Tech In Africa
- African Startup Funding Holds Steady as Investors Back Fewer, More Established Companies July 16, 2026
- Gabon Unveils Kimba Connect to Strengthen Cooperation Between Startups and Businesses July 16, 2026
- South African Startup Cue Raises $5 Million to Expand AI Customer-Service Platform July 16, 2026
- Singapore-Based AI Startup Expands into South Africa to Accelerate Enterprise Finance and Procurement Transformation July 15, 2026
- Spiro Kenya Partners with Gor Mahia Football Club (FC) to Drive Electric Mobility Adoption in Kenya July 15, 2026
- In Search of Unstoppable Africans, Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) Invites Nominations from Across the Continent July 15, 2026
- African SaaS Leader Becomes Seamless Technologies, Unveils Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Financial Solutions July 15, 2026
- How Computers and Phones Make Being a Sports Fan Way More Fun July 14, 2026
- Senegal Mobilises $50 Million to Plug the Pre-Seed Funding Gap in Francophone West Africa July 14, 2026
- KPMG Launches 2026 Search for Africa’s Next Leading Technology Innovator July 14, 2026
TechCabal
- Why Kenya’s revived golden visa matters for venture investors and founders July 17, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Helina Bischoff July 17, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber takeover July 17, 2026
- Former Safaricom executive Michael Mutiga named Stanbic Bank Kenya CEO July 16, 2026
- Amazon found the formula for entering South Africa that Starlink refused July 16, 2026
- How teaching AI your career could become the smartest job search strategy July 16, 2026
- Nigeria’s central bank wants every retail dollar traced with digital tracker July 16, 2026
- Schneider Electric says Africa’s electricity grid is the next AI battleground July 16, 2026
- Paystack expands Pesalink partnership to bring bank transfers into checkout July 16, 2026
- OnePlus is pulling out of the US and Europe: What we know so far July 16, 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
- Visa and M-Pesa Game Iko On Hosts Semi-Final Watch Party July 16, 2026
- Spotify Opens Greasy Tunes Café Kitchen in Nairobi With The BAG July 16, 2026
- Seamless Technologies Unveils AI-Powered Financial Solutions July 15, 2026
- England vs Argentina: World Cup Giants Renew Historic Semifinal Rivalry July 15, 2026
- Spiro Kenya Partners with Gor Mahia to Promote Electric Mobility July 14, 2026
- Glovo Pioneers AI Shopping with ChatGPT and Claude July 13, 2026
- Flutterwave and Xoom Launch Faster Money Transfers to Nigeria July 13, 2026
- Samsung Unveils AI-Powered Mini LED TVs in Kenya July 11, 2026
- Norway vs England: Haaland Meets Kane in High-Stakes FIFA World Cup Quarterfinal Showdown July 11, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- Bernard Beya appointed CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies DRC July 15, 2026
- Preparing Africa’s data centres for the demands of autonomous AI July 15, 2026
- Deepfake fraud: $3.7B lost, 47% scams originated on social media platforms July 15, 2026
- AI Is raising South Africa’s cybersecurity stakes July 15, 2026
- Tomorrow Foundation Expands 100 Million Learners Initiative to Equip Nigeria’s Youth for Future Economy July 14, 2026
- Why omnichannel communication is becoming a critical defence against digital fraud July 14, 2026
- How One South African Startup Saved 200,000 Meals from Landfill in Just One Year July 14, 2026
- Ethio telecom and Huawei Chart Next Phase of Ethiopia’s Digital Future July 14, 2026
- FNB’s nav» Turns 10 with New Youth and Payroll Solutions for South Africans July 14, 2026
- WSO2’s Africa Growth Strategy and the Agentic Enterprise Opportunity July 14, 2026
TechCity
- 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
- 5 Phone Habits Ruining Your Sleep in 2026 (And How to Fix Them) July 14, 2026
- From ‘Please Send Proof’ to ‘Payment Confirmed’: How DPI is Revolutionising Social Commerce July 13, 2026
- Google Sheets vs Excel 2026: Which Spreadsheet Skill Should You Learn First? July 12, 2026
- Do Fitness Apps Work in 2026? What the Research Really Says July 12, 2026
- Beyond Phones: Why the Next Smartphone Revolution Is All About AI Agents July 9, 2026
- Data Privacy in 2026: What Companies Know About You and What You Can Do July 8, 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
- Paystack Adds Pesalink to Checkout, Enabling Direct Bank Payments in Kenya July 17, 2026
- SeamlessHR Rebrands to Seamless Technologies, Expands Into AI and Embedded Financial Services July 17, 2026
- NCBA partners with ePure Motion to finance electric vehicle adoption in Kenya July 17, 2026
- Visa, Safaricom Celebrate M-Pesa GlobalPay Card Partnership with ‘Game Iko On’ Watch Party July 17, 2026
- SCRYPT expands stablecoin settlement infrastructure into East Africa, adding KES, TZS, RWF and UGX corridors July 16, 2026
- What is eKash? Everything You Need to Know About Rwanda’s National Digital Payment System July 16, 2026
- Kenya Is Quietly Becoming an Exporter of Digital Government Infrastructure July 16, 2026
- Spotify Opens Greasy Tunes Café Kitchen in Nairobi July 16, 2026
WeeTracker
- Outspoken Selar Founder Fears Tax Body Is Trying To “Crush” Creator Economy July 16, 2026
- South African AI Startup Cue Raises USD 5 M For AI-Powered Customer Service Platform July 16, 2026
- How Ghana’s Fintech Darling Lost Its Licence—And Trust—In A Matter Of Days July 15, 2026
- AI Finds Unintended Use In Nigeria Among Unwelcome Group: Terrorists July 15, 2026
- Nigeria’s Importers Are Desperate For Dollars—This Startup Says It Has The Answer July 14, 2026
- African Governments Draw New Line In The ‘Cloud’ In Data Sovereignty Push July 13, 2026
- Nigeria’s Stock Market Is Booming. Its Startups Still Won’t List There. July 10, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Chinese EV Manufacturer Changan Automobile Inaugurates First Showroom in Ethiopia July 17, 2026
- Stanbic Turns to Safaricom’s Michael Mutiga as Banks Look Beyond Traditional Banking Talent July 16, 2026
- India’s Challenge to WhatsApp Usernames Could Shape the Feature Beyond Its Borders July 16, 2026
- Absa’s Tender Offer May Not Be the End of Its Kenya Buying Spree July 16, 2026
- Visa and Safaricom Step Up Awareness of M-Pesa GlobalPay Virtual Visa Card July 16, 2026
- Ghana Revokes Fintech Startup Zeepay’s Licence Over Regulatory Breaches July 16, 2026
- Stanbic Bank Expands Tailored Banking Services for Police Officers in Kenya July 16, 2026
Techloy
- ASUS Finally Listened. The Xbox Ally X20 Won't Require the AR Bundle After All July 16, 2026
- I Opened Three Virtual Dollar Accounts. Here's Why I Still Use All of Them July 16, 2026
- Custom CRM Solutions for Modern Businesses July 16, 2026
- Is Claude Code Safe? Researchers Hijacked It Live With One Fake Bug Report July 16, 2026
- Why Is My Car AC Not Blowing Cold Air? 8 Causes and How to Fix Them July 16, 2026
- AI Sunglasses vs Earbuds: Which Is Better for Staying Connected on the Go? July 16, 2026
- Anthropic Is Hiring 32 Safety Experts to Stop AI Misuse, From Nuclear Threats to Cybercrime July 16, 2026
- PlayStation Plus Extra Games for July 2026: Avatar, Rise of the Ronin, and More Added July 16, 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
- Fora Raises $60M To Expand AI Platform For Travel Advisors July 16, 2026
- Whale Raises $40M To Expand Enterprise AI Operating System Globally July 16, 2026
- Fireworks AI Raises $1.5 Billion to Expand Enterprise AI Infrastructure July 16, 2026
- SWISSto12 Raises $70 Million in Series C Round To Scale Multi-Orbit Business July 16, 2026
- BRINC Raises $125 Million To Give U.S. Police & Fire Stations 911 Response Drones July 16, 2026
- What is Cardano? A Beginner’s Guide to the ADA Blockchain July 15, 2026
- What is an ETF? A Beginner’s Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds July 15, 2026
TechCentral
- Xi pitches China as the world’s AI liberator July 17, 2026
- BYD’s 350kW Shark 6 leaves the Ranger Raptor in its wake July 17, 2026
- co.za domain fees to rise well above inflation July 17, 2026
- Uber’s mega-deal hands Prosus a R40-billion exit July 16, 2026
- The plan to stop AI from breaking the world July 16, 2026
- Eskom Green cleared for take-off July 16, 2026
- Selling vapour is corporate suicide in slow motion July 16, 2026
- Karooooo’s growth bet pays off with record subscriber haul July 16, 2026
- SpaceX shares slide below listing price July 16, 2026
- The economy the statistics miss is thriving on Spondo Street July 16, 2026
Technext
- X removes 4,000 creators from revenue-sharing programme for stealing content July 16, 2026
- “The future of African payments will not be one rail. It will be a bridge”– Ivorypay’s Oluwatobi Ajayi says July 16, 2026
- Selar’s founder says Lagos govt wants a 5% royalty tax on sales not classified as royalties July 16, 2026
- Airtel Africa revives mobile money IPO, targets $10bn valuation July 16, 2026
- Infinix Officially Launches the HOT 70 Pro in Nigeria with Active Matrix Cube, IP68 Water Resistance and 5G July 16, 2026
- How Google’s AI Overviews are breaking the traditional startup growth formula July 16, 2026
- African ClimateTech funding hits $1.5bn, overtakes fintech for the first time July 16, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 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
- AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data July 13, 2026
- New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content July 13, 2026
- Tiny robot boats build floating structures July 9, 2026
- How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications July 7, 2026
DEV Community
- Have you wasted cost on too many tokens and too many interactions? I did too. The fix wasn't a better model. It was a better architecture. Moving state outside the LLM & simplifying agent interactions cut costs by 82%. Read more here on how I did it. July 17, 2026
- How to Summarize PDFs Locally with Open-Source LLMs (No API, No Data Leaving Your Machine) July 17, 2026
- Dealing with null in Dart July 17, 2026
- How I built an OpenAI-compatible prompt encryption proxy in 300 lines of Python July 17, 2026
- Attention Sinks: Why Streaming LLMs Break When You Evict Token 0 July 17, 2026
- QUIC-Based NAT Traversal: How PUNCH_ME_NOW Frames Are Standardizing Hole Punching July 17, 2026
- I am Building an AI Court with AI Judges, AI Lawyers. July 17, 2026
- A visual data-app builder that generates SvelteKit source July 17, 2026
- ATLOCK v4 vs. Typical Third-Party Security Software: What You're Actually Trading Off July 17, 2026
OpenAI News
- Why teens deserve access to safe AI July 16, 2026
- How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI July 16, 2026
- The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action July 15, 2026
- GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness July 15, 2026
- How to manage AI investments in the agentic era July 14, 2026
- How data science teams use ChatGPT Work July 14, 2026
- How sales teams use ChatGPT Work July 14, 2026
- How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI July 10, 2026
- Getting started with ChatGPT July 10, 2026
- GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot July 9, 2026
- GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition July 9, 2026
- ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work July 9, 2026
- GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty July 9, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash June 24, 2026
- Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning June 16, 2026
- Securing the future of AI agents June 16, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base July 16, 2026
- Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock July 16, 2026
- Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic July 16, 2026
- Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance July 15, 2026
- Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers July 15, 2026
- Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards July 15, 2026
Databricks
- Your AI is ready. Your data foundation probably isn’t July 16, 2026
- From experiment to insight: how Dotmatics Luma and Databricks make AI-ready science a reality July 16, 2026
- The skills gap behind agentic AI — and how Databricks is closing it with a new context engineer certification and agent trainings July 16, 2026
- Unified context: The missing layer for enterprise AI coworkers July 16, 2026
- What happens in the milliseconds after you tap pay July 16, 2026
- How Unity Catalog managed tables bring interoperability, performance, and unified governance to the Lakehouse July 16, 2026
- Introducing Apache Spark 4.2 July 16, 2026
- Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks July 15, 2026
- AI-Enabled Advisory Services for Higher Education July 15, 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
- Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (Bloomberg) July 17, 2026
- During an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being "editorially controlled", saying its refusal to do "random things" makes no sense (Jordan Novet/CNBC) July 17, 2026
- Source: Demis Hassabis plans to hold meetings with US policymakers in Washington next week about his proposed US-based Standards Body for "Frontier-class" AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) July 17, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- 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
- The 3 Loops That Break AI Agents in Production July 7, 2026
- From Analyst To AI Engineer How To Make The Career Leap July 6, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Anthropic’s Claude Certified Architect Exam (CCA-F): Your Tools Are Lying About Their Errors III July 17, 2026
- What is Multi-Object Tracking? July 17, 2026
- Kimi K3 is Here and This is How Insane It Is, You Are Not Ready July 17, 2026
- Building AI Agents in Rust - part 8 July 17, 2026
- SVD Is Just a Greatest Hits Album. I Can Prove It. July 17, 2026
aibusiness
- OpenAI Unveils GPT-Red to Test AI Model Safety July 16, 2026
- Toyota Spin-Out Launches From Stealth With $300M July 16, 2026
- Thinking Machines Rolls Out Broad but Efficient Model July 16, 2026
- Nebius Embarks on "Asset-Light" Data Center Model July 16, 2026
- Foundation Launched to Standardize AI Payments July 16, 2026
- Startup Raises $50 Million to Develop Sovereign AI Infrastructure July 15, 2026
- Perplexity AI Introduces Space Sandbox for Agents July 15, 2026
- Moving Enterprise AI From Pilots to Payoff July 15, 2026
- Oracle Focuses on Fusion App Developers With Agentic AI Tools July 14, 2026
- Taiwan’s Second-Largest Chipmaker Hits Photonics Production Milestone July 14, 2026
- Cost to Build Meta’s 5GW Louisiana AI Supercluster Hits $50 Billion July 14, 2026
- Mistral AI Unveils Vision Model for Robot Navigation July 14, 2026
- How Enterprises Should Respond to Economists’ AI Risk Letter July 13, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- 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
- AI Weekly Issue #511: AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins. July 6, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #510: Altman Offered Washington 5% of OpenAI. And 5% of Everybody Else. July 2, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) October 5, 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 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
- Weekly Review 26 June 2026 June 26, 2026
MarkTechPost
- NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB July 17, 2026
- Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context July 16, 2026
- OpenAI Details GPT-Red: An Internal Automated Red-Teaming Model That Beat Human Red-Teamers 84% To 13% On Prompt Injection July 16, 2026
- Patter SDK Guide to Building a Restaurant Booking Phone Agent with Dynamic Variables, Guardrails, Latency Dashboards, and Eval Checks July 16, 2026
