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
- Tutto Passa, TechCabal debut podcast unpacking risk, capital, building in Africa April 29, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Crypto vacancies at Kenya’s Central Bank April 29, 2026
- OPPO Find X9 Ultra vs Find X8 Ultra: Which should you buy? April 28, 2026
- This AI doctor answers the hardest questions women ask April 28, 2026
- 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
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
- Connected Africa Summit 2026 opens in Nairobi with sharp focus on Innovation and delivery April 28, 2026
- Healthy Links, Higher Rankings: Monitoring Your Backlink Profile April 27, 2026
- Safaricom’s Big Bang / Cold Turkey New My OneApp Rollout: A Brave but Costly Mistake April 15, 2026
- TECNO Unveils EllaClaw Beta, Bringing the First OpenClaw-Powered AI Agent to Kenya April 9, 2026
- 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
TechCity
- 5 Tech Habits That Are Draining Your Battery and Your Budget April 28, 2026
- China Just Blocked Meta From Buying an AI Company. Here’s What That Actually Means for You. April 28, 2026
- Prompt Engineering in 2026: The Free Skill Most People Are Sleeping On April 27, 2026
- 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
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
- Secret Meta Deal Saw Nigeria Waive USD 32.8 M Fine & Drop Key Demands April 28, 2026
- LemFi Commits USD 135 M to Global Expansion, Financial Access Across Africa April 28, 2026
- Dodai Raises USD 13 M Series A To Scale Electric Motorbikes In Ethiopia April 28, 2026
- 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
TechTrendsKE
- Huawei Showcases Next-Generation Solutions at Connected Africa Summit April 29, 2026
- Amazon Kuiper Moves Toward Kenya Licence as Starlink Sets the Pace April 29, 2026
- Spotify Enters Its Next Phase With Future Plans in Focus April 29, 2026
- EXCLUSIVE: Airtel Kenya Begins Fibre Rollout As Fixed Internet Competition Tightens April 29, 2026
- Leaders Call for Seamless Connectivity and Policy Harmonisation Connected Africa Summit April 28, 2026
- Early Tax Alerts Replace VAT Blocks as KRA Resets Compliance Approach April 28, 2026
- New Nairobi Plant Brings Bank and SIM Card Production Closer to Home April 28, 2026
Techloy
- 8 Reasons Businesses Are Adopting Cloud-Based Infrastructure April 29, 2026
- GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro: 6 Things ChatGPT New Model Still Can't Do Better April 28, 2026
- 5 Things the Internet Took Issue With in Emma Grede’s Work-From-Home ‘Career Suicide' Comments April 28, 2026
- How a Skilled Personal Injury Attorney Builds a Winning Strategy April 28, 2026
- How a Cruise Ship Attorney Wins Injury Claims April 28, 2026
- Why Trusted Car Accident Lawyers Matter After Crashes April 28, 2026
- How Accident Attorneys Handle Complex Liability Disputes April 28, 2026
- Can BasiGo’s Electric Buses Survive East Africa’s Transport Reality? April 28, 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
- When Will BTC Get Back To The 6-Figure Range? April 29, 2026
- CATL Raises $5B in Hong Kong Share Placement Deal April 28, 2026
- UK AI Startup Ineffable Raises $1.1B Seed Round April 28, 2026
- 12 AI Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: Features, Use Cases, and Strategy Fit April 28, 2026
- Flexible Sportsbook Software: The Hidden Engine Behind Successful Multi-Market Expansion April 28, 2026
- Audion Raises $15M to Expand Audio Advertising Tech April 28, 2026
- Marloo Raises $10M to Expand Fintech Services Globally April 28, 2026
TechCentral
- ANC piles pressure on Malatsi over AI policy fiasco April 29, 2026
- ‘It was my idea’: Musk claims paternity of OpenAI April 29, 2026
- SA stretches fuel tax relief as oil prices surge April 29, 2026
- Goldman Sachs warns of tech bubble April 29, 2026
- State broadband merger limps into a second decade April 28, 2026
- The AI policy that AI broke April 28, 2026
- New DStv owner Canal+ confirms JSE listing date April 28, 2026
- Pivotal week for US tech stocks 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
Technext
- Fibre Cuts: Nigerian telecom stakeholders push “Dig-Once” policy for quality network April 29, 2026
- MJ moonwalks in 2026 April 29, 2026
- Why 23 million Nigerians will be unable to receive dollar remittances from May 1 April 29, 2026
- 8 startups win N49m at MTN-Powered “Gathering on 100” Pitchaton event April 28, 2026
- Why the WEF says ‘Technology Convergence’ is the new global gold rush April 28, 2026
- 610 Nigerians win prizes from 3MTT’s National Impact Challenge April 28, 2026
- House of reps wants waiting period for phone number recycling extended to 18 months April 28, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices April 29, 2026
- 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
DEV Community
- The Accordion Pattern: Why I stopped writing one fat LLM prompt April 29, 2026
- Flowise MCP RCE: What CVE-2026-40933 Teaches About Agent Security April 29, 2026
- I Built a Chrome Extension That Turns Long Articles Into Structured Notes, and It Taught Me Two Expensive Lessons April 29, 2026
- Caddy 2.8 vs Nginx 1.26: Static File Serving Speed Benchmark 2026 April 29, 2026
- SLSA Provenance Hands-on: Generate with GitHub Actions, Verify with slsa-verifier April 29, 2026
- Managing Environment Variables in React Properly April 29, 2026
- From Hype to Reality: What Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 Means for Builders Like Us April 29, 2026
- I built a CLI that hashes your ML accuracy claims before the experiment runs April 29, 2026
- How to Build a Drag-and-Drop File Dropzone in React & Next.js (With Tailwind CSS) — Line by Line April 29, 2026
OpenAI News
- OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS April 28, 2026
- Our commitment to community safety April 28, 2026
- 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
- Working with 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
- Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic April 28, 2026
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart April 28, 2026
- 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
Databricks
- Built In, Not Bolted On: What AI-Native Actually Means in Cybersecurity April 28, 2026
- Operationalizing AI for public sector fraud prevention April 28, 2026
- From months to minutes: Building real-time clinical data pipelines with natural language April 28, 2026
- Agentic Data Engineering with Genie Code and Lakeflow April 28, 2026
- Securely send first-party conversion signals with Snapchat Conversions API on Databricks Marketplace April 28, 2026
- 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
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
- Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 (Mary Page James/Gallup) April 29, 2026
- An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a better OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more (Alex Heath/Sources) April 29, 2026
- Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65 per share for a total of ~$231M this week; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51 per share (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) April 29, 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
- AlphaGo's Creator Quit DeepMind After 13 Years to Bet $1.1B That LLMs Hit Their Data Wall April 29, 2026
- Best Poe Alternatives in 2026: What to Do Before the Knowledge Base Shuts Down April 29, 2026
- The Conversation Storage Problem Nobody Is Solving Yet April 29, 2026
- SaaS Isn’t Dying. It’s Being Re-Layered April 29, 2026
- AI vs AI: The Battle for Common Sense. April 29, 2026
aibusiness
- Meta Scales AI Infrastructure With AWS Chip Deal April 28, 2026
- Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents April 28, 2026
- Record $1.1B Seed Funding for Reinforcement Learning Startup April 28, 2026
- 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
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
- smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3 April 29, 2026
- A Coding Implementation on Document Parsing Benchmarking with LlamaIndex ParseBench Using Python, Hugging Face, and Evaluation Metrics April 29, 2026
- Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified April 29, 2026
- How to Build Traceable and Evaluated LLM Workflows Using Promptflow, Prompty, and OpenAI April 29, 2026
