Tech In Africa
- 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
- South Africa Joins Afreximbank, announces US$8bn Country Programme February 4, 2026
TechCabal
- North Africa rises on deals as MENA AI funding hits $858 million February 10, 2026
- Yamify: The quiet re-architecture of African business February 10, 2026
- Regulatory conditions block Access Bank’s Bidvest Bank acquisition February 10, 2026
- What you need to know about M-PESA’s Ziidi Trader February 10, 2026
- Calling app Talk360 secures $1.4M secondary investment as it reaches profitability February 10, 2026
- South Africa’s Nedbank promises to retain NCBA staff in Kenyan takeover February 10, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Buy shares on M-Pesa February 10, 2026
- Only 26 African startups raised $174 million in January. Here’s what it signals February 9, 2026
- CBN, NCC propose 24-hour refunds for airtime and data sent to wrong numbers February 9, 2026
- Nigeria’s Raenest expands into India and the Philippines to target Asia’s freelancers February 9, 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
- 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
- South African Fibre Provider Hits 1 Million Subscribers, Marking a major milestone for SA’s telecommunications Sector February 9, 2026
- Veeam Announces 2 New Appointments to Boost Its South African Leadership Team February 9, 2026
- Mastercard unveils Agent Suite to help businesses put agentic AI into action February 9, 2026
- PowerX Launches New Maintenance Solution with AI-optimised Workflow February 9, 2026
TechCity
- 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
- iOS 26.3 and 26.4: Everything We Know So Far February 7, 2026
- Bloomwit Releases 2026 Visibility Report for African SMEs February 5, 2026
- Egypt to Host the Region’s First Major AI Summit Under Patronage of President El-Sisi February 2, 2026
- Mobile performance in Nigeria: a significant improvement driven by 4G February 2, 2026
- Moniepoint Disburses ₦1 Trillion in Loans to 70,000 Nigerian Businesses January 31, 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
- 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
- Why MT5 is Gaining Traction Among Online Traders February 6, 2026
WeeTracker
- 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
- MTN Makes Major U-Turn As It Bids To Buy Back Towers It Sold Off For Years February 5, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Nedbank Takes Control Of NCBA With Workforce Intact February 10, 2026
- KRA Wants Tax Compliance to Start at the Invoice, Not the Return February 10, 2026
- After Koko’s Fall, M-Gas Finds a Carbon Market That No Longer Feels Open February 10, 2026
- Political Speech Sits at the Center of Kenya’s Dispute With Google February 10, 2026
- Zuku’s Court Trouble Opens a View Into the Strain Beneath Kenya’s Race to Wire Its Cities February 10, 2026
- As Fintech Moves Closer, SACCOs Rethink Control, Trust, and Relevance February 10, 2026
- Safaricom Moves Deeper Into Investing as Share Trading Arrives on M-Pesa and the Brokerage Model Faces Pressure February 10, 2026
Techloy
- Magic: The Gathering Unbans Biorhythm After 21 Years in Commander Exile February 10, 2026
- How to Evaluate AI Video Generators in 2026: A Capability-Based Guide for Creators and Teams February 10, 2026
- Ferrari Reveals First Electric Car Interior Designed by Jony Ive February 10, 2026
- Crypto Users Are Losing Millions to Address Poisoning Scams February 10, 2026
- U.S. Warns Nigerian Travellers Over Visa Overstays, Says Violations Could Hurt Future Applicants February 10, 2026
- Why COB LED Strip Technology Is Shaping the Future of Modern Lighting February 10, 2026
- Discord to Make Teen Safety Settings Default — Here’s How It Affects You February 10, 2026
- Riot Games Lays Off 80 Developers From 2XKO Team Weeks After Console Launch 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
- Free Solana Onchain Data: How To Access Analytics Without Paying in 2026 February 10, 2026
- Varntix Expands the Conversation Around Fixed-Income Opportunities in Crypto February 10, 2026
- Octopus Invests €40M in Metiundo for Energy Data Tech February 10, 2026
- Naboo Raises $70M to Transform AI Events Procurement February 10, 2026
- Tomorrow.io Raises $175M for AI-Powered Weather Satellites February 9, 2026
- What Is Aster? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained February 8, 2026
- What Is OpenLedger? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained February 8, 2026
TechCentral
- Breaking down the data silos: why single views require collaboration February 10, 2026
- South Africa’s data centre market ripe for consolidation February 10, 2026
- Watts & Wheels S1E4: ‘We drive an electric Uber’ February 10, 2026
- Online sales can’t save Pick n Pay from Black Friday hangover February 10, 2026
- How Avast and Gen Digital are raising the bar in cybersecurity February 10, 2026
- How mobile platforms are transforming online trading February 10, 2026
- A million reasons monopolies don’t work February 10, 2026
- Dr Google, meet Dr Chatbot – neither is ready to see you now February 10, 2026
- Post Office still faces liquidation risk as policy rift widens February 9, 2026
- SABC says it can’t afford to cover the next election February 9, 2026
Technext
- South African renewable energy company, SolarAfrica raises $94m funding February 10, 2026
- New NCC, CBN rule to suspend airtime and data purchase during network downtime February 10, 2026
- How to Invest in Web3 Without Getting Drained February 10, 2026
- Myths around electronic transmission, Africa January funding dips, Delivery riders under legal watch, other tech news February 10, 2026
- “Conflicts don’t come from bad intentions, they come from ambiguity”,- Inside the mind of a fintech legal guardian, Lois Iheanyichukwu February 10, 2026
- Can Africans move from sports betting to the $12bn global Decentralised Prediction Market? February 9, 2026
- Teaching money differently: Sola Adesakin’s Edtech roadmap to financial freedom February 9, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 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
- Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship February 3, 2026
- Counter intelligence February 3, 2026
DEV Community
- I Benchmarked 6 LLMs to Automate My Job Board for $0.35/Month February 10, 2026
- Most Coding Tutorials Are Designed to Keep You a Beginner February 10, 2026
- OpenAI Codex Explained: Workflow, Use Cases, and Comparison with Other AI Coding Tools February 10, 2026
- Forget Canvas Apps? Build Full-Code React + Azure OpenAI Apps on Power Platform February 10, 2026
- Translating Messy Data, DAX, and Dashboards into Action Using Power BI February 10, 2026
- How to Turn Vector Letters Into a Font File February 10, 2026
- Contstructor February 10, 2026
- Why we’re moving from Cursor to Claude Code (and why you should too) February 10, 2026
- Explanation of key concepts in a cloud computing February 10, 2026
OpenAI News
- Bringing ChatGPT to GenAI.mil February 9, 2026
- Testing ads in ChatGPT 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
- GPT-5.3-Codex System Card February 5, 2026
- Navigating health questions with ChatGPT 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
- 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
- Accelerate agentic application development with a full-stack starter template for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 9, 2026
- Agent-to-agent collaboration: Using Amazon Nova 2 Lite and Amazon Nova Act for multi-agent systems February 9, 2026
- Structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock: Schema-compliant AI responses February 6, 2026
Databricks
- Introducing the new Databricks Partner Program and Well-Architected Framework for ISVs and Data Providers February 10, 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
- Unlocking the Future of Energy with Smart Meter Innovation February 4, 2026
- Data Quality Monitoring at scale with Agentic AI February 4, 2026
- How enterprises are preparing for agentic AI February 4, 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
- How a16z became the dominant influence on Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-official says it has "veto power" (Bloomberg) February 10, 2026
- YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) February 10, 2026
- Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes) February 10, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- 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
- From Graphs to Generative AI: Building Context That Pays — Part 1 January 30, 2026
- AI in Clinical Research: From Pilot Studies to Real-World Scale January 30, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Verbalized Sampling: The Prompting Breakthrough That Makes AI Think More Like Humans February 10, 2026
- Physical AI’s Impact on Manufacturing Infrastructure February 10, 2026
- 9 Agentic AI Projects I’d Build in 2026 to Learn What Agents Really Are February 10, 2026
- AI vibe coding landing page playbook — industries vs functions February 10, 2026
- The Death of CNNs: How Vision Transformers Rewrote Computer Vision in 3 Years (Part 1: The CNN Era) February 10, 2026
aibusiness
- 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
- Snowflake Deal Latest Move into Enterprise Market by OpenAI February 3, 2026
- Combatting Cultural Bias in the Translation of AI Models February 2, 2026
- New York Robotics Consortium Launches with 160 Startups February 2, 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
- How to Build a Privacy-Preserving Federated Pipeline to Fine-Tune Large Language Models with LoRA Using Flower and PEFT February 10, 2026
- Microsoft AI Proposes OrbitalBrain: Enabling Distributed Machine Learning in Space with Inter-Satellite Links and Constellation-Aware Resource Optimization Strategies February 9, 2026
- Meet OAT: The New Action Tokenizer Bringing LLM-Style Scaling and Flexible, Anytime Inference to the Robotics World February 9, 2026
- A Coding Implementation to Establish Rigorous Prompt Versioning and Regression Testing Workflows for Large Language Models using MLflow February 9, 2026
