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Tech In Africa

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
Egypt’s Mylerz Secures Over USD 2 Million to Grow E-commerce Logistics Operations July 23, 2026
South African Fintech Zazu Lands Seed Investment from Launch Africa Ventures July 23, 2026
Seychelles Fintech Fusepay Launches AI Platform for Trade Businesses July 23, 2026
Botswana Tech Fund Secures $6.7 Million at First Close July 23, 2026

TechCabal

Kenya finalises crypto licencing framework for exchanges, digital asset firms July 24, 2026
Why Vodacom is taking its AI talent search back to university July 24, 2026
Why Africa’s growth-stage companies need more than capital to scale sustainably July 24, 2026
Mercy Erhiawarien left Africa. She returned convinced it is the future July 24, 2026
“I’m an African”: Why MTN says migration matters to South Africa’s digital future July 24, 2026
Duplo brings business finance software to Wema Bank’s ALAT Business July 24, 2026
South Africa’s most important crime witness isn’t human. It’s a smartphone. July 24, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Zubair Timilehin July 24, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Mr Price, Mr Europe July 24, 2026
WayaWaya appoints ex-Chase Bank Kenya executive Raj Singh as board adviser 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

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
KCB CFAO Youth Training Boosts Automotive and E-Mobility Skills July 22, 2026
How Africa is Turning Blockchain into Economic Infrastructure 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

TechArena

Kenya Opens Draft AI Policy for Public Participation, Seeks Views Ahead of August Deadline July 24, 2026
Mastercard Foundation Launches $500 Million AHEFT Prize to Transform Higher Education in Africa July 24, 2026
WayaWaya Appoints Former Chase Bank Executive Raj Singh to Board July 24, 2026
Vertiv expands cooling manufacturing capacity to meet AI infrastructure demand July 24, 2026
Opinion | Unpacking the power and potential of choice in enterprise AI July 24, 2026
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

WeeTracker

Kenya’s New Pay & Mental Health Rules For AI Data Workers Rip Outsourcing Playbook July 24, 2026
AI Shows Early Promise In African Health Supply Chains But Evidence Remains Thin July 24, 2026
Morocco’s ORA Technologies Raises Additional USD 2 M, Extending Series A To USD 10 M July 24, 2026
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

TechTrendsKE

After OnePlus, Another Smartphone Brand Could Be Pulling Back July 25, 2026
Cregis Expands into Africa to Meet Rising Demand for Enterprise Digital Asset Infrastructure July 24, 2026
SBM Bank Kenya Profit Surges 171pc on Lower NPLs July 24, 2026
I&M Bank, Mastercard Launch Mastercard World Elite Metal Credit Card in Kenya July 24, 2026
Kenya’s Competition Watchdog Is Preparing for the Age of AI Markets July 24, 2026
Treasury Puts the Digital Economy Among Kenya’s Top Budget Priorities July 24, 2026
Kenya Wants New Competition Rules for Uber, Bolt and Other Digital Platforms July 24, 2026

Techloy

👀 The week tech stopped making sense July 24, 2026
Halo: Campaign Evolved Release Date, Price, and Everything to Know Before July 28 July 24, 2026
Dedicated Servers in Japan: Reaching the Asian Market With Low Latency July 24, 2026
Digital Eye Strain Is the New RSI: How Remote Workers Are Adapting Their Tech Habits July 24, 2026
5 Grants, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities You Can Apply for This Week July 24, 2026
Is AI Becoming Hollywood's New Normal? July 24, 2026
Why Tesla's Electronic Door Handles Are Facing New NHTSA Safety Rules July 24, 2026
Week 30: Asia Top Startup Funding Rounds Led by Ant International July 24, 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

Binance Alpha Launches o1.exchange (O) Trading Competition: Top 2,160 Traders to Share 162,000 O Tokens July 24, 2026
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

TechCentral

Africa’s most popular phones have a tracking problem July 24, 2026
Vodacom taps UJ, AWS to build its AI talent pipeline July 24, 2026
Intel is back in the game July 24, 2026
Why Europe is turning to South Africa for cross-border innovation July 24, 2026
Green dashboards, stalled change: the CIO’s blind spot July 24, 2026
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

Technext

How NRS’ new e-invoicing rules could reshape corporate tax compliance July 25, 2026
Bolt reportedly blocks driver for demanding fare increase amid new fuel price hike July 25, 2026
Nigeria’s digital payment fraud losses fall from ₦52.26bn to ₦25.85bn, report finds July 24, 2026
NCC calls for evidence-based telecom regulation across Africa July 24, 2026
Tunde Onakoya, Sam Otigba, and Hack Sultan launch ₦250m fund to equip new graduates with tech skills July 24, 2026
AfDB approves €100m for Africa’s first EV battery gigafactory in Morocco July 24, 2026
BitMEX shuts down, faces $40 million class action over alleged fraud and insider trading July 24, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

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
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks July 13, 2026

DEV Community

Portable Paths in Knowledge-and-Memory-Management v0.0.2 July 25, 2026
Enforcing subscription plan limits in NestJS without scattering `if (plan === 'PRO')` everywhere July 25, 2026
My analysis and experience of catching a bug in a filesystem July 25, 2026
Stop Manually Validating API Input — Use Zod in Next.js July 25, 2026
Stop Browsing Dashboards: Using MCP to Turn AI Agents into Google Ads Managers July 25, 2026
The Follow-Up Questions That Decide System Design Interviews (And How to Pre-Empt Them) July 25, 2026
The Crash That Only Happened Sometimes — A SwiftUI Bug July 25, 2026
Building Reliable Crypto Alerting Systems in Go: A Deep Dive into the whale-alert-go SDK July 25, 2026
I Built a Local-First AI Operating System With 296,000 Lines of Code. Alone. July 25, 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 Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team 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

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model July 24, 2026
Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS July 24, 2026
Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock July 24, 2026
Best practices for applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to code generation workflows July 23, 2026
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

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
Introducing AI spend controls with Unity AI Gateway 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

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

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

Direct Lake on OneLake Just Hit GA. Here’s When It Replaces Import Mode, and When It Doesn’t. July 25, 2026
9 Mistakes I Have Made While Using Claude — I Wish I Hadn’t July 24, 2026
Turn Raw Data Into $13,000/Month — The Solo Data Analytics Business Built with Claude July 24, 2026
Anthropic Just Read Claude’s Mind. Sort Of July 24, 2026
Apache Arrow: The Movie Your Bronze Layer Deserves July 24, 2026

aibusiness

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 $1.2 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

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 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
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2026 June 30, 2026

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