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Tech In Africa

Lucky Secures $23M Series B Funding to Scale Credit Access Across North Africa April 7, 2026
Afreximbank to avail US$10 billion under its Gulf Crisis Response Programme (GCRP) to shield African and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) economies from the ongoing 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
Flutterwave Secures Nigerian Banking License to Accelerate Payment Efficiency April 2, 2026
Angolan edtech startup Kukubela grows African language learning platform April 1, 2026

TechCabal

Safaricom migrates M-PESA app users to My OneApp in platform consolidation push April 7, 2026
Tayo Oviosu transitions to Group CEO as Paga names acting Nigeria head April 7, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Pay-TV is past its primetime April 7, 2026
AHL Venture Partners spent a decade doing equity in Africa. Then it chose debt. April 6, 2026
SMC DAO acquires Nigerian crypto startup Bread Africa in six-figure deal April 6, 2026
Kenya pours fresh $26.1 million into long-delayed Nairobi tech hub April 6, 2026
More deals, less cash: Africa’s exit problem April 6, 2026
MTN’s most valuable customers are in Ghana, and the numbers show why April 6, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – MTN Ghana’s MoMo moves out April 6, 2026
“I wasn’t aiming for Eventbrite, I was aiming for Ticketmaster”: Day 1 to 1000 of Jetron Ticket April 4, 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

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
No More Peeking: How the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Solving Privacy in Public Spaces February 28, 2026

African Business Technology News

‘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
Veeam Strengthens Leadership Team Across EMEA East Region April 7, 2026
Interledger Foundation Creates Open Payments Curriculum with 10 Universities April 7, 2026
Bamburi Cement Plc appoints Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as its new CEO April 3, 2026
Truecaller Opens Global Market Access For Its Business Chat Platform April 3, 2026
Infobip South Africa appoints Lauren Potgieter as new Country Manager April 3, 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

Kenswitch and Visa Partner to Accelerate Payment Innovation in Kenya April 7, 2026
Vertiv Expands Manufacturing to Meet Surging AI Data Centre Demand April 3, 2026
LOOP Easter Campaign: BNPL Galaxy S26 Deal, 90,000 Monthly Discover Users April 3, 2026
Sophos Report: Lack of Trust in Cybersecurity Vendors Raising Risk for Businesses April 2, 2026
CA Report: Safaricom Tops Kenya’s Network Quality as Industry Performance Declines April 2, 2026
Wingu Africa Launches Local Cloud Platform WCX in Ethiopia April 2, 2026
Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem April 2, 2026
Safaricom to Unveil My OneApp, Merging M-PESA and MySafaricom Apps April 1, 2026

WeeTracker

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
Flutterwave Becomes Bank As Fintechs Figure Payments Aren’t Enough April 2, 2026
AfDB Commits USD 8.5 M To Breega Africa Fund To Back Early-Stage Startups April 1, 2026
Egypt’s Qualiphi Acquires Career Club To Expand AI Career Platform In GCC April 1, 2026
Angolan Mobility Startup ANDA Raises USD 1.2 M To Scale Drive-To-Own Model April 1, 2026

TechTrendsKE

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
Five New Directors Join MTN, Set Against Another Year at the Top of Brand Rankings April 3, 2026
Showmax Exit Plan Rolls Out, Steering Subscribers Toward DStv Stream April 3, 2026
Algiers Declaration Puts African Telecommunications Sovereignty at the Centre of Connectivity Plans April 3, 2026
SASRA Issues Cybersecurity Directive for Saccos Ahead of Holidays April 3, 2026

Techloy

Everything You Need to Know About Samson: A Tyndalston Story Ahead of Its April 8 PC Launch April 7, 2026
Nintendo Launches Limited-Time Switch 2 Super Mario Galaxy Bundle With Discount Offer April 7, 2026
The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows About Building the Next Big Thing in Tech April 7, 2026
How to Convert DVDs to Digital and Preserve Your Movie Collection April 7, 2026
Samsung Messages to Shut Down — How to Switch to Google Messages and 3 Alternatives to Try April 6, 2026
Why Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Was Removed From China’s Apple App Store April 6, 2026
Syrian Government X Accounts Hacked, Posting "Glory to Israel" — What Really Happened April 6, 2026
Mobile Apps Make Trading Easy in The US April 6, 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

Linx Security Raises $50M Series B to Fight Identity Risk April 7, 2026
Yuzu Health Secures $35M for Insurance Innovation April 7, 2026
Xoople Raises $130M to Build Global System of Record for Physical Change April 6, 2026
NeuBird AI Raises $19.3M to Expand Agentic AI for Enterprise Ops April 6, 2026
Mesabi Metallics Raises $150 Million To Advance DR-Grade Iron Ore Development April 6, 2026
Noon Raises $44M in Funding to Revolutionize Product Design April 6, 2026
Moonbounce Raises $12M to Power Real‑Time AI Control April 6, 2026

TechCentral

Cape Town start-up powers six-month Netflix production with the sun April 7, 2026
Activist billionaire in R1.1-trillion bid for Universal Music April 7, 2026
R230-million in the bag for Endeavor’s third Harvest Fund April 7, 2026
TCS | Donovan Marsh on AI and the future of filmmaking April 7, 2026
Maidar Secure, Strike48 bring agentic AI to the SOC April 7, 2026
TCS+ | Vodacom Business moves to crack the SME tech gap April 7, 2026
South Africa Inc must wake up to quantum threat April 7, 2026
OpenAI takes the fight to Elon Musk April 7, 2026
Cabinet approves draft AI policy for public comment April 6, 2026
Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa’s pay-TV collapse April 6, 2026

Technext

Call logs reveal Argentine President Javier Milei’s possible active collusion in the $251 million Libra token scam April 7, 2026
How MTN MoMo lost ₦22.3B in 7 days and sued 18 banks to get it back April 7, 2026
Paga founder Tayo Oviosu steps back from day-to-day operations as company turns 17 and enters new growth phase April 7, 2026
Bank staff robberies April 7, 2026
FG to hold Virtual Open Day for universities ahead of ₦12bn Digital Economy Research programme April 6, 2026
Tech Trivia with Chioma Oko, Product Manager at Semicolon April 6, 2026
SiBAN’s seat at the VASP working group: Inside Nigeria’s new risk-assessment moment for blockchain April 6, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

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
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring March 25, 2026

DEV Community

Your Breeder Website Is Costing You Sales April 7, 2026
My agent burned $200 in one night. So I built something that stops it. April 7, 2026
Global Web Encryption Relies on Single U.S. Non-Profit, Raising Centralization and Geopolitical Risks April 7, 2026
Hello World! April 7, 2026
Day 2 — Wiring Billing Into the Story (and Bringing the UI Back) April 7, 2026
How I Solved the IP-Bound Cookie Problem in My Web Scraper With a Self-Hosted Proxy April 7, 2026
😊How to Get Cheered Up 24/7 (AI Avatar v4 with Animation Editor (Chrome Extension + VS Code Extension)) April 7, 2026
Rust Library Simplifies Creating Visually Engaging Linux Terminal Animations April 7, 2026
AutoBE vs. Claude Code: 3rd-gen coding agent developer's review of the leaked source code April 7, 2026

OpenAI News

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
Powering product discovery in ChatGPT March 24, 2026
Update on the OpenAI Foundation 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

Databricks

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
How agentic software development will change databases March 30, 2026
Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse March 27, 2026

AIModels.fyi

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
Can an AI *finally* react like a real person during a video call? January 11, 2026

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

The Minds Shaping AI: Meet the Keynote Speakers at ODSC AI East 2026 April 6, 2026
15 Datasets for Training and Evaluating AI Agents April 6, 2026
Ben Armstrong of MIT on the Future of Work and Adapting to Technological Change April 3, 2026
Agentic AI Training Datasets, GraphRAG for Healthcare, the ODSC AI East Schedule, and AI Project… April 2, 2026
In-Silico Perturbation Meets Single-Cell Foundation Models: From Zero-Shot Potential to Fine-Tuned… April 2, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

aibusiness

Black Hat USA August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia April 21, 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
Microsoft to Invest $10B in AI and Cybersecurity in Japan April 3, 2026
Google Launches Open Model Family Gemma 4 April 3, 2026
MCP is Alive, but Faces Challenges April 2, 2026
Microsoft Goes Beyond LLMs With New Voice, Image Models April 2, 2026
Neocloud Pioneer CoreWeave All In on Inference April 2, 2026
Microsoft to Invest $5.5 billion in AI in Singapore April 2, 2026
Florida University Rolls Out Autonomous Delivery Robots April 1, 2026
OpenAI Now Valued at $852B After Funding Round April 1, 2026

AI Weekly — AI News & Artificial Intelligence Newsletter

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 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
Upcoming Journal Special Issues March 25, 2026

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