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AfDB Backs Breega Africa Seed Fund with €7.5M to Boost Early-Stage Startups
March 31, 2026
Ghana’s Ci-Gaba Fund Hits $35M First Close, Targets $91M for West Africa SME Investments
March 31, 2026
ITIDA, Plug and Play Wrap Aswan Bootcamp as Upper Egypt Startups Secure EGP 200M
March 30, 2026
Tunisian Solo Founder Lands FasterCapital Backing for Arabic-First Causal AI Platform
March 30, 2026
Fundamental Analysis Explained: How Investors Evaluate a Company’s True Value
March 30, 2026
Ethiopia Opens Smart Police Station in Addis Ababa
March 25, 2026
Nigerian Startup Bumpa and Kenyan Startup Flowcart Receive Funding from Jobtech Alliance
March 25, 2026
UK Firm Klipboard Acquires South African Sales Platform Skynamo
March 25, 2026
Fintech Platform littlefish Raises $9.5 Million Series A Funding
March 25, 2026
Petrol pain is driving South Africans into Chinese hybrids
March 24, 2026
TechCabal
Kenyan AI startup bets on local dialects as proof gap remains
March 31, 2026
How a startup built Nigeria’s digital map in nine months
March 31, 2026
For crypto startups, breaking Kenya’s advertising rules could cost $23,000 in fines
March 31, 2026
Novastar Ventures closes $147 million fund for African startups
March 31, 2026
Bank of Namibia sets June 2026 rollout for instant payment system
March 31, 2026
How PAPSS is fixing Africa’s cross-border payments, four years on
March 31, 2026
Kenyan workers report higher incomes but lean more on credit, side hustles
March 31, 2026
Francophone Africa’s ‘Amazon moment’ is arriving. The conditions aren’t.
March 31, 2026
Nigerians used 1.26 million terabytes of data in February, down from January
March 31, 2026
Savanna Fibre sparks price war in Kenya’s stagnant broadband market
March 31, 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
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
What the NTT DATA Partnership with Absa Renewal Means for Customers and Industry Peers
March 5, 2026
OPPO partners with MOGO to make Lipa Mdogo Mdogo mainstream
March 3, 2026
TECNO’s CAMON 50 and the New Visibility of the Kenyan Spirit
March 1, 2026
No More Peeking: How the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Solving Privacy in Public Spaces
February 28, 2026
The Invisible Engine: How Daraja 3.0 is Scaling Kenyan Tech Through MPESA
February 17, 2026
African Business Technology News
Artificial Intelligence and global partnerships are reshaping the future of insurance
March 27, 2026
Space4Good and RINA Partner on Satellite-Based Verification for Infrastructure and Environment
March 27, 2026
AI Already Transformed Education. What’s Next?
March 27, 2026
Westcon-Comstor expands cybersecurity and networking portfolio with Infoblox in Southern Africa
March 26, 2026
HP Announces New AI-Driven Enhancements to its Workforce Experience Platform (WXP)
March 26, 2026
Standard Bank Responds to Social Media Claims by Dr. Anele Mngadi Hammond
March 26, 2026
Absa on Next-Generation AI in Banking
March 26, 2026
Bolt Strengthens Driver Safety Measures in SA
March 25, 2026
Hayo Expands to East Africa
March 25, 2026
Kaspersky and African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation conduct joint cybersecurity training for African law enforcement
March 25, 2026
TechCity
March 2026 Tech Roundup: What Mattered Most
March 30, 2026
Best Laptops For Remote Work: Top Picks For 2026
March 30, 2026
Building Your Developer Portfolio: A Complete How-To Guide
March 27, 2026
How to Secure Digital Wallets: Smart, Practical Protection
March 27, 2026
Git and GitHub: A Complete Beginner’s Guide
March 26, 2026
AI Tools for Small Businesses That Save Time and Money
March 26, 2026
How to Spot Online Scams
March 25, 2026
AWIT Hosts ‘Give to Gain: Balancing the Scale’ IWD 2026 Convening in Lagos
March 25, 2026
The Digital Must-Haves for Every First-Time Entrepreneur: Domain & Professional Email
March 25, 2026
Latest Fintech Trends In Nigeria: What’s Shaping 2026
March 25, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Madica Releases Guidebook on Fundraise for Early-stage Founders
March 31, 2026
Four Climate Ventures to receive US$273,000 in Follow-on Support from BFA Global and FSD Africa
March 27, 2026
Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC in Africa
March 26, 2026
littlefish Raises $9.5M Series A to Power Merchant Infrastructure Across Africa
March 24, 2026
South Africa’s Happy Pay Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Partech
March 24, 2026
Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment
March 20, 2026
Luno Launches First Structured Crypto Prediction Market in Nigeria
March 18, 2026
TechArena
Safaricom Decode 4.0 Day 1 Recap: AI Takes Center Stage
March 31, 2026
Safaricom’s Dilip Pal: AI Will Power Kenya’s Next Industrial Leap
March 31, 2026
Samsung Launches Galaxy A57 5G and A37 5G in Kenya, Starting from KES 49,000
March 31, 2026
Safaricom Decode 4.0 Kicks Off in Nairobi as Kenya Big on AI and Digital Innovation
March 31, 2026
Kenya’s Home Fibre Market Heats Up as Savanna Fibre Introduces Aggressive New Pricing
March 31, 2026
Kenya Taps Visa Data and Kenya Airways Discounts to Boost Tourism Recovery in New Campaign
March 31, 2026
Boldyn Networks scales project delivery and financial control with PPO project management software
March 31, 2026
Samsung Galaxy A37 5G Specifications and Price in Kenya
March 30, 2026
WeeTracker
South Africa’s Gig Economy Becomes A Bargain With AI Skills Shortage Looming
March 31, 2026
ITIDA, Plug and Play Back 61 Startups With USD 3.6 M In Upper Egypt
March 31, 2026
Africa Drove Mobile Money To USD 2 T—Now Most Accounts Sit Idle
March 30, 2026
SafeBoda Turns To Business Clients As Crackdown Upends Motorbike Taxis
March 30, 2026
Ghana’s Ci Gaba Fund Hits USD 35 M First Close To Channel Pension Funds Into Startups
March 30, 2026
4G Capital Secures USD 2 M To Scale Financial Inclusion In East Africa
March 30, 2026
Nigeria Ostensibly Promises ‘Free’ EV Imports—Reality Tells A Different Story
March 27, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Government Pushes Inclusive, Local-Language AI at Safaricom Decode 4.0
March 31, 2026
Safaricom Decode 4.0 Puts Focus on AI Talent Gap in Kenya
March 31, 2026
Kenya’s Digital Ambition Takes Centre Stage as Decode 4.0 Summit Kicks Off in Nairobi
March 31, 2026
How Safaricom’s AI Strategy Accelerates Kenya’s Digital Economy
March 31, 2026
Kenya Tourism Board, Visa and Kenya Airways Launch Discounted Travel Campaign
March 30, 2026
Kenya Power Foundation Backs 2026 Kenya Science and Engineering Fair with KSh 1.5 Million Boost
March 30, 2026
Sam Malonza | Why Trust Is Becoming Kenyan Fintech’s Most Important Currency
March 30, 2026
Techloy
Rec Room Is Shutting Down: 3 Best Alternatives to the VR Game
March 31, 2026
Florida Driving Is Its Own Thing - And Your Car Insurance Should Reflect That
March 31, 2026
US Charges Suspect in $54 Million Uranium Finance Hack
March 31, 2026
Malicious Axios npm Packages Installed Malware on Developer Systems
March 31, 2026
Vivo X300 Ultra Specs, Camera, and Price: 200MP Sensor, 400mm Zoom
March 31, 2026
UK Visa Fees Are Increasing in April—Here’s How it Will Affect You
March 31, 2026
Apple Intelligence in China Is Ready — So Why Isn’t It Available?
March 31, 2026
Understanding Compensation In Accident Injury Cases
March 31, 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
9fin Raises $170M to Expand AI Platform for Debt Markets
March 31, 2026
Corazon Capital Raises $100M Fund IV for AI Startups
March 31, 2026
Forex Signal Providers in 2026: Features, Comparison, and Evaluation
March 31, 2026
OpenFX Secures $94M Series A for Cross-Border Growth
March 31, 2026
WHOOP Raises $575M at $10.1B to Expand Healthspan Tech
March 31, 2026
6 AI Automated Trading Bots for Mobile Users in 2026: Features and Comparison
March 31, 2026
Valinor Raises $25M to Build Blockchain-Based Credit Platform
March 31, 2026
TechCentral
SA finally has a broadband map – and it reveals where the gaps are
March 31, 2026
Bookmakers want banks to cut off offshore online gambling sites
March 31, 2026
Government steps in as fuel shock hits
March 31, 2026
Uber commits R5-billion to South Africa amid licensing woes
March 31, 2026
The SA director betting everything on AI filmmaking
March 31, 2026
Microsoft rolls out big Copilot upgrades
March 31, 2026
Inside MTN’s plan to turn its towers into AI hubs
March 31, 2026
MTN lobs a grenade into SA’s mobile market with Pi launch
March 30, 2026
FNB CEO Harry Kellan steps down after just two years
March 30, 2026
The staggering cost of connecting every South African household
March 30, 2026
Technext
Nigeria’s telecom subscribers climb to 184.6 million, signalling market growth
March 31, 2026
DeFi set to hit $1.4 trillion by 2033 as Real-World Assets grow
March 31, 2026
How Toyosi built a tech solution to the accessibility problems she grew up with
March 31, 2026
How Grace AI Labs plans to reduce customer service costs in 20 African markets
March 31, 2026
Bolt is blocking passengers with low ratings from drivers
March 31, 2026
Mitsubishi, Toyota lead $147m Japanese fund for African clean energy and EV startups
March 31, 2026
Infinix NOTE Edge Review: The Curved Screen You’ve Been Overpaying For
March 31, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials
March 30, 2026
Seeing sounds
March 26, 2026
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape
March 26, 2026
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly
March 26, 2026
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
March 25, 2026
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
March 25, 2026
How to create “humble” AI
March 24, 2026
Advancing international trade research and finding community
March 23, 2026
On algorithms, life, and learning
March 23, 2026
DEV Community
Unlock Local AI: Generating Synthetic Data for Powerful Fine-Tuning
March 31, 2026
Linux Fundamentals Every Beginner Data Engineer Should Know
March 31, 2026
Your Pipeline Is 26.3h Behind: Catching Investing Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit
March 31, 2026
Stop staring at Claude Code's statusline: here's one you can actually customize
March 31, 2026
From Middle School Captain to Sports Card Enthusiast: A Journey of Passion and Learning
March 31, 2026
Building a Full-Stack Java App with Quarkus — No React, No Angular, No Problem
March 31, 2026
Learning Elixir: Error Handling Basics
March 31, 2026
Designing a Scalable Notification System using .NET, Azure Service Bus, MediatR, and SignalR
March 31, 2026
The Zero Privilege Paradigm: Definitive Guide to Immutable Security
March 31, 2026
OpenAI News
Accelerating the next phase of AI
March 31, 2026
Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia
March 29, 2026
STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company
March 27, 2026
Inside our approach to the Model Spec
March 25, 2026
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program
March 25, 2026
Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens
March 24, 2026
Powering product discovery in ChatGPT
March 24, 2026
Update on the OpenAI Foundation
March 24, 2026
Creating with Sora Safely
March 23, 2026
How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
March 19, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Astral
March 19, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano
March 17, 2026
OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first
March 17, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
March 26, 2026
Protecting people from harmful manipulation
March 25, 2026
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more
March 25, 2026
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
March 17, 2026
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
March 9, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
March 3, 2026
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
February 26, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
March 31, 2026
Building an AI powered system for compliance evidence collection
March 31, 2026
Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
March 31, 2026
AWS launches frontier agents for security testing and cloud operations
March 31, 2026
Can your governance keep pace with your AI ambitions? AI risk intelligence in the agentic era
March 31, 2026
How Ring scales global customer support with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
March 30, 2026
Databricks
How agentic software development will change databases
March 30, 2026
Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse
March 27, 2026
Zero-Downtime Patching in Lakebase Part 1: Prewarming
March 27, 2026
Fizz accelerates ecommerce analytics with Databricks SQL
March 25, 2026
What is a Cloud-Based Database Management System?
March 25, 2026
Tevogen Bio’s Journey to Streamlining Life-Saving Therapies
March 25, 2026
Building an A/B testing analysis framework for mobile gaming on Databricks
March 25, 2026
What are Analytic Applications?
March 25, 2026
What is Intelligent Document Processing?
March 25, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?
March 27, 2026
Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them?
March 21, 2026
Can AI *really* research like us? This new framework puts it to the test.
January 16, 2026
Can an AI *finally* react like a real person during a video call?
January 11, 2026
Model of the Month: chatterbox-turbo
January 7, 2026
Techmeme
PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
March 31, 2026
Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran (Bloomberg)
March 31, 2026
Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
March 31, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
What Will AI Coworkers Look Like for the Rest of 2026?
March 31, 2026
When Not to Use AI: Strategic Restraint as a Leadership Skill
March 30, 2026
Evaluating Your Agent’s GPA, Single-Cell Foundation Models, the AI Hiring Gap, and Open-Source…
March 30, 2026
The Verifier–Compiler Loop: Turning Human Preferences into Production Agent Judgment
March 27, 2026
From MIT to Fortune 500: Meet the AI Leaders Speaking at the AI X Leadership Summit
March 26, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
How Meta’s TRIBE v2 Predicts Human Brain Activity Using AI
March 31, 2026
Building a Realistic Relational Test Database from Scratch with Python
March 31, 2026
I Built an local AI Agent That Never Forgets — Here's How
March 31, 2026
I Passed the DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Exam — Here’s My Honest Study Plan (With What I’d…
March 31, 2026
TAI #198: Real-Time Speech AI Gets Serious: Google and OpenAI Race to Own the Voice Layer
March 31, 2026
aibusiness
Black Hat USA
August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia
April 21, 2026
Databricks to Invest $850M in UK AI Operations
March 31, 2026
Nebius to Build One of Europe’s Largest AI Factories in Finland
March 31, 2026
South Korean AI Chipmaker Raises $400 Million for Inference
March 31, 2026
Microsoft Brings New AI Capabilities to Copilot Researcher
March 30, 2026
Mistral AI Lands $830M for AI Data Center
March 30, 2026
Under Pressure, LexisNexis Integrates Anthropic Legal AI
March 30, 2026
What Anthropic Mythos Means for the AI Lab and Businesses
March 30, 2026
US Military AI Company Now Valued at $12.7B
March 30, 2026
Mistral AI Launches Text-to-Speech Model
March 27, 2026
Meta Ups Texas AI Data Center Investment From $1.5B to $10B
March 27, 2026
Cohere Unveils Open Source Speech Model for Edge Devices
March 26, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)
July 1, 2025
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
June 17, 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
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2026
March 29, 2026
Weekly Review 27 March 2026
March 27, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026
March 26, 2026
Upcoming Journal Special Issues
March 25, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026
March 22, 2026
Weekly Review 20 March 2026
March 20, 2026
Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2026
March 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026
March 19, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2026
March 18, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 2026
March 17, 2026
MarkTechPost
How to Build and Evolve a Custom OpenAI Agent with A-Evolve Using Benchmarks, Skills, Memory, and Workspace Mutations
March 31, 2026
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5 Omni: A Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, Video, and Realtime Interaction
March 31, 2026
Microsoft AI Releases Harrier-OSS-v1: A New Family of Multilingual Embedding Models Hitting SOTA on Multilingual MTEB v2
March 30, 2026
Salesforce AI Research Releases VoiceAgentRAG: A Dual-Agent Memory Router that Cuts Voice RAG Retrieval Latency by 316x
March 30, 2026
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