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FMO Plans $30 Million Financing Package for M-KOPA’s Kenya E-Mobility Business
July 23, 2026
Nigeria Opens $350,000 Funding Programme for Early-Stage Tech Startups
July 23, 2026
Seychelles Fintech Fusepay Launches AI Platform for Trade Businesses
July 22, 2026
Botswana Tech Fund Secures $6.7 Million at First Close
July 22, 2026
Pepkor Plans Flash–Shop2Shop Merger and Future Fintech Listing
July 22, 2026
Egypt’s Mylerz Secures Over USD 2 Million to Grow E-commerce Logistics Operations
July 21, 2026
South African Fintech Zazu Lands Seed Investment from Launch Africa Ventures
July 21, 2026
Anara Impact Capital Leads $1.45 Million Round for Egyptian Healthtech Reme-D
July 20, 2026
Busha Business Collaborates with Tether to Expand Stablecoin Infrastructure for African Businesses
July 20, 2026
Acumen Raises Additional $90M for African Climate-Resilient Agriculture Fund, Eyes North Africa Expansion
July 19, 2026
TechCabal
WayaWaya appoints ex-Chase Bank Kenya executive Raj Singh as board adviser
July 23, 2026
Samsung One UI 9 is official: Everything we know so far
July 23, 2026
Everything confirmed about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9
July 23, 2026
The capital that was already here
July 23, 2026
Nigeria’s biggest tax reform turns business invoices into real-time economic data
July 23, 2026
IMF says Africa has to keep lights on before it can bet on AI
July 23, 2026
For FairMoney, every PoS terminal is a future lending opportunity
July 23, 2026
Why African women entrepreneurs remain overtrained and underfunded
July 23, 2026
Alliance-backed Daya expands beyond stablecoins with tokenised US stock trading
July 23, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘Warranty imeisha’
July 23, 2026
How we made it in Africa
Nigeria: How this snack food company won over informal shopkeepers
July 20, 2026
Is this crop Nigeria’s next big agribusiness opportunity?
July 15, 2026
Nigerian creates business exporting avocados and chillies from Rwanda to European supermarkets
July 13, 2026
How we made it in Africa II recognised at 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award
July 7, 2026
Ghana: From side hustle to 16 stores – a retail entrepreneur’s story
July 3, 2026
The new face of African entrepreneurship
July 2, 2026
How this Africa-focused investor manages his own money
June 29, 2026
Africa joins the global school chess circuit with first WSTC qualifier
June 27, 2026
Doing business in Somalia: unpacking the realities on the ground
June 22, 2026
Investor bullish on education in West Africa
June 19, 2026
KachTech Media
Airtel Africa Reports Strong Customer and Revenue Growth
July 23, 2026
Stanbic Kenya Foundation Boosts Digital Learning in Embu
July 23, 2026
M-KOPA Reaches 10 Million Customers as Growth Gains Pace
July 23, 2026
Banks No Longer Compete on Money. They Compete on Data
July 22, 2026
Kenya Music Growth Highlighted by Spotify Streaming Data
July 22, 2026
KCB CFAO Youth Training Boosts Automotive and E-Mobility Skills
July 22, 2026
How Africa is Turning Blockchain into Economic Infrastructure
July 21, 2026
Why Authentic African Stories Matter More Than Ever
July 21, 2026
AI Helps Transform Health Supply Chains in Africa
July 21, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
Ten insights into how technology is changing decision‑making in the mining industry
July 23, 2026
Best Pokémon GO Spoofers for iPhone in 2026: 4 Safe Methods Compared
July 23, 2026
Ethio Telecom Profit Jumps as Data Revenue Overtakes Voice, Marking Historic Digital Shift
July 23, 2026
Forgot Apple ID Password? How to Remove Activation Lock on iPhone
July 23, 2026
Africa’s ICT Ministers Open Conference in Abuja to Decide Telecommunications Union’s Future
July 23, 2026
Why retailers are embracing digital payout solutions to improve workforce and customer engagement
July 23, 2026
Guinea launches NimbaPay, opening a new era of instant and inclusive digital payments
July 23, 2026
Duplo partners with Wema Bank to Automate Financial Operations for ALAT Business Customers
July 23, 2026
Why South Africa’s iGaming Sector Is Turning to Crypto Amid Rising Payment Fraud
July 22, 2026
Pepkor Strengthens Informal Economy Strategy with R21.3 Billion Fintech Deal
July 22, 2026
TechCity
Dangerous Apps in 2026: 10 Types You Should Delete or Avoid
July 22, 2026
How to Use Google Maps Offline in 2026: A Step-by-Step Guide
July 22, 2026
How to Use Your Phone Less in 2026 Without Feeling Like You’re Missing Out
July 21, 2026
How to Use AI to Learn Faster in 2026: A Practical Beginner’s Guide
July 19, 2026
Infinix HOT 70 Pro Officially Available in Nigeria: Active Matrix Cube, AI Features, 5G and IP68 Water Resistance
July 17, 2026
How Emoji Are Made: Who Designs Them and Who Decides What Gets Added?
July 17, 2026
AI Writing Tools and Students in 2026: What the Research Really Says
July 16, 2026
6 Best Sites to Buy Gift Cards Online Instantly in Nigeria (2026)
July 15, 2026
African SaaS Leader Becomes Seamless Technologies, Unveils AI and Financial Solutions
July 15, 2026
How to Protect Children’s Data Online in 2026: A Parent’s Complete Guide
July 14, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
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
Cascador Opens Applications to its 2026 ScaleUp Program to Accelerate Africa’s Next Generation of Growth-Stage Founders
April 16, 2026
Duplo and Ozow Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Local Payments and Expense Management for Businesses in South Africa
April 16, 2026
Paga Group Marks 17 Years of Building Africa’s Financial Services Infrastructure with Major Leadership Evolution
April 15, 2026
M-KOPA South Africa Impact Report Reveals Women are Driving the Country’s Digital Inclusion Charge
April 13, 2026
TechArena
TikTok Removed Nearly 885,000 Videos in Kenya for Community Guidelines Violations in Q1 2026
July 23, 2026
LemFi Partners with BVNK to Power Cross-Border Payments Using Stablecoin Infrastructure
July 23, 2026
M-KOPA Surpasses 10 Million Customers
July 23, 2026
Businesses Are Getting AI Wrong by Focusing on Technology Instead of Business Problems, Says NTT DATA CEO
July 23, 2026
PawaPay Named Among World’s Top Fintech Companies
July 23, 2026
Zoho Bets Bigger on Kenya After 55% Revenue Growth, Launches KNCCI Partnership to Accelerate SME Digitisation
July 23, 2026
Spotify Data Shows Kenya’s Music Scene Is Growing Across Generations, Not Replacing Them
July 22, 2026
What Africa Builds Here, the World Will Use Everywhere
July 22, 2026
WeeTracker
Botswana Tech Fund reaches USD 6.7 M First Close To Back Southern African Startups
July 23, 2026
M-KOPA Kenya Mobility Secures USD 30 M Debt For E-Motorbike Financing
July 23, 2026
How Data & Technology Can Unlock The Next Wave Of Agricultural Finance In Africa
July 23, 2026
Three Ghanaian Startups Secure USD 500 K From Africa Ecosystem Catalysts Facility
July 23, 2026
Egyptian Biotech Reme-D Raises USD 1.45 M Pre-Series A To Expand Molecular Diagnostics
July 23, 2026
Two Founders, Stranded Abroad By Failed Cards, Are Building Africa’s Missing ‘Financial Passport’
July 22, 2026
South African Fintech Zazu Secures Investment From Launch Africa Ventures
July 22, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Starlink Reaches Seychelles as Africa Expansion Hits 28 Markets
July 23, 2026
How the Mid-Range Smartphone Is Becoming the Smartest Choice for Consumers
July 23, 2026
Zoho, KNCCI Partner to Accelerate Digital Transformation for SMEs in Kenya
July 23, 2026
TikTok Removes Over 800,000 Videos in Kenya
July 23, 2026
WayaWaya Appoints Banking Veteran Raj Singh to Board to Drive Expansion
July 23, 2026
Africa AI Governance Index Flags Continent-Wide Policy Gap
July 23, 2026
Airtel Africa Posts 31pc Revenue Growth to $1,853 Million
July 23, 2026
Techloy
SBI Bank PO Admit Card 2026: The 800-to-1 Odds Ahead of August Prelims
July 23, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra vs Galaxy Z Fold 7: Is the $2,099 Upgrade Worth It?
July 23, 2026
5 Signs Your PI Firm Has Outgrown Manual Case Prep
July 23, 2026
Google Stock Fell After Alphabet's Record $119.8 Billion Quarter. Here's Why
July 23, 2026
Why Thousands Are Filing Legal Suits Against a Social Media Giant
July 23, 2026
Nintendo Palworld Patent Dispute Deepens as Japan Rejects Key Filing
July 23, 2026
Kimi K3 Under Fire: Why the U.S. Says Moonshot Stole Anthropic's Fable
July 23, 2026
What Defines the Best Route Planner in Modern Supply Chains
July 23, 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
Ropedia Raises $30M in Pre-A Funding To Scale Physical AI Data Infrastructure
July 23, 2026
Uber Founder’s Robotics Company Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion To Automate Physical Industries
July 23, 2026
Genius AI Raises $44 Million To Expand From Wellness Into AI In-Person Service Economy
July 22, 2026
Crystalys Therapeutics Raises $130 Million To Bring Late-Stage Gout Drug To U.S. Market
July 22, 2026
Candid Health Raises $120M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Revenue Platform
July 22, 2026
Arrakis Raises $38M to Scale AI Deployment for Industrial Operations
July 22, 2026
Glow Raises $180M to Expand AI-Powered Endpoint Security Platform
July 22, 2026
TechCentral
Fat bonuses at Telkom despite group missing own targets
July 23, 2026
TCS | How Optasia lends billions to people banks can’t see
July 23, 2026
Massive changes coming to Amazon Prime Video
July 23, 2026
Load shedding is over – and that’s exposing a new energy crisis
July 23, 2026
Acsa is adding AI and augmented reality to its airport app
July 23, 2026
London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO
July 23, 2026
Solve taxis and cash dies: Shop2Shop’s township thesis
July 23, 2026
After Anthropic ban, US battles ‘kill switch’ backlash
July 23, 2026
Why Africa’s cloud needs more than one path
July 23, 2026
Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it
July 22, 2026
Technext
Uber cuts 10% of customer service workforce in major AI push
July 23, 2026
TikTok removes 4.8 million Nigerian videos in Q1 2026 as AI, LIVE enforcement intensifies
July 23, 2026
Healthtech startup Medismarts hit 94% claims processing rate, yet doctors rejected its software
July 23, 2026
Airtel Nigeria generates ₦3,290 per customer from data and voice services in Q2 2026
July 23, 2026
When AI hallucinates the law: Inside South Africa’s 3rd AI citation scandal of 2026
July 23, 2026
10 ways to turn your NYSC year into a tech career launchpad
July 23, 2026
Creative hacks to get a website domain that stands out
July 23, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission
July 23, 2026
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
July 22, 2026
Following the questions where they lead
July 17, 2026
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
July 16, 2026
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
July 15, 2026
Helping AI models to meet the real world
July 14, 2026
Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering
July 14, 2026
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks
July 13, 2026
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
July 13, 2026
DEV Community
Croc GUI: Encrypted Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Without the Terminal (Cross-Platform)
July 23, 2026
Shipping a Solidity contract to mainnet? Do this 20-minute self-check first
July 23, 2026
Claude Opus/Sonnet Voice Mode, Open-Weight Model Cost Savings, & GitHub AI Agent Security
July 23, 2026
B+tree height after delete: PostgreSQL fast root
July 23, 2026
I Spent 3 Weeks Debugging Rate Limits Before I Realized the Problem Wasn't My Code
July 23, 2026
I keep finding out about API breaking changes from production errors, so I'm building a changelog watcher
July 23, 2026
🚀 Turning My Android Phone into a Linux Lab with Termux (Instead of Paying for a VPS)
July 23, 2026
Six queries, three runs, every mean 8 — and the fine-tune wasn't why
July 23, 2026
Why I Chose Slot Hashes Over VRF for Fair Random Selection on Solana
July 23, 2026
OpenAI News
Launching Health in ChatGPT
July 23, 2026
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
July 22, 2026
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
July 22, 2026
Advancing the next era of national science
July 22, 2026
Introducing OpenAI Presence
July 22, 2026
NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex
July 22, 2026
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
July 21, 2026
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
July 21, 2026
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
July 21, 2026
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
July 20, 2026
A scorecard for the AI age
July 17, 2026
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
July 16, 2026
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
July 16, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
July 22, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
July 21, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
July 17, 2026
Our approach to bioresilience
July 16, 2026
Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi
July 13, 2026
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership
July 3, 2026
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
June 30, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
July 23, 2026
Building trade assistant: How Jefferies optimized front office trading operations with AI
July 23, 2026
Building multi-Region visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon Quick
July 23, 2026
Detecting silent agent failures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization
July 23, 2026
Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
July 23, 2026
AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
July 22, 2026
Databricks
How the FDA Built an AI Platform That 85% of Its Staff Now Use Daily
July 23, 2026
Permission isn't purpose: Intent-based authorization in Omnigent
July 23, 2026
Provisioning for the Agentic Era: How Databricks Built a Self-Serve Infrastructure Vending Machine
July 23, 2026
Why A Frontier Data Agent Outperforms General Coding Agents in Quality and Cost
July 23, 2026
Connect Amazon S3 data to Databricks with Delegated IAM Permissions
July 23, 2026
Simplify AI agent orchestration with Lakebase Postgres
July 22, 2026
The last mile: why great first-party data still doesn't make great marketing
July 21, 2026
Why R&D Data Belongs in the Lakehouse - and Why Agents Need It There
July 21, 2026
How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to Accelerate Sustainability at Scale
July 21, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up?
July 16, 2026
Why build a bigger model when you can just loop twice for twice the power?
June 22, 2026
Can an AI agent run the entire scientific method without human supervision?
June 17, 2026
Why do your coding agents keep getting lost in large repositories?
June 11, 2026
Are you still manually fighting with LaTeX and TikZ to create publication-quality figures?
June 4, 2026
Techmeme
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
July 23, 2026
Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal potentially worth around $10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Wall Street Journal)
July 23, 2026
SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 22% YoY to €6.28B, vs. €6.26B est., total revenue up 9.4% to €9.88B, and lowers its 2026 non-IFRS operating profit guidance (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)
July 23, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
AI Engineering and Agentic Engineering: What Separates the Two
July 23, 2026
Why AI Engineering Is Becoming the Must-Have Skill Set for 2026
July 22, 2026
This week at ODSC AI: Super Early Bird Ending, First Speakers Announced for West
July 16, 2026
Personal AI Agents Summit 2026: 9 Sessions on Security, MCP, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Gemini
July 14, 2026
AI Coding Skills, Agentic Commerce, Token Costs, and AI Pilots
July 9, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
Implement Flash Attention from First Principles in NumPy
July 23, 2026
Copulas for Engineers: Preserving Correlations Across Mixed-Type Columns
July 23, 2026
So, Is AI Really Stealing Everyone’s Job As Promised By Big Tech?
July 23, 2026
Reduce Your AI API Bill By Up To 60% With These Open Source Projects
July 23, 2026
OpenAI’s Project Giraffe: Tracking Copyright in 78M Chats, Then Deleting the Logs
July 23, 2026
aibusiness
What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises
July 23, 2026
Schneider Electric, AMD Unveil Blueprint for AI Factory Deployments
July 23, 2026
UK Robot Maker Humanoid Valued at $1.35 billion
July 23, 2026
Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion
July 22, 2026
Microsoft-Mistral Partnership is About Sovereign AI
July 22, 2026
Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots
July 22, 2026
Agibot Expands Embodied AI Portfolio With Four New Products
July 22, 2026
New Gemini 3.5 Flash Models Are Faster and Cheaper but Not Smarter
July 21, 2026
OpenAI Urges Enterprises to Use Its Scorecard to Measure Worth of AI
July 21, 2026
Alibaba Qwen 3.8 Max Shows China Closing in on U.S. Models
July 21, 2026
Startup Launches Foundry to Develop Materials for Chips
July 20, 2026
As AI Spending Climbs, Enterprises Get Serious About Token Costs
July 20, 2026
Nvidia Broadens Physical AI Push With Robotics, Edge AI Updates
July 17, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
AI Weekly Issue #516: OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next?
July 22, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #515: China's AI is redrawing the AI race
July 20, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #514: Applied AI Is Here: What's Working, What Got Pulled Back, and Why Now
July 15, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #513: Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it.
July 13, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #512: Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots
July 9, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
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
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 17 July 2026
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Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 7, July 2026
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Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026
July 12, 2026
Weekly Review 10 July 2026
July 10, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 7, July 2026
July 8, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 6, June 2026
July 5, 2026
Weekly Review 3 July 2026
July 3, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 7, July 2026
July 2, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2026
June 30, 2026
Weekly Review 26 June 2026
June 26, 2026
MarkTechPost
Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
July 23, 2026
You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
July 23, 2026
Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
July 23, 2026
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
July 23, 2026
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