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Tech In Africa

Payment Platform NjiaPay Raises $2.1 Million Seed Funding March 9, 2026
African Startups Raised $272 Million in February 2026 March 9, 2026
Canal+ to Shut Down Showmax Streaming Platform March 9, 2026
African Development Bank Approves €6.5 Million Investment in Saviu II Venture Capital Fund March 6, 2026
SolarAfrica Acquires Full Ownership of Commercial Energy South Africa in ZAR 635 Million Transaction March 6, 2026
Google brings AI Overviews and AI Mode to 13 African languages, including Kiswahili and Somali March 6, 2026
ALP REIT raises $34.55 million in oversubscribed offer, becoming NSE’s first Dollar-denominated security March 6, 2026
AI adoption succeeds or fails on skills, not software March 5, 2026
Noah and Nafolo Launch Stablecoin Virtual Accounts to End Cross-Border Payment Friction in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 4, 2026
UNICEF Venture Fund Opens Applications for Blockchain Solutions March 3, 2026

TechCabal

Nigeria’s tech regulator targets 37 innovation hubs for fifth iHatch cohort March 11, 2026
For ₦1,300 a month, inDrive drivers in Nigeria can now access healthcare services March 11, 2026
KCB reports $530 million profit after NBK sale lifts earnings March 11, 2026
JAMB says there is no room for failure in its new UTME surveillance system March 11, 2026
Kenya’s largest bank moves to acquire stake in payments firm Pesapal March 11, 2026
German industrial giant Würth is closing its Kenya operations after 29 years March 11, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya’s taxman is watching March 11, 2026
Aga Khan’s exit hands East Africa’s largest news publisher to Tanzanian billionaire March 10, 2026
Decide AI doesn’t want to be ChatGPT. It just wants to fix your spreadsheets March 10, 2026
Startups in DR Congo are building Africa’s overlooked digital frontier March 10, 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

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
Legal Clarity and Tech Innovation: SportPesa Strategic Pivot for 2026 January 21, 2026

African Business Technology News

Top-5 White-Label Payment Gateway Providers Powering PSPs and Fintechs March 11, 2026
Modernising Banking & Insurance for Africa’s Digital Economy March 11, 2026
Agentic AI Company Partners with InterNetX to Enable Seamless Domain Access March 11, 2026
South African Parents Urged to Rethink Online Sharing of Children’s Data March 10, 2026
Connectivity is Infrastructure: Strategic Partnerships are Redefining Mining in Africa March 10, 2026
Cross Switch Promotes Engineering Head to Chief Technology Officer March 10, 2026
How Can Machine Learning Unlock Credit in South Africa March 10, 2026
Zepz Appoints Barrie Morris as Interim CEO as Mark Lenhard Steps Down March 10, 2026
FNB on Track to Launch Smart ID Card Services March 9, 2026
Uber SA Hosts Driver Appreciation Event, Announces Strategic Partnerships Package March 9, 2026

TechCity

AWIT to Host International Women’s Day 2026 Tech Dialogue in Lagos March 11, 2026
Best Laptops for Software Developers: Top Picks 2026 Guide Now March 11, 2026
Career Transition to Tech: A Complete How-To Guide March 10, 2026
Infinix NOTE 60 Pro Debuts with Snapdragon Power, 6500mAh Battery and LED Design March 10, 2026
Blockchain Technology in Banking: Use Cases, Risks, and ROI March 10, 2026
Learning to Code in 2026: The Honest Guide Nobody Else Will Give You March 9, 2026
Budget Smartphones March 2026: We Tested 5 Under $200. Here’s the Honest Truth. March 9, 2026
How Tradition Shapes Nigeria’s Digital Divide March 9, 2026
Struggling to Land Job Interviews? This AI Job Application Tool Does the Heavy Lifting. Here’s Our Honest Take March 9, 2026
Top Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Workers To Stay Safe Today March 9, 2026

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

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
Delta40 Completes $20M Capital Raise to Build, Invest in & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa February 12, 2026

TechArena

KCB reports KES 68.4B profit as digital channels handle 99% of transactions March 11, 2026
Nutanix, AWS and Datamellon Host Executive Workshop on Hybrid Cloud and AI in Lagos March 11, 2026
Liquid C2 and CyberCoach Partner to Help African Organisations Reduce Human Cyber Risk March 11, 2026
TikTok Hosts Sub-Saharan Africa Safer Internet Summit in Nairobi, Announces $200,000 AI Literacy Support March 11, 2026
MTN Zambia Completes Africa’s First Starlink Direct-to-Cell Tests March 11, 2026
Absa launches Absa Global Pay with Thunes to Facilitate real-time remittances to Kenya and other markets March 11, 2026
Samsung Electronics Marks 20 Years as World’s No.1 TV Brand March 10, 2026
Gebeya Integrates InterNetX to Let African Entrepreneurs Buy Domains Without Credit Cards March 10, 2026

WeeTracker

The Startup Chasing Bold Do-Over In African B2B E-Commerce As Early Models Fail March 11, 2026
SA’s Yazi Raises Funding To Expand WhatsApp-Based AI Research Platform March 11, 2026
Cybervergent Raises USD 3 M Seed To Scale AI-Driven Cybersecurity Platform In Africa March 10, 2026
LemFi Secures Bank of Canada Registration March 10, 2026
Exclusive: How Prembly’s ‘Fraud Bank’ Could Finally Make Nigeria’s Fintech Rivals Talk To Each Other March 10, 2026
Fintech Innovation in Africa & The Rapid Evolution of Digital Trading Platforms March 9, 2026
SA’s Orca Fraud Raises USD 2.35 M Seed To Expand Real-Time Fraud Intelligence Platform March 9, 2026

TechTrendsKE

TikTok Announces Additional $200k into Sub-Saharan Africa AI Literacy March 10, 2026
Kaspersky Upgrades Next Platform With AI-Powered Threat Detection March 10, 2026
Africa’s Renewable Energy Investment Still Far From $100B Annual Target March 10, 2026
Across Africa, Carbon Credits Are Turning Into a State Asset March 10, 2026
Gebeya Partners with InterNetX to Enable Local Domain Registration in Africa March 9, 2026
Nedbank’s Ecobank Loss Drives NCBA Deal Strategy March 9, 2026
Safaricom’s Ziidi Platform Wins Global Fintech Award at MWC 2026 March 9, 2026

Techloy

Oracle Reports Strongest Growth Since 2009 as AI Infrastructure Revenue Surges March 11, 2026
OpenAI Plans to Bring Sora Into ChatGPT, Report Says March 11, 2026
Patreon CEO Says AI Is Using Creators’ Work Without Consent, Credit or Pay March 11, 2026
Adobe Adds AI Assistant to Photoshop — Here’s What Users Can Now Do March 11, 2026
Solmate Deepens Solana Push With Abu Dhabi Hub and Reverse Stock Split Plan March 11, 2026
Whistleblower Claims DOGE Employee Copied Social Security Data of 500 Million Americans March 11, 2026
Fortnite Is Raising V-Bucks Prices Starting March 19—Here's What’s Changing March 11, 2026
AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Returns With Music Video Defending Artificial Intelligence March 11, 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

Why Venture Capitalists Are Laser-Focused On Dubai Real Estate In 2026 March 11, 2026
Chowbus Raises $81M to Expand AI Restaurant Platform March 11, 2026
Standard Kernel Raises $20M to Automate GPU Software Optimisation March 11, 2026
Quince Raises $500M to Expand Manufacturer-to-Consumer Platform March 11, 2026
Eridu Raises $200M to Advance AI Networking Infrastructure March 11, 2026
Outpost Raises $17.5M to Expand AI Infrastructure for Cross-Border Commerce March 11, 2026
Unreasonable Labs Raises $13.5M to Advance Generative Scientific Discovery March 11, 2026

TechCentral

Canal+ shares plunge on weak MultiChoice outlook March 11, 2026
Europe is building an alternative to Microsoft Office March 11, 2026
Mitel launches Edge platform for mission-critical on-premises communications March 11, 2026
Canal+ brands Showmax an ‘expensive failure’ March 11, 2026
FNB launches eWallet on WhatsApp as it overhauls service March 11, 2026
DStv owner pivots to AI for content production March 11, 2026
Canal+ targets JSE listing as it doubles down on Africa March 11, 2026
Canal+ unveils big plan to stem DStv’s decline March 11, 2026
Why the smartest companies have stopped chasing cheap outsourcing deals March 11, 2026
How MSB Micro Systems helps resellers deliver always-on enterprise APN March 11, 2026

Technext

Fraud: CBN directs Banks and fintechs to deploy anti-money laundering tools March 11, 2026
Bitnob’s bold play to dominate crypto infrastructure across Africa March 11, 2026
“Cross-border payments should reflect how Africans actually live and work,” says Pouchers CEO March 11, 2026
Nigerian AI startup Veta Origin launches its large language model in 6 African countries March 11, 2026
Instagram suffers global outage, disrupting businesses in Nigeria March 11, 2026
No NIN database, no candidate: The Electoral Act clause that could shake up 2027 March 11, 2026
Canal+ to hire 1,000 salespeople across Africa to save failing MultiChoice March 11, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

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
How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology March 10, 2026
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions March 9, 2026
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster March 4, 2026
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics February 27, 2026
New method could increase LLM training efficiency February 26, 2026
Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world February 25, 2026

DEV Community

WES: Why Tokens Per Watt Isn't Enough for Edge Inference March 11, 2026
How We Use AI Coding Tools on Client Projects (Without Losing Control) March 11, 2026
Building Verifai: How We Used 3 Gemini Models to Create an AI QA Agent That Finds Real Bugs March 11, 2026
okx-go: A Production-Ready Go Client for the OKX v5 API — Deep Dive Review March 11, 2026
Why I built a self-hosted alternative to webhook.site March 11, 2026
Detecting Calibration Drift in Flow Meters with Python: A Hands-On Guide March 11, 2026
Why Sustainable Architecture is the New Clean Code March 11, 2026
The 5 AZ-400 Traps That Made Me Question Everything I Know About DevOps March 11, 2026
Why Inclusive Tech Teams Build Better Software 🚀 March 11, 2026

OpenAI News

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
Codex Security: now in research preview March 6, 2026
How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale March 6, 2026
How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing March 6, 2026
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good March 5, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4 March 5, 2026
GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card March 5, 2026
Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity March 5, 2026
The five AI value models driving business reinvention March 5, 2026
Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations March 5, 2026
Introducing the Adoption news channel March 5, 2026

Google Deep Blog

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
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering February 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock March 10, 2026
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock March 9, 2026
Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference March 9, 2026
Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline March 5, 2026
Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints March 5, 2026
Embed Amazon Quick Suite chat agents in enterprise applications March 4, 2026

Databricks

Introducing Genie Code March 11, 2026
Your Databricks Guide to HIMSS26 March 11, 2026
Databricks acquires Quotient AI to power AI agent evaluations March 11, 2026
Beyond Provisioning: The Developer’s Guide to Databricks Lakebase Autoscaling March 11, 2026
Bringing Visualizations to Life in Multi‑Agent Systems With Vega‑Lite March 10, 2026
Business Intelligence Analytics: A Complete Guide for the AI Era March 9, 2026
Decoupled by Design: Billion-Scale Vector Search March 9, 2026
The Professional Impact of Becoming Databricks Certified March 9, 2026
Introducing Kasal March 9, 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

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

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
AI Copilots at Work: Practical Tools, Open-Source Options, and Strategy March 9, 2026
AI in Museums: How the Cleveland Museum of Art Built AI-Powered Experiences That Actually Work March 8, 2026
2018: AI Tools. 2022: AI Assistants. 2025: AI Copilots. 2026: AI Teammates March 8, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

Data Centers — The Digital Pyramids of AI ‘Zappy’ March 11, 2026
The 3 Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques: How to Open AI’s Black Box and See Inside March 11, 2026
The AI Tools That Actually Stuck in 2026 (And How to Use Them Without Losing Your Mind) March 11, 2026
Autonomous Database Agents: From Query Optimization to Self-Healing Systems March 11, 2026
Beyond Linting: How AI Code Review Agents Are Learning to Think Like Senior Engineers March 11, 2026

aibusiness

AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion March 11, 2026
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network March 11, 2026
Contextual Data is Important for Enterprises' AI Projects March 10, 2026
Neura Launches Europe's Largest Physical AI Training Center March 10, 2026
French AI Startup Building World Models Raises $1.03 billion March 10, 2026
Building an AI-Ready Data Ecosystem at Capital One March 10, 2026
Dealing With AI's Effect on Jobs and Opportunities in Data March 9, 2026
ABB, Nvidia Partner to Deliver Physical AI at Scale March 9, 2026
OpenClaw Forces Enterprise Strategy Questions March 9, 2026
Nscale Valued at $14.6B After Raising Another $2B March 9, 2026
Microsoft Recommits to AI Agents With New Copilot Features March 9, 2026
OpenAI Launches Codex Security to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities March 9, 2026
Anthropic Report Says It’s Too Early for AI to Affect Jobs March 6, 2026

AI News Weekly

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
AI News Weekly - GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes - Mar 6th 2026 March 6, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time - Mar 3rd 2026 March 3, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI. - Feb 26th 2026 February 26, 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

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
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026 February 15, 2026
Weekly Review 13 February 2026 February 13, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026 February 12, 2026

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