Tech In Africa
- Bluechip Technologies acquires Nigerian voice-AI startup YarnGPT June 12, 2026
- Gabon set to switch on its first national data center June 30 June 12, 2026
- Kora plugs into IATA’s global payment network for African airlines June 12, 2026
- Kenya lands €102 million from the EU for digital transformation June 12, 2026
- Proparco backs new EmTech venture fund for Francophone Africa June 12, 2026
- 14 African Startups Join MassChallenge 2026 Accelerator, Competing for Up to CHF 1 Million June 11, 2026
- Morocco’s Agenz Raises $5M Seed Round to Scale Real Estate Platform June 11, 2026
- Africa’s AI Startups Are Watching the West Make Expensive Mistakes. They Don’t Have to Repeat Them June 11, 2026
- Algerian Startups Step onto the Global Stage at London Tech Week 2026 June 11, 2026
- MTN Eyes Nigeria’s Lending Market as $500bn MoMo Fintech Spinoff Advances June 11, 2026
TechCabal
- One UI 8.5 missing features explained: Which Galaxy phones miss out June 12, 2026
- Why more Lesotho migrant workers are choosing fintechs to send money home June 12, 2026
- Why Africa’s most-funded EV startup is thinking beyond motorcycles June 12, 2026
- Moroccan proptech Agenz raises $5 million to digitise real estate transactions June 12, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Bolaji Anifowose June 12, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Taking the Family public June 12, 2026
- Alliance-backed Daya wants to help businesses manage money using stablecoins June 11, 2026
- AI is now a geopolitical asset. African presidents are racing to catch up. June 11, 2026
- Kenya’s Family Bank secures approval for long-awaited NSE listing June 11, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – MTN eyes fintech licences June 11, 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
- Bumpa Bets on Kenya’s Social Commerce Boom with New Business Management Platform June 12, 2026
- BetGr8 Is the Go-To Betting Website for the 2026 World Cup Matches June 11, 2026
- Beyond Accessories: How oraimo Is Building a Lifestyle Technology Ecosystem in Kenya June 10, 2026
- Dental Practice Management Software for Modern Clinics | Dendoo June 2, 2026
- Galaxy A37 and A57: Samsung’s New Creator-First Smartphones Built for Africa’s Digital Generation May 28, 2026
- Visa Kenya Brings Star Wars to Life as Science Fiction Continues to Shape the Future of Technology May 25, 2026
- Safaricom Youth Proposition Partnership EOI Opens Doors for Innovators and Youth-Focused Solution Providers May 22, 2026
- oraimo’s AI-Powered “Space” Upgrade May 15, 2026
- betPawa Equips 575 Players Across 25 Kenyan Teams in Major Sports Development Drive May 14, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
- BCS Consultancy Strengthens Global Footprint with New South African Office June 12, 2026
- Fortune Names Yellow Card Among Top Global Crypto Innovators June 12, 2026
- Best Magento 2 Store Locator Extensions Compared June 12, 2026
- NCBA Partners Lake Victoria Water Agency Invests Kes 500 Million for Water & Sanitation Contractors June 12, 2026
- When Screen Time for Kids is a Bridge to Learning, not a Barrier June 12, 2026
- How Does Text to Image Work? June 12, 2026
- inDrive Appoints New Chief Financial Officer June 11, 2026
- City Lodge Hotels Introduces New Buzz App June 11, 2026
- JUMO & Nedbank Launch Next Gen Digital Lending Ecosystem June 11, 2026
- Datacentrix Investing in Education Through CSI Donations June 11, 2026
TechCity
- iOS 27 vs Android 17 AI: Which Platform Is Winning the AI Race in 2026? June 10, 2026
- Apple Intelligence iOS 27 Features: What It Actually Does, Step by Step June 9, 2026
- iOS 27 Announced at WWDC 2026: Everything Apple Just Revealed June 8, 2026
- Tomi Davies, Dr. Victor ‘Gbenga Afolabi to Unveil Africa’s First Ad-Agency GPT at MarkHack 5.0 June 7, 2026
- World Environment Day 2026: Sustainable Technology Habits That Actually Make a Difference June 5, 2026
- Best Parental Control App 2026: The Real Review of the Top Options for Families June 4, 2026
- Cyberbullying 2026: What’s Changed and What Parents Still Get Wrong June 3, 2026
- Best VPN Android 2026: Honest Rankings of the Top VPN Apps June 2, 2026
- How to Stay Safe Online: Is Your Internet Connection Actually Private? June 1, 2026
- AgentPR: A Nigerian AI Architect just built Africa first AI powered PR intelligence platform May 30, 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
- Blnk Raises $37.1 Million to Expand AI-Powered Consumer Financing in Egypt June 12, 2026
- KCB Group Disburses KShs. 48.8 Billion Worth of Green Loans June 12, 2026
- Enza Secures PSP Enhanced Licence from Bank of Ghana June 12, 2026
- Payment Infrastructure Driving Africa’s Trade Boom June 12, 2026
- Globally, organisations attacked on average 2 055 per week – Check Point May 2026 report finds June 12, 2026
- Yuno Partners Onafriq to Simplify Cross-Border Payments Into Africa June 11, 2026
- Bringing the Speed Home: Fibre to the Room Revolution June 11, 2026
- Mwanga wa Elimu Movement Launches Africa EdTech Policy Toolkit at eLearning Africa 2026 June 11, 2026
WeeTracker
- Kora Joins IATA’s Payment Network to Power Airline Settlements Across Africa June 12, 2026
- Morocco’s Agenz Raises USD 5 M Seed Round To Scale Real Estate Platform June 11, 2026
- Airtel Africa Mobile Money Transactions Hit USD 196 B Ahead Of Planned London IPO June 11, 2026
- New Shifts Push South African SMEs From Firefighting To Cautious Growth June 11, 2026
- Zipline’s African Drone Network Finds Gains Beyond Delivering Medical Supplies June 11, 2026
- Egyptians Are Using AI For Shopping But Won’t Let It Touch Their Money June 10, 2026
- Myka Raises Pre-Seed Round To Expand Insurance Access In Nigeria June 10, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- African Health Systems Turn to AI as Outbreak Monitoring Demands Rise June 12, 2026
- Finance Bill 2026 Brings Revenue Ambitions Into Contact With Investor Concerns June 12, 2026
- Blue Pearl’s Java Upgrade Offers a Glimpse of IBM Bob’s Enterprise Ambitions June 12, 2026
- EU Invests €37 Million into Blue-Raman Cable Project to Enhance East Africa’s Global Connectivity June 12, 2026
- Why Digital Lending Is Becoming a Lifeline for Kenya’s SMEs June 12, 2026
- Global Airlines Gain a New Route Into African Payments Through Kora June 12, 2026
- 24,000 Applications Later, Africa’s Business Heroes Reveals Its Top 100 June 12, 2026
Techloy
- Popular Technology in the Welding and Fabrication Industry June 11, 2026
- MTN Says Nigerian Data Is Among the World's Cheapest. Do the Numbers Agree? June 11, 2026
- Best International Payment Platforms in Africa (2026): Fees, Speed & Verdicts June 11, 2026
- Realme P4R 5G Lands in India With an 8,000mAh Battery, But Can It Beat the Oppo Reno 16? June 11, 2026
- What Games Are Coming to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog in June 2026? June 11, 2026
- Xbox Warns of a ‘Reset’ as Layoffs Loom and Hardware Costs Surge June 11, 2026
- Satya Nadella Is Trying to Rein In Microsoft's AI 'Tokenmaxxers' June 11, 2026
- How a VDR Protects More Than Files June 11, 2026
Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch
- 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
- Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search July 9, 2025
Ventureburn
- AI Trading Bots vs Human Traders in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows June 12, 2026
- AI Crypto Trading Platforms in 2026: Evaluating Managed Trading Tools and Automation Features June 12, 2026
- 10 Best Travel Insurance Companies in 2026 (Comprehensive Reviews) June 12, 2026
- What is TradFi? Top Crypto Exchanges for TradFi in June 2026 June 12, 2026
- Crypto Marketing Strategy in 2026: A Step-by-Step Guide by Project Type June 11, 2026
- What Is Cryptocurrency Mining & How Does It Work? June 11, 2026
- Superhuman Email Review 2026: Is It a Good Video & Image AI Generator? June 11, 2026
C55 Technology | Latest Tech news | Guardian Nigeria
- Flutterwave founder unveils Africa financial OS Vision, calls for shock-ready infrastructure June 10, 2026
- Alphabet to raise $80b for AI goals June 3, 2026
- NRS appoints Upperlink as Nigeria’s e-invoicing platform system integrator June 3, 2026
- Report exposes digital ecosystem execution gap June 3, 2026
- Flutterwave launches global relief package June 2, 2026
- AI-powered cybersecurity key to future of enterprise systems, says expert May 30, 2026
- Top 6 Best Facebook Video Downloaders for Chrome May 26, 2026
- How to Download Instagram Photos Online Using Snapgram: Fast and Ad-Free May 26, 2026
TechCentral
- The missing number in Vodacom’s annual report June 12, 2026
- How Sixty60 turned lockdown luck into a lasting lead June 12, 2026
- SABC+ buckles as 477 000 fans pile in for Bafana opener June 12, 2026
- The dizzying scale of Elon Musk’s fortune June 12, 2026
- How a tiny SA team is using AI to challenge accounting’s big boys June 12, 2026
- The world has minted its first dollar trillionaire June 12, 2026
- When jammers kill the signal, AI goes blind too June 12, 2026
- Workday Horizon shows SA firms how to make AI deliver June 12, 2026
- Hisense, Makro team up for winter laundry promotion June 12, 2026
- MTN’s first AI target? Itself June 11, 2026
Technext
- From 21 days to 24 hours: How Verto is chipping at Africa’s payment crisis June 12, 2026
- Post World Cup loss to Mexico, Bolt ‘Ghost-Booking’ campaign hits South Africa again June 12, 2026
- The Nigerian founder on a mission to end hidden fees in the $5 billion UK to Nigeria remittance corridor June 12, 2026
- Democracy for tech! June 12, 2026
- SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire, exceeding $1.1 trillion June 12, 2026
- How Mitchell Elegbe’s radical interview method built Interswitch June 12, 2026
- Supporting Africa at the 2026 World Cup will cost travelling fans £23,000 – Report June 11, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning June 11, 2026
- When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three” June 11, 2026
- MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships June 11, 2026
- Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable June 10, 2026
- The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news June 9, 2026
- The crucial human component in computing and AI June 5, 2026
- PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs June 4, 2026
- NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery June 4, 2026
- Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship” June 3, 2026
DEV Community
- The First Message Sent Over the Internet Was 'LO' June 12, 2026
- What We Learned Scanning Netflix Atlas June 12, 2026
- Why You Need to Become a Neuro-Punk Right Now June 12, 2026
- AI Customer Service Chatbot with Demo Link June 12, 2026
- I tested 50 AI tools in May - the 7 I kept June 12, 2026
- Debuggix vs Snyk vs Semgrep vs GitHub Advanced Security: A 100-Repo Technical Comparison June 12, 2026
- Hello DEV Community! I'm Usman Ali June 12, 2026
- Building a Resilient Instagram Scraper With Selenium — What Mimicking Human Behavior Actually Looks Like June 12, 2026
- I built a red-team scanner for MCP servers. Then I pointed it at the real ones. June 12, 2026
OpenAI News
- New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work June 12, 2026
- How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning June 12, 2026
- Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem June 11, 2026
- BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI June 11, 2026
- How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes June 11, 2026
- OpenAI to acquire Ona June 11, 2026
- Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment June 10, 2026
- PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US June 10, 2026
- From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI June 10, 2026
- How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits June 9, 2026
- What Codex unlocks for Notion June 9, 2026
- Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age June 9, 2026
- Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC June 8, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation June 10, 2026
- Investing in multi-agent AI safety research June 10, 2026
- Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate June 9, 2026
- Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model June 9, 2026
- Powering the future of robotics in Europe June 9, 2026
- Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond June 8, 2026
- We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks May 21, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI June 12, 2026
- Build a meeting prep and follow-up assistant with Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers June 12, 2026
- From PDFs to insights: Architecting an intelligent document processing pipeline with AWS generative AI services June 12, 2026
- Built from the inside out: How AWS Professional Services became a frontier team first June 12, 2026
- Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically June 11, 2026
- Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit June 11, 2026
Databricks
- Enabling Evolutionary Database Development: Database branching with Lakebase, the conclusion June 12, 2026
- Unlocking semantics for AI: How Mercedes-Benz Korea built trusted “Talk to Data” at scale June 11, 2026
- Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI June 11, 2026
- Ingesting the Milky Way: Petabyte-Scale with Zerobus Ingest June 11, 2026
- How ERGO Hestia reduced time-to-market with Lakebase and Mosaic AI Model Serving June 11, 2026
- Welcoming the first cohort of Databricks student fellows June 11, 2026
- Geospatial Unbounded: Spatial SQL GA with AI/BI Maps, Delta Sharing, and Iceberg v3 June 11, 2026
- Azure Databricks at Data + AI Summit 2026 featuring Industry Leaders and Partners June 11, 2026
- Empower your healthcare agents with ready-to-use MCP on Databricks Marketplace June 11, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- 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
- Can your AI agent actually learn from its mistakes or just keep repeating them? May 28, 2026
- Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them? May 15, 2026
- Can we build elite search agents without the massive industrial RL pipelines? May 10, 2026
Techmeme
- Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair) June 12, 2026
- KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (Financial Times) June 12, 2026
- Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B; ROKU jumps 20%+ after hours (Bloomberg) June 12, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- AI Agents Gone Wrong: What Real-World Failures Reveal About Coding Agent Risk June 12, 2026
- vLLM Transformers Backend: Bridging Hugging Face Compatibility and High-Performance Inference June 11, 2026
- What’s New at ODSC AI West 2026: New Tracks, Speakers, and More June 11, 2026
- How to Build Financial Services AI Agents with Claude June 10, 2026
- What Ollama Reveals About Local AI, Agents, and Open Models June 10, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- The Plan Was Correct. The Agent Ignored It. June 12, 2026
- I Set Up Claude Projects Properly. I Won’t Go Back. June 12, 2026
- The 5-Minute Guide to Agentic AI Workflow June 12, 2026
- ChatGPT Was 76% of the AI Market. It Just Fell to 54%, and Quality Isn’t Why. June 12, 2026
- DiffusionGemma Developer Guide: When Parallel Text Generation Beats Token-by-Token LLMs June 12, 2026
aibusiness
- OpenAI Acquires Startup to Boost Codex June 12, 2026
- Prompt: AI IPOs Raise a Question Enterprises Are Still Trying to Answer June 12, 2026
- Massive SpaceX IPO Kicks off New AI Financing Era June 12, 2026
- AI's Hidden Energy Bill: Why Visibility is Becoming Critical for Enterprises June 11, 2026
- Neura Robotics Raises $1.4B for Physical AI June 11, 2026
- Startup Gets OpenAI Backing to Overhaul Enterprise AI Automation June 11, 2026
- Meta Partners With Reliance for First India AI Data Center June 10, 2026
- The Price Enterprises Will Pay for Anthropic Claude Fable 5 June 9, 2026
- Waymo Pays $220M for Apple’s Abandoned Self-Driving Car Test Ground June 9, 2026
- OpenAI’s IPO: Navigating Profitability and Market Dynamics June 9, 2026
- Amazon Taps Fiber Optics Producer Corning for Data Center Expansion June 9, 2026
- AI Adoption in the UK is Booming, but Transformation is Stalling June 9, 2026
- Uber and Wayve to Launch London’s First AI Robotaxis June 8, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #502: Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT June 11, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #501: Musk's $1.75 Trillion Bet Isn't a Rocket Company June 9, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #500: $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking? June 7, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B June 4, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #498: Anthropic files for an IPO. NVIDIA ships its stack. June 1, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) October 5, 2025
- Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch September 6, 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 Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2025 June 10, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2026 June 9, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2026 June 8, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2026 June 7, 2026
- Weekly Review 29 May 2026 May 29, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2026 May 28, 2026
- Weekly Review 22 May 2026 May 22, 2026
- Weekly Review 15 May 2026 May 15, 2026
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 5, May 2026 May 12, 2026
- Weekly Review 8 May 2026 May 8, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Google Releases Gemini-SQL2: Gemini 3.1 Pro Text-to-SQL Scores 80.04% on BIRD Single-Model Leaderboard June 12, 2026
- Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm June 12, 2026
- Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude June 12, 2026
- A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes June 12, 2026
