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
- 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
- Why Kenya’s revived golden visa matters for venture investors and founders July 17, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Helina Bischoff July 17, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber takeover July 17, 2026
- Former Safaricom executive Michael Mutiga named Stanbic Bank Kenya CEO July 16, 2026
- Amazon found the formula for entering South Africa that Starlink refused July 16, 2026
- How teaching AI your career could become the smartest job search strategy July 16, 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
- Infinix HOT 70 Pro Officially Available in Nigeria: Active Matrix Cube, AI Features, 5G and IP68 Water Resistance 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
- Do Fitness Apps Work in 2026? What the Research Really Says July 12, 2026
- Beyond Phones: Why the Next Smartphone Revolution Is All About AI Agents July 9, 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
- 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
- Visa, Safaricom Celebrate M-Pesa GlobalPay Card Partnership with ‘Game Iko On’ Watch Party July 17, 2026
- SCRYPT expands stablecoin settlement infrastructure into East Africa, adding KES, TZS, RWF and UGX corridors July 16, 2026
- What is eKash? Everything You Need to Know About Rwanda’s National Digital Payment System July 16, 2026
- Kenya Is Quietly Becoming an Exporter of Digital Government Infrastructure July 16, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Safaricom Hook Circle Equips 5,000 Students With Future-Ready Skills July 18, 2026
- Safaricom Secures Affordable Housing Fibre Deal, Starting With Mukuru Project July 18, 2026
- Samsung Galaxy A27 5G Now Available for Purchase in Kenya for Ksh.41,300 July 18, 2026
- CAK Rejects Airtel’s Complaint Against Safaricom Over Discounted Calls July 18, 2026
- Kenya Eyes Golden Visa as It Expands Race for Global Investment July 18, 2026
- Lost KCB Appeal Spells Out Bank Duties in Mobile Money Mishaps July 18, 2026
- KRA’s Transaction Value Method Is One Piece of a Wider Tax Overhaul July 18, 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
- 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 June 2026: mexc-ventureburn ($10,000 Sign-Up Bonus + Trading Discounts) July 16, 2026
- Binance Referral Code June 2026: VB2025 ($100 Signup Bonus + Trading Discounts) July 16, 2026
- What is a DAO? Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Guide July 16, 2026
- What is Slippage in Crypto & How to Avoid It? (Guide) July 16, 2026
- Bybit Referral Code July 2026: PZM3LW ($30,000 Sign Up Bonus + Trading Discounts) July 16, 2026
TechCentral
- How the Post Office plans to rise from the dead July 17, 2026
- iOCO snaps up ERP firm as acquisition machine cranks up July 17, 2026
- Meta AI will now tell parents if their teen is in crisis July 17, 2026
- Tap to pay is finally coming to the Post Office July 17, 2026
- Xi pitches China as the world’s AI liberator July 17, 2026
- BYD’s 350kW Shark 6 leaves the Ranger Raptor in its wake July 17, 2026
- co.za domain fees to rise well above inflation July 17, 2026
- Paratus again voted Namibia’s most reliable internet provider July 17, 2026
- Core opens Microsoft Surface reseller programme to South African SMEs July 17, 2026
- Uber’s mega-deal hands Prosus a R40-billion exit July 16, 2026
Technext
- 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
- Meet Amaka Matthew, the civic advocate driving online voter registration with a community-based approach July 18, 2026
- Inside OPay: CTO reveals the technology powering 100 million daily transactions July 17, 2026
- Taiwan jails BitShine founder for 22 years in its biggest crypto fraud sentence yet July 17, 2026
- Starlink launches in Côte d’Ivoire, its 29th African market July 17, 2026
- OPay’s 2031 ambitions: 1 billion users, 10 million merchants, and payments you won’t see July 17, 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
- Beyond FP32: The Android Developer's Guide to High-Performance Custom Quantized Model Integration July 18, 2026
- The Dot-Com Deception (1998-2000): Infrastructure of the Hidden Market July 18, 2026
- Deterministic serialization for multi-agent LLM sessions - 3.45x fewer tokens than JSON, up to 9.9x for non-English content July 18, 2026
- Nobody Agrees When AGI Arrives. Build for the Shift Instead. July 18, 2026
- AL-MUNAA: a collective immune system for AI agents July 18, 2026
- 9 checks before you launch an AI-built web app July 18, 2026
- Monitoring Hardened Domain Controllers Without Admin Rights: The Five Permission Layers Nobody Documents July 18, 2026
- We're Hiring a Foundational Engineer. The Company Is Fake. The Work Is Not. July 18, 2026
- Patent Eligibility for Quantum Computing Inventions July 18, 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
- Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal) July 18, 2026
- How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information) July 18, 2026
- The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters) July 18, 2026
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
- Why a Model with No Predictive Power Can Score 90% Accuracy July 18, 2026
- LlamaIndex Workflows Is Now a Standalone Package. Its Typed State Is What Makes That Matter. July 18, 2026
- The Model Is Not the Product July 18, 2026
- Before Your Agent Trusts a Stranger: How A2A v1.0 Signs Agent Cards July 18, 2026
- Ollama vs vLLM : Which Open-Source Inference Stack Should You Actually Use July 18, 2026
aibusiness
- 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
- Taiwan’s Second-Largest Chipmaker Hits Photonics Production Milestone July 14, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- 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
- AI Weekly Issue #510: Altman Offered Washington 5% of OpenAI. And 5% of Everybody Else. July 2, 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
MarkTechPost
- NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking July 18, 2026
- Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite July 18, 2026
- How to Build Plasmid Engineering Workbench with Circular Mapping, Restriction Analysis, Virtual Gels, and Primer Design July 18, 2026
- Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation July 18, 2026
