Schedule Preview, Agentic AI Workflows, 2026 AI Trends, Agent Costs, and Coding… February 5, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- The Generative AI Oligopoly: How Big Tech is Building “Old Moats” for the New Era (2024–2026) February 11, 2026
- Building a Production-Grade Autonomous LLM Agent with Tool Use, Memory, and Multimodal Capabilities February 11, 2026
- I Pitted 3 AI Agents Against Each Other. The Result Was Scary. February 11, 2026
- The AI That Built Itself: What GPT-5.3-Codex Means For Developers February 11, 2026
- Prompt to Protocol: Architecting Agent-Oriented Infrastructure for Production LLMs February 11, 2026
aibusiness
- AI Startup Runway Raises $315M, Pivots to World Models February 10, 2026
- EU warns Meta not to block rival AI bots from WhatsApp February 10, 2026
- Mistral drops new speech-to-text AI models February 10, 2026
- Startup Introduces 'Large Tabular Model' for Spreadsheet Data February 9, 2026
- AI Lawsuits in 2026: Settlements, Licensing Deals, Litigation February 9, 2026
- OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers February 6, 2026
- Enterprises Don't Care About Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad February 6, 2026
- Robotaxi Leader Waymo Confirms $16B Funding Round February 5, 2026
- Opinion Divided on Moltbook Social Network for AI Agents February 4, 2026
- Panic Rises in Legal Industry Due to Anthropic’s AI Plugins February 4, 2026
- Nvidia, Dassault Systèmes to Build Industrial AI Platform February 4, 2026
- Claude Plots a Route for NASA Rover on Mars February 3, 2026
- Change is Coming to xAI After Musk Merges it with SpaceX February 3, 2026
AI News Weekly
- AI News Weekly - Issue #464: 5 reasons will will not get AGI soon - Feb 5th 2026 February 5, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #463: All about The "Moltbook" Phenomenon - Feb 2nd 2026 February 2, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI? - Jan 29th 2026 January 29, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #461: - Jan 21st 2026 January 21, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #460: - Jan 20th 2026 January 20, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course May 10, 2025
- The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning April 19, 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
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2025 February 4, 2026
- Weekly Review 30 January 2026 January 30, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2026 January 29, 2026
- Weekly Review 23 January 2026 January 23, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2026 January 21, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2026 January 20, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026 January 19, 2026
- Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence 2025 January 18, 2026
MarkTechPost
- NVIDIA Researchers Introduce KVTC Transform Coding Pipeline to Compress Key-Value Caches by 20x for Efficient LLM Serving February 11, 2026
- Google AI Introduces Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI): An Agentic Multimodal Accessibility Framework Built on Gemini for Adaptive UI Design February 11, 2026
- How to Design Complex Deep Learning Tensor Pipelines Using Einops with Vision, Attention, and Multimodal Examples February 10, 2026
- Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications February 10, 2026
