Tech In Africa
- Cape Town’s Tennsa becomes Oakvale Invest’s first-ever portfolio bet, raising about $61,000 August 12, 2026
- Africa50 pulls in $50M from European development banks for a fund that preps green projects for investors August 12, 2026
- African founders are moving past headline funding numbers to chase cross-border payment fixes August 12, 2026
- IFC Backs 4G Capital, Equity Bank and KCB in Kenya SME Financing Programme August 10, 2026
- Silverbacks’ Investment in Moove Tops $37 Million as Mobility Startup Hits $2.1 Billion Valuation August 10, 2026
- AHL Africa Credit Fund secures additional $15 million in debt facility August 10, 2026
- Tokyo State Lenders Back Peach Cars in $3.7M Debt Facility for East Africa Expansion August 10, 2026
- 6 AI Tools That Will Help Grow Your Business August 10, 2026
- Gabon Pushes Back KIMBA Connect Grand Finale After Startups Flag Organisational Gaps August 7, 2026
- Climate Fund Managers Closes $183M for South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Push August 7, 2026
TechCabal
- Shoprite’s Sixty60 is now a $1.6 billion digital commerce business August 12, 2026
- Vodacom taps former Airtel Africa CEO onto its board August 12, 2026
- How to watch Made by Google 2026: Time, channel, and what to expect August 12, 2026
- Nigeria’s central bank opens regulatory sandbox to virtual asset firms August 12, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya’s new Internet bouncers August 12, 2026
- MTN expects profits to fall up to 30% as Iran investment takes a hit August 11, 2026
- IHS Towers revenue rises 8% as diesel, merger costs squeeze profits August 11, 2026
- Nigeria collects $19.9 billion in taxes as digital systems expand August 11, 2026
- How Android Halo shows you what your AI agent is doing August 11, 2026
- South Africa wants to use machine learning to screen travellers for fraud August 11, 2026
How we made it in Africa
- The business of fashion in East Africa August 11, 2026
- What it takes to sell African agricultural products in supermarkets abroad August 6, 2026
- Investor upbeat about retail, healthcare, and tech in Africa August 3, 2026
- Five entrepreneurs unlocking Africa’s agribusiness opportunities August 1, 2026
- Investor shares his playbook after a 29x exit in Africa July 31, 2026
- Three promising business opportunities in Somalia July 27, 2026
- The business opportunities in helping Africans land higher-paying jobs abroad July 25, 2026
- 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
KachTech Media
- When AI Writing Sounds Too Formal: 6 Ways to Make It More Conversational August 12, 2026
- Timiza Digital Lending: The mobile loan empowering small and medium businesses August 11, 2026
- TVS iQube Electric Scooter Launches in Kenya August 7, 2026
- Refugee Schools Shine at Young Scientists Kenya Exhibition August 6, 2026
- Nigeria Showcases Digital Growth at GITEX 2026 August 5, 2026
- Samsung Launches Official Online Store in Kenya August 5, 2026
- LG Predicts Growth in On-Premise Laundry Demand August 5, 2026
- Jiji Kenya Reports Rising Prices in Kenya Vehicle Market August 4, 2026
- Safaricom Declares Record KES 80.13 Billion Dividend August 1, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- MTN Launches AI-Powered Job Board August 12, 2026
- 5 Practical Habits Before Applying for an Online Loan in South Africa August 11, 2026
- Ethio Telecom, ZTE Advance Network Modernisation as Ethiopia Pushes 4G Expansion August 11, 2026
- Deloitte Africa and Refuel Partner to Simplify SARS Diesel Rebate Claims August 11, 2026
- Best Free Pokémon GO Spoofer That Still Work (iOS & Android) August 11, 2026
- How to Remove Activation Lock Without Previous Owner August 10, 2026
- SeerBit Integrates PayPal to Expand Global Payment Options for African Merchants August 10, 2026
- The next battleground for business isn’t AI. It’s proving what’s real August 10, 2026
- Absa Deploys AI to Speed Up Debt Review Process August 10, 2026
- The Future of Work Takes Center Stage in Africa: Global Conference on Human Resources in Africa (GCHRA26) Returns to Accra August 10, 2026
TechCity
- Every ₦100M Business Was Once a ₦10M Business. So What Changed? August 9, 2026
- Best Video Calling App in 2026: The Top Apps Compared for Work, School, and Family August 6, 2026
- How to Spot AI Fake Product Reviews July 29, 2026
- Moonshot 2026 Brings OpenAI Africa, Flutterwave, and Nigeria’s SEC Chief Together to Define What It Takes to Build for a New World July 29, 2026
- Cybersecurity Threats Students Need to Know About in 2026 July 29, 2026
- Best Laptop for Students in 2026: The Honest Review of Top Picks for Every Budget July 29, 2026
- Best Free Apps for Students in 2026: 12 Tools That Actually Help You Study July 29, 2026
- Tech Routine for Better Sleep in 2026: How to Use Technology to Rest Better July 27, 2026
- 5G Nigeria 2026: What’s Actually Available and What’s Just Marketing? July 27, 2026
- Dangerous Apps in 2026: 10 Types You Should Delete or Avoid July 22, 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 to Label AI-Generated Artist Identities With New “AI Persona” Badge August 12, 2026
- Nutanix launches open-source MCP server to bring secure AI automation to hybrid cloud August 12, 2026
- Vertiv Plans Ireland Expansion, Creating Up to 300 New Jobs August 12, 2026
- Airtel 5G Smart Connect Explained: Plans, Pricing, FUP and What You Get August 11, 2026
- Fincart Raises Seed Funding to Scale AI-Powered E-commerce Platform Across Africa and MENA August 11, 2026
- Binance Shares 5 Signs You Might Be Getting Scammed, and How to Stay Safe August 11, 2026
- GITEX NIGERIA reinforces Nigeria’s digital transformation ambitions amid Africa’s projected US$1 trillion AI economic potential August 11, 2026
- Mastercard Appoints Yasemin Bedir as President for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa August 11, 2026
WeeTracker
- African E-Commerce Giant Jumia Raises USD 50 M In Equity Funding Led By IFC August 12, 2026
- Morocco’s EV Charger Shortage Meets A Fledgling Startup’s Unlikely Early Gamble August 12, 2026
- The New African VC Playbook: Smart Capital Backing Businesses Built To Last August 11, 2026
- Nigeria’s USD 92 B Crypto Market Stung By New Tax Rules That Operators Call Suffocating August 11, 2026
- Kenya’s Peach Cars’ Parent Secures USD 3.7 M Debt To Expand Used-Car Marketplace August 11, 2026
- Africa50 Secures USD 50 M For Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Projects In Africa August 10, 2026
- African Developers Are Snubbing Silicon Valley For China’s Cheap AI Models August 10, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Former Airtel Africa CEO Segun Ogunsanya joins Vodacom board as telecom experience returns to the boardroom August 12, 2026
- NCBA Insurance targets underinsured SMEs with cover from KES 15,000 August 12, 2026
- Casino games in Kenya from slots to live and crash play August 12, 2026
- Kenya’s trust bill targets hidden ownership as FATF pressure mounts August 12, 2026
- Bolt adds tuk-tuks to its ride-hailing platform as Mombasa expands digital transport options August 12, 2026
- Spotify draws a line around AI artist identities as streaming platforms debate discovery, royalties and trust August 12, 2026
- KCB Investment Bank eyes $3 billion fund to reorganise Kenya’s KSh3.8 trillion institutional capital pool August 12, 2026
Techloy
- Marvel’s Wolverine PS5: Everything You Need to Know Before You Buy August 12, 2026
- Beyond your Salary: Financial Strategies Every Tech Professional Should Know August 12, 2026
- WhatsApp Beats Zoom, Meet and Teams on Video Call Data Usage August 12, 2026
- iPhone 18 Leak: iOS 27 Beta 5 Hints at Six iPhones, Foldable 'iPhone Ultra' August 12, 2026
- Gemini vs. ChatGPT: 7 Numbers Behind Google's 1 Billion-User Milestone August 12, 2026
- From Short Clips to Episode Beats: How Longer AI Video Models Fit Real Production August 12, 2026
- From Meeting Recording to Finished Deck: The Workflow Gap Most Teams Don't Realize They Have August 12, 2026
- Lord of the Rings: War in the North Legacy Edition Is Out Now on Xbox, PS5, Switch and PC August 12, 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
- CodeRabbit Raises $143M To Govern AI Software Development August 12, 2026
- Skan AI Raises $63M to Scale Enterprise AI Context Platform August 12, 2026
- Blacksmith Raises $45M to Scale AI Code Validation Cloud August 12, 2026
- XRP Price Prediction: Can XRP Stop The Rot As Moonberg Crypto Presale Explodes? August 11, 2026
- River AI Raises $1.1B to Expand Custom AI Platform August 11, 2026
- Infinimmune Raises $75M To Advance Human Antibody Pipeline August 11, 2026
- Flagler Health Raises $50M To Transform MSK Care With AI August 11, 2026
TechCentral
- Why the AI gold rush may be smaller than Eskom hopes August 12, 2026
- Sixty60 now drives more than a third of Shoprite’s growth August 12, 2026
- Checkers answers Pick n Pay in the grocery AI race August 12, 2026
- The payment ring winning over South Africa’s banks August 12, 2026
- TCS | Money just became native to the internet – Steven Boykey Sidley August 12, 2026
- Big changes to Vodacom Group board August 12, 2026
- Only a quarter of SA firms are running AI for real August 12, 2026
- Build or buy software? AI is rewriting the answer August 12, 2026
- How much Amazon Leo will cost in South Africa August 11, 2026
- Iran war hits home for MTN August 11, 2026
Technext
- Yellow Card targets global expansion, scales dollar accounts after $40m fundraise August 12, 2026
- Uber’s potential ‘Tween’ feature could extend rides to kids aged 10–12 August 12, 2026
- VirtualClickSupport Launches DigiBridge Architectural Framework to Advance Digital Inclusion in Underserved Communities August 12, 2026
- Nigeria is making EVs cheaper, but unreliable electricity could slow adoption August 12, 2026
- Post Prospa, Rodney Jackson-Cole wants African payments settled in minutes with Bani August 12, 2026
- CBN opens second regulatory sandbox cohort to VASPs, stablecoin startups and fintechs August 12, 2026
- Nigeria’s next total solar eclipse is in 2034; here are 5 partial eclipses before then August 12, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios August 10, 2026
- Solving the solvent problem August 4, 2026
- The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise August 4, 2026
- Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center August 3, 2026
- Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize July 30, 2026
- Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill July 30, 2026
- How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing July 29, 2026
- Working to automate nuclear plant operations July 24, 2026
- MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission July 23, 2026
DEV Community
- The Best Model Isn’t Enough: Harnesses, Context, and Better Prompts August 12, 2026
- AI Prompt Data Provenance: A Governance Framework for Community Sources August 12, 2026
- Contract engineer vs. full-time hire: the real cost math August 12, 2026
- Medallion architecture on Databricks: what actually matters August 12, 2026
- Deploy Grafana to Azure with Azure CLI : From Local Docker to Durable Dashboards August 12, 2026
- Treat Every `.gitlab-ci.yml` Edit as a Graph Change, Not a Text Diff August 12, 2026
- Designing a Utility-First Solana Product Ecosystem August 12, 2026
- A Platform-by-Platform Framework for AI Content Provenance and Enterprise Governance August 12, 2026
- Building a Chemistry AI Solver That Shows Its Work August 12, 2026
OpenAI News
- From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work August 12, 2026
- Daybreak models are now available on AWS August 11, 2026
- Testing ads in ChatGPT August 11, 2026
- What building an AI-native finance function taught me August 10, 2026
- OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas August 10, 2026
- Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol August 10, 2026
- Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands August 10, 2026
- Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows August 10, 2026
- Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business August 10, 2026
- How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work August 10, 2026
- Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work August 10, 2026
- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities August 7, 2026
- How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory August 7, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Putting sign language AI into users’ hands August 12, 2026
- WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones August 6, 2026
- Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration July 30, 2026
- We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control July 29, 2026
- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots July 28, 2026
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS August 12, 2026
- How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS August 12, 2026
- Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments August 12, 2026
- Tiered KV cache for large LLMs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Curvine August 12, 2026
- Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock August 11, 2026
- How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC August 11, 2026
Databricks
- Databricks Network Configuration delivery to Tens of Millions of Serverless VMs August 12, 2026
- How Amtrak is building the data backbone for its largest transformation in over 50 years August 12, 2026
- How a major freight railroad scaled pipeline creation with Genie Code August 12, 2026
- The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI is rewriting the Analyst’s Job Description August 12, 2026
- Taking AUTO CDC to the next level: Solving the hardest real-world use cases August 11, 2026
- Open-sourcing Metals v2: Databricks’ Java and Scala language server for multi‑million line codebases August 11, 2026
- Modern Risk Demands a Real-Time Foundation: The CRO’s Mandate August 11, 2026
- Electric joins Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes August 11, 2026
- How to ground Genie Agents in both structured data and documents without losing governance August 10, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- Model Highlights: Muse-Glimmer-30B August 12, 2026
- Model Highlights: MiniMax H3 August 5, 2026
- Why is your model being careful with email bodies but reckless with bank accounts? August 3, 2026
- Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1 July 27, 2026
- Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up? July 16, 2026
Techmeme
- Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog) August 12, 2026
- Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept sue Trump after Trump Media & Technology offered a subscription service for faster access to Trump's posts (Bernard Condon/Associated Press) August 12, 2026
- Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to the CFTC in the three months through June; sources: CFTC has up to 20 ongoing probes using just Kalshi's evidence (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times) August 12, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- How to Become an AI Engineer in 2026: A 6-Week Roadmap August 12, 2026
- Coding Agents, Mid-Training LLMs, and the AI Skills Shift August 7, 2026
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Mid-Training Language Models August 6, 2026
- How to Build a 107M-Row GitHub Analytics Agent With Snowflake CoCo August 4, 2026
- This Week at ODSC AI: AI Agents Broke Containment. Now What? July 30, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Poisoning the Memory: How Attackers Hijack GenAI Agents Through KV Cache Exploits August 12, 2026
- How to Create Production-Ready Code with Claude Code August 12, 2026
- What If ... Was Your AI Agent? NVIDIA's NOOA Turns Python Methods Into LLM Calls August 12, 2026
- I Built an AI Agent That Can Actually Do Things — Here’s the Full Working Code (Claude + Python +… August 12, 2026
- Muse Glimmer 30B on a Mid-Range Home Build August 12, 2026
aibusiness
- Mistral Aims to Build 1GB of Compute Capacity by 2030 August 12, 2026
- Microsoft, Seeking to Stay Competitive, Slashes Prices for Coding Model August 12, 2026
- Chinese Company Envisions 100,000 Self-Driving Trucks on Road by 2030 August 12, 2026
- IBM Signs $240M Deal for Nvidia-Powered AI Cluster August 12, 2026
- Nvidia’s New Open Model Is for Specific Use Cases August 12, 2026
- The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intellect August 11, 2026
- OpenAI Expands Daybreak to Tackle Growing AI Security Threat August 11, 2026
- How the US Ban on Chinese Humanoid Robots Could Affect the Industry August 11, 2026
- Nvidia Partners With Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500B for AI August 11, 2026
- New Premium Tier for ChatGPT Business August 11, 2026
- Shutterstock Embraces AI Image Licensing Deals August 11, 2026
- Meta Reverses Course with Open-Weight Muse Glimmer August 10, 2026
- Security Concerns Cause OpenAI to Halt Work on Astra Model August 10, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #521: The frontier just split into three markets August 12, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #520: What a week: AI became everybody's decision August 9, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #519: AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests August 7, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #518: The White House finished its AI safety framework. It's secret. August 4, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #517: What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal? July 29, 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
- Complex and Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 2026 August 10, 2026
- Weekly Review 7 August 2026 August 7, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 8, August 2026 August 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 8, August 2026 August 5, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2026 August 3, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2025 August 2, 2026
- Weekly Review 31 July 2026 July 31, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 4, August 2026 July 26, 2026
- Weekly Review 24 July 2026 July 24, 2026
- Weekly Review 17 July 2026 July 17, 2026
MarkTechPost
- AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation August 12, 2026
- NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router August 12, 2026
- Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark August 12, 2026
- The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model August 11, 2026
