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Visa and Zazu Launch Morocco’s First Fully Digital Business Account
April 9, 2026
Africa Now Has Its First Startup Fund Built Entirely Around Disability Tech
April 7, 2026
Lucky Secures $23M Series B Funding to Scale Credit Access Across North Africa
April 7, 2026
Afreximbank Launches US$10 Billion Programme to Shield African and CARICOM Economies from Gulf Conflict
April 7, 2026
AfDB Commits €7.5 Million to Breega Africa Seed Fund to Fuel Tech Startups Across the Continent
April 7, 2026
South Africa’s Mustek Channels R7 Million into AI Marketplace After Renewables Revenue Slump
April 7, 2026
Egypt’s Qualiphi Snaps Up Career Club in Six-Figure Deal to Scale AI Career Services Across MENA
April 7, 2026
Top 3 Reasons Startup Teams Should Consider a Photography Tour Abroad
April 7, 2026
Novastar Ventures closes $147 million fund for African startups
April 2, 2026
Ghana launches payment-enabled national ID system
April 2, 2026
TechCabal
Nomba and Globus Bank say they built a loan book with sub-1% defaults
April 10, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with Chukwuemeka Mbachu
April 10, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – My OneApp, zero access
April 10, 2026
For Kenyan stablecoin issuers, reserves must be kept close to home
April 9, 2026
M-KOPA unlocks $22.5 million in credit in South Africa as women drive uptake
April 9, 2026
South Africa chose flexibility over control in its new AI policy
April 9, 2026
South Africa-founded Refiant AI raises $5 million to build leaner AI models
April 9, 2026
This startup is building an ‘intelligence layer’ for Nigeria’s power grid
April 9, 2026
Safaricom’s My OneApp faces first test with login issues days after rollout
April 9, 2026
Kenya’s cyber threats surge 441% in three months as defence gap widens
April 9, 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
TECNO Unveils EllaClaw Beta, Bringing the First OpenClaw-Powered AI Agent to Kenya
April 9, 2026
What problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve?
April 3, 2026
You may no longer afford to buy a smartphone, thanks to the soaring RAM prices
March 31, 2026
Samsung Brings Pro-Level Features to Mid-Range: Meet the Galaxy A57 5G & A37 5G
March 31, 2026
BAKE partners with UNESCO to empower local content creators
March 25, 2026
How Practical AI and the Camon 50 Series Redefined Tecno’s Global Standing
March 18, 2026
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
African Business Technology News
How to Set Up Payment Links to Receive Customer Payments Quickly
April 10, 2026
Ethio telecom Launches RFID ‘Non-Stop’ Expressway Toll System via telebirr
April 10, 2026
Claude Mythos Wake-Up Call: What AI Vulnerability Discovery Means for Cyber Defense
April 10, 2026
Sixty60 Launches South Africa’s First Personalised AI Shopping Assistant
April 10, 2026
New Trojan Variant Bypasses App Store, Google Play Security
April 10, 2026
How Imaging Supports Conservation
April 8, 2026
Verto Expands Business Accounts to Enable Seamless Payments from the US to Africa
April 8, 2026
“South Africa is investing in digital payments infrastructure but missing the layer that drives real economic growth.”
April 8, 2026
How Technology and Data Are Transforming Football Predictions
April 8, 2026
Copy Trading in South Africa – Is It a Shortcut or a Smart Strategy for New Forex Traders?
April 7, 2026
TechCity
Cloud Storage Solutions For Professionals: Best Picks
April 10, 2026
Impact Of AI On Job Market: Winners, Risks, And Shifts
April 9, 2026
3MTT NextGen Knowledge Showcase Pitch Event in Lagos Highlights a New Wave of Innovation
April 8, 2026
How to Improve Smartphone Battery Life: 9 Practical Tips
April 7, 2026
Future of Digital Payments in Africa: Trends, Risks, and Growth
April 6, 2026
Smart Home Gadgets For Beginners: A Simple Starter Guide
April 3, 2026
Top Cybersecurity Threats For SMEs And How To Fight Back
April 2, 2026
March 2026 Tech Roundup: What Mattered Most
March 30, 2026
Best Laptops For Remote Work: Top Picks For 2026
March 30, 2026
Building Your Developer Portfolio: A Complete How-To Guide
March 27, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Verto Expands Business Accounts to Enable Seamless Payments from the US to Africa
April 9, 2026
Madica Expands Portfolio With $600K Investment in Three Startups
April 9, 2026
IFC Partners with Cashi to Expand Digital Payment Services into Central Africa
April 1, 2026
Madica Releases Guidebook on Fundraise for Early-stage Founders
March 31, 2026
Four Climate Ventures to receive US$273,000 in Follow-on Support from BFA Global and FSD Africa
March 27, 2026
Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC in Africa
March 26, 2026
littlefish Raises $9.5M Series A to Power Merchant Infrastructure Across Africa
March 24, 2026
TechArena
Huawei Donates ICT Equipment to New Mukuru Primary School
April 10, 2026
Nutanix Introduces NKP Metal, Bringing Bare-Metal Kubernetes to its Platform
April 10, 2026
Samsung Retains No. 1 Position in Global Gaming Monitor Market for Seventh Year
April 10, 2026
DTB Launches Contactless Payment Wearables in Kenya in Partnership with Mastercard
April 10, 2026
How Wingu Africa Is Quietly Building East Africa’s Digital Backbone
April 9, 2026
Vertiv to Host AI Data Centre Webinar for Africa on April 15
April 9, 2026
Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Hits 100+ Startups
April 9, 2026
Nutanix Accelerates Service Provider Growth with New Cloud Capabilities and Migration Programs
April 9, 2026
WeeTracker
A Nigerian Bank’s CEO Had His Home & Transactions Exposed—Hacker Says 900,000 Customers Are Next
April 9, 2026
Renew Capital Launches EmFi Lab To Target Africa’s USD 330 B SME Credit Gap
April 9, 2026
PowerLabs Raises Pre-Seed Funding To Scale AI Energy Platform In Nigeria
April 9, 2026
An Unlikely Alliance Posts Sub‑1% Default Rate Defying Nigerian Lending Logic
April 9, 2026
Madica Invests USD 600 K In Three African Startups, Launches Fundraising Guide
April 8, 2026
Nigeria’s Famous Fintech Duo Extend Rivalry In Belated Consumer Play
April 7, 2026
South Africa’s Pay-TV Market Just Lost 1.6 Million Viewers In Major Slump
April 7, 2026
TechTrendsKE
KRA Ends Wattanga’s Term Early as Nyawanda Steps in to Steer Collections
April 9, 2026
Kenya Maps Out Smart Cities Plan at Africa Urban Forum
April 8, 2026
KUCCPS Opens 2026 Portal With New Guidance on Courses and Funding
April 8, 2026
Weeks of eCitizen Payment Failures Stall Licence Renewals for Kenyan Drivers
April 8, 2026
Vodacom Tanzania Reworks the M-Pesa Core to Handle Growth and Uptime
April 6, 2026
Safaricom’s Hold on Kenya’s Telecom Market Loosens at the Edges
April 4, 2026
Airtel Commits $1B to Nxtra, Widening Its Data Center Play From India to Africa
April 3, 2026
Techloy
How to Fly in Pokémon GO Safely Without Getting Banned in 2026
April 10, 2026
2K Says Surprise Borderlands Mobile Game Launch Isn’t an Accident
April 10, 2026
Pokémon Champions Is Live — Here’s What Players Are Saying So Far
April 10, 2026
Asia's Biggest Startup Funding in Week 15 Led by KreditBee, D-Robotics, and SpinQ Technology
April 10, 2026
Week 15's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in the Middle East and Africa, Led by MNT-Halan, as Fintech Drew the Biggest Checks
April 10, 2026
Latin America’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 15, Led by Hero Seguros, With Big Bets on Insurtech
April 10, 2026
Electric Guitars Are Getting Smarter Without Losing Their Soul
April 9, 2026
Medialister Opens Editorial Ads Marketplace to AI Assistants
April 9, 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
Aurascape Raises $50M to Secure Enterprise AI Applications
April 9, 2026
Click Therapeutics Secures $50M Series D Funding Deal
April 9, 2026
Sedron Technologies Raises $500M to Scale Waste-to-Resource Upcycling
April 9, 2026
SiFive Raises $400 Million to Advance RISC-V Data Centre Chips
April 9, 2026
Chapter Secures $100M to Bridge Seniors and AI Tech
April 9, 2026
MillTech Bags $60M to Scale Treasury and FX Tools
April 9, 2026
Collide Capital Secures $95M Fund II to Expand Early-Stage Investments
April 9, 2026
TechCentral
Big Tech is going nuclear
April 10, 2026
Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot
April 10, 2026
5G expected to reshape South Africa’s wireless broadband market
April 10, 2026
Warning that South Africa’s digital competitiveness is in retreat
April 10, 2026
South Africa’s biggest banks are lining up behind Optasia
April 10, 2026
Software rout deepens as AI fears grip investors
April 10, 2026
US officials warn banks over powerful new Anthropic model
April 10, 2026
Anthropic mulls building its own AI chips
April 10, 2026
The open banking divide in South Africa
April 9, 2026
Shoprite bakes AI into Sixty60 with Pixie launch
April 9, 2026
Technext
Nigerian developer Olaoluwa Osuntokun is building Bitcoin’s first quantum-defence prototype
April 10, 2026
Flutterwave to establish South-east office in Anambra to increase access
April 10, 2026
Rivers, Imo, Abia, emerge as telecom theft hotspots in 2025
April 10, 2026
A ₦167M loss?
April 10, 2026
Risevest suspends senior executive after old bigotry tweets resurface
April 9, 2026
SET Plc: How a lottery company declared ₦4.2 billion revenue, yet a ₦168 million loss
April 9, 2026
What Ghana’s merged ID card and digital wallet means for payments in Africa
April 9, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
A philosophy of work
April 9, 2026
New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning
April 9, 2026
Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano
April 7, 2026
Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware
April 7, 2026
Working to advance the nuclear renaissance
April 3, 2026
Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems
April 2, 2026
Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
April 1, 2026
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials
March 30, 2026
Seeing sounds
March 26, 2026
DEV Community
How One Field in a Sort Query Brought Down Our OpenSearch Cluster
April 10, 2026
AI-Assisted SAP Code Reviews. What to Trust and What to Verify
April 10, 2026
How I Built a Daily Stock Digest Using n8n (Financial Automation Guide)
April 10, 2026
Local-First Vectors: How to Build Privacy-Preserving AI Apps without the Cloud
April 10, 2026
Maximize Performance in HTML5: Proven Techniques for Faster, Smoother Web Apps
April 10, 2026
Create a mini-website with HTMLSave
April 10, 2026
Why I Built an AI IELTS Grader That Replaces the $50-Per-Essay Human Tutor
April 10, 2026
Enhancing ffetch: Opt-in Shortcuts for Requests and Responses While Preserving Native Fetch Compatibility
April 10, 2026
Your on-call engineer just got paged. Here's what happens to the postmortem.
April 10, 2026
OpenAI News
OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest: Terms & Conditions
April 9, 2026
CyberAgent moves faster with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex
April 9, 2026
The next phase of enterprise AI
April 8, 2026
Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint
April 8, 2026
Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship
April 6, 2026
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
April 6, 2026
OpenAI acquires TBPN
April 2, 2026
Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams
April 2, 2026
Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager
April 1, 2026
Accelerating the next phase of AI
March 31, 2026
Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia
March 29, 2026
STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company
March 27, 2026
Inside our approach to the Model Spec
March 25, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
April 2, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
March 26, 2026
Protecting people from harmful manipulation
March 25, 2026
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more
March 25, 2026
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
March 17, 2026
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
Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycle
April 9, 2026
The future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in preview
April 9, 2026
Embed a live AI browser agent in your React app with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
April 9, 2026
Introducing stateful MCP client capabilities on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
April 9, 2026
Customize Amazon Nova models with Amazon Bedrock fine-tuning
April 8, 2026
Human-in-the-loop constructs for agentic workflows in healthcare and life sciences
April 8, 2026
Databricks
The Next Era of the Open Lakehouse: Apache Iceberg™ v3 in Public Preview on Databricks
April 9, 2026
How Zalando built a unified data foundation for AI and analytics on Databricks
April 9, 2026
How FSIs eliminate silos between clients, operations, and finance
April 8, 2026
How MakeMyTrip Achieved Millisecond Personalization at Scale with Databricks
April 7, 2026
A multi-agent approach to audience intelligence
April 6, 2026
AiChemy: Next-Generation Agent with MCP, Skills and Custom Data for Drug Discovery
April 3, 2026
Accelerate business insights with Lakeflow Connect, now with a Free Tier
April 2, 2026
Why agentic analytics starts with a well-governed data layer
April 2, 2026
How Addepar Scales Investment Workflows with Databricks AI Agents
April 2, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Meta traded its biggest community asset for a commerce engine
April 9, 2026
Netflix's VOID shows video editing has finally learned the laws of physics
April 8, 2026
Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run?
April 2, 2026
Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?
March 27, 2026
Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them?
March 21, 2026
Techmeme
YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
April 10, 2026
Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage (Frank Landymore/Futurism)
April 10, 2026
Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
April 10, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
The Top 10 LLM Training Datasets for 2026
April 9, 2026
Reasons Why an AI Conference is the Right Idea for Your Career
April 8, 2026
Why Text-Only RAG Falls Short in Healthcare — and How GraphRAG Can Help
April 8, 2026
Free ODSC AI East 2026 Sessions You Can See with an Expo Pass
April 7, 2026
The Leap from Technical Project Management to AI Project Management: How to Make the Leap
April 7, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
The L1 Loss Gradient, Explained From Scratch
April 10, 2026
Event Sourcing & CQRS Using Spring Boot in 2026.
April 10, 2026
N-Grams and Markov Assumptions: The First Predictive Models of Language
April 10, 2026
PINNs and Neural Operators: Two Competing Visions of Scientific AI
April 10, 2026
Beyond the Prompt: Building a Multi-Agent DevOps Squad with a Security Conscience
April 10, 2026
aibusiness
Black Hat USA
August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia
April 21, 2026
Meta, CoreWeave In $21B Deal to Expand AI Partnership
April 9, 2026
New Anthropic Tool Speeds up AI Agent Development for Enterprises
April 9, 2026
Meta Releases First Proprietary AI Model: Muse Spark
April 8, 2026
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing May Not Be Enough to Prevent Model Abuse
April 8, 2026
Intel Joins Elon Musk’s $25B Chip-Making Masterplan
April 8, 2026
Uber Expands AWS Partnership to Build AI Capabilities
April 8, 2026
C3 AI Launches C3 Code for Businesses Seeking Domain Expertise
April 7, 2026
Spanish Startup Xoople Lands $130M to Build Satellites for AI
April 7, 2026
Anthropic Forges Chip Deals to Accelerate Claude's Growth
April 7, 2026
Redefining Development in the Age of Agentic AI
April 7, 2026
OpenAI Addresses AI's Effects and Poses Possible Answers in New Doc
April 6, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
AI Weekly Issue #481: Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed
April 9, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #480: Monday Edition : npm compromised by North Korea, Iran targets AI data centers, and nobody wants OpenAI stock
April 6, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #479: 100 years from now : what happens when every living thing carries an AI inside it
April 5, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else
April 3, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #477: Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.
March 31, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
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
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
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026
April 8, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2026
April 6, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2025
April 5, 2026
Weekly Review 3 April 2026
April 3, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2026
April 2, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2026
April 1, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026
April 1, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2026
March 29, 2026
Weekly Review 27 March 2026
March 27, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026
March 26, 2026
MarkTechPost
Five AI Compute Architectures Every Engineer Should Know: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and LPUs Compared
April 10, 2026
An End-to-End Coding Guide to NVIDIA KVPress for Long-Context LLM Inference, KV Cache Compression, and Memory-Efficient Generation
April 10, 2026
Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases Muse Spark: A Multimodal Reasoning Model With Thought Compression and Parallel Agents
April 9, 2026
Sigmoid vs ReLU Activation Functions: The Inference Cost of Losing Geometric Context
April 9, 2026
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