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Tech In Africa

Zedcrest Expands Global Payments Ambitions with Leatherback Takeover July 31, 2026
Nigeria’s Grocery-Tech Dream Takes Another Hit as GoLemon Folds July 30, 2026
Rentoza enters business rescue after burning through $7.3M in funding July 30, 2026
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

TechCabal

South Africa’s Nedbank taps MTN executive to lead technology transformation July 31, 2026
How two high school sweethearts built an AI company for farmers July 31, 2026
MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue slumps after airtime lending pause July 31, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Omolara Dada July 31, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – More birr for Ethiopia’s Safaricom July 31, 2026
Visa appoints ex-Airtel Money Kenya chief as East Africa head July 30, 2026
Nigeria’s petrol three-wheelers are going electric—with batteries powered by diesel July 30, 2026
After foreigners leave, South Africa’s convenience stores face a tech test July 30, 2026
One founder’s plan to make childbirth less financially dangerous July 30, 2026
Quidax expands stablecoin corridors as African exchanges seek steadier revenue July 30, 2026

How we made it in Africa

Investor shares his playbook after a 29x exit in Africa July 31, 2026
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

KachTech Media

ALP REIT Reports Strong First Financial Results After NSE Listing July 31, 2026
From Safari Lodges to Small Traders: How Smartphones Are Becoming Payment Devices July 31, 2026
Craft Silicon TouristTap: Turning Smartphones into Payment Devices for Kenya’s Tourism Sector July 31, 2026
Football Action is Back on DStv and GOtv SuperSport Channels Just Days After World Cup Finals July 30, 2026
How Absa Bank Spent Money on Sustainability July 30, 2026
TECNO POVA Launches Curve 2 5G in Kenya July 30, 2026
Young Scientists Kenya Winners Inspire Future STEM Innovators July 30, 2026
AURA Enhances Emergency Response with Google Maps Platform July 28, 2026
TICON Africa Welcomes Global AI Cooperation Organization July 27, 2026

IT News Africa – African Business Technology News

Saviynt Exceeds $300 Million in ARR and Launches Zuma the Enterprise AI Identity Security Platform July 31, 2026
How China’s Used Car Boom Is Reshaping Ghana’s Import Market July 31, 2026
South Africa’s digital future depends on cyber resilience July 31, 2026
How to Cover a Cash Gap Before Payday July 31, 2026
Kaspersky uncovers new Mirage Kitten malware used in cyber-espionage campaign July 31, 2026
The value of advisory services for critical infrastructure in West Africa July 31, 2026
Bolt Business reports strong growth in Nigeria July 31, 2026
Radisson Hotel Group and Accenture Redefine Travel Discovery on ChatGPT July 30, 2026
How digital adoption in dentistry is improving healthcare July 30, 2026
Carrefour Kenya, KCB Bank Kenya and Mastercard Launch Prepaid card for Smarter Grocery Budgeting July 30, 2026

TechCity

How to Spot AI Fake Product Reviews July 29, 2026
Moonshot 2026 Brings OpenAI Africa, Flutterwave, and Nigeria’s SEC Chief Together to Define What It Takes to Build for a New World July 29, 2026
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

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

TechArena

Carrefour, KCB Bank and Mastercard Launch Prepaid Card for Shoppers July 31, 2026
Opinion | Why the Right to Repair is Key to Tackling Kenya’s Growing e-Waste Challenge July 31, 2026
iHUB Selects 12 Startups for Fourth Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Cohort July 31, 2026
Why Online Businesses Are Choosing AvadaPay for Online Payment Processing July 31, 2026
Visa Appoints Former Airtel Money Kenya MD Anne Kinuthia Otieno to Lead East Africa Business July 30, 2026
Binance’s Tokenised Securities Platform bStocks Surpasses $500 Million in Assets Under Management July 30, 2026
Kaspersky Uncovers New Mirage Kitten Malware Targeting Middle East and Africa July 30, 2026
KCB Secures $100 Million EBRD Facility to Boost MSME Lending and Green Finance in Kenya July 30, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Safaricom Formalizes Vodacom’s Governance Rights While Preserving State Safeguards July 31, 2026
Kenya Brings Together African Internet Experts to Strengthen Domain Security July 31, 2026
How to Build a Layered Cybersecurity Strategy Without an Enterprise Budget July 31, 2026
Safaricom Continues Backing Ethiopia as Investment Tops KSh159.6 Billion July 31, 2026
Kenya Piracy Report Puts Cost to Economy at $712m July 31, 2026
The Ultimate Guide to Android Betting Apps in Kenya (2026) July 31, 2026
Samsung’s One UI Rebuild Could Be Good News for Galaxy A Series Smartphone Users July 31, 2026

Techloy

7 Best Sites to Buy TikTok Followers in 2026 (Prices, Safety and What Actually Matters) July 31, 2026
⚡ Could AI make your electricity bill more expensive? July 31, 2026
Silent Hill: Townfall: 8 New Details Konami Just Revealed July 31, 2026
Tim Cook Casts Doubt on Lower Apple Prices Despite New Memory Suppliers July 31, 2026
Netflix Hit With $105 Million Lawsuit After Losing Copy of Unreleased Film July 31, 2026
5 Startup Accelerators Currently Accepting Applications in 2026 July 31, 2026
First Street Fighter Movie Clip Reveals Jason Momoa's Blanka in Electrifying Fight With Ryu July 31, 2026
Anthropic Reveals Claude AI Breached Real Organisations During Security Tests July 31, 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

SiEngine Secures US$200 Million to Expand Automotive Chip Development and Global Growth July 31, 2026
Revoy Raises $27 Million to Turn Old Diesel Trucks Into Hybrids July 31, 2026
Antora Energy Raises $550M To Expand Thermal Battery Production For AI And Industry July 31, 2026
Xsight Labs Raises Over $300M At $2.8 Billion Valuation To Expand AI Networking Platform July 31, 2026
Simile Raises $200 Million for Building Agentic Twin Simulations of Real Consumers July 31, 2026
K2 Space Raises $500 Million At $6.8B Valuation To Scale Large, High-Power Satellites July 30, 2026
Binance Alpha GRVT Airdrop: Deposit GRVT and Share $20K Worth of Rewards July 30, 2026

TechCentral

Eskom’s diesel bill falls 86% as breakdowns hit eight-year low July 31, 2026
Ramaphosa signs off on taking the grid away from Eskom July 31, 2026
Domains.co.za launches self-hosted n8n VPS hosting July 31, 2026
Context is the missing piece in enterprise AI: Obsidian July 31, 2026
Nedbank hires MTN’s former tech chief as group CIO July 31, 2026
TCS+ | Why South African workers must become supervisors of digital labour July 31, 2026
Microsoft just had the biggest day in stock market history July 31, 2026
MTN Nigeria’s growth engine stalled in second quarter July 31, 2026
How Chinese cars took over South African showrooms July 30, 2026
The retailer that is about to become your bank July 30, 2026

Technext

Snapchat stops recommending fully AI-generated videos on Spotlight July 31, 2026
Apple drives 7% global smartphone revenue growth in Q2 2026 July 31, 2026
Binance tokenised stocks hit $500 million in Assets Under Management (AUM) powered by Gen Z investors July 31, 2026
Access Holdings denies fake Access Bank shutdown report, vows legal action July 31, 2026
Bitget Wallet exceeds 100 million users; direct bank transfers in Nigeria now connected July 31, 2026
Coinbase, Strategy, Robinhood Q2 2026 earnings compared: Who survived Bitcoin’s slide July 31, 2026
We feared 5G for the wrong reasons, 6G could see through your walls July 31, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize July 30, 2026
Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill July 30, 2026
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

DEV Community

The Requests library for AI one Unified Python SDK for every LLM provider July 31, 2026
Zero-Downtime Deploy to a VPS with GitHub Actions July 31, 2026
A Few More Months with Claude — Some Scattered Thoughts (Bite-size Article) July 31, 2026
LangChain Essentials — The Only Things You Need Before LangGraph July 31, 2026
Breaking Through the Black Box: How AI Agents Conquer Shadow DOMs, Canvas Elements, and iFrames July 31, 2026
20+ dev tools that run entirely in the browser July 31, 2026
How I publish an AI-generated HTML presentation without building a hosting pipeline July 31, 2026
Why I built a compiler, not the fifth MCP server July 31, 2026
Hello DEV Community — I’m Felipe Mendonça July 31, 2026

OpenAI News

Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation August 4, 2026
Building abundant intelligence July 31, 2026
Advancing responsible AI across Europe July 31, 2026
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce July 31, 2026
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 July 30, 2026
How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime July 30, 2026
How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark July 29, 2026
Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers July 29, 2026
How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency 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

Google Deep Blog

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration July 30, 2026
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control July 29, 2026
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots July 28, 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

Artificial Intelligence

Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick July 31, 2026
Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability July 31, 2026
Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS July 30, 2026
How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock July 30, 2026
Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick July 30, 2026
Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock July 30, 2026

Databricks

Foundations for an AI-forward healthcare organization July 30, 2026
Agentic media buying cannot scale without the right foundation. See how buyers and sellers get there on Databricks. July 30, 2026
Convert proprietary code to open ANSI SQL with Genie Code July 30, 2026
NBCUniversal’s Seamless Migration: Unlocking Scalable Analytics with Databricks July 29, 2026
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

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

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

This Week at ODSC AI: AI Agents Broke Containment. Now What? July 30, 2026
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

Towards AI – Medium

What Most Developers Still Don’t Know about OpenAI API July 31, 2026
OpenAI’s Agent Walked Out the Front Door July 31, 2026
Behind the Blinking Cursor: How NPCterm Gives AI Agents a Real Terminal to Live In July 31, 2026
Are Tabular Foundation Models Ready to Replace Gradient Boosting Models? July 31, 2026
Demystifying Statistical Paradoxes using Causal Inference July 31, 2026

aibusiness

Prompt: Enterprises Grapple With Cost of AI Scale July 31, 2026
OpenAI Cuts Model Prices Amid Enterprises’ Concerns About AI Spend July 31, 2026
EU Pledges $11.5B for Seven AI Gigafactories July 31, 2026
Oracle Brings Google Gemini Models to Enterprise Customers July 30, 2026
Chinese Startups Dominate Humanoid Robotics Patent Rankings July 30, 2026
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

AI Weekly — AI News & Updates

AI Weekly Issue #517: What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal? July 29, 2026
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

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

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