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MTN Group Fintech Takes Financial Literacy Drive to Zandspruit Through MoMo Financial Aid Kit
June 14, 2026
Sidi Ould Tah Moves to Shape His Power Base at the African Development Bank
June 14, 2026
AXIAN Telecom Lines Up Fresh Development Finance for African Network Expansion
June 14, 2026
FMO Backs Solarcentury Africa with $80 Million Solar Financing Package
June 14, 2026
Y Combinator Opens Applications for Fall 2026 Startup Batch
June 14, 2026
Holocene Closes First Dedicated Climate-Tech Fund for Southern Africa
June 14, 2026
Bluechip Technologies acquires Nigerian voice-AI startup YarnGPT
June 12, 2026
Gabon set to switch on its first national data center June 30
June 12, 2026
Kora plugs into IATA’s global payment network for African airlines
June 12, 2026
Kenya lands €102 million from the EU for digital transformation
June 12, 2026
TechCabal
Samsung phones that lost software support in June 2026
June 13, 2026
One UI 8.5 missing features explained: Which Galaxy phones miss out
June 12, 2026
Why more Lesotho migrant workers are choosing fintechs to send money home
June 12, 2026
Why Africa’s most-funded EV startup is thinking beyond motorcycles
June 12, 2026
Moroccan proptech Agenz raises $5 million to digitise real estate transactions
June 12, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Bolaji Anifowose
June 12, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Taking the Family public
June 12, 2026
Alliance-backed Daya wants to help businesses manage money using stablecoins
June 11, 2026
AI is now a geopolitical asset. African presidents are racing to catch up.
June 11, 2026
Kenya’s Family Bank secures approval for long-awaited NSE listing
June 11, 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 Partners with BAKE to Power Kenya’s Creator Economy through BAKE Awards 2026
June 15, 2026
Visa and OpenAI Team Up to Build the Infrastructure for AI-Powered Commerce
June 15, 2026
Bumpa Bets on Kenya’s Social Commerce Boom with New Business Management Platform
June 12, 2026
BetGr8 Is the Go-To Betting Website for the 2026 World Cup Matches
June 11, 2026
Beyond Accessories: How oraimo Is Building a Lifestyle Technology Ecosystem in Kenya
June 10, 2026
Dental Practice Management Software for Modern Clinics | Dendoo
June 2, 2026
Galaxy A37 and A57: Samsung’s New Creator-First Smartphones Built for Africa’s Digital Generation
May 28, 2026
Visa Kenya Brings Star Wars to Life as Science Fiction Continues to Shape the Future of Technology
May 25, 2026
Safaricom Youth Proposition Partnership EOI Opens Doors for Innovators and Youth-Focused Solution Providers
May 22, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
The New SuperSport Social Corner powered by LG webOS
June 15, 2026
5 Things Businesses Need to Know About AI-Built Software
June 15, 2026
Youth Day, AI & Where to From Here?
June 15, 2026
Banks Urged to Reuse Fraud Data to Fix Broken Dispute Processes & Rebuild Trust in Digital Banking
June 15, 2026
BCS Consultancy Strengthens Global Footprint with New South African Office
June 12, 2026
Fortune Names Yellow Card Among Top Global Crypto Innovators
June 12, 2026
Best Magento 2 Store Locator Extensions Compared
June 12, 2026
NCBA Partners Lake Victoria Water Agency Invests Kes 500 Million for Water & Sanitation Contractors
June 12, 2026
When Screen Time for Kids is a Bridge to Learning, not a Barrier
June 12, 2026
How Does Text to Image Work?
June 12, 2026
TechCity
Should I Install iOS 27 Beta? The Honest Answer Before You Update
June 14, 2026
New Siri for Older iPhone Users: What Apple’s AI Upgrade Actually Means
June 13, 2026
iOS 27 vs Android 17 AI: Which Platform Is Winning the AI Race in 2026?
June 10, 2026
Apple Intelligence iOS 27 Features: What It Actually Does, Step by Step
June 9, 2026
iOS 27 Announced at WWDC 2026: Everything Apple Just Revealed
June 8, 2026
Tomi Davies, Dr. Victor ‘Gbenga Afolabi to Unveil Africa’s First Ad-Agency GPT at MarkHack 5.0
June 7, 2026
World Environment Day 2026: Sustainable Technology Habits That Actually Make a Difference
June 5, 2026
Best Parental Control App 2026: The Real Review of the Top Options for Families
June 4, 2026
Cyberbullying 2026: What’s Changed and What Parents Still Get Wrong
June 3, 2026
Best VPN Android 2026: Honest Rankings of the Top VPN Apps
June 2, 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
Blnk Raises $37.1 Million to Expand AI-Powered Consumer Financing in Egypt
June 12, 2026
KCB Group Disburses KShs. 48.8 Billion Worth of Green Loans
June 12, 2026
Enza Secures PSP Enhanced Licence from Bank of Ghana
June 12, 2026
Payment Infrastructure Driving Africa’s Trade Boom
June 12, 2026
Globally, organisations attacked on average 2 055 per week – Check Point May 2026 report finds
June 12, 2026
Yuno Partners Onafriq to Simplify Cross-Border Payments Into Africa
June 11, 2026
Bringing the Speed Home: Fibre to the Room Revolution
June 11, 2026
Mwanga wa Elimu Movement Launches Africa EdTech Policy Toolkit at eLearning Africa 2026
June 11, 2026
WeeTracker
Tyms AI Launches AI Platform to Help Businesses Run Operations Smarter
June 15, 2026
How A USD 50 K Dispute Put A Prominent Nigerian Logistics Startup In Jeopardy
June 15, 2026
Holocene Closes USD 3 M Climate Tech Fund For Southern Africa
June 15, 2026
Kora Joins IATA’s Payment Network to Power Airline Settlements Across Africa
June 12, 2026
Morocco’s Agenz Raises USD 5 M Seed Round To Scale Real Estate Platform
June 11, 2026
Airtel Africa Mobile Money Transactions Hit USD 196 B Ahead Of Planned London IPO
June 11, 2026
New Shifts Push South African SMEs From Firefighting To Cautious Growth
June 11, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Zachary Ochieng | The Next Frontier of UAE-Kenya Ties Isn’t Oil or Roads, It’s Algorithms
June 15, 2026
Airtel Africa Foundation Invests $6.2 Million in First Year, Connecting 3,296 Schools Across 13 Markets
June 15, 2026
ASUS Thinks the Zenbook DUO Is Ready for More Than Early Adopters
June 15, 2026
Xceed365HR Bets on Agentic AI to Transform Enterprise HR
June 15, 2026
Kenya Airways Investor Hunt Becomes a Test of Nairobi’s Hub Ambitions
June 15, 2026
New Isinya–Konza Transmission Line Strengthens Konza Technopolis
June 15, 2026
African Health Systems Turn to AI as Outbreak Monitoring Demands Rise
June 12, 2026
Techloy
How to Safely Sell Old Phones for Cash
June 15, 2026
How Brands Are Combining Physical Displays and Digital Marketing for Greater Visibility
June 15, 2026
Dead by Daylight's 10th Anniversary Broadcast: The 7 Biggest Storylines
June 15, 2026
UK Is Banning Social Media for Children Under 16
June 15, 2026
Forgot Apple ID Password? 7 Ways to Reset It in 2026
June 15, 2026
I Switched From the Oraimo Freepods 4 to the Spacebuds 2. Was It Worth It?
June 15, 2026
US Government Pulls the Plug on Anthropic's Most Powerful AI — Here's What It Means For Global Users
June 14, 2026
The Surprising Return of Wired Earphones in 2026
June 13, 2026
Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch
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
Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search
July 9, 2025
Ventureburn
Earning Money With AI in June 2026: 10 Crypto Trading Bots for Automated Trading
June 15, 2026
Binance “The Pitch is Yours” Discord Game: Predict Football Matches to Share 5,000 USDC!
June 15, 2026
What is Cardano? A Beginner’s Guide to the ADA Blockchain
June 14, 2026
What is an ETF? A Beginner’s Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds
June 14, 2026
What is a DAO? Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Guide
June 14, 2026
What is Solana Crypto? A Beginner’s Guide to the SOL Blockchain
June 14, 2026
What is DCA? Guide to Dollar Cost Averaging
June 14, 2026
TechCentral
Fox is buying streaming hardware firm Roku for $22-billion
June 15, 2026
Where SA remote workers can keep the most: Wise, Grey, Payoneer or PayPal
June 15, 2026
Google on the hook for what its AI tells users, court rules
June 15, 2026
How Russians juggle VPNs to outwit the Kremlin
June 15, 2026
The millions Vodacom spends protecting its CEO
June 14, 2026
Amazon CEO flagged Anthropic AI risks to Washington
June 14, 2026
The missing number in Vodacom’s annual report
June 12, 2026
How Sixty60 turned lockdown luck into a lasting lead
June 12, 2026
SABC+ buckles as 477 000 fans pile in for Bafana opener
June 12, 2026
The dizzying scale of Elon Musk’s fortune
June 12, 2026
Technext
Court orders INEC to remove ADC, Accord, and others from its portal ahead of 2027 elections
June 15, 2026
Elon Musk’s $1.1 Trillion fortune: How he built the world’s biggest empire
June 15, 2026
Social media ban: Tech giants push back against UK’s proposed under-16 restrictions
June 15, 2026
NCR Nigeria appoints Oluwatoyin Saraki as Non-Executive Director
June 15, 2026
United Kingdom bans U-16s from social media, effective in 2027
June 15, 2026
How Enzi Mobility is helping Nairobi boda-boda riders make governance and financial decisions using blockchain
June 15, 2026
Canal+ cuts 655 MultiChoice jobs as post-acquisition restructuring begins
June 15, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
June 11, 2026
When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”
June 11, 2026
MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
June 11, 2026
Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
June 10, 2026
The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
June 9, 2026
The crucial human component in computing and AI
June 5, 2026
PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs
June 4, 2026
NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery
June 4, 2026
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
June 3, 2026
DEV Community
Xiaomi's MiMo Code gets better as tasks get harder. Here's how.
June 15, 2026
Postgres or ClickHouse? Row vs Column Storage, and When Each Wins
June 15, 2026
Retry Logic and Tiered Alerting in GitHub Actions
June 15, 2026
What Drags Down Throughput in GBase 8a Bulk Loading — and Where to Look First
June 15, 2026
IronWorm Commits as 'claude.' It Steals Your Anthropic and OpenAI Keys.
June 15, 2026
The Free Claude Code - Run Claude Code with Any Model
June 15, 2026
Echo grows up and becomes Hey, Reachy
June 15, 2026
APX Routines Are Deterministic Pipelines Around AI
June 15, 2026
Why your invoices get paid late (it's usually not the client)
June 15, 2026
OpenAI News
Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network
June 14, 2026
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
June 12, 2026
How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning
June 12, 2026
Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
June 11, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Ona
June 11, 2026
How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes
June 11, 2026
BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI
June 11, 2026
Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment
June 10, 2026
PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
June 10, 2026
From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI
June 10, 2026
How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits
June 9, 2026
What Codex unlocks for Notion
June 9, 2026
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
June 9, 2026
Google Deep Blog
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
June 10, 2026
Investing in multi-agent AI safety research
June 10, 2026
Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
June 9, 2026
Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
June 9, 2026
Powering the future of robotics in Europe
June 9, 2026
Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond
June 8, 2026
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
May 21, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Build context-rich research agents with Deep Agents and Bedrock AgentCore
June 15, 2026
Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI
June 12, 2026
Build a meeting prep and follow-up assistant with Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers
June 12, 2026
From PDFs to insights: Architecting an intelligent document processing pipeline with AWS generative AI services
June 12, 2026
Built from the inside out: How AWS Professional Services became a frontier team first
June 12, 2026
Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically
June 11, 2026
Databricks
Skip the learning curve: rethinking data migration for real outcomes
June 15, 2026
Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents
June 13, 2026
From Wall Street to Data Platforms
June 13, 2026
Enabling Evolutionary Database Development: Database branching with Lakebase, the conclusion
June 12, 2026
Talk to all your data, wherever it lives
June 12, 2026
Unlocking semantics for AI: How Mercedes-Benz Korea built trusted “Talk to Data” at scale
June 11, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI
June 11, 2026
Ingesting the Milky Way: Petabyte-Scale with Zerobus Ingest
June 11, 2026
How ERGO Hestia reduced time-to-market with Lakebase and Mosaic AI Model Serving
June 11, 2026
AIModels.fyi
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
Can your AI agent actually learn from its mistakes or just keep repeating them?
May 28, 2026
Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them?
May 15, 2026
Can we build elite search agents without the massive industrial RL pipelines?
May 10, 2026
Techmeme
SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
June 15, 2026
1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing cloud access, sources say in a deal valued at $250M to $300M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
June 15, 2026
Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)
June 15, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
AI Agents Gone Wrong: What Real-World Failures Reveal About Coding Agent Risk
June 12, 2026
vLLM Transformers Backend: Bridging Hugging Face Compatibility and High-Performance Inference
June 11, 2026
What’s New at ODSC AI West 2026: New Tracks, Speakers, and More
June 11, 2026
How to Build Financial Services AI Agents with Claude
June 10, 2026
What Ollama Reveals About Local AI, Agents, and Open Models
June 10, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
How to Write Robust Code with Claude Code
June 15, 2026
Your Agent Can Learn at Three Layers — Most Teams Only Think About One
June 15, 2026
Azure Key Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager: Managed Identity, IRSA, and Cloud-Native Secret Management
June 15, 2026
Siri's New Brain Is a 1.2-Trillion-Parameter Gemini Running in Google's Cloud
June 15, 2026
Your Self-Healing Agent Is Grading Its Own Homework
June 15, 2026
aibusiness
Anthropic Forced to Disable New Models by US Government
June 15, 2026
OpenAI Acquires Startup to Boost Codex
June 12, 2026
Prompt: AI IPOs Raise a Question Enterprises Are Still Trying to Answer
June 12, 2026
Massive SpaceX IPO Kicks off New AI Financing Era
June 12, 2026
AI's Hidden Energy Bill: Why Visibility is Becoming Critical for Enterprises
June 11, 2026
Neura Robotics Raises $1.4B for Physical AI
June 11, 2026
Startup Gets OpenAI Backing to Overhaul Enterprise AI Automation
June 11, 2026
Meta Partners With Reliance for First India AI Data Center
June 10, 2026
The Price Enterprises Will Pay for Anthropic Claude Fable 5
June 9, 2026
Waymo Pays $220M for Apple’s Abandoned Self-Driving Car Test Ground
June 9, 2026
OpenAI’s IPO: Navigating Profitability and Market Dynamics
June 9, 2026
Amazon Taps Fiber Optics Producer Corning for Data Center Expansion
June 9, 2026
AI Adoption in the UK is Booming, but Transformation is Stalling
June 9, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
AI Weekly Issue #503: Washington just repriced frontier AI
June 15, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #502: Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT
June 11, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #501: Musk's $1.75 Trillion Bet Isn't a Rocket Company
June 9, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #500: $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking?
June 7, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B
June 4, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
September 6, 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 12 June 2026
June 12, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2026
June 11, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2025
June 10, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2026
June 9, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2026
June 8, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2026
June 7, 2026
Weekly Review 29 May 2026
May 29, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2026
May 28, 2026
Weekly Review 22 May 2026
May 22, 2026
Weekly Review 15 May 2026
May 15, 2026
MarkTechPost
Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs
June 15, 2026
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
June 15, 2026
Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo
June 15, 2026
A Coding Hands-On on FineWeb for Streaming, Filtering, Deduplication, Tokenization, and Large-Scale Web Corpus Analytics
June 14, 2026
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