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Tech In Africa

Novastar Ventures closes $147 million fund for African startups April 2, 2026
Ghana launches payment-enabled national ID system April 2, 2026
Flutterwave Secures Nigerian Banking License to Accelerate Payment Efficiency April 2, 2026
Angolan edtech startup Kukubela grows African language learning platform April 1, 2026
Japanese investors back Africa-focused VC fund April 1, 2026
Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 1, 2026
AfDB Backs Breega Africa Seed Fund with €7.5M to Boost Early-Stage Startups March 31, 2026
Ghana’s Ci-Gaba Fund Hits $35M First Close, Targets $91M for West Africa SME Investments March 31, 2026
ITIDA, Plug and Play Wrap Aswan Bootcamp as Upper Egypt Startups Secure EGP 200M March 30, 2026
Tunisian Solo Founder Lands FasterCapital Backing for Arabic-First Causal AI Platform March 30, 2026

TechCabal

“I wasn’t aiming for Eventbrite, I was aiming for Ticketmaster”: Day 1 to 1000 of Jetron Ticket April 4, 2026
Telkom Kenya is now Kenya’s smallest mobile operator after two-year slide April 4, 2026
Kenya adds 9 million mobile money users but the easy growth is over April 4, 2026
Regulatory Passporting and the Future of Cross-Border Fintech in Africa April 3, 2026
Radhika Bhachu left BlackRock and returned home to rethink wealth April 3, 2026
BitGo’s Nick Coombs thinks everyone is reading Africa’s crypto market wrong April 3, 2026
Why Africa’s crypto sector is entering its ‘pay the milkman’ era April 3, 2026
Kenswitch taps Visa as Kenya’s national payments switch race heats up April 3, 2026
MTN completes Ghana mobile money spinoff in major fintech push April 3, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Semiloore Akoni April 3, 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 problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve? April 3, 2026
You may no longer afford to buy a smartphone, thanks to the soaring RAM prices March 31, 2026
Samsung Brings Pro-Level Features to Mid-Range: Meet the Galaxy A57 5G & A37 5G March 31, 2026
BAKE partners with UNESCO to empower local content creators March 25, 2026
How Practical AI and the Camon 50 Series Redefined Tecno’s Global Standing March 18, 2026
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

African Business Technology News

Bamburi Cement Plc appoints Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as its new CEO April 3, 2026
Truecaller Opens Global Market Access For Its Business Chat Platform April 3, 2026
Infobip South Africa appoints Lauren Potgieter as new Country Manager April 3, 2026
Cascador Appoints Oyin Solebo as COO April 2, 2026
Virgin Bet Marks Its First Expansion Beyond the UK April 2, 2026
FNB Launches 4 Smart ID-enabled Branches in South Africa April 2, 2026
Why is financial health just as critical as physical well-being April 2, 2026
Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 2, 2026
Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration April 1, 2026
Kaspersky Warns of a New Phishing Technique April 1, 2026

TechCity

Smart Home Gadgets For Beginners: A Simple Starter Guide April 3, 2026
Top Cybersecurity Threats For SMEs And How To Fight Back April 2, 2026
March 2026 Tech Roundup: What Mattered Most March 30, 2026
Best Laptops For Remote Work: Top Picks For 2026 March 30, 2026
Building Your Developer Portfolio: A Complete How-To Guide March 27, 2026
How to Secure Digital Wallets: Smart, Practical Protection March 27, 2026
Git and GitHub: A Complete Beginner’s Guide March 26, 2026
AI Tools for Small Businesses That Save Time and Money March 26, 2026
How to Spot Online Scams March 25, 2026
AWIT Hosts ‘Give to Gain: Balancing the Scale’ IWD 2026 Convening in Lagos March 25, 2026

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

IFC Partners with Cashi to Expand Digital Payment Services into Central Africa April 1, 2026
Madica Releases Guidebook on Fundraise for Early-stage Founders March 31, 2026
Four Climate Ventures to receive US$273,000 in Follow-on Support from BFA Global and FSD Africa March 27, 2026
Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC in Africa March 26, 2026
littlefish Raises $9.5M Series A to Power Merchant Infrastructure Across Africa March 24, 2026
South Africa’s Happy Pay Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Partech March 24, 2026
Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment March 20, 2026

TechArena

Vertiv Expands Manufacturing to Meet Surging AI Data Centre Demand April 3, 2026
LOOP Easter Campaign: BNPL Galaxy S26 Deal, 90,000 Monthly Discover Users April 3, 2026
Sophos Report: Lack of Trust in Cybersecurity Vendors Raising Risk for Businesses April 2, 2026
CA Report: Safaricom Tops Kenya’s Network Quality as Industry Performance Declines April 2, 2026
Wingu Africa Launches Local Cloud Platform WCX in Ethiopia April 2, 2026
Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 2, 2026
Safaricom to Unveil My OneApp, Merging M-PESA and MySafaricom Apps April 1, 2026
M-PESA Is No Longer Just Payments as Safaricom Positions it as a National Infrastructure April 1, 2026

WeeTracker

Flutterwave Becomes Bank As Fintechs Figure Payments Aren’t Enough April 2, 2026
AfDB Commits USD 8.5 M To Breega Africa Fund To Back Early-Stage Startups April 1, 2026
Egypt’s Qualiphi Acquires Career Club To Expand AI Career Platform In GCC April 1, 2026
Angolan Mobility Startup ANDA Raises USD 1.2 M To Scale Drive-To-Own Model April 1, 2026
Why A Fintech CEO Isn’t Losing Sleep Over Kenya’s Steep New Licensing Fee April 1, 2026
Novastar Ventures Closes USD 147 M Fund III To Back African Climate & Impact Startups April 1, 2026
South Africa’s Gig Economy Becomes A Bargain With AI Skills Shortage Looming March 31, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Airtel Commits $1B to Nxtra, Widening Its Data Center Play From India to Africa April 3, 2026
Five New Directors Join MTN, Set Against Another Year at the Top of Brand Rankings April 3, 2026
Showmax Exit Plan Rolls Out, Steering Subscribers Toward DStv Stream April 3, 2026
Algiers Declaration Puts African Telecommunications Sovereignty at the Centre of Connectivity Plans April 3, 2026
SASRA Issues Cybersecurity Directive for Saccos Ahead of Holidays April 3, 2026
Kenya’s Wealthiest Investors Are Widening Their Lens, Adding ESG and International Assets to the Mix April 3, 2026
Airtel Reaches 650 Million Subscribers Across India and Africa April 3, 2026

Techloy

📱Apple's 50 Years Dominance April 3, 2026
5 Things to Know About Google’s New Gemma 4 AI Models April 3, 2026
Phishing Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot-Here’s Why April 3, 2026
The 50 Most Innovative Apple Products Ever, Ranked April 3, 2026
Circle Enters the Wrapped Bitcoin Race With cirBTC — Is It Better Than WBTC? April 3, 2026
Most Israeli Startups Are Struggling, But Cybersecurity Is Still Raising Millions April 3, 2026
$10B AI Hiring Startup Mercor Confirms Data Breach Affecting Tech Talent April 3, 2026
Asia's Top Startup Funding in Week 14 Led by Rebellions, EPG, and Nazara Technologies April 3, 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

Insight Health Raises $11M To Advance AI Clinical Infrastructure April 3, 2026
AccuQuant Secures $20 Million To Advance AI Infrastructure April 3, 2026
Syneron Bio Raises $150M for Peptide Drug Platform April 3, 2026
CarniStore Receives $12.25M to Expand Premium Protein Platform April 3, 2026
How to Invest $100K Using AI Crypto Trading Bots: 5 Platforms to Consider in 2026 April 3, 2026
Glimpse $35M Funding Boost for AI‑Driven Retail Automation April 3, 2026
10 AI Tools for Building Automated Income Systems in 2026 (Complete Guide) April 3, 2026

TechCentral

WhatsApp is eating South African operators’ revenue April 4, 2026
DeepSeek V4 to run on Huawei silicon as China builds its own AI stack April 4, 2026
Gaping holes in South African government cyber defences April 2, 2026
EV charging start-up Charge bypasses JSE for token-based raise April 2, 2026
Ring, reject, repeat: South Africa’s spam call crisis April 2, 2026
Amazon in talks to buy satellite operator Globalstar April 2, 2026
Four astronauts begin humanity’s return to the moon April 2, 2026
Synthesis helps financial enterprises transform with new Gemini Enterprise April 2, 2026
The next churn wave is already in your contact centre conversations April 2, 2026
Sars to give every taxpayer a digital identity in sweeping tech overhaul April 1, 2026

Technext

OAU student, Caleb Pamilerin built Fluxt for his father, now FG is backing it with ₦50M April 4, 2026
Nigeria’s fintech class of 2015-2016 turns 10 | Here is what a decade built April 3, 2026
FG launches university innovation pods to train 500,000 in AI, empower 2,000 startups April 3, 2026
The PewBeam effect: like Nigeria’s fintech gold rush, a worship AI boom is coming April 3, 2026
How mastering no-code tech skills improved the livelihood of these 5 university students April 3, 2026
On Flutterwave’s roadmap April 3, 2026
Anchor secures Nigerian and Canadian licences as it crosses $2.5bn in transactions April 2, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Working to advance the nuclear renaissance April 3, 2026
Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems April 2, 2026
Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects April 1, 2026
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials March 30, 2026
Seeing sounds March 26, 2026
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape March 26, 2026
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly March 26, 2026
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring March 25, 2026
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements March 25, 2026

DEV Community

The AI Coding Productivity Illusion April 4, 2026
S1: My Aurora Robotics 2.0 Experience April 4, 2026
DualClip - Update_2026.04.04. April 4, 2026
I replaced lsof, ss, and netstat with a single Rust binary April 4, 2026
The First Fully Autonomous AI Agent Purchase Through UCP April 4, 2026
From 0 to 30 indexed pages in 3 weeks — what actually moved the needle April 4, 2026
Your API Responses Are 40x Larger Than They Need to Be April 4, 2026
Deploy Gemma 4 on Cloud Run: Pay Only When You Actually Use It April 4, 2026
The Living GDD: AI Automation for Indie Game Devs April 4, 2026

OpenAI News

OpenAI acquires TBPN April 2, 2026
Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams April 2, 2026
Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager April 1, 2026
Accelerating the next phase of AI March 31, 2026
Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia March 29, 2026
STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company March 27, 2026
Inside our approach to the Model Spec March 25, 2026
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program March 25, 2026
Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens March 24, 2026
Powering product discovery in ChatGPT March 24, 2026
Update on the OpenAI Foundation March 24, 2026
Creating with Sora Safely March 23, 2026
How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment March 19, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models April 2, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable March 26, 2026
Protecting people from harmful manipulation March 25, 2026
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more March 25, 2026
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework March 17, 2026
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

Artificial Intelligence

Simulate realistic users to evaluate multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals April 2, 2026
Scaling seismic foundation models on AWS: Distributed training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and expanding context windows April 2, 2026
Control which domains your AI agents can access April 2, 2026
Rocket Close transforms mortgage document processing with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract April 2, 2026
Persist session state with filesystem configuration and execute shell commands April 2, 2026
Automating competitive price intelligence with Amazon Nova Act April 1, 2026

Databricks

AiChemy: Next-Generation Agent with MCP, Skills and Custom Data for Drug Discovery April 3, 2026
Accelerate business insights with Lakeflow Connect, now with a Free Tier April 2, 2026
Why agentic analytics starts with a well-governed data layer April 2, 2026
How Addepar Scales Investment Workflows with Databricks AI Agents April 2, 2026
Announcing General Availability and Open Sourcing of Unity Catalog Business Semantics April 2, 2026
Announcing the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge April 1, 2026
How agentic software development will change databases March 30, 2026
Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse March 27, 2026
Zero-Downtime Patching in Lakebase Part 1: Prewarming March 27, 2026

AIModels.fyi

Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run? April 2, 2026
Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline? March 27, 2026
Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them? March 21, 2026
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

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

Ben Armstrong of MIT on the Future of Work and Adapting to Technological Change April 3, 2026
Agentic AI Training Datasets, GraphRAG for Healthcare, the ODSC AI East Schedule, and AI Project… April 2, 2026
In-Silico Perturbation Meets Single-Cell Foundation Models: From Zero-Shot Potential to Fine-Tuned… April 2, 2026
The AI Revolution in Development: Why Outer Loop Agents Are the Next Big Thing April 1, 2026
What Will AI Coworkers Look Like for the Rest of 2026? March 31, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Transformers (with Intuition and Examples) April 4, 2026
Data Scrubbing April 4, 2026
Data Reduction April 4, 2026
The Complete Architecture for Trustworthy Autonomous Agents April 4, 2026
Is MCP Dead? The Context Crisis That Broke Naive Tool Loading. Agent Skills vs. MCP vs. CLI April 4, 2026

aibusiness

Black Hat USA August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia April 21, 2026
Microsoft to Invest $10B in AI and Cybersecurity in Japan April 3, 2026
Google Launches Open Model Family Gemma 4 April 3, 2026
MCP is Alive, but Faces Challenges April 2, 2026
Microsoft Goes Beyond LLMs With New Voice, Image Models April 2, 2026
Neocloud Pioneer CoreWeave All In on Inference April 2, 2026
Microsoft to Invest $5.5 billion in AI in Singapore April 2, 2026
Florida University Rolls Out Autonomous Delivery Robots April 1, 2026
OpenAI Now Valued at $852B After Funding Round April 1, 2026
Microsoft Commits $1B to Thailand's AI future April 1, 2026
Nvidia Invests $2B In Custom Chip Vendor Marvell Technology March 31, 2026
Databricks to Invest $850M in UK AI Operations March 31, 2026

AI Weekly — AI News & Artificial Intelligence Newsletter

AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else April 3, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #477: Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%. March 31, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #476: Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy March 27, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #475: 100 years from now : The Case for Artificial Stupidity March 23, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #474: $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad March 19, 2026

Ahead of AI

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
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

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 3 April 2026 April 3, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2026 April 2, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2026 April 1, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026 April 1, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2026 March 29, 2026
Weekly Review 27 March 2026 March 27, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026 March 26, 2026
Upcoming Journal Special Issues March 25, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026 March 22, 2026
Weekly Review 20 March 2026 March 20, 2026

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