Skip to content
Tech and AI: News, Trends, Insights and Data Services
Search
Tech In Africa
Africa Tech Festival 2026 returns as Africa’s defining platform for digital transformation, investment and innovation
June 23, 2026
Blockchain Captured 5.3% of Africa’s Venture Funding in 2025, Near 2x the Global Rate
June 23, 2026
4G Capital hits US$1 Billion in Loans Disbursed to African Entrepreneurs
June 23, 2026
Dangote Targets Nigeria’s Power Crisis With 20,000MW Generation Plan
June 23, 2026
Nairobi’s NIFC Deepens Partnership with ChainBLX to Build Africa’s AI Innovation Pipeline
June 22, 2026
African VC Enters Liquidity Phase as Launch Africa Returns $2.5M to Investors
June 22, 2026
Africa Urges EU to Fill the Climate Finance Void Left by the US
June 19, 2026
What building in Nigeria taught me about Francophone Africa: Notes from a serial entrepreneur
June 19, 2026
AethexAI Closes $3 Million Pre-Seed Round to Build Voice AI for Africa and the Middle East
June 18, 2026
Treadway and Invasion Pledge $1.25 Billion for African Startup Incubation Platform
June 18, 2026
TechCabal
Lender Baobab becomes Beltone’s biggest business three months after acquisition
June 23, 2026
Galaxy Watch 8 vs Galaxy Watch 9: Should you upgrade or wait?
June 23, 2026
Ride-hailing was just the entry point. Yango had bigger plans.
June 23, 2026
Yellow Card expands global stablecoin network with Swiss regulatory approval
June 23, 2026
South Africa’s blockchain fan token is testing a new business model for African football
June 23, 2026
The missing infrastructure behind Africa’s growing tourism economy
June 23, 2026
Paystack rolls out $2,900 support package for Nigerian small businesses
June 23, 2026
Credable rebrands to _able after facilitating $650 million in loans across Africa
June 23, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Spiro’s capital charge
June 23, 2026
What 22 investors taught us so far in 2026: exits are the only thing that matters
June 22, 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
From Virtual Reality to Electric Mobility: How a Nairobi Tech Entrepreneur Won a Spiro E-Bike in 27 Seconds
June 21, 2026
Nairobi Set to Host Africa Internet Summit 2026 as Continent’s Digital Future Takes Centre Stage
June 17, 2026
AI, Smart Cities and Digital Trade Define the Next Frontier of the UAE-Kenya Relations
June 17, 2026
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
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
”Smart Cities Are Moving Beyond Pilot Projects”
June 23, 2026
Microsoft Launches AI System to Counter Rising Cyber Threats in SA
June 23, 2026
How AI Agents Are Transforming Travel Planning in South Africa
June 23, 2026
What Makes UPS Power Supply Sizing Critical for Sensitive Electrical Loads
June 23, 2026
Master Power Technologies Unveils Customer Experience Centre in Midrand
June 23, 2026
How is WhatsApp Powering South Africa’s SME Economy
June 23, 2026
Capital.com Enters South Africa under Dual FSCA Regulatory Licence
June 23, 2026
How to Enable Developer Mode on iPhone iOS 27 Beta (2026)
June 22, 2026
6 Side Hustle Red Flags Students Should Watch For
June 22, 2026
NEC XON named Fortinet’s Most Certified Partner of the Year
June 22, 2026
TechCity
How to Use Screen Time Controls on iPhone in 2026 to Build Healthier Tech Habits
June 22, 2026
LandShield by Israel Akhabue, Founder, A.I. Realent
June 21, 2026
Is Free Antivirus Safe in 2026? What Most Free Antivirus Apps Don’t Tell You
June 20, 2026
MarkHack 5.0 Explores AI, Culture at the Center of Marketing and Innovation in Nigeria
June 19, 2026
MarkHack 5.0 Celebrates Innovation with Hackathon and the 2nd Nigeria MarTech Award
June 19, 2026
Infinix Launches HOT 70 Series with Industry-First 12-Colorway Dynamic Shine Design
June 19, 2026
Online Scams Nigeria 2026: The Biggest Threats Targeting Nigerians Right Now
June 18, 2026
How Social Media Algorithms Work in 2026: Why You See What You See
June 17, 2026
How to Browse Privately on Phone 2026: A Simple Guide for Any Device
June 15, 2026
Should I Install iOS 27 Beta? The Honest Answer Before You Update
June 14, 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
Binance Research: Tokenized RWA Market Cap Crosses US$10B as Adoption Drives 10x Growth
June 23, 2026
Kenya Opens Applications for AI Champions Programme
June 23, 2026
NTT DATA and Nutanix Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Multicloud and AI Adoption in MEA
June 23, 2026
Spiro Raises Additional $270 Million in Funding
June 23, 2026
Africa Internet Summit 2026 Opens in Nairobi with Focus on Digital Infrastructure and Collaboration
June 23, 2026
Absa Bank Kenya and Google Hustle Academy Partner to Train 3,000 SMEs in Digital and Financial Skills
June 22, 2026
Westcon-Comstor Secures Strategic Investment from General Atlantic to Accelerate Global Expansion
June 22, 2026
Opinion | The Future of AI is Human-centered
June 22, 2026
WeeTracker
PayPal’s USD 100 M Africa Funding Pledge Fizzles As It Halts VC Arm
June 23, 2026
Transsion Swoops In On Africa’s Renewables Boom Amid Smartphone Slump
June 22, 2026
Spiro Secures Additional USD 55 M, Taking Latest Round To USD 270 M
June 22, 2026
Nigeria’s Fintech Giants Reeling As Apex Bank Blocks Their Ambitions
June 19, 2026
Mobile Coverage Reaches 91% Of Africans Yet 1 Billion Remain Offline, GSMA Finds
June 18, 2026
Swvl’s Improbable Comeback Sets Its Sights On The West
June 17, 2026
EmTech Ventures Fund II Wins Proparco Backing For USD 60 M Francophone Africa Fund
June 17, 2026
TechTrendsKE
MTN Uganda Launches Cashless School Transport Systems for Students
June 23, 2026
AWS Selects Nine African Organizations for Social Impact Accelerator
June 23, 2026
Africa Internet Summit Opens in Nairobi With Focus on Regional Cooperation
June 23, 2026
The Kenya-US Health Data Deal Is Raising the Wrong Questions
June 23, 2026
Instagram’s TV Push Arrives as Social Media and Television Converge
June 23, 2026
Five Eyes Signals a New Era of AI Security Controls as Cyber Risks Accelerate
June 23, 2026
A New Cybersecurity Agency Is Coming, but Kenya Already Has Several Cyber Institutions
June 23, 2026
Techloy
Best Amazon Prime Day 2026 Tech Deals on TVs, Laptops, Headphones, and More
June 23, 2026
How CFOs Are Becoming the Gatekeepers of AI Spending
June 23, 2026
Valve Steam Machine Costs More Than a PS5 and Xbox Series X. Here's Why
June 23, 2026
Why Meta Chose Kunal Shah to Lead WhatsApp and What It Means for Payments
June 23, 2026
Oracle Layoffs Hit 21,000 as AI Spending Grows and Stock Slides
June 23, 2026
Why PS Plus Essential July 2026 Free Games May Arrive Later Than Usual
June 23, 2026
How Engineers Use Oscilloscopes for Fault Diagnosis
June 23, 2026
Amazon Prime Day 2026: Start Time, Dates, and the Best Early Deals
June 22, 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
SpaceX Secures $6.3B Compute Deal With Reflection AI
June 23, 2026
Cadence Raises $100M to Expand AI-Powered Chronic Care Platform
June 23, 2026
Top 10 Crypto Exchanges & Apps for Trading in April 2026
June 22, 2026
Pionex Review 2026: Is This A Good Crypto Exchange?
June 22, 2026
Best Crypto OTC Trading Platform for High Volume Detailed Review 2026
June 22, 2026
Binance Review May 2026: Trading, Fees, App & More Explained
June 22, 2026
Best Crypto Staking Platforms With Highest APY Apr 2026
June 22, 2026
TechCentral
Have your say on the bill that could reshape SA telecoms
June 23, 2026
The real reason SA graduates can’t get hired into tech jobs
June 23, 2026
The pivot South Africa’s MVNOs cannot afford to miss
June 23, 2026
Why South Africans spend so little time on 5G
June 23, 2026
Oracle is slashing its workforce as it automates with AI
June 23, 2026
Namibia tells Starlink to take a hike – again
June 22, 2026
Joburg the epicentre of South Africa’s tech brain drain
June 22, 2026
South Africa went cashless – except for the millions who didn’t
June 22, 2026
That drone over your house is almost certainly breaking the law
June 22, 2026
DStv Stream to come pre-installed on Samsung TVs across Africa
June 22, 2026
Technext
Global smartphone shipments to drop by 152 million units in 2026 as chip prices surge
June 23, 2026
Is OPay the 3rd-largest bank in Nigeria, ahead of First Bank? Facts vs fiction
June 23, 2026
Fact check: Did Optasia make $3 billion from Nigeria? Here is what its audited accounts actually show
June 23, 2026
From WhatsApp Group to Changing Lives: The Impact of Ladies with Radiance
June 23, 2026
Nigel Green calls the global tech sell-off a ‘Healthy reality check’ for AI valuations
June 23, 2026
The Naira has lost value. Here is how smart Nigerians are protecting theirs
June 23, 2026
Credit Direct is turning the Nigerian kitchen into a BNPL use case. The infrastructure behind it is the real story
June 23, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Exploring the societal impacts of AI
June 23, 2026
New chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments
June 23, 2026
A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys
June 19, 2026
MIT in the media: For the future of tech, "Massachusetts can absolutely lead"
June 18, 2026
In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists
June 17, 2026
Could AI tell you where you left your keys?
June 17, 2026
MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum
June 16, 2026
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
DEV Community
Rebalancing a portfolio with only your next deposit (no selling)
June 23, 2026
Infrastructure as Code with OpenTofu/Terraform
June 23, 2026
The AI agent habit that was quietly wasting my time and tokens
June 23, 2026
Too cheap to be good? Think again.
June 23, 2026
Building a High-Performance Dynamic Product Filter Component in React and Tailwind CSS
June 23, 2026
Designing Single-Purpose Agents Instead of One Big Automation Script
June 23, 2026
A Vercel Sandbox alternative that runs in the EU
June 23, 2026
How I Built a Privacy-First PDF Toolkit That Runs Entirely in the Browser
June 23, 2026
Jerry's Map: 4.000 paneles dictados por un mazo de ~100 cartas
June 23, 2026
OpenAI News
How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery
June 23, 2026
Helping build shared standards for advanced AI
June 23, 2026
How Omio is building the future of conversational travel
June 23, 2026
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world
June 22, 2026
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
June 22, 2026
Codex-maxxing for long-running work
June 22, 2026
Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees
June 21, 2026
New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises
June 18, 2026
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT
June 18, 2026
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
June 18, 2026
A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
June 17, 2026
Introducing LifeSciBench
June 17, 2026
Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment
June 16, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
June 16, 2026
Securing the future of AI agents
June 16, 2026
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
Artificial Intelligence
Build a protein research copilot with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
June 23, 2026
Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
June 23, 2026
Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments
June 22, 2026
Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale
June 22, 2026
Running ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs
June 22, 2026
Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
June 19, 2026
Databricks
Genesis Workbench: A blueprint for industry AI in life sciences, powered by Databricks and NVIDIA
June 23, 2026
Data scientists: Powering the future of AI and analytics
June 18, 2026
Data Pipeline Best Practices: Architecture, Modern Pipelines, and Deployment
June 18, 2026
How Stagwell built privacy-safe ID matching on Databricks
June 18, 2026
Building a SQL ETL Pipeline: The Complete Guide for Data Engineers
June 18, 2026
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
June 18, 2026
Data Engineering for AI: A Practical Guide for Data Professionals
June 18, 2026
Data Warehouse Types: A Complete Guide to Architectures and Use Cases
June 18, 2026
What is row-level security?
June 18, 2026
AIModels.fyi
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
Can your AI agent actually learn from its mistakes or just keep repeating them?
May 28, 2026
Techmeme
Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages (Mistral AI Blog)
June 23, 2026
Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)
June 23, 2026
Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ (Bloomberg)
June 23, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
Core Skills to Learn Agentic AI in 2026
June 17, 2026
GraphRAG in Healthcare: Enhancing Clinical Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs, GNNs, and Agents
June 16, 2026
Governing Agentic AI: A Blueprint for Safe & Compliant Healthcare Agents in Production
June 15, 2026
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
Towards AI – Medium
CrewAI Looked Perfect on Paper. Then I Put It in Production.
June 23, 2026
Top 20 Bayesian Regression Interview Questions and Answers (Part 1 of 2)
June 23, 2026
Building a Zero Trust Security Architecture (Part 5)
June 23, 2026
Cache Poisoning
June 23, 2026
Unraveling an Async HTTP Request
June 23, 2026
aibusiness
How AI is Reshaping Europe's Digital Sovereignty Debate
June 23, 2026
Getty Images Enters Into Content Deal With OpenAI
June 23, 2026
SpaceX Signs Compute Deal With Open Source Model Provider
June 22, 2026
Anthropic Aims to Transform Enterprise Collaboration With Artifacts
June 22, 2026
Nvidia Launches System to Make Robots Safer
June 22, 2026
World Model AI Lab Odyssey Now Valued at $1.45B
June 22, 2026
Prompt: The AI Race Enters Its Sovereignty Phase
June 18, 2026
Google Cloud Bets Big on the Agentic Enterprise
June 18, 2026
Stellantis, Wayve and Uber to Develop Global Robotaxi
June 18, 2026
AWS’ Agentic Tools Trail Rivals, but Respond to Real Problems
June 17, 2026
SpaceX Aims at Agentic Coding With $60B Cursor Acquisition
June 16, 2026
EMEA Firms Lack AI Visibility Despite Sovereignty Push, IBM Reports
June 16, 2026
ABB Robotics Enters Partnership to Advance Physical AI
June 16, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
AI Weekly Issue #506: Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.
June 22, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #505: 100 years from now : The Last War Between Countries
June 19, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #504: America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.
June 17, 2026
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
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 19 June 2026
June 19, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026
June 17, 2026
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
MarkTechPost
Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas
June 23, 2026
How to Use NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2 for ASR, Translation, and Automatic SRT Subtitle Export in Python
June 23, 2026
Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads
June 23, 2026
GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval
June 23, 2026
Contact
Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions