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Tech In Africa

Proparco Backs Alterra Africa Accelerator Fund with $17.25 Million at Final Close April 23, 2026
Google Selects 15 African Startups for Its 10th AI Accelerator Cohort April 23, 2026
Gebeya and VukaOS Forge Alliance to Close the Gap Between Startup Idea and Execution April 23, 2026
AfDB Approves €7.33 Million to Complete Compensation Payments for Ugandans Affected by Rural Electrification Project April 23, 2026
SaveFuel.Africa Launches as First Pan-African EV vs Fuel Cost Calculator April 22, 2026
BFree Secures New Funding to Buy Up Africa’s Bad Loans April 21, 2026
Algeria Launches Its First Startup Cluster Dedicated to AI and Cybersecurity April 21, 2026
Nigeria’s Terra Industries Takes Its Drone Manufacturing Ambitions to Ghana April 21, 2026
Speedinvest Launches Dedicated MEA Fund Backed by Mubadala, QIA, and EIB Global April 20, 2026
Lua Raises $5.8 Million to Build the Operating System for Human and AI Agent Teams April 20, 2026

TechCabal

Quick Fire 🔥 with Kolawole Bekes April 24, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Ethiopia is Awash with shares April 24, 2026
Swoop raises $7.3 million seed for African super app, food delivery first April 23, 2026
Nigerian telecom customers to receive airtime refunds after disruptions, says NCC April 23, 2026
Mauritius’ new AI policy makes ethics mandatory, not optional April 23, 2026
Kenya’s BuuPass enters corporate travel market with new booking product April 23, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New airtime lenders are in town April 23, 2026
Absa Kenya to spend $23.2 million a year in digital banking push April 22, 2026
Kenya’s M-TIBA refunds users after shutting health savings wallet April 22, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya freezes Binance wallets April 22, 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

Safaricom’s Big Bang / Cold Turkey New My OneApp Rollout: A Brave but Costly Mistake April 15, 2026
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

African Business Technology News

How To Spot Romance Scam Bots, According To An Expert April 23, 2026
“Africa Is the Next Industrial Growth Frontier” — AVEVA’s Jesus Hernandez on AI, Data, and Digital Transformation April 23, 2026
Unpacking Challenges Facing SA’s Healthcare Reform April 23, 2026
Cross Switch Appoints New Head of Business Development, East Africa April 23, 2026
Exabeam Expands Agent Behaviour Analytics Across Google Cloud Agents April 23, 2026
Gebeya and VukaOS Forge Strategic Alliance to Redefine African Startup Creation April 23, 2026
Apple CEO Steps Down April 22, 2026
Mojaloop Foundation Appoints New CEO April 22, 2026
Why your password may not be good enough no matter how long and complex it is April 22, 2026
SPAR Strengthens Leadership Capability April 22, 2026

TechCity

Impact of Tech on Local Culture: 7 Big Changes April 24, 2026
Smart Grids 2026: The Infrastructure Story Behind Earth Week’s Biggest Promise April 24, 2026
The Smart Grid Revolution Nobody Explained to You April 23, 2026
Earth Week 2026: Sustainable Tech Worth Supporting, and the Brands Just Greenwashing April 23, 2026
How to Use AI for Content Creation: A Practical Guide April 23, 2026
Meta Tracking Employees’ Keystrokes and Screens to Train AI: What Workers Need to Know April 22, 2026
AI as a Creative Tool: Where It Helps and Where It Gets in the Way April 21, 2026
Top Ecommerce Platforms For Startups: Best Picks For 2026 April 21, 2026
Earth Week: The E-Waste Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About April 20, 2026
Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO: John Ternus Takes Over September 2026 April 20, 2026

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

TechArena

Safaricom Updates My OneApp to Restore Favourites Tab and Improves Navigation April 23, 2026
Opinion | When AI infrastructure is tested by peak demand April 23, 2026
Airtel Kenya to Reward Customers Who Refer Friends to MyAirtel App April 22, 2026
Credit Bank Explores Stablecoin Integration with Anzens to Cut Cross-Border Payment Costs April 22, 2026
4 Kenyan Startups Selected for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa’s 10th Cohort April 21, 2026
NTT DATA reaches 400Gbps peering milestone at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange April 21, 2026
Liquid Intelligent Technologies Closes $660 Million Debt Deal April 21, 2026
TCL Positions SQD-Mini LED as Next-Gen Display Breakthrough Amid Industry Shift April 20, 2026

WeeTracker

Google Backs 15 Startups In Latest Accelerator Cohort To Shape Africa’s AI Future April 23, 2026
South Africa’s Junior Tech Workers Are Getting Crushed By AI Hiring Shift April 23, 2026
Nigerian Government Turns Venture Capitalist As State Funds Flock To Startups April 22, 2026
Inside Chowdeck, Devs & Execs Compete To Personally Deliver Dinner To Doorsteps April 21, 2026
Africa’s Hottest Defence Startup Goes All In On Ghana Over Nigerian Home Base April 20, 2026
Nigeria’s Telcos’ Fintech Business In Limbo As It Loses Key Airtime Lending Pillar April 20, 2026
How Losing One Client Suddenly Collapsed 1000+ Jobs In Kenya’s AI Hub April 16, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Afreximbank Launches its Third African AfCFTA Training Programme April 23, 2026
African Innovators Take Centre Stage at MIT’s Global Entrepreneurship Conference April 23, 2026
Africa’s Digital Leaders to Convene in Nairobi for Connected Africa Summit 2026 April 23, 2026
45 African Countries Have Enacted Data Protection Legislation, Yellow Card Report April 23, 2026
Adil El Youssefi | How Africa’s Data Centres are Evolving to Support the Continent’s AI Surge April 23, 2026
ADG Wins Second Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Africa Award April 23, 2026
Safaricom Pushes First Major Update to Stabilize My OneApp April 23, 2026

Techloy

Why the AI Supply Chain Is Becoming a Business Risk, Not Just a Security Problem April 24, 2026
Continuous Deployment Pipelines: Design Patterns for Faster and Safer Releases April 24, 2026
ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs Grok Imagine: Which AI Image Generator Should You Use? April 23, 2026
Top 8 Platforms for Hybrid & Multi Cloud Architecture Design in 2026 April 23, 2026
How to Choose the Best Eyeglasses for People Who Stare at Screens All Day April 23, 2026
Eye Health Is Becoming a Tech Problem April 23, 2026
Tesla Holds Bitcoin Position as $173M Loss Hits Q1 2026 Earnings April 23, 2026
iPhone 18 Leaks: Split Launch, 2nm A20 Chip, and Apple’s First Foldable Revealed April 23, 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

Omni Raises $120M Series C to Scale AI Analytics Platform April 23, 2026
VAST Data Hits $30B Valuation with NVIDIA’s $1B Boost April 23, 2026
8 Free AI Trading Bots Supporting Intraday Trading in 2026 (Beginner’s Guide) April 23, 2026
Cloudsmith Raises $72M to Secure the AI Software Supply Chain April 23, 2026
UNIVITY Raises €27M for Sovereign Space Connectivity April 23, 2026
15 Best Crypto Payment Gateway Providers in 2026 (Review & Comparison) April 22, 2026
What Is an AI Crypto Trading Bot? 8 Crypto Trading Platforms Compared in 2026 April 22, 2026

TechCentral

Malatsi runs out of patience with Icasa on BEE reform April 24, 2026
DeepSeek’s long-awaited V4 model enters preview April 24, 2026
South Africa planning big overhaul of public sector IT April 23, 2026
Usaasa’s 30-year run nears its end April 23, 2026
Charge to switch on first N3 off-grid EV stations in May April 23, 2026
Middle-class South Africa is ditching streaming for AI April 23, 2026
Mythos forces South African banks onto high alert April 23, 2026
Security by design is the channel’s strongest pitch April 23, 2026
Your brand is invisible to the AI that’s choosing your competitor April 23, 2026
Free calls, dead voice and Shameel Joosub’s Spanish ghost April 22, 2026

Technext

TikTok and ICC launch free Digital Commerce Labs programme for small businesses in Nigeria April 24, 2026
MTN confirms airtime compensation for subscribers hit by poor service April 24, 2026
Nigeria’s digital media traffic declined by 26.2% in 2025 – SquirrelPR RANKED 2026 report April 23, 2026
Warner Bros shareholders approve $110 billion merger with Paramount April 23, 2026
Here are the 3 Banks offering airtime lending service | See how to borrow April 23, 2026
AUATON faults Lagride for ₦450k upfront rental, ₦50k driver training fee April 23, 2026
Don’t be obsessed with 100 or 500k views: Top African content creators share tips for beginners April 23, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” April 22, 2026
Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners April 17, 2026
Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere April 17, 2026
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI April 14, 2026
Human-machine teaming dives underwater April 14, 2026
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

DEV Community

Building a Markdown editor (Markflow) April 24, 2026
Sustainability Isn't an Afterthought — It's an Architectural Choice April 24, 2026
I Stopped Using Playwright. Here's What Replaced It. April 24, 2026
LLM-Native APIs: How the Runtime behind REST Changed Fundamentally in 2026 April 24, 2026
Setting Up Docker on My Hosting Server (selfmade.lab) April 24, 2026
Multi-Agent AI Systems: How Multiple AI Agents Work Together to Automate Complex Workflows April 24, 2026
AI has reprogrammed me April 24, 2026
The 80% You Don’t See: What Tracking My Work Taught Me April 24, 2026
Integrating with Legacy Manufacturing ERP: Technical Realities April 24, 2026

OpenAI News

GPT-5.5 System Card April 23, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.5 April 23, 2026
How to get started with Codex April 23, 2026
What is Codex? April 23, 2026
Codex settings April 23, 2026
Working with Codex April 23, 2026
Plugins and skills April 23, 2026
Top 10 uses for Codex at work April 23, 2026
Automations April 23, 2026
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty April 23, 2026
Making ChatGPT better for clinicians April 22, 2026
Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API April 22, 2026
Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT April 22, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training April 22, 2026
Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation April 21, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech April 15, 2026
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning April 13, 2026
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

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Quick for marketing: From scattered data to strategic action April 23, 2026
Applying multimodal biological foundation models across therapeutics and patient care April 23, 2026
Cost-effective multilingual audio transcription at scale with Parakeet-TDT and AWS Batch April 22, 2026
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports optimized generative AI inference recommendations April 22, 2026
Get to your first working agent in minutes: Announcing new features in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore April 22, 2026
Company-wise memory in Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Neptune and Mem0 April 22, 2026

Databricks

Databricks partners with OpenAI on GPT-5.5 April 23, 2026
Announcing the Public Preview of Lakeflow Designer April 23, 2026
Are LLM agents good at join order optimization? April 22, 2026
How conversational analytics removes the BI bottleneck April 22, 2026
How to transform document activation workflows with Genie and Agent Bricks April 22, 2026
Beyond the spreadsheet: how Databricks is delivering the modern CFO in Financial Services April 22, 2026
AI App Development: Guide To Building AI-Powered Apps April 22, 2026
IoT in Manufacturing: Strategy, Components, Use Cases, and Challenges April 22, 2026
Multimodal Data Integration: Production Architectures for Healthcare AI April 22, 2026

AIModels.fyi

The prompt isn't hiding inside the image April 14, 2026
Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem April 11, 2026
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

Techmeme

aibusiness

AWS Bets on Frontier Agents as the Next Era of Enterprise AI April 23, 2026
Microsoft to Spend $18B on AI Infrastructure in Australia April 23, 2026
Accenture Showcases Humanoid Robot Warehouse Pilot April 22, 2026
SpaceX Agrees to Potential $60B Deal to Acquire Cursor April 22, 2026
ChatGPT Images Tool Upgraded With ‘Thinking’ Capability April 22, 2026
Gemini Agent Platform Tackles Enterprise Deployment Challenges April 21, 2026
Chinese Volkswagens to Feature AI Agents That Give Cars ‘Personality’ April 21, 2026
Hyundai, DeepX Partner to Develop AI Platform for Robotics April 21, 2026
Neura Robotics, AWS Collaborate to Bring Physical AI to the Real World April 21, 2026
Anthropic Seals $100B Infrastructure Deal With Amazon April 21, 2026
AMD's Vision for AI PCs in the Age of Agentic AI April 21, 2026
Adobe Launches AI Agent Platform for CX April 20, 2026
Siemens Trials Nvidia-Powered Humanoid April 20, 2026

AI Weekly — AI News & Updates

AI Weekly Issue #486: Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI April 22, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #485: When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret April 19, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #484: Your AI chats can be used against you in court April 16, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #483: 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract April 13, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #482: AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious April 10, 2026

Ahead of AI

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
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

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 24 April 2026 April 24, 2026
Weekly Review 17 April 2026 April 17, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 April 15, 2026
Weekly Review 10 April 2026 April 10, 2026
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

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