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Tech In Africa

Acumen Raises Additional $90M for African Climate-Resilient Agriculture Fund, Eyes North Africa Expansion July 17, 2026
Morocco’s ORA Technologies Extends Series A to $10M in Fully Local Round July 17, 2026
Vercel Snaps Up Egyptian-Founded Stakpak in Second African Acquisition This Month July 17, 2026
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

TechCabal

Nigeria’s central bank is rewriting the rules for fintech growth July 20, 2026
South Sudan’s $50 e-visa fee threatens East African labour mobility July 20, 2026
GTBank Kenya begins search for new MD as Jubril Adeniji returns to Nigeria July 20, 2026
The Next Wave: Why it rained at your favourite cloud kitchen July 20, 2026
Morocco’s VOVE ID launches compliance readiness program for African startups July 20, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘M&A machine’ July 20, 2026
GoCab deploys 100 electric vehicles in Abidjan as part of Yango’s fleet July 18, 2026
Their parents lost fortunes. They’re buying Nigerian stocks anyway. July 18, 2026
The young Kenyan engineer who thinks robots belong in every classroom July 17, 2026
Decide targets workplaces with enterprise AI rollout through CafeOne July 17, 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

ITU’s Partner2Connect Hits $100 Billion Commitment Milestone July 17, 2026
WSIS Prizes honour top tech solutions for digital development July 17, 2026
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

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

How to Use AI to Learn Faster in 2026: A Practical Beginner’s Guide July 19, 2026
Infinix HOT 70 Pro Officially Available in Nigeria: Active Matrix Cube, AI Features, 5G and IP68 Water Resistance July 17, 2026
How Emoji Are Made: Who Designs Them and Who Decides What Gets Added? July 17, 2026
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

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

TechArena

Safaricom CFO for Financial Services Esther Waititu to Exit as M-Pesa Leadership Undergoes Major Transition July 20, 2026
Cassava Technologies Expands Africa’s Cloud Resilience with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro July 20, 2026
Airtel Kenya Opens Four New Customer Experience Stores in Mombasa July 20, 2026
Samsung Launches Galaxy A27 5G in Kenya July 20, 2026
Safaricom Hook Circle Brings Digital Skills and Career Mentorship to Kiambu National Polytechnic July 18, 2026
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

WeeTracker

SweepSouth, Uber, Bolt Struggle As Migrant Workers Flee South Africa July 20, 2026
Launch Africa Ventures Invests In 15 New Startups In 2026 July 20, 2026
Kenya’s Digital Lender Clean-up Yields More Licences, Not Fewer Complaints July 17, 2026
Acumen Raises USD 90 M For Africa Climate-Resilient Agriculture Fund July 17, 2026
Egypt’s Stakpak Acquired By Vercel After USD 500 K Pre-Seed Funding July 17, 2026
Uber Takes Over Africa’s Top Ordering Apps, Creating Delivery Powerhouse July 17, 2026
Outspoken Selar Founder Fears Tax Body Is Trying To “Crush” Creator Economy July 16, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Cassava Gets Africa’s First Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro Designation July 20, 2026
Ghana Opens 5G Bidding With MTN Facing a Higher Price July 20, 2026
President’s Website Restored, Leaving Key Questions About the Attack Unanswered July 20, 2026
The Business Behind M-Pesa Africa Is Finally Profitable After Years of Expansion July 20, 2026
Inside Kenya Airways’ Boeing 777-300ER as the Long-Haul Flagship Returns July 20, 2026
How the World Cup Put Prediction Markets at the Centre of a Global Regulatory Debate July 20, 2026
Netflix’s AI Strategy Keeps Creators at the Center July 20, 2026

Techloy

Why Tech Teams Need Smarter Ways to Check Content Authenticity July 18, 2026
How to Hire a Power BI Developer: Cost, Skills, and What to Watch Out For July 17, 2026
Meta's Next AI Rival May Be Amazon, Not OpenAI July 17, 2026
Apple vs. Nvidia Is No Longer Just a Race for Market Value July 17, 2026
🤖 OpenAI's next big move isn't software July 17, 2026
Epic Games Store's Weekly Giveaway: Echo Generation: Midnight Edition and Luto Free Until July 23 July 17, 2026
How to Get the Vini Jr. Sprite in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 July 17, 2026
Kimi K3 Beats Claude Opus 4.8, But Not Fable 5 or GPT 5.6 Sol July 17, 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

CuspAI Raises $450 Million in Series B Round To Launch AI Materials Foundry July 20, 2026
Weekly Gold Market Outlook and Price Prediction Analysis (July 20-26, 2026) July 20, 2026
BTC Weekly Outlook and Bitcoin Price Prediction Analysis (July 20-26, 2026) July 20, 2026
Global Markets Brace for High-Impact ECB Rate Decision and Inflation Shifts: Weekly Macro Preview July 20, 2026
Nasdaq Drops 2% As Global Investors Panicked Over New Chinese AI Advances, Moonshot AI July 17, 2026
AI Tech Critic Ed Zitron Explains Why OpenAI Might Crash the Stock Market July 17, 2026
MEXC Referral Code July 2026: mexc-ventureburn ($10,000 Sign-Up Bonus + Trading Discounts) July 16, 2026

TechCentral

The AI-led industrial revolution has begun July 20, 2026
Sophos firewalls: your business’s first line of cyber defence July 20, 2026
Why South Africa is sending spheres to the moon July 20, 2026
The rands-and-cents case for electric trucks July 20, 2026
Openserve hits back in fibre ISP row July 20, 2026
South Africa’s newfound economic resilience July 20, 2026
Meta could become Anthropic’s landlord in $10-billion deal July 20, 2026
FNB, Absa and Nedbank bet on money for machines July 19, 2026
Apple knocks Nvidia off its perch July 19, 2026
Eskom scrambles to quash Koeberg contamination reports July 19, 2026

Technext

Tech Trivia with Ada Oyom, Founder of She Code Africa July 20, 2026
Abuja telecom summit to decide Africa’s digital priorities through 2031 July 20, 2026
Why go to Morocco? July 20, 2026
Busha Business partners with Tether to expand stablecoin infrastructure for African businesses July 20, 2026
Tinubu signs executive order to crack down on crypto fraud, unify regulation in Nigeria July 20, 2026
MTN, Airtel and Globacom data calculators: We tested the tools and here’s what we found July 18, 2026
Tinubu orders CBN to crack down on crypto fraud – here’s what it means July 18, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Following the questions where they lead July 17, 2026
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

DEV Community

Understanding Callback Functions in JavaScript July 20, 2026
How We Built an AI Document Fraud Detection Platform That Explains Every Decision July 20, 2026
Job Hunting Is a Job Nobody Pays You For July 20, 2026
Contact Form 7 Submitted Successfully, But Systeme CRM Never Received the Lead: A Practical API Debugging Guide July 20, 2026
Your AI agent isn't hallucinating- it's reading garbage context July 20, 2026
How I automated digital product delivery using Payhip,Make,Telegram and Notion July 20, 2026
My MCP Server Has 8 Tools and Zero Log Lines. Diagnosing a Failure Meant Guessing From the Outside. July 20, 2026
ReflectionCLI 2.0: a local-first thinking CLI for AI-assisted development July 20, 2026
Perplexity's Agent Skills Need an Undo Path Before They Need More Skills July 20, 2026

OpenAI News

A scorecard for the AI age July 17, 2026
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
ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work July 9, 2026
GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition 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

Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate July 17, 2026
Introducing Mobile Layout for Amazon Quick dashboards July 17, 2026
How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS July 17, 2026
Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base July 16, 2026
Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock July 16, 2026
Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance July 15, 2026

Databricks

Tech builds on AI. Finance protects the margin. July 17, 2026
Building a soccer coaching app on Databricks July 17, 2026
Meta’s Spark Muse 1.1 is now available on Databricks, fully governed by Unity AI Gateway July 17, 2026
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
Unified context: The missing layer for enterprise AI coworkers July 16, 2026
What happens in the milliseconds after you tap pay 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
How Unity Catalog managed tables bring interoperability, performance, and unified governance to the Lakehouse July 16, 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

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

Parakeet vs Whisper for Local Dictation: Speed, Accuracy, and Vocabulary in 2026 July 20, 2026
Apple Is Suing OpenAI. July 20, 2026
GPT-4 Has 1.8 Trillion Parameters. It Uses 2% of Them Per Token. Here Is Why That Is a Feature. July 20, 2026
Murati's 975B Model Fine-Tuned Itself on Launch Day — and Cracked the Top US Open-Weight Spot July 20, 2026
I Tried to Break an AI’s Security — Here’s Everything I Learned as a Complete Beginner July 20, 2026

aibusiness

As AI Spending Climbs, Enterprises Get Serious About Token Cost July 20, 2026
Nvidia Broadens Physical AI Push With Robotics, Edge AI Updates July 17, 2026
Chinese AI Startup Releases Massive Open Weight Model July 17, 2026
Prompt: Enterprise AI Must Prove Its Value Beyond Deployment July 17, 2026
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

AI Weekly — AI News & Updates

AI Weekly Issue #515: China's AI is redrawing the AI race July 20, 2026
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

Ahead of AI

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs July 18, 2026
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

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

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