Tech In Africa
- Nigeria’s First SEC-Licensed Exchange, Quidax, Expands Stablecoin Infrastructure to Over 21 Countries July 29, 2026
- California’s Bingo Launches Battery-Swapping EV in Kenya, Targeting Ride-Hailing Drivers July 28, 2026
- Egypt Tops Africa’s H1 2026 Startup Funding, But Nigeria Reclaims the Equity Crown July 28, 2026
- Fintech and Logistics Dominated Africa’s H1 2026 Funding, With Spiro Behind a Quarter of All Capital Raised July 28, 2026
- How Breet Financed Its First 1,000 Days Without Venture Capital July 24, 2026
- South African VC Exits Are Finally Catching Up, and a New R10bn Raise Is Betting on More July 24, 2026
- Uber Is Taking Over Glovo and Talabat’s African Operations in a €14.8bn Delivery Hero Deal July 24, 2026
- South African VC exits show early signs of a maturing venture capital ecosystem July 24, 2026
- 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
TechCabal
- Kenya empowers investigators to seize crypto wallets tied to financial crime July 29, 2026
- Kenya’s new crypto rules could force exchanges to delist foreign stablecoins July 29, 2026
- Why trust has become Nigeria’s next digital payments challenge July 29, 2026
- Nigeria tests investor appetite with sale of former telecom monopoly ntel July 29, 2026
- Toheeb Popoola found Photoshop by accident. It changed his life. July 29, 2026
- Grocery delivery startup GoLemon shuts down after failing to raise fresh capital July 29, 2026
- Kenyan companies must disclose when people interact with AI under new policy July 29, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Crypto winter at Luno July 29, 2026
- Africa no longer wants to import technology. It wants to write the rules July 28, 2026
- Egyptian startup Fincart raises $2.8 million to expand AI commerce platform July 28, 2026
How we made it in Africa
- Three promising business opportunities in Somalia July 27, 2026
- The business opportunities in helping Africans land higher-paying jobs abroad July 25, 2026
- 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
KachTech Media
- AURA Enhances Emergency Response with Google Maps Platform July 28, 2026
- TICON Africa Welcomes Global AI Cooperation Organization July 27, 2026
- Samsung Launches Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Watch9 with AI Health July 24, 2026
- CANAL+ to Broadcast Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Across Africa July 24, 2026
- 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
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- Factorial Brings Next-Gen HR Automation to SMEs and Large Enterprises Across the SADC Region July 28, 2026
- More than 4 million South Africans have chosen the new GoTyme Bank app July 27, 2026
- Paystack Launches Small Business Launchpad for Nigerian SMEs July 27, 2026
- Sedna Africa helps mining companies turn fragmented operational data into a single source of truth July 27, 2026
- Telkom Enhances Digital Mobile Contract Sign-Up with End-to-End Online Journey July 27, 2026
- 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
TechCity
- Cybersecurity Threats Students Need to Know About in 2026 July 29, 2026
- Best Laptop for Students in 2026: The Honest Review of Top Picks for Every Budget July 29, 2026
- Best Free Apps for Students in 2026: 12 Tools That Actually Help You Study July 29, 2026
- Tech Routine for Better Sleep in 2026: How to Use Technology to Rest Better July 27, 2026
- 5G Nigeria 2026: What’s Actually Available and What’s Just Marketing? July 27, 2026
- 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
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
- California EV Startup Bingo Launches Battery-Swapping Electric Vehicle in Kenya July 29, 2026
- Onafriq Partners with Privy to Advance Stablecoin-Powered Payments Across Africa July 29, 2026
- Tether, Nairobi Securities Exchange Partner to Explore Tokenized Securities July 29, 2026
- Inside Greasy Tunes Nairobi: How Spotify turned everyday listening into a cultural experience July 29, 2026
- Google Opens Applications for Africa Applied AI Lab July 28, 2026
- Tecno Pova Curve 2 5G Specifications and Price in Kenya July 28, 2026
- From targeted advertising to targeted attacks: How advertising data is weaponised by cyberthreat actors July 28, 2026
- Dimension Data Raises US$2.9 million in First Corporate Bond Tranche to Expand Fibre Network in Nigeria July 28, 2026
WeeTracker
- Kenya’s Sevi Secures Oxano Capital Investment To Expand B2B fintech Platform July 29, 2026
- A Startup Processed 1B Transactions To Give 8M Africans A Credit Score Banks Wouldn’t July 29, 2026
- PraxiLabs, Others Get Prize Money As Visa Awards USD 45 K To Egyptian Startups July 28, 2026
- Morocco’s Plan To Build Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Is Afoot With Major Backing July 27, 2026
- Kenyan Court Delivers Blow To Unlicensed Loan Apps Seeking Debt Repayment July 27, 2026
- Egypt’s Fincart Raises Over USD 2.8 M Seed To Expand AI E-commerce Platform July 27, 2026
- Nigeria’s Zedcrest Group Acquires Cross-Border Payments Startup Leatherback July 27, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- KCB Foundation Unveils Digital Programme to Connect 30,00 Dairy Farmers to Financial Services and Markets July 29, 2026
- Onafriq Partners with Privy to Expand Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure across Africa July 29, 2026
- Africa Deep Tech Foundation Launches “The Laptop Llm” Challenge To Build Offline Ai That Works For African Realities July 29, 2026
- Hans van Linschoten: Small, Smaller, Smallest July 29, 2026
- M-PESA Ethiopia Adds Prepaid Electricity Payments to Super App for EEU Smart Meter Users July 29, 2026
- Paratus Appoints Neill Nortje as Zambia Country Manager to Drive Enterprise Growth July 29, 2026
- Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026 Aims to Bring Offline AI to Standard Laptops July 29, 2026
Techloy
- Netflix, Spotify and ChatGPT Reveal the Hidden Cost of Renting Our Digital Lives July 29, 2026
- Made by Google 2026: 7 Things Google Has Officially Confirmed Ahead of the Pixel 11 Launch July 29, 2026
- Why Surface Engineering Is Becoming Essential for Advanced Manufacturing July 29, 2026
- Apple Upgrade Explained: How Apple's New Device Leasing Program Works July 29, 2026
- Halo: Campaign Evolved Is Finally Here. Everything Players Need to Know July 29, 2026
- How to Restore Old VHS Videos with AI July 29, 2026
- How to Fix iPhone Unavailable on Any iPhone – Step-by-Step Guide July 29, 2026
- How to Fix Grainy Photos: 4 Ways to Improve Image Quality July 29, 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
- Freehand Raises $75 Million as AI Agents Take Up Meta and Unilever’s Supply Chains July 29, 2026
- PrimeXBT: What “Accumulation” Really Tells You About Bitcoin and Gold Right Now July 29, 2026
- Qureight Raises $20M for AI-powered Lung and Heart Clinical Trials July 29, 2026
- COR Raises $30M To Boost AI-Driven Profitability For Agencies And Consultancies July 28, 2026
- What Is Cryptocurrency Mining & How Does It Work? July 28, 2026
- What is DeFi? A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance July 28, 2026
- What Is a Crypto Wallet & How Does It Work? (Guide) July 28, 2026
TechCentral
- South African IT spending surging as AI boom lands locally July 29, 2026
- Radical rethink for South Africa’s national AI policy July 29, 2026
- South African tech’s compounding debt problem July 29, 2026
- Russia charges Telegram founder with terrorism July 29, 2026
- Green light for massive new Cape Town data centres July 29, 2026
- Huawei Connect 2026: taking South African AI beyond pilots July 29, 2026
- Apple at Work: business technology that works as one July 29, 2026
- The infrastructure behind smart account-based recurring payments in South Africa July 29, 2026
- Acer at 50: how local assembly keeps prices down July 29, 2026
- Altron appoints Collin Govender as MD of Altron HealthTech July 29, 2026
Technext
- Wema Bank generated ₦7.1bn from digital channels in H1 2026 July 29, 2026
- GoLemon’s journey from opening to shutdown: 28 months, 40,000 customers and ₦2bn in deliveries July 29, 2026
- Radisson unveils new ChatGPT app for easier hotel search and booking July 29, 2026
- “FX access, not appetite, is choking African trade”: understanding Clea’s Adedokun bets on stablecoins July 29, 2026
- The CAPE Model: Constraint-Led Product Delivery July 29, 2026
- AUATON urges drivers to dump inDrive over low pricing and indignity July 29, 2026
- FUTA honours alumnus-turned-cybersecurity-entrepreneur as university hosts landmark international computing conference July 29, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing July 29, 2026
- Working to automate nuclear plant operations July 24, 2026
- 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
DEV Community
- Montando um Cluster Kubernetes On-Premise — Parte 6: Deploy, Atualização e Escalabilidade de uma Aplicação Própria July 29, 2026
- Montando um Cluster Kubernetes On-Premise — Parte 5: Fazendo o Deploy do Primeiro Container July 29, 2026
- Montando um Cluster Kubernetes On-Premise — Parte 2: Instalando Containerd e Kubernetes July 29, 2026
- Validating JSON Payloads Against a Schema Before They Hit Your Service July 29, 2026
- AI Made Code Review the Bottleneck. Attach the UI to Your PR July 29, 2026
- Designing a Scalable Multi-Store Retail Platform: Architecture Challenges and Solutions July 29, 2026
- Montando um Cluster Kubernetes On-Premise — Parte 1: Preparando o Ambiente July 29, 2026
- Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 21 to July 29, 2026 July 29, 2026
- Every Session Starts From Zero. I Kept Forgetting That. July 29, 2026
OpenAI News
- Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers July 29, 2026
- Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI July 28, 2026
- How AI is expanding what people do at work July 27, 2026
- 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
Google Deep Blog
- We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control July 29, 2026
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity July 29, 2026
- Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers July 29, 2026
- Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick July 29, 2026
- How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec July 28, 2026
- Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore July 28, 2026
- Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS July 27, 2026
Databricks
- Quality care is the mission. Finance protects the margin. July 29, 2026
- Manufacturing runs on capital. Finance protects the margin. July 29, 2026
- Energy runs on volatile markets. Finance protects the margin. July 29, 2026
- Bringing real-time fraud prevention to government benefits July 29, 2026
- Agents for production lines: Trusted decisions in real time July 29, 2026
- How agentic AI can help telecom finance teams protect the margin when every moment matters July 29, 2026
- How NorthStar Anesthesia built a scheduling app for a workforce of 3,000 clinicians in weeks July 28, 2026
- The audience is the asset. Media finance teams need to understand them to protect the margin. July 28, 2026
- From prototype to production: High QPS for Databricks AI Search July 28, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1 July 27, 2026
- 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
Techmeme
- Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (Google) July 29, 2026
- Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns (The Information) July 29, 2026
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios) July 29, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- How Project Managers Can Build a Career in AI Without Becoming Developers July 28, 2026
- Consider forwarding this newsletter to a friend or colleague so they can also stay up-to-date on… July 25, 2026
- 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
Towards AI – Medium
- I Cut 3 Hours of Weekly SRE Toil to 20 Minutes With Claude Code July 29, 2026
- Long-Output LLM Architecture: How Developers Should Handle Huge AI Responses July 29, 2026
- Opus 5 Just Made Fable 5 a Hard Sell for Most Engineering Teams, But Not All of Them July 29, 2026
- 12 Months of Trendvesting: The Real Unit Economics of a Production AI Side Project July 29, 2026
- 5 .vscode Files That Standardize Your Whole Team July 29, 2026
aibusiness
- FCC Blocks Chinese Humanoid Robot Imports, Citing Security Risks July 29, 2026
- Vendor Developing Self-Improving AI Signs $410M AWS Deal July 29, 2026
- Microsoft Emerges with Cheaper Cyber Model to Rival Mythos, GPT-5.6 July 28, 2026
- Samsung Agrees to Chip Deal With Broadcom July 28, 2026
- AI Arrives in the Private Markets Business July 28, 2026
- Improved Voice Mode Makes Working With Claude Easier July 27, 2026
- Neura Robotics to Open Physical AI Training Center July 27, 2026
- Tech Companies Urge Caution by US policymakers on Open Models July 27, 2026
- Prompt: The AI Threat Model Just Changed July 24, 2026
- 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 $1.2B July 22, 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
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 4, August 2026 July 26, 2026
- Weekly Review 24 July 2026 July 24, 2026
- Weekly Review 17 July 2026 July 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 7, July 2026 July 13, 2026
- 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
MarkTechPost
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU July 29, 2026
- Building Non-Interactive Agentic Coding Workflows with Moonshot AI’s Kimi CLI, JSONL Streaming, Testing, and Session Memory July 28, 2026
- Fireworks AI Releases Fireworks Nexus: A Drop-In Routing and Cost-Control Layer That Moves Routine Coding Work to Open-Weight Models July 28, 2026
- Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Cyber-1-Flash: A 5B-Active-Parameter Cyber Model That Pushes MDASH to 95.95% on CyberGym July 28, 2026
