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Dutch Firm Aqua-Spark Closes $48M Fund to Scale Sustainable Fish Farming Across Africa
March 18, 2026
Afreximbank Opens Registration for 2026 Trade Finance Certification, Offers 50% Scholarships
March 18, 2026
How Africa’s Top Fintech is Reimagining the “Woman in Tech” Narrative
March 17, 2026
Nigus and Elmirate announce $200m initiative to support Africa’s security sector
March 16, 2026
Tony Elumelu Foundation Has Deployed Over $100 Million to African Startups
March 16, 2026
Anambra State and Saudi Technology Hub Sign Memorandum of Understanding
March 16, 2026
South African AI Research Platform Yazi Raises First Institutional Funding
March 16, 2026
Five African Startups Selected for Think Like an Investor 2026 Programme
March 13, 2026
Modern Diesel Engine Technology in Heavy-Duty Vehicles
March 13, 2026
Algeria’s Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets, Moving Into Physical Retail
March 12, 2026
TechCabal
When tech calls it waste, Nairobi calls it Tuesday
March 19, 2026
Luno wants more than crypto trading. Prediction markets are the first move.
March 19, 2026
What riding Bolt’s electric tricycle in Lagos actually feels like
March 19, 2026
Why African countries are using data protection laws as backdoor to regulate AI
March 19, 2026
Rwanda wants to be where Africa-focused capital gets structured and domiciled
March 19, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – A sterling move for Zenith
March 19, 2026
MultiChoice to move Showmax content to DStv Stream by April 1
March 18, 2026
World Bank bans PwC Africa subsidiaries over electricity project fraud
March 18, 2026
SASSA grants to increase in April payment; here’s what you need to know
March 18, 2026
African freelancers get paid in dollars. Hurupay makes sure they keep them.
March 18, 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
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
Sports Betting in Kenya: Odds, Live Betting, and Platform Guide
February 6, 2026
Sun King HomePlus Max Brings USB-C Laptop Charging to Solar Homes
January 21, 2026
Creative Entrepreneurship: Why Filmmakers Must Start Thinking Like Founders
January 21, 2026
African Business Technology News
5 Trends Rewriting the Rules in the Financial Sector
March 19, 2026
”Here’s how new skills can keep you employable”
March 19, 2026
AI Video Generators for News Content: Broadcast Quality on a Newsroom Budget
March 19, 2026
Why Are Stablecoins Gaining Real Traction in Africa?
March 19, 2026
ASUS Launches AI-Powered ExpertBook Ultra in South Africa
March 19, 2026
Top 4 Mobile App development companies in Nigeria
March 18, 2026
4 Essential Tech Trends for African SMEs
March 18, 2026
Key considerations for students navigating French higher education
March 18, 2026
How Technology and Data Are Transforming Football Predictions
March 18, 2026
FlySafair Introduces Apple Pay & Google Pay for Faster Flight Bookings
March 17, 2026
TechCity
Impact of 5G on Mobile Gaming: Speed, Latency, Cloud and Esports
March 19, 2026
TECNO CAMON 50, CAMON 50 Pro, and CAMON 50 Ultra 5G Redefine Camera Power and AI Productivity in One Flagship Series.
March 18, 2026
Smart Home Automation Ideas To Transform Your Living Space Now
March 18, 2026
Best Noise Cancelling Headphones Review: Top Picks 2026 Guide
March 17, 2026
Electricity’s Critical Role in Nigeria’s Digital Public Infrastructure
March 17, 2026
Battery Optimization Guide: How to Make Your Phone Last All Day (Any Phone)
March 16, 2026
How To Scale A Startup Globally: Practical Playbook For Founders
March 16, 2026
Content Creation Guide for Beginners
March 13, 2026
Future of Electric Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 2026 Growth
March 13, 2026
Social Media Privacy Settings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Yourself Online
March 12, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Luno Launches First Structured Crypto Prediction Market in Nigeria
March 18, 2026
Absa and Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay, a Next‑Generation Solution for Fast, Affordable Global Remittances
March 10, 2026
PawaPay Partners with Deriv to Support Mobile Money Deposits Across African Markets
March 4, 2026
Vantage Capital Leads R635m Investment into SolarAfrica Energy
March 2, 2026
Symbiotics Invests $5.5 in Fido Ghana to Boost AI-Powered Financial Inclusion
March 2, 2026
How Bitnob is Reshaping Enterprise Payments in Africa: Insights from Africa Tech Summit Nairobi
February 18, 2026
Why Digital Identity is Becoming Africa’s Most Critical Tech Infrastructure
February 16, 2026
TechArena
Over 50% of Kenyan Gig Workers Rely on It as Primary Income, New Bolt-Ipsos Report Finds
March 19, 2026
AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as Vice President for Africa
March 19, 2026
Equity Group Posts Record KSh 75.5 Billion Profit as Digital Transactions Hit 98%
March 19, 2026
Cassava Technologies Launches AI Factory in Africa, Eyes Kenya in Continental Expansion
March 19, 2026
Safaricom and Indosat Partner to Build AI-Powered Digital and Financial Ecosystems
March 19, 2026
Safaricom to Mask M-Pesa Names and Numbers in New Privacy Changes
March 18, 2026
Safaricom Set to Launch M-Pesa Tap-to-Pay in Kenya After Tanzania Rollout
March 18, 2026
Standard Bank Named Africa’s Most Valuable Banking Brand for Fifth Consecutive Year
March 18, 2026
WeeTracker
South Africa’s Deepfake Fraud Rate Highest In Africa As Cheap AI Tools Fuel Scams
March 19, 2026
Speedinvest Secures USD 45 M EIB Backing For USD 230 M Africa Venture Fund
March 19, 2026
Kenya’s Sistema.bio Secures USD 53 M For FarmCarbon Climate Finance Fund
March 19, 2026
Nigus And Elmirate Back USD 200 M Nigeria Defence And Satellite Platform
March 19, 2026
Prediction Markets Quietly Invade Nigeria As Finance & Gambling Intersect
March 17, 2026
Spotify’s Pay Gap Leaves Nigerian Artists With Billions In Streams, Peanuts In Pockets
March 17, 2026
Nigeria Launches iDICE Startup Bridge With Grants & USD 100 K Funding For Founders
March 17, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Cellulant Appoints Darren Makarem as CFO to Drive African Payments Expansion
March 19, 2026
Bolt Report Highlights Economic Gains for Drivers in Kenya’s Gig Economy
March 19, 2026
AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as VP for Africa in Regional Growth Push
March 19, 2026
Showmax to Shut Down at the End of March
March 18, 2026
Beyond Nairobi, BasiGo’s Electric Bus Expansion Begins to Stretch Across Kenya
March 18, 2026
Kenyans Turn to Digital Credit as Cost of Living Bites, Tala Report Finds
March 18, 2026
Equity Group Posts Record KSh75.5 Billion Profit in FY2025, Up 55%
March 18, 2026
Techloy
Trading 212 Secures FCA Approval to Launch Long-Awaited Personal Pensions
March 19, 2026
An AI Startup's New Funding Round Could Value It at $8 Billion — With Two Different Price Tags
March 19, 2026
VIDEO: How to Set Up and Use Bitget Wallet on Your MacBook
March 19, 2026
Google Stitch Vibe Design Explained: How the New 5 Features Actually Work
March 19, 2026
The Pinnacle of Precision: A Deep Dive into DHI Hair Transplant Innovation
March 19, 2026
Oppo A6s 5G launches in India: Specs, Price, and What You Should Know
March 19, 2026
Nasdaq Gets Green Light to Test Tokenized Stock Trading
March 19, 2026
Top Financial Tools and APIs for Currency Conversions
March 19, 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
Cape Raises $100M to Boost Secure Mobile Connectivity
March 19, 2026
Cryptocurrency Betting Bonuses & Their Specifics That No One Tells You About
March 19, 2026
Optimising Efficiency and Precision in Financial Spread Betting
March 19, 2026
PrimeXBT: What traders trade when Bitcoin goes flat
March 19, 2026
Oil Spirals Higher After Iran Strikes Energy Infrastructure
March 19, 2026
Top 7 Bitcoin & Dogecoin Cloud Mining Platforms in 2026 (Daily Payouts Supported)
March 19, 2026
6 Best Crypto Wallets for Beginners
March 19, 2026
TechCentral
How a WhatsApp bundle exposed a fault line in SA mobile
March 19, 2026
Eskom must build renewables or face extinction: Mteto Nyati
March 19, 2026
IT Leadership Series: Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter
March 19, 2026
Adobe faces fresh probe over subscription cancellation fees
March 19, 2026
Showmax Originals find a new home on DStv Stream
March 19, 2026
South Africa wants to tax online gambling. The industry is fighting back
March 19, 2026
Showmax kill date confirmed
March 19, 2026
Mystery Chinese AI model revealed to be Xiaomi’s
March 19, 2026
GWM eyes plant options in South Africa
March 19, 2026
Africa’s first Nvidia RTX Pro GPU servers have landed
March 19, 2026
Technext
Avoiding account linking in large-scale online operations
March 19, 2026
Meet Kagi Translator, an AI bot that will turn any idea into a LinkedIn caption
March 19, 2026
Sistema.bio raises $53m to make cheap clean energy affordable for smallholder farmers across Africa
March 19, 2026
Onyinyechi Ogbonna on how Nigeria can use data to drive AI, automation, and personalized digital experiences
March 19, 2026
4 Ways AI is Changing How Nigerians Discover Businesses
March 19, 2026
What Mastercard’s $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition means for crypto, global payments
March 19, 2026
The TECNO CAMON 50 Series Launches as the Pocket Imaging Master and Productivity Engine for a New Generation
March 19, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
March 19, 2026
Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
March 19, 2026
Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
March 18, 2026
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
March 17, 2026
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
March 12, 2026
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
March 11, 2026
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
March 11, 2026
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
March 11, 2026
3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression
March 10, 2026
DEV Community
/insights, or Why the Analytics Developer Had No Analytics
March 19, 2026
I Scanned 10 Popular GitHub Actions Workflows for Undocumented Environment Variables. Here's What I Found.
March 19, 2026
How to Test AI Agents (Before They Burn Your Budget)
March 19, 2026
GPT 5.3 Codex is the Next Level for Agentic Coding
March 19, 2026
Stop LLMs from Lying: Build Self-Correcting Agents with the Reflection Pattern
March 19, 2026
Free Java courses (with certificates!) from the creators of IntelliJ IDEA 🤯
March 19, 2026
Strengthening Identity Security in a Zero Trust Environment
March 19, 2026
Building fair real-time odds for CS2 stream predictions
March 19, 2026
I've Started Using Dumber Models on Purpose
March 19, 2026
OpenAI News
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
Equipping workers with insights about compensation
March 17, 2026
Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
March 16, 2026
Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex
March 11, 2026
Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
March 11, 2026
Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI
March 11, 2026
From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment
March 11, 2026
Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
March 10, 2026
New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT
March 10, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
March 9, 2026
Google Deep Blog
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
Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
February 19, 2026
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
February 18, 2026
Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education
February 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock
March 19, 2026
Use RAG for video generation using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova Reel
March 19, 2026
Introducing V-RAG: revolutionizing AI-powered video production with Retrieval Augmented Generation
March 19, 2026
Enhanced metrics for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints: deeper visibility for better performance
March 19, 2026
Enforce data residency with Amazon Quick extensions for Microsoft Teams
March 19, 2026
Kick off Nova customization experiments using Nova Forge SDK
March 18, 2026
Databricks
Introducing AI Runtime: Scalable, Serverless NVIDIA GPUs on Databricks for Training and Finetuning
March 19, 2026
Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Apache Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks
March 19, 2026
What’s New in Azure Databricks at FabCon 2026: Lakebase, Lakeflow, and Genie
March 18, 2026
How to move from Apache Airflow® to Databricks Lakeflow Jobs
March 18, 2026
SOTA Embedding Model for Agentic Workflows Now in Public Preview
March 17, 2026
Uncovering Data Science: Skills, Careers and Education
March 17, 2026
AI vs. Machine Learning: Understanding the Differences and Real-World Applications
March 17, 2026
How TetraScience accelerates biopharma with production-ready data and scientific intelligence
March 16, 2026
Talking to the Ground
March 16, 2026
AIModels.fyi
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
Can text *finally* make robots dance exactly how we want them to?
January 3, 2026
Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction?
December 27, 2025
Techmeme
Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
March 19, 2026
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
March 19, 2026
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)
March 19, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
ODSC AI East Keynotes, Root Cause Analysis, Outer Loop Agents, and Production Agent Judgment
March 19, 2026
What Boards Should Actually Be Asking About AI in 2026
March 12, 2026
AI Teammates, the Death of SaaS, Capturing Enterprise Intelligence, and Tonight’s D.C. Meetup
March 12, 2026
AI Engineer vs Data Scientist Salary in 2026: Why Production Skills Pay More
March 11, 2026
Managing Human + AI Workflows: The Operating Model Most Teams Are Missing
March 10, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
I Tried Vector Search on Molecules — Here’s What Happened
March 19, 2026
I Built Postman for AI Agents — Local, Free, and Open Source
March 19, 2026
Multimodal RAG + Gemini Embedding 2 + GPT-5.4 Just Revolutionized AI Forever
March 19, 2026
LangGraph vs Temporal for AI Agents: Durable Execution Architecture Beyond For Loops
March 19, 2026
LAI #119: Prompting, Retrieval, or Retraining?
March 19, 2026
aibusiness
Google's Stitch and the Shift in AI-Driven Development
March 19, 2026
Tencent to Double AI Spending to More Than $5B Over Next Year
March 19, 2026
Samsung Pledges $73B to Boost AI Chip Standing
March 19, 2026
How a Nonprofit Transforms Data with Cloudera and AI
March 18, 2026
Mistral Pioneers Sovereign AI in Europe
March 18, 2026
Nvidia Extends its Reach Into Self-Driving
March 18, 2026
Building Resilience in the Age of AI
March 17, 2026
US Startup to Build South Korea’s Biggest AI Data Center
March 17, 2026
Alibaba Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform
March 17, 2026
Nvidia Devises a More Secure OpenClaw Stack for Enterprises
March 17, 2026
Nvidia Intros Data Factory, Robotics Models in Physical AI Push
March 16, 2026
Meta Spends Another $27B on AI Infrastructure With Nebius
March 16, 2026
AI Innovation vs. Adoption: Why They Are Misaligned
March 16, 2026
AI News Weekly
AI News Weekly - $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad - Mar 19th 2026
March 19, 2026
AI News Weekly - The godfather of AI bets against LLM's - Mar 17th 2026
March 17, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : Future lost in transation - Mar 15th 2026
March 15, 2026
AI News Weekly - The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee - Mar 11th 2026
March 11, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026
March 9, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course
May 10, 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 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
Weekly Review 13 March 2026
March 13, 2026
Weekly Review 6 March 2026
March 6, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2026
March 1, 2026
Weekly Review 27 February 2026
February 27, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2026
February 25, 2026
Weekly Review 20 February 2026
February 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2026
February 17, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2026
February 16, 2026
MarkTechPost
A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Differential Equation Solvers, Stochastic Simulations, and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Using Diffrax and JAX
March 19, 2026
Meet Mamba-3: A New State Space Model Frontier with 2x Smaller States and Enhanced MIMO Decoding Hardware Efficiency
March 19, 2026
Tsinghua and Ant Group Researchers Unveil a Five-Layer Lifecycle-Oriented Security Framework to Mitigate Autonomous LLM Agent Vulnerabilities in OpenClaw
March 18, 2026
Baidu Qianfan Team Releases Qianfan-OCR: A 4B-Parameter Unified Document Intelligence Model
March 18, 2026
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