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Tech In Africa

Noah and Nafolo Launch Stablecoin Virtual Accounts to End Cross-Border Payment Friction in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 4, 2026
UNICEF Venture Fund Opens Applications for Blockchain Solutions March 3, 2026
European Investment Bank Deployed €3.1 Billion in Africa in 2025 March 3, 2026
Africa Is Not Missing the AI Wave — It’s Playing a Different Game March 3, 2026
Nigeria’s VC Slowdown: Normalization or Warning Sign? March 3, 2026
Delivery Platform Chowdeck Partners with MyCoverGenius to Provide Rider Insurance March 2, 2026
Breadfast Launches a Comprehensive Delivery Riders Safety Program in Egypt March 2, 2026
Zimbabwe’s New Tech Regulations: What Changes for Crypto, Mobile Money, and Startups in 2026 February 28, 2026
DR Congo €8B Digital Plan: What It Includes (Telecom, Infrastructure, Data Centers) and Who Benefits February 28, 2026
Kenya vs Nigeria vs Egypt: Which Country Has the Strongest Startup Ecosystem in 2026? February 27, 2026

TechCabal

Cybercrime costs Africa $10 billion a year. AI is about to make that number bigger. March 5, 2026
Nigeria’s loan apps are pulling back from the small loans that built them March 5, 2026
Bolt and WANATU beat South Africa’s licence deadline. Their drivers may not. March 5, 2026
MultiChoice to shut down Showmax after 11 years as Canal+ cuts costs March 5, 2026
Nigerian AI startup Intron expands speech recognition platform to 57 languages March 5, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Africa’s first Tesla dealership is open March 5, 2026
This startup wants to bring Bitcoin to Africans who can’t afford the Internet March 4, 2026
Africa’s crypto is complex. Josephine Inika has made a career simplifying it. March 4, 2026
Absa Kenya raises government securities holdings 19% as loan demand weakens March 4, 2026
Nomba wants Nigerian merchants to collect pounds directly from UK banks March 4, 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 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
The Invisible Engine: How Daraja 3.0 is Scaling Kenyan Tech Through MPESA February 17, 2026
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

African Business Technology News

Ethio telecom and Ericsson Sign Landmark Network Expansion and Modernization Agreement March 5, 2026
Intron Launches Voice AI for Africa with 24 Languages March 5, 2026
Absa x Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay March 5, 2026
Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates the Path to Scalable Production AI March 4, 2026
Elekta Appoints Nexeva Healthcare Solutions as Strategic Partner in South Africa March 4, 2026
Time Out South Africa Appoints New Managing Director March 4, 2026
Bolt SA Registers Under New Transport Regulations March 4, 2026
Kaspersky Enhances its Security Awareness Platform with SCORM & PDF Support March 4, 2026
Ozow and MoneyBadger Welcome Budget Commitment to formalizing the Crypto Asset Framework March 4, 2026
Pick n Pay Expands Super App with a Clothing Launch on asap! March 3, 2026

TechCity

How to Start an Ecommerce Business: Step-by-Step Guide 2026 March 4, 2026
Mobile Money Explained: How OPay, PalmPay, M-Pesa and Others Actually Work March 3, 2026
Best Budget Smartphones 2024: Top Picks Under $300 Worldwide March 3, 2026
How to Transfer WhatsApp Without Losing Messages March 2, 2026
NOW LIVE!. PRE-ORDER THE TECNO CAMON 50 SERIES AND FANTASTIC GIFTS AWAIT YOU March 2, 2026
Latest Fintech Trends in Africa: 2026 Growth & Risks Explained March 2, 2026
House of Faith Launches FaithStream, Africa’s First Premium Faith-Based Streaming Platform, Now Available Globally March 1, 2026
Infinix NOTE 60 SERIES Brings Innovation with Interactive Design and Snapdragon Processor March 1, 2026
Cheapest Data Plans in South Africa vs Nigeria: 2026 Report! February 27, 2026
New Data Privacy Law in South Africa: Key Changes for Businesses February 26, 2026

AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa

PawaPay Partners with Deriv to Support Mobile Money Deposits Across African Markets March 4, 2026
Vantage Capital Leads R635m Investment into SolarAfrica Energy March 2, 2026
Symbiotics Invests $5.5 in Fido Ghana to Boost AI-Powered Financial Inclusion March 2, 2026
How Bitnob is Reshaping Enterprise Payments in Africa: Insights from Africa Tech Summit Nairobi February 18, 2026
Why Digital Identity is Becoming Africa’s Most Critical Tech Infrastructure February 16, 2026
Delta40 Completes $20M Capital Raise to Build, Invest in & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa February 12, 2026
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 27, 2026

TechArena

Google Expands AI Search Features to 13 African Languages Including Kiswahili March 5, 2026
Document Fraud Dominates Identity Verification Rejections in East Africa, Report Finds March 5, 2026
Why Digital Trust Matters: Secure, Responsible AI for African SMEs? March 5, 2026
Eight Million DDoS Attacks in Six Months: NETSCOUT Warns of a Hyper-Scale Cyber Threat Era March 5, 2026
Roam Opens AI Fleet Platform to Third-Party EVs, Expands Subscription Model as M-KOPA Taps Real-Time Data March 4, 2026
Inside the LG WashTower: Smart Laundry for Modern Kenyan Homes March 4, 2026
Absa Bank Kenya Profit Rises 10% to KSh 22.9 Billion as Impairments Fall March 4, 2026
Flexpay- The Fintech Platform Turning Savings into Purchasing Power March 4, 2026

WeeTracker

How M-KOPA Put 5,000+ Electric Bikes On Kenyan Roads—Fast March 5, 2026
Canal+ Pulls Plug On Showmax As African Streaming Losses Mount March 5, 2026
SolarAfrica Consolidates C&I Solar Portfolio In USD 39 M Mezzanine Deal March 4, 2026
Eyone Medical Raises USD 1.7 M To Power Senegal’s Digital Health Push March 4, 2026
Saviu Partners Secures USD 7.6 M From AfDB To Scale Francophone Africa Startups March 4, 2026
Hlayisani Capital Hits USD 30 M First Close For Venture Fund II March 4, 2026
Weego Raises USD 1.1 M To Scale Multimodal Transport Platform In Morocco March 4, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Jumia Tech Week 2026: Kenyans Prioritize Smartphones and Home Upgrades March 4, 2026
TECNO Kenya Shifts Focus to Authentic Stories with #CAMON50SEESYOU Campaign March 4, 2026
Mobile Forex Trading is Set to Dominate Africa in 2026 March 4, 2026
OPPO Kenya and MOGO Launch Smartphone Financing Program March 3, 2026
Huawei Exceeds ITU Partner2Connect Pledge Target, Bringing Connectivity to 170 Million People Globally March 3, 2026
How M-PESA Optimization is Localizing Liquidity for Kenyan Traders March 3, 2026
Amazon’s Kuiper Eyes Kenya as Satellite Internet Race Widens March 2, 2026

Techloy

You Can Now Turn PDFs Into Cinematic Videos With Google NotebookLM — Here’s How It Works March 5, 2026
Showmax to Shut Down After 11 Years as Canal+ Rethinks Streaming Strategy March 5, 2026
A Stolen Gemini API Key Ran Up an $82,000 Bill for a Three-Person Startup March 5, 2026
OpenAI Hits $25 Billion in Annualized Revenue While Anthropic Surges to $19 Billion March 5, 2026
After 6 Years, Crimson Desert Is Finally Almost Here—Here's What to Expect March 5, 2026
Assassin's Creed Shadows Lands on Nintendo Switch 2 — Here’s Everything Ubisoft Has Planned for 2026 March 5, 2026
Will Sony Stop Making PlayStation 5 Games for PC? Here's What Really Happened March 5, 2026
Eric Trump Calls Big Banks Opposing Stablecoin Yields ‘Anti-American’ March 5, 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

Evervault Raises $25M To Expand Encryption Infrastructure March 5, 2026
Vast Raises $500M for Haven Commercial Space Stations March 5, 2026
Sierra Space Raises $550M Series C, Hits $8B Valuation March 5, 2026
Best Crypto Presales to Invest in 2026 (Ranked & Reviewed) March 5, 2026
10 Best Crypto Marketing Agency Providers in 2026 (Web3 & Blockchain) March 5, 2026
10 Best Crypto Profit Calculator Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid) March 5, 2026
10 Best Crypto Card Options in 2026: Debit & Credit Ranked March 5, 2026

TechCentral

The voice gap holding back South Africa’s Microsoft Teams users March 5, 2026
TCS | Sink or swim? Antony Makins on how AI is rewriting the rules of work March 5, 2026
The hidden drag on South Africa’s mobile networks March 5, 2026
Binance invests heavily in compliance amid crypto boom March 5, 2026
Africa reaches cybersecurity milestone with continent’s largest Zero Trust deployment March 5, 2026
Capitec’s new AI tool knows your problem before you explain it March 5, 2026
From Linux chaos to AI precision: the maturation of LSD Open March 5, 2026
MultiChoice pulls the plug on Showmax March 5, 2026
Andy Higgins to move into new role at Bob Group March 5, 2026
Apple just dropped a bomb on the Windows world March 5, 2026

Technext

MTN, Safaricom in world’s top 10 strongest telecom brands March 5, 2026
Ethiopia opens Africa’s first unmanned Smart Police Station March 5, 2026
The death of the retainer: How B2Press is redefining global press release distribution with technology March 5, 2026
Intron launches Sahara-v2, a voice AI model supporting 24 new African languages March 5, 2026
MultiChoice to shut down Showmax following years of financial losses March 5, 2026
How to identify and stop unauthorised recording by wearable smart glasses March 5, 2026
MTN, Airtel, Globacom and others ordered to notify NCC of cyber threats within 4hrs March 5, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster March 4, 2026
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics February 27, 2026
New method could increase LLM training efficiency February 26, 2026
Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world February 25, 2026
AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology February 25, 2026
Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy February 25, 2026
Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users February 19, 2026
Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models February 19, 2026
Parking-aware navigation system could prevent frustration and emissions February 19, 2026

DEV Community

You Built a Kotlin AI Agent. Should You Migrate to Koog? March 5, 2026
Catching agent repo drift before evals March 5, 2026
Your MCP server's tool descriptions are an attack surface March 5, 2026
Browser Automation Built for Agents March 5, 2026
Why AI Might Be the WORST Thing That Could Have Happened to Us March 5, 2026
I Built a Real-Time SEO Linter That Lives Inside Your React App 🔍 March 5, 2026
Day 2: I Didn't Write Any Code Today (And That's the Point) March 5, 2026
I Stopped Claude Code From Breaking My Projects. Here's the Exact Setup March 5, 2026
I Built a Fullstack App With Custom MCP Server Integration March 5, 2026

OpenAI News

Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons March 4, 2026
How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism March 4, 2026
Understanding AI and learning outcomes March 4, 2026
GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations March 3, 2026
GPT-5.3 Instant System Card March 3, 2026
Our agreement with the Department of War February 28, 2026
Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock February 27, 2026
Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft February 27, 2026
OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership February 27, 2026
Scaling AI for everyone February 27, 2026
An update on our mental health-related work February 27, 2026
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting February 26, 2026
OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience February 26, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale March 3, 2026
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed February 26, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks February 19, 2026
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music February 18, 2026
Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education February 17, 2026
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering February 12, 2026
Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think February 9, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline March 5, 2026
Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints March 5, 2026
Embed Amazon Quick Suite chat agents in enterprise applications March 4, 2026
Unlock powerful call center analytics with Amazon Nova foundation models March 4, 2026
How Ricoh built a scalable intelligent document processing solution on AWS March 4, 2026
Building a scalable virtual try-on solution using Amazon Nova on AWS: part 1 March 3, 2026

Databricks

Meet KARL: A Faster Agent for Enterprise Knowledge, powered by custom RL March 5, 2026
Unified data discovery with business context in Unity Catalog March 4, 2026
Bayer Consumer Health scales global self-service analytics with Unity Catalog March 4, 2026
Azure Databricks Lakebase is Generally Available March 3, 2026
Tutorial: How to ship AI/BI Dashboard changes safely at scale with Databricks Asset Bundles March 3, 2026
From Tribal Knowledge to Instant Answers: Building Reffy on Databricks March 2, 2026
Real-Time Mode: Ultra-low latency streaming on Spark APIs without a second engine March 2, 2026
Jefferies modernizes equity research at scale with Databricks and agentic analytics March 2, 2026
Activate first-party data with Meta Conversions API on Databricks March 2, 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

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

Agentic AI vs SaaS: What the “Death of SaaS” Really Means for Enterprise Work March 4, 2026
Inside ODSC AI East 2026: Sessions, Speakers, and What to Expect This Year March 4, 2026
The AI Trends Shaping 2026 March 3, 2026
40% Off East Ends Friday, Agentic AI vs SaaS, Starting MLflow3, and AI Engineering Salaries February 26, 2026
Decision Boundaries, Advanced Planning for Evaluation, AI in Museums, and Building a Secure AI… February 19, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

Plug into the Matrix: Connect ContextNest to Live Data and Level Up Your AI March 5, 2026
The 8% Who Are Winning at AI — And the 5 Things They’re Doing Differently March 5, 2026
LAI #117: Why AI Alignment Might Be Geometrically Broken March 5, 2026
Crack ML Interviews with Confidence: Linear Regression March 5, 2026
How I Cut My LLM Costs by 80% Without Sacrificing Quality. March 5, 2026

aibusiness

Underwater Data Center Project Aboard Offshore Wind Turbine March 5, 2026
Perplexity, CoreWeave Deal Boosts Inferencing March 5, 2026
Euro Regulators Question Meta Over AI Glasses Privacy Fears March 5, 2026
Nvidia Takes on Telco Industry With Open Source Model March 4, 2026
Humanoid Robots Now Assembling Cars in Europe and China March 4, 2026
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Instant 5.3 is Less Cringe, More Accurate March 4, 2026
IBM Targets Voice Capabilities in Watsonx With Deepgram Partnership March 4, 2026
Amazon Spends Another $21B to Beef up Spain's AI Infrastructure March 4, 2026
Capgemini Joins OpenAI's Frontier Alliance to Scale Enterprise AI March 4, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Offers Choice on How It Processes Inputs March 3, 2026
Vibe Coding Was Just the Beginning March 3, 2026
Hyundai Commits to $6.1B for AI, Robotics Hub in Korea March 2, 2026
Nvidia to Invest $4B in Companies to Scale AI Infrastructure March 2, 2026

AI News Weekly

AI News Weekly - Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time - Mar 3rd 2026 March 3, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI. - Feb 26th 2026 February 26, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition - Feb 19th 2026 February 19, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #465: the DOOM edition : 5 ways AI could destroy everything - Feb 12th 2026 February 12, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #464: 5 reasons will will not get AGI soon - Feb 5th 2026 February 5, 2026

Ahead of AI

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
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course May 10, 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 2, February 2026 March 1, 2026
Weekly Review 27 February 2026 February 27, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2026 February 25, 2026
Weekly Review 20 February 2026 February 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2026 February 17, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2026 February 16, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026 February 15, 2026
Weekly Review 13 February 2026 February 13, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026 February 12, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026

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