Tech In Africa
- Seychelles Fintech Fusepay Launches AI Platform for Trade Businesses July 22, 2026
- Botswana Tech Fund Secures $6.7 Million at First Close July 22, 2026
- Pepkor Plans Flash–Shop2Shop Merger and Future Fintech Listing July 22, 2026
- Egypt’s Mylerz Secures Over USD 2 Million to Grow E-commerce Logistics Operations July 21, 2026
- South African Fintech Zazu Lands Seed Investment from Launch Africa Ventures July 21, 2026
- Anara Impact Capital Leads $1.45 Million Round for Egyptian Healthtech Reme-D July 20, 2026
- Busha Business Collaborates with Tether to Expand Stablecoin Infrastructure for African Businesses July 20, 2026
- Acumen Raises Additional $90M for African Climate-Resilient Agriculture Fund, Eyes North Africa Expansion July 19, 2026
- Morocco’s ORA Technologies Extends Series A to $10M in Fully Local Round July 19, 2026
- Vercel Snaps Up Egyptian-Founded Stakpak in Second African Acquisition This Month July 19, 2026
TechCabal
- M-KOPA reaches 10 million customers, six years after its first million July 22, 2026
- Everything announced at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 July 22, 2026
- MTN’s $9.1 million network push takes South Africa’s 5G race beyond metros July 22, 2026
- Audrey Chanakira believes the best technology begins with listening July 22, 2026
- Fusepay expands beyond payments with AI operating system for trade businesses July 22, 2026
- Airtel Nigeria expands retail network as demand for digital services rises July 22, 2026
- Norebase report finds Nigeria, Rwanda among Africa’s fastest incorporation markets July 22, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – BVNK once for stablecoins July 22, 2026
- South Africa wants more African trade. Stablecoins could help make it happen. July 21, 2026
- Rank launches community-powered finance products to expand access to capital July 21, 2026
How we made it in Africa
- Nigeria: How this snack food company won over informal shopkeepers July 20, 2026
- Is this crop Nigeria’s next big agribusiness opportunity? July 15, 2026
- Nigerian creates business exporting avocados and chillies from Rwanda to European supermarkets July 13, 2026
- How we made it in Africa II recognised at 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award July 7, 2026
- Ghana: From side hustle to 16 stores – a retail entrepreneur’s story July 3, 2026
- The new face of African entrepreneurship July 2, 2026
- How this Africa-focused investor manages his own money June 29, 2026
- Africa joins the global school chess circuit with first WSTC qualifier June 27, 2026
- Doing business in Somalia: unpacking the realities on the ground June 22, 2026
- Investor bullish on education in West Africa June 19, 2026
KachTech Media
- Banks No Longer Compete on Money. They Compete on Data July 22, 2026
- Kenya Music Growth Highlighted by Spotify Streaming Data July 22, 2026
- KCB CFAO Youth Training Boosts Automotive and E-Mobility Skills July 22, 2026
- How Africa is Turning Blockchain into Economic Infrastructure July 21, 2026
- Why Authentic African Stories Matter More Than Ever July 21, 2026
- AI Helps Transform Health Supply Chains in Africa July 21, 2026
- Discover Rolls-Royce’s Learning Engine July 21, 2026
- The FIFA World Cup 26™ Proved Football Still Belongs to the Whole World July 20, 2026
- ITU’s Partner2Connect Hits $100 Billion Commitment Milestone July 17, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- Why South Africa’s iGaming Sector Is Turning to Crypto Amid Rising Payment Fraud July 22, 2026
- Pepkor Strengthens Informal Economy Strategy with R21.3 Billion Fintech Deal July 22, 2026
- 6 Best Apps to Buy Data Bundles Online in Nigeria (2026) July 22, 2026
- Redtech Named Among CNBC’s World’s Top 500 Fintech Companies 2026 July 22, 2026
- South African Fintech Recognised Among World’s Best by CNBC July 22, 2026
- Absa Expands Smart ID Services with Mobile Home Affairs Unit and Digital Integration July 22, 2026
- AI doesn’t know the truth, it just sounds like it does July 21, 2026
- UN ECA launches initiative to boost women’s digital entrepreneurship in four African countries July 21, 2026
- South Africa: BYD expands SHARK 6 line-up July 21, 2026
- Bernard Beya appointed CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies DRC July 15, 2026
TechCity
- How to Use Your Phone Less in 2026 Without Feeling Like You’re Missing Out July 21, 2026
- 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
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
- Spotify Data Shows Kenya’s Music Scene Is Growing Across Generations, Not Replacing Them July 22, 2026
- What Africa Builds Here, the World Will Use Everywhere July 22, 2026
- Opinion | How Africa is Turning Blockchain into Economic Infrastructure July 22, 2026
- Westcon-Comstor Cuts Operational Emissions by 42%, Surpasses Midway Climate Target July 22, 2026
- Kenya’s Afrinity Joins FasterCapital’s EquityPilot to Build Travel and Fintech Platform for Africa July 21, 2026
- If Africa is serious about trading as one, blockchain belongs at the centre, not the sidelines July 21, 2026
- Vertiv Modernises NFrance Data Centre Cooling, Reducing Power Consumption by 20% July 21, 2026
- Safaricom CFO for Financial Services Esther Waititu to Exit as M-Pesa Leadership Undergoes Major Transition July 20, 2026
WeeTracker
- Two Founders, Stranded Abroad By Failed Cards, Are Building Africa’s Missing ‘Financial Passport’ July 22, 2026
- South African Fintech Zazu Secures Investment From Launch Africa Ventures July 22, 2026
- African Banks Ramp Up AI Spending Even As One-Third Don’t Know If It’s Valuable July 21, 2026
- Egypt’s Mylerz Raises USD 2 M To Expand E-commerce Logistics Network July 21, 2026
- LemFi and BVNK Partner to Rebuild the Rails of the Diaspora Economy with Stablecoin Settlement July 21, 2026
- Battery Rental Startups Become Unlikely Lifeline Amid Nigeria’s Power Woes July 20, 2026
- Airtel Africa’s Mobile Money IPO Finally Moving Forward After Repeated Delays July 20, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- KCB Foundation, CFAO Mobility Kenya Launch Youth E-Mobility Training Programme July 22, 2026
- eZi Remit, Mastercard Partner to Expand Faster and Affordable Cross-Border Payments Across Africa July 22, 2026
- Stella Mambo | How Africa is Turning Blockchain into Economic Infrastructure July 22, 2026
- Kenya to Host Africa Technology Leadership Conference in October July 22, 2026
- Pesalink’s Fee Cuts Show Banks Are Chasing Everyday Transactions Again July 22, 2026
- Reports of Slower Starlink Speeds Come as Kenya’s Subscriber Base Climbs July 22, 2026
- Kenya’s Visa Application Volumes Rise 20pc as VFS Global Warns of Fraud Risk July 21, 2026
Techloy
- 9 Games Leaving PlayStation Plus Extra in August 2026 (Including Dead Island 2 and Unicorn Overlord) July 22, 2026
- Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: Every Phone, Watch & AI Feature Announced July 22, 2026
- Promising Currency Pairs to Trade in 2026 July 22, 2026
- GTA 6 Trailer 3 Update: What August 7 Means for the November 19 Release July 22, 2026
- Garmin Cirqa Smart Band vs Whoop, Fitbit Air: Price & Specs July 22, 2026
- 6 Must-Have Features in Labeling Compliance Software [2026] July 22, 2026
- 8 Wild Details From OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack You Should Know July 22, 2026
- Outsourcing Software Development for Startups: 9 Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them July 22, 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
- Candid Health Raises $120M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Revenue Platform July 22, 2026
- Arrakis Raises $38M to Scale AI Deployment for Industrial Operations July 22, 2026
- Glow Raises $180M to Expand AI-Powered Endpoint Security Platform July 22, 2026
- Decentrawood (DEOD) Price Prediction 2026, 2027 to 2030 July 22, 2026
- Humanoid Raises $152 Million in Series A To Become the U.K.’s First AI Robotics Unicorn July 22, 2026
- What Is GAIB? Project, Token, Airdrop, Roadmap Explained July 21, 2026
- Hyperliquid Referral Code “CHAINPLAY” And Sign Up Bonus 2026 July 21, 2026
TechCentral
- Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it July 22, 2026
- Samsung Fold8 series unveiled as folding phone war looms July 22, 2026
- Everything you wanted to know about EVs but were afraid to ask July 22, 2026
- Bitcoin at $65 000: stalled, or simply early? July 22, 2026
- Smart ID renewals go mobile July 22, 2026
- South African inflation surges to 5% – a two-year high July 22, 2026
- OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing July 22, 2026
- Samsung’s new Galaxy Z series: foldables, perfected July 22, 2026
- Is your cloud PBX a hacker’s back door? July 22, 2026
- Africa’s biggest entrepreneurship gathering heads for Cape Town July 22, 2026
Technext
- WhatsApp introduces direct iPad sign-up without requiring phone setup July 22, 2026
- How fintech is gradually reducing the use of ₦100 and ₦200 notes, CBN explains July 22, 2026
- Zambia commissions $70 million solar power plant to strengthen energy security July 22, 2026
- What data sovereignty means for the average fintech user July 22, 2026
- Samsung launches new foldable phones, hikes prices as chip costs continue to rise July 22, 2026
- M-KOPA hits 10 million customers as Nigeria emerges its fastest-growing market July 22, 2026
- 8 Lagosians empowered with LagRide vehicles funded by Lagos Lottery Chief, Bashir Are July 22, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83 July 22, 2026
- 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
DEV Community
- Request validation with Zod in Express July 22, 2026
- Unity's Path to CoreCLR: What the Mono Cutover Means for Your Studio July 22, 2026
- Unity 6.5 Is Here: Should Your Studio Upgrade? July 22, 2026
- From Docker Build to Kubernetes Deploy on Ubuntu: The Image Workflow That Never Changed July 22, 2026
- I ran 3 months of spec-driven development without ever reading the code July 22, 2026
- I Turned Federal Compliance Regulations Into JSON So My AI Coding Agent Could Actually Use Them July 22, 2026
- I Built urldn-link-check — A GitHub Action to Catch Broken Links Before They Reach Production July 22, 2026
- Introducing NumPy4J: Bringing NumPy-Style Computing toJava July 22, 2026
- Install Docker on Ubuntu 26.04 (the right way, with the docker-group truth) July 22, 2026
OpenAI News
- How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions July 22, 2026
- Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community July 22, 2026
- Advancing the next era of national science July 22, 2026
- Introducing OpenAI Presence July 22, 2026
- Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program July 21, 2026
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation July 21, 2026
- David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC July 21, 2026
- Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models July 20, 2026
- 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
Google Deep Blog
- Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission July 22, 2026
- Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber July 21, 2026
- Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber July 17, 2026
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock July 22, 2026
- Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova July 21, 2026
- Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices July 20, 2026
- Build specialized agent workflows for your business with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit July 20, 2026
- How Couchbase built a multi-model AI architecture for Capella iQ with Amazon Bedrock July 20, 2026
- Evolving from legacy BI to agentic AI at Tradeshift with Amazon Quick July 20, 2026
Databricks
- The last mile: why great first-party data still doesn't make great marketing July 21, 2026
- Why R&D Data Belongs in the Lakehouse - and Why Agents Need It There July 21, 2026
- How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to Accelerate Sustainability at Scale July 21, 2026
- Announcing the Public Preview of Discover and Domains, powered by Unity Catalog July 21, 2026
- Branching databases like code: a CI/CD pattern for Lakebase, in production at Glaspoort July 20, 2026
- Scaling document classification to 100k+ labels July 20, 2026
- The three ways AI unlocks transformation in Retail, Travel, and Consumer Goods July 20, 2026
- AI Transparency: Governance, Explainability, and Data Practices July 20, 2026
- Responsible AI: Governance, Principles, and Practical Guide July 17, 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
- Google projects full-year capex will be $195B to $205B in 2026, after saying in April that it will spend as much as $190B; its Q2 capex hit $44.92B, up 100% YoY (Julia Love/Bloomberg) July 22, 2026
- Google says its cloud computing unit had a $514B backlog of contracted work that hasn't been recorded as revenue yet, up from ~$460B held during Q1 (Julia Love/Bloomberg) July 22, 2026
- ServiceNow reports Q2 subscription revenue up 24.5% YoY to $3.88B, increases full year subscription revenue growth estimate to 23%; NOW jumps 4%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) July 22, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Why AI Engineering Is Becoming the Must-Have Skill Set for 2026 July 22, 2026
- 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
Towards AI – Medium
- Diagnose and Evaluate Before You Mutate July 22, 2026
- Every LangGraph Pattern You’ll Actually Use : Explained Properly July 22, 2026
- Why Claude Code Changed My Workflow? July 22, 2026
- Open-Source AI vs. Proprietary AI July 22, 2026
- The Interpretability Debt Nobody’s Budgeting For July 22, 2026
aibusiness
- Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion July 22, 2026
- Microsoft-Mistral Partnership is About Sovereign AI July 22, 2026
- Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots July 22, 2026
- Agibot Expands Embodied AI Portfolio With Four New Products July 22, 2026
- New Gemini 3.5 Flash Models Are Faster and Cheaper but Not Smarter July 21, 2026
- OpenAI Urges Enterprises to Use Its Scorecard to Measure Worth of AI July 21, 2026
- Alibaba Qwen 3.8 Max Shows China Closing in on U.S. Models July 21, 2026
- Startup Launches Foundry to Develop Materials for Chips July 20, 2026
- As AI Spending Climbs, Enterprises Get Serious About Token Costs 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
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #516: OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next? July 22, 2026
- 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
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
- Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU July 22, 2026
- Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases July 22, 2026
- Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual July 22, 2026
- Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads July 21, 2026
