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Tech In Africa

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

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
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Zenith Bank is now in Kenya April 9, 2026
Kenya replaces tax chief Humphrey Wattanga in surprise leadership shake-up April 8, 2026
Zazu taps Visa to launch online business accounts in Morocco April 8, 2026
GSH to acquire majority stake in Uganda’s AKIBA to deepen tokenisation push April 8, 2026
Irene Mwendwa wants to prove the internet’s design is a women’s rights issue April 8, 2026
Every OnePlus phone released in 2026, ranked April 8, 2026
Jessica Hope built Wimbart quietly, then let the work speak loudly April 8, 2026
MTN awards Nigeria CEO Karl Toriola $335,000 in performance shares April 8, 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 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
‘South Africa’s AI moment will be shaped by the strength of its networks’ April 7, 2026
Cross Switch Goes Live with Absa Pay for South African Merchants April 7, 2026
Top 9 Secure VPNs with No-Credit-Card Free Trial: Risk-Free Privacy Picks April 7, 2026
Kaspersky warns of Digital Medicine Risks April 7, 2026
Phenomenon Studio: The Hidden Engineering That Makes Apps Survive (and Grow) April 7, 2026

TechCity

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
How to Secure Digital Wallets: Smart, Practical Protection March 27, 2026
Git and GitHub: A Complete Beginner’s Guide March 26, 2026
AI Tools for Small Businesses That Save Time and Money March 26, 2026

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

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
South Africa’s Happy Pay Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Partech March 24, 2026
Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment March 20, 2026

TechArena

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
How Decode Fits Into Safaricom’s 2030 AI-First Strategy April 8, 2026
Google and UpSkill Universe Launch 2026 AI-Focused Hustle Academy April 8, 2026
Liquid C2 Launches Africa’s First Google Cloud-Powered Partner Experience Centre in Johannesburg April 8, 2026
Verto Launches US-Dollar Accounts to Ease Cross-Border Banking Challenges April 8, 2026
Binance Founder CZ Releases Memoir on Crypto’s Rise, Resilience, and Regulation Battles April 8, 2026
Konza Technopolis Hosts ‘Race Wars’ Motorsport Event April 7, 2026

WeeTracker

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
SMC DAO Buys Nigerian Crypto Startup Bread Africa In Six-Figure Deal April 7, 2026
Egyptian Biotech Reme-D Raises USD 500 K To Scale Refrigeration-Free PCR Diagnostics April 7, 2026
SA’s OneBio Secures USD 1.16 M Grant To Scale African Biotech Venture Studio April 7, 2026
Egypt’s MNT-Halan Raises USD 41.3 M In New Securitisation To Fund Consumer Loans 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

Alleged Hack of Chinese Supercomputing Hub Exposes Massive Trove of Research Data April 9, 2026
DeskIn Review: The Ultimate Family Remote Tech Support Tool for Android and iPhone April 9, 2026
How to Start a Faceless YouTube Channel Using AI in 2026 April 9, 2026
How Digital Assets Could Reshape Africa’s Economy April 9, 2026
Why regulation is the new cornerstone of digital currencies April 9, 2026
How AI SEO Tools Are Replacing Manual Keyword Research April 8, 2026
Google’s $135 Million Android Data Settlement Is Now Open — Here’s What It Means for You April 8, 2026
Report Says Adam Back Could Be Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Here Are 5 Clues April 8, 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

CertifID Raises $47.5M To Strengthen Real Estate Fraud Protection April 9, 2026
Crypto Volatility Is Not Your Biggest Trading Risk April 9, 2026
How AI and Data Analytics Are Driving Payout Optimization Across Platforms April 9, 2026
Pharos Raises $44M to Expand Its On-Chain Economy April 9, 2026
Starfish Space Raises $100M to Expand Satellite Servicing Missions April 9, 2026
Livid Raises $10M to Build an Ad-Free Video Hosting Alternative April 9, 2026
Jeito Capital Raises $1.2B to Drive European Biopharma Growth April 8, 2026

TechCentral

Shoprite bakes AI into Sixty60 with Pixie launch April 9, 2026
Anthropic’s Mythos is the cyberthreat every CISO feared April 9, 2026
Modernising legacy systems – without the downtime April 9, 2026
Why South Africa’s EV market is going nowhere slowly April 9, 2026
M-KOPA’s 2025 impact: women at the heart of digital inclusion April 9, 2026
Africa switches on as Europe dims the lights April 9, 2026
Major boost for Starlink April 9, 2026
MVNOs take centre stage in legislative shake-up April 8, 2026
ICT sector BEE code under the microscope as Starlink circles April 8, 2026
Why Apple is sitting pretty – AI hype be damned April 8, 2026

Technext

CBN debunks claims on Polaris Bank’s liquidation and purported sale April 9, 2026
Google’s Hustle Academy pivots to ‘AI for everyone’ to power Africa’s digital future April 9, 2026
Rwanda launches first Kinyarwanda tech dictionary to boost digital literacy April 9, 2026
World Bank approves $550M to expand Kenya’s fibre network by 1,270km in the Northern region April 9, 2026
Meet the Engineer Powering Africa’s Fintech Infrastructure from the Backend April 9, 2026
Nomba and Globus Bank lent ₦21.3B without defaults, now they want to lend ₦500B April 9, 2026
Nigeria is back! April 9, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

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
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape March 26, 2026
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly March 26, 2026

DEV Community

Claude Context Pollution Is Real — This Is How I Solved It April 9, 2026
Agent Skills Example - GitHub Copilot Visual Studio 2026 April 9, 2026
Hot Reload + Native Speed - Why I Built My Own Language for Android (and Desktop) April 9, 2026
Using GitHub Copilot CLI with Local Models (LM Studio) April 9, 2026
Claude Code 101: Demystifying Language Models April 9, 2026
From prompt engineering to agent experience April 9, 2026
Why Copying Code from Stack Overflow Is a Skill (Not a Shame) April 9, 2026
ForgeCode vs Claude Code: which AI coding agent actually wins? April 9, 2026
Why .env files are a security disaster (and what we do instead) April 9, 2026

OpenAI News

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
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program March 25, 2026
Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens March 24, 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

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
Building intelligent audio search with Amazon Nova Embeddings: A deep dive into semantic audio understanding April 8, 2026
Reinforcement fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock: Best practices April 8, 2026
Manage AI costs with Amazon Bedrock Projects April 7, 2026
Building real-time conversational podcasts with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic April 7, 2026

Databricks

Collaborative Analytics on Databricks 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
Announcing General Availability and Open Sourcing of Unity Catalog Business Semantics April 2, 2026
Announcing the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge April 1, 2026

AIModels.fyi

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
Can AI *really* research like us? This new framework puts it to the test. January 16, 2026

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

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
The Minds Shaping AI: Meet the Keynote Speakers at ODSC AI East 2026 April 6, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

Top 15 Computer Vision Datasets [2026] April 9, 2026
40 Generative AI Interview Questions That Actually Get Asked in 2026 (With Answers) April 9, 2026
Next-Word Prediction: How Conditional Probability Turned Language into a Learning Task April 9, 2026
Your Brain Is Running 5 Electrical Symphonies Right Now. We Built a Quantum Circuit to Listen. April 9, 2026
Multimodal AI Systems: Scalability & Cost Optimization April 9, 2026

aibusiness

Black Hat USA August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia April 21, 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
OPINION: Fast, Flexible AI Testing Is the Foundation of Strategic Leadership April 6, 2026
Claude Subscribers Now Have to Pay to Use OpenClaw April 6, 2026

AI Weekly — AI News & Updates

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

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