Tech In Africa
- Orange Egypt and Partners Open the Country’s First AI Campus, with a Target of 100 Startups by 2030 April 27, 2026
- Egypt Launches $27 Billion AI-Powered Cognitive City in New Cairo April 27, 2026
- NEC Launches Africa Corporate Innovation Program to Connect Japanese Technology with African Startups April 27, 2026
- This Nigerian Startup Is Teaching AI to Sing — in African Languages and Accents April 24, 2026
- A 19-Year-Old Drops Out of Berkeley, Moves to Lagos, and Raises $7.3 Million to Build Africa’s Super App April 24, 2026
- Proparco Backs Alterra Africa Accelerator Fund with $17.25 Million at Final Close April 23, 2026
- Google Selects 15 African Startups for Its 10th AI Accelerator Cohort April 23, 2026
- Gebeya and VukaOS Forge Alliance to Close the Gap Between Startup Idea and Execution April 23, 2026
- AfDB Approves €7.33 Million to Complete Compensation Payments for Ugandans Affected by Rural Electrification Project April 23, 2026
- SaveFuel.Africa Launches as First Pan-African EV vs Fuel Cost Calculator April 22, 2026
TechCabal
- Ethiopia-based Dodai raises $13 million to expand battery-swapping EV network April 28, 2026
- Kenya’s Central Bank is hiring for crypto compliance roles as landmark regulation nears April 28, 2026
- Rack Centre to train engineers as Nigeria’s data centre talent shortage grows April 28, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – CAR blocks Starlink roaming April 28, 2026
- Botswana Tech Fund sees opportunity where African venture capital rarely flows April 27, 2026
- Why bank transfers above ₦10,000 will cost ₦60 under CBN’s new guide April 27, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – South Africa fails its AI test April 27, 2026
- Airtel Money pushes into merchant payments with Absa Bank Kenya account integration April 27, 2026
- The Next Wave: Kenya will make small loans harder to justify April 27, 2026
- Digital Nomads: Amara Uyanna has worked across four continents. She is not done. April 25, 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
African Business Technology News
- FNB Upgrades NAVi Virtual Assistant to Strengthen Advisor-Led Services April 28, 2026
- A Legal Dive into South Africa’s Payment Revolution April 28, 2026
- How Bootstrapped Companies Punch Above Their Weight April 28, 2026
- Binance Scales Its Card Offering to Enhance Everyday Payment Utility April 28, 2026
- How Technology Is Transforming the Way Fans Experience Sports April 24, 2026
- How to Use AI to Solve South Africa’s Biggest Challenges April 24, 2026
- Why Are Medical Aid Members Facing More out-of-pocket Healthcare Expenses April 24, 2026
- Fujifilm South Africa Launches Instax hybrid Instant Camera April 24, 2026
- Kaspersky discovers vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon chips April 24, 2026
- How To Spot Romance Scam Bots, According To An Expert April 23, 2026
TechCity
- Venture Capital Trends In The UK: What Investors Need Now April 27, 2026
- Breaking earth observation data barriers across Southern Africa April 26, 2026
- Infinix NOTE 60 Ultra Ushers in New Premium Era April 26, 2026
- Instagram Tests Instants, a New App for One-Time Photo Sharing April 24, 2026
- Impact of Tech on Local Culture: 7 Big Changes April 24, 2026
- Smart Grids 2026: The Infrastructure Story Behind Earth Week’s Biggest Promise April 24, 2026
- The Smart Grid Revolution Nobody Explained to You April 23, 2026
- Earth Week 2026: Sustainable Tech Worth Supporting, and the Brands Just Greenwashing April 23, 2026
- How to Use AI for Content Creation: A Practical Guide April 23, 2026
- Meta Tracking Employees’ Keystrokes and Screens to Train AI: What Workers Need to Know April 22, 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
- DTB Introduces Flat KES 20 Pesalink Fee on Transactions Above KES 1,000 April 27, 2026
- The World’s Largest Tech Show Brand, GITEX, Unveils Expansion into Kenya with Inaugural 2026 Edition Set to Unlock US$2.4 Billion AI-Driven Economic Potential April 27, 2026
- Airtel Money and Absa Partner to Enable Seamless Wallet-to-Bank Transfers for SMEs in Kenya April 27, 2026
- Safaricom Updates My OneApp to Restore Favourites Tab and Improves Navigation April 23, 2026
- Opinion | When AI infrastructure is tested by peak demand April 23, 2026
- Airtel Kenya to Reward Customers Who Refer Friends to MyAirtel App April 22, 2026
- Credit Bank Explores Stablecoin Integration with Anzens to Cut Cross-Border Payment Costs April 22, 2026
- 4 Kenyan Startups Selected for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa’s 10th Cohort April 21, 2026
WeeTracker
- AI-Generated Fake Citations In South Africa’s AI Policy Serve Major Blunder April 27, 2026
- OPay’s Valuation Tops USD 3 B With IPO In View, Early Backer Suggests April 27, 2026
- Rare Eswatini-Born Startup Swoop Raises USD 7.3 M Seed To Enter Nigeria’s Food Delivery Market April 24, 2026
- Google Backs 15 Startups In Latest Accelerator Cohort To Shape Africa’s AI Future April 23, 2026
- South Africa’s Junior Tech Workers Are Getting Crushed By AI Hiring Shift April 23, 2026
- Nigerian Government Turns Venture Capitalist As State Funds Flock To Startups April 22, 2026
- Inside Chowdeck, Devs & Execs Compete To Personally Deliver Dinner To Doorsteps April 21, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Water Purifier Kenya: Health Risks and Home Solutions April 27, 2026
- Africa Tech Summit London Returns to London Stock Exchange on May 29 April 27, 2026
- Cross Switch Appoints Gillian Koinange as Head of Business Development, East Africa April 27, 2026
- The Modern Parent’s Guide to Navigating Back-to-School Season Bila Presha April 27, 2026
- Kenya Blockchain and Crypto Conference 2026 Set for May April 25, 2026
- Kenyan Media Previews AI for Disability Project Ahead of Official Launch April 25, 2026
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies Closes $660M Refinancing April 24, 2026
Techloy
- Valve Rolls Out Steam Controller as Standalone Device Without Steam Machine April 28, 2026
- The Different Demon Slayer Swords in Kimetsu no Yaiba April 28, 2026
- How AI Algorithms Are Quietly Changing the Way People Choose Luxury Furniture April 28, 2026
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman Trial: 12 Things to Know as Opening Arguments Begin in $134 Billion AI Showdown April 28, 2026
- Everything you need to know about bridging loans in 2026 April 28, 2026
- Top 7 Softwares to Issue and Manage Digital Badges in 2026 April 28, 2026
- Infinix GT 50 Pro targets gamers with triggers, RGB cooling, and 144Hz AMOLED April 27, 2026
- If John Ternus Wants Real Innovation at Apple, He Should Look at Blockchain—Not AI April 27, 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
- Nervonik Raises $52.5M for Nerve Stim Tech April 27, 2026
- Kashable Raises $60M Series C Led by Goldman Sachs April 27, 2026
- Sereact Raises $110M to Scale AI Robotics Platform April 27, 2026
- ComfyUI Raises $30M to Expand AI Image Generation Tools April 27, 2026
- QumulusAI Secures $45M to Scale AI Infrastructure April 27, 2026
- What is a Crypto Airdrop & How Does It Work? (Guide) April 27, 2026
- Chainlink Price Prediction 2026: Why LINK Holders Are Exploring Fixed Income Platforms April 26, 2026
TechCentral
- AI governance: the key to growth for SA’s financial institutions April 28, 2026
- Turn passion into presence with a .digital domain name April 28, 2026
- WhatsApp becomes the doctor’s office in Turn.io’s voice AI play April 28, 2026
- Sub-Saharan data centre roll-out slows as smaller players falter April 28, 2026
- Worries over OpenAI’s growth as Anthropic gains ground April 28, 2026
- Taylor Swift trademarks her voice to fight AI fakes April 28, 2026
- South Africa’s crypto progress on the line April 27, 2026
- Greg Brockman’s diary takes centre stage in Musk vs OpenAI April 27, 2026
- Malatsi withdraws AI policy after fictitious sources scandal April 26, 2026
- How AI could quietly hollow out South Africa’s job market April 26, 2026
Technext
- Canal+ to become first French company to list in South Africa on June 3 April 28, 2026
- Dodai secures $13m Series A to scale electric bike battery-swapping in Ethiopia April 28, 2026
- Africa needs 4G April 28, 2026
- Dash Microfinance Bank Lowers Transaction Fee to ₦5 to Support Customers Following New ₦1,500 Card Charge Policy April 28, 2026
- SIM swaps responsible for 60% of South Africa’s $320m telecom fraud loss April 27, 2026
- Stakeholders demand bottleneck redress between Nigeria and South Africa to unlock Africa’s $3.4 trillion economy April 27, 2026
- Data from Africa’s top 5 economies shows 4G still drives Africa’s internet adoption April 27, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- A faster way to estimate AI power consumption April 27, 2026
- MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone April 24, 2026
- Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” April 22, 2026
- Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners April 17, 2026
- Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere April 17, 2026
- Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI April 14, 2026
- Human-machine teaming dives underwater April 14, 2026
- A philosophy of work April 9, 2026
- New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning April 9, 2026
DEV Community
- How to Trim and Cut Video with FFmpeg (CLI + API Guide) April 28, 2026
- Python Type Hints That Actually Catch Bugs (Not Just Satisfy mypy) April 28, 2026
- AI didn't save $500k. A test suite did. April 28, 2026
- 🔐 From Passwords to Private Keys: Understanding Solana Identity the Web2 Way April 28, 2026
- Map and Set in JavaScript April 28, 2026
- CLAUDE.md for Node.js: 6 Rules That Stop AI From Generating Bad Backend Code April 28, 2026
- 4 Security Headers Every Website Should Have April 28, 2026
- We Ditched RabbitMQ for Kafka 4.0 and Cut Our Message Processing Latency by 55% April 28, 2026
- The Future of Android is Local: How to Run Custom LLMs (Llama, Gemma) On-Device with MediaPipe and Kotlin April 28, 2026
OpenAI News
- OpenAI available at FedRAMP Moderate April 27, 2026
- The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership April 27, 2026
- Choco automates food distribution with AI agents April 27, 2026
- An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony April 27, 2026
- Our principles April 26, 2026
- Introducing GPT-5.5 April 23, 2026
- GPT-5.5 System Card April 23, 2026
- Plugins and skills April 23, 2026
- Top 10 uses for Codex at work April 23, 2026
- Automations April 23, 2026
- What is Codex? April 23, 2026
- Codex settings April 23, 2026
- How to get started with Codex April 23, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Announcing our partnership with the Republic of Korea April 27, 2026
- Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training April 22, 2026
- Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation April 21, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech April 15, 2026
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning April 13, 2026
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- Automate repetitive tasks with Amazon Quick Flows April 27, 2026
- Build and deploy an automatic sync solution for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases April 27, 2026
- Build Strands Agents with SageMaker AI models and MLflow April 27, 2026
- How Popsa used Amazon Nova to inspire customers with personalised title suggestions April 27, 2026
- Building Workforce AI Agents with Visier and Amazon Quick April 24, 2026
- Amazon Quick for marketing: From scattered data to strategic action April 23, 2026
Databricks
- How leading tech companies are killing the builder’s tax with Lakebase April 27, 2026
- Inside one of the first production deployments of Lakebase: LangGuard's agentic workflow governance engine April 27, 2026
- The next generation of Databricks Genie April 26, 2026
- Model Risk Management in 2026: A Banker’s Guide to the Revised Interagency Guidance April 25, 2026
- OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully-governed on Databricks April 24, 2026
- Operational databases: How they work and when to use them April 24, 2026
- Databricks partners with OpenAI on GPT-5.5 April 23, 2026
- Announcing the Public Preview of Lakeflow Designer April 23, 2026
- Are LLM agents good at join order optimization? April 22, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- The prompt isn't hiding inside the image April 14, 2026
- Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem April 11, 2026
- Meta traded its biggest community asset for a commerce engine April 9, 2026
- Netflix's VOID shows video editing has finally learned the laws of physics April 8, 2026
- Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run? April 2, 2026
Techmeme
- Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) April 28, 2026
- Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is "simply wrong" (The Guardian) April 28, 2026
- Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) April 28, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Building Optimized AI Agents April 27, 2026
- Implementing a Self-Service Data Platform April 25, 2026
- How to Evaluate AI Tools Without Being a Data Scientist April 24, 2026
- The Ten Best Agent Skills to Teach Your AI Agent in 2026 April 23, 2026
- What ODSC AI East Ticket is Right for Me? April 22, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Machine Learning System Design -The Model Serving Triangle, With One Forward Pass Flowing Through… April 28, 2026
- Agentic AI in Action — Part 20 — Building an AI Digital Twin Agent for Scenario Simulation April 28, 2026
- How I Built ML-Powered LLM Routing with <5ms Latency April 28, 2026
- OpenAI Was Losing the Enterprise Market for Six Months. Last Thursday, They Hit Back. April 28, 2026
- The Capybara in the Room: 93.9% Accuracy, 181 Exploits — Inside Claude Mythos April 28, 2026
aibusiness
- Meta Taps Solar Energy to Power Data Centers April 27, 2026
- China Moves to Block Meta’s $2B Acquisition of AI Startup April 27, 2026
- DeepSeek-V4 Could Change Global AI Model Race April 27, 2026
- Google Could Invest Another $40B in Anthropic April 27, 2026
- Canadian, German AI Startups Join Forces to Challenge US Dominance April 24, 2026
- GPT-5.5 Boasts Coding Advancements, But Falls Short of Opus 4.7 April 24, 2026
- The AI Race Is Becoming an Infrastructure Contest April 24, 2026
- AWS Bets on Frontier Agents as the Next Era of Enterprise AI April 23, 2026
- Microsoft to Spend $18B on AI Infrastructure in Australia April 23, 2026
- Accenture Showcases Humanoid Robot Warehouse Pilot April 22, 2026
- SpaceX Agrees to Potential $60B Deal to Acquire Cursor April 22, 2026
- ChatGPT Images Tool Upgraded With ‘Thinking’ Capability April 22, 2026
- Gemini Agent Platform Tackles Enterprise Deployment Challenges April 21, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #487: 100 years from now : The Allowance April 26, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #486: Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI April 22, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #485: When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret April 19, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #484: Your AI chats can be used against you in court April 16, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #483: 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract April 13, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- 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
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 24 April 2026 April 24, 2026
- Weekly Review 17 April 2026 April 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 April 15, 2026
- Weekly Review 10 April 2026 April 10, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026 April 8, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2026 April 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2025 April 5, 2026
- 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
MarkTechPost
- Meta AI Releases Sapiens2: A High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Model for Pose, Segmentation, Normals, Pointmap, and Albedo April 27, 2026
- The LoRA Assumption That Breaks in Production April 27, 2026
- How to Build a Fully Searchable AI Knowledge Base with OpenKB, OpenRouter, and Llama April 27, 2026
- How to Build Smarter Multilingual Text Wrapping with BudouX Through Parsing, HTML Rendering, Model Introspection, and Toy Training April 26, 2026
