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Nigus and Elmirate announce $200m initiative to support Africa’s security sector
March 16, 2026
Tony Elumelu Foundation Has Deployed Over $100 Million to African Startups
March 16, 2026
Anambra State and Saudi Technology Hub Sign Memorandum of Understanding
March 16, 2026
South African AI Research Platform Yazi Raises First Institutional Funding
March 16, 2026
Five African Startups Selected for Think Like an Investor 2026 Programme
March 13, 2026
Modern Diesel Engine Technology in Heavy-Duty Vehicles
March 13, 2026
Algeria’s Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets, Moving Into Physical Retail
March 12, 2026
Orca Fraud Secures $2.35M Seed to Bring Real-Time Fraud Intelligence to Emerging Markets
March 12, 2026
Africa’s Business Heroes Opens $1.5M Grant Competition for African Entrepreneurs
March 12, 2026
Zambia Signs MOU With UK Firm to Pilot AI in Schools
March 12, 2026
TechCabal
Anna Ekeledo on a decade building Africa’s tech hub network at AfriLabs
March 16, 2026
Nigerian fintech Duplo gets licenced for e-invoicing and tax transmission
March 16, 2026
How Safaricom’s new M-PESA masked phone number feature will work
March 16, 2026
Nigeria emerges as MTN’s dominant market after massive earnings jump
March 16, 2026
Nigeria’s iDICE Startup Bridge launches with grants and $100,000 equity
March 16, 2026
Nigeria’s campus gig economy may be generating $293 million a year
March 16, 2026
Kenya moves to let courts order ISPs to block illegal livestreams
March 16, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Your DStv could become cheaper
March 16, 2026
CBN restricts BVN phone number changes to once in a lifetime to curb fraud
March 13, 2026
11 billion transactions and 26% exclusion: The infrastructure gap the CBN wants to close
March 13, 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
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo Alongside iPhone 17e and iPhone 17
March 16, 2026
Ortec Finance Launches a New Standard in Strategic Asset Allocation Powered by Scenario-Based Machine Learning
March 16, 2026
WSO2 Unveils Platform Portfolio to Power Secure and Sovereign AI Adoption
March 16, 2026
New Robotics Laboratory Opens at Siyifunile Secondary School in Mpumalanga
March 16, 2026
Duplo Secures Dual Licenses to Bridge E-Invoicing & Unified Payments for Businesses in Nigeria
March 16, 2026
The End of SaaS Dependency: Why the Next Generation of Founders Will Build, Not Subscribe
March 13, 2026
Why is Ghana’s retail boom reshaping the country’s print industry?
March 13, 2026
COLORFUL Launches the iGame GeForce RTX 50 Ultra Series
March 13, 2026
Former OpenAI & Google AI Experts launches HyperDev
March 13, 2026
Fintech Company & ADCB launch Egypt’s First Transactional Fraud Solution Powered by AI
March 13, 2026
TechCity
How To Scale A Startup Globally: Practical Playbook For Founders
March 16, 2026
Content Creation Guide for Beginners
March 13, 2026
Future of Electric Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 2026 Growth
March 13, 2026
Social Media Privacy Settings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Yourself Online
March 12, 2026
Online Learning Platforms: Coursera vs Udemy vs YouTube
March 12, 2026
Digital Payment Regulations Africa: What Startups Must Know Now
March 12, 2026
WhatsApp Advanced Features You Are Probably Missing
March 11, 2026
AWIT to Host International Women’s Day 2026 Tech Dialogue in Lagos
March 11, 2026
Best Laptops for Software Developers: Top Picks 2026 Guide Now
March 11, 2026
Career Transition to Tech: A Complete How-To Guide
March 10, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Absa and Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay, a Next‑Generation Solution for Fast, Affordable Global Remittances
March 10, 2026
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
TechArena
Visa and Bank of Abyssinia Expand Partnership to Boost Digital Payments in Ethiopia
March 16, 2026
NTT DATA Launches NVIDIA-Powered Enterprise AI Factories to Accelerate Production-Scale AI
March 16, 2026
LG Wins 26 Awards at 2026 iF Design Awards for Innovations in AI, OLED and Smart Home Technologies
March 16, 2026
Konza Technopolis Launches Smart Power Distribution Network
March 13, 2026
Kenya and Rwanda Sign Kigali Declaration to Enable Fintech License Passporting
March 13, 2026
Datacentrix Strengthens Security and Service Standards with New ISO Certifications
March 13, 2026
Tich App Launches to Connect Urban Kenyan Youth with Gig and Short-Term Jobs
March 12, 2026
MultiChoice to Discontinue Showmax as Streaming Services Evolve
March 12, 2026
WeeTracker
Bad Blood Between Nigeria’s Creator Economy Rivals Spills Onto The Streets
March 16, 2026
Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets To Expand Omnichannel Retail In Algeria
March 16, 2026
Aqua-Spark Closes USD 48 M Africa Aquaculture Fund
March 16, 2026
African E-commerce Payment Gateways with a Fast Setup Process
March 16, 2026
Oil At $120 Should Be A Win For Nigeria — Verto CEO Says It’s Not So Simple
March 12, 2026
The Startup Chasing Bold Do-Over In African B2B E-Commerce As Early Models Fail
March 11, 2026
SA’s Yazi Raises Funding To Expand WhatsApp-Based AI Research Platform
March 11, 2026
TechTrendsKE
WaveX Becomes First Reseller Partner at LINX Internet Exchanges Kenya Sites
March 16, 2026
Preventing the Breach: Why Companies Should Turn to Proactive Cybersecurity
March 16, 2026
Genetec Launches Cloud-Managed Security Appliance Built for Enterprise Scale
March 16, 2026
Telecom AI Meets Mobile Money in Safaricom–Indosat Deal
March 16, 2026
Southern Africa Starts Lowering Mobile Roaming Costs Under SADC One Network Area
March 16, 2026
The Canal+ Strategy Taking Shape After Showmax
March 16, 2026
Kenya and Ghana Explore SME Growth and Trade Opportunities
March 13, 2026
Techloy
7 Top Tools to Secure Your Container Images
March 14, 2026
Why Benefits EDI Takes Longer Than Expected
March 14, 2026
Best 6 Tools for Hybrid AI Pricing in 2026
March 14, 2026
Best 5 Chat with SQL Databases Tools for 2026
March 14, 2026
Best 10 AI Tools for B2B Sales Prospecting in 2026
March 14, 2026
Why Power Quality Matters for High‑Tech Operations
March 14, 2026
A UK Bank App Glitch Showed Customers Other People’s Transaction History
March 13, 2026
🌍 A Future for AI in Africa?
March 13, 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
Frore Systems Raises $143M, Achieves $1.64B Unicorn Status
March 16, 2026
Why 40% of Crypto Projects Will Lose Users to AI Search in 2026 — And What to Do About It
March 16, 2026
Metaplanet Secures $255M to Expand Bitcoin Holdings
March 16, 2026
US Considers Operation to Seize Iran’s Nuclear Material in Expanding Conflict
March 16, 2026
30 Best Bitcoin And Crypto Casino No Deposit Bonuses And Free Spins Mar 2026
March 15, 2026
10 Easiest Crypto to Mine: Best Profitable Coins In Mar 2026
March 15, 2026
Trump Pushes Global Coalition to Secure Strait of Hormuz
March 15, 2026
TechCentral
MTN initiates share buyback programme
March 16, 2026
Your Airbnb is empty half the year – this SA start-up has a fix
March 16, 2026
Optasia beats IPO guidance in maiden results as lending scales
March 16, 2026
Mitel receives 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award
March 16, 2026
MTN’s mobile money machine
March 16, 2026
MTN lines up partners for African AI data centre play
March 16, 2026
Peter Thiel’s secretive Rome conference draws Church attention
March 16, 2026
Eskom marks 300 days without load shedding
March 16, 2026
Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
March 16, 2026
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
March 16, 2026
Technext
‘Just increase the ride fares’- Nigerians react as Uber, Bolt drivers strike
March 16, 2026
Nosh launches international bill payments across 136 countries, enabling cross-border utility payments with Naira and Cedis
March 16, 2026
Bitcoin up, gold down: Crypto flips safe-haven narrative as the Iranian war enters day 16
March 16, 2026
MTN Group records $6 billion data revenue in 2025, powered by strong performance in Nigeria and Ghana
March 16, 2026
“I resigned; I wasn’t sacked”: Milton Tutu clears the air on Selar exit and Mainstack pivot
March 16, 2026
How Nawo is keeping money spraying alive, after a CBN ban changed everything
March 16, 2026
Can Casha be the next Unicorn?
March 16, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
March 12, 2026
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
March 11, 2026
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
March 11, 2026
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
March 11, 2026
3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression
March 10, 2026
How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology
March 10, 2026
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions
March 9, 2026
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
March 4, 2026
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics
February 27, 2026
DEV Community
Yes – you can execute native Apps Script with Office 365 back end
March 16, 2026
What if LLMs needed a spine, not a bigger brain?
March 16, 2026
I Pitched a Privacy-First Wearable AI at 4YFN as CTO — Here's What I Learned
March 16, 2026
Why static trading strategies fail in non-stationary markets
March 16, 2026
Kiro for Test-Driven Development (TDD)
March 16, 2026
A self-hosted financial system for freelancers
March 16, 2026
System-Wide STT for Linux: Speak to AI
March 16, 2026
KEXP: Queralt Lahoz - LA FE (Live on KEXP)
March 16, 2026
Discovery Chain Benchmark: 13 AI Models, 96% Recognition Rate
March 16, 2026
OpenAI News
Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex
March 11, 2026
Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
March 11, 2026
Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI
March 11, 2026
From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment
March 11, 2026
Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
March 10, 2026
New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT
March 10, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
March 9, 2026
How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale
March 6, 2026
Codex Security: now in research preview
March 6, 2026
How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing
March 6, 2026
GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card
March 5, 2026
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good
March 5, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4
March 5, 2026
Google Deep Blog
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
March 9, 2026
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
Artificial Intelligence
P-EAGLE: Faster LLM inference with Parallel Speculative Decoding in vLLM
March 13, 2026
Improve operational visibility for inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock with new CloudWatch metrics for TTFT and Estimated Quota Consumption
March 12, 2026
Secure AI agents with Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
March 12, 2026
Multimodal embeddings at scale: AI data lake for media and entertainment workloads
March 12, 2026
Fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron Speech ASR on Amazon EC2 for domain adaptation
March 12, 2026
Operationalizing Agentic AI Part 1: A Stakeholder’s Guide
March 11, 2026
Databricks
Breaking the Microbatch Barrier: The Architecture of Apache Spark Real-Time Mode
March 16, 2026
Serverless Workspaces in Azure Databricks is now Generally Available
March 13, 2026
AI Governance Is the Strategy: Why Successful AI Initiatives Begins with Control, Not Code
March 12, 2026
The Evolution of Data Engineering: How Serverless Compute is Transforming Notebooks, Lakeflow Jobs, and Spark Declarative Pipelines
March 12, 2026
10 Data Warehouse Migration Myths Blocking AI-readiness (and Your Blueprint for Seamless Modernization)
March 12, 2026
How Ontologies Help Nuclear Scale to Meet Global Energy Demand
March 11, 2026
Mitigating The Risk of Prompt Injection for AI Agents on Databricks
March 11, 2026
Introducing Genie Code
March 11, 2026
Your Databricks Guide to HIMSS26
March 11, 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
Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting "AI face models" to facilitate crypto and romance scams; some demand 100+ video calls per day (Matt Burgess/Wired)
March 16, 2026
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)
March 16, 2026
Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
March 16, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
What Boards Should Actually Be Asking About AI in 2026
March 12, 2026
AI Teammates, the Death of SaaS, Capturing Enterprise Intelligence, and Tonight’s D.C. Meetup
March 12, 2026
AI Engineer vs Data Scientist Salary in 2026: Why Production Skills Pay More
March 11, 2026
Managing Human + AI Workflows: The Operating Model Most Teams Are Missing
March 10, 2026
AI Copilots at Work: Practical Tools, Open-Source Options, and Strategy
March 9, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
NVIDIA Just Released a 120B Model That Runs Like a 12B
March 16, 2026
5 Thoughts on LLM Capabilities and Limitations
March 16, 2026
The Cold Start Problem: How We Are Building AI Training Data From Scratch
March 16, 2026
I Processed 226 Million NHS Patient Records. Here’s What I Found
March 16, 2026
The NHS Postcode Lottery Is Real. I Built a Pipeline to Measure It.
March 16, 2026
aibusiness
New Microsoft AI Agents to Help Modernize Enterprises
March 16, 2026
AI Customer Support Startup Now Valued at $2 billion
March 13, 2026
AI Safety From a Hardware Perspective
March 12, 2026
Ford’s New AI Tool Offers In-Depth Insight Into Its CVs
March 12, 2026
AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion
March 11, 2026
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network
March 11, 2026
Contextual Data is Important for Enterprises' AI Projects
March 10, 2026
Neura Launches Europe's Largest Physical AI Training Center
March 10, 2026
French AI Startup Building World Models Raises $1.03 billion
March 10, 2026
Building an AI-Ready Data Ecosystem at Capital One
March 10, 2026
Dealing With AI's Effect on Jobs and Opportunities in Data
March 9, 2026
ABB, Nvidia Partner to Deliver Physical AI at Scale
March 9, 2026
OpenClaw Forces Enterprise Strategy Questions
March 9, 2026
AI News Weekly
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : Future lost in transation - Mar 15th 2026
March 15, 2026
AI News Weekly - The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee - Mar 11th 2026
March 11, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026
March 9, 2026
AI News Weekly - GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes - Mar 6th 2026
March 6, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time - Mar 3rd 2026
March 3, 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
Weekly Review 13 March 2026
March 13, 2026
Weekly Review 6 March 2026
March 6, 2026
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
MarkTechPost
Moonshot AI Releases 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 to Replace Fixed Residual Mixing with Depth-Wise Attention for Better Scaling in Transformers
March 16, 2026
IBM AI Releases Granite 4.0 1B Speech as a Compact Multilingual Speech Model for Edge AI and Translation Pipelines
March 16, 2026
A Coding Implementation to Design an Enterprise AI Governance System Using OpenClaw Gateway Policy Engines, Approval Workflows and Auditable Agent Execution
March 15, 2026
Meet OpenViking: An Open-Source Context Database that Brings Filesystem-Based Memory and Retrieval to AI Agent Systems like OpenClaw
March 15, 2026
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