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Nigus and Elmirate announce $200m initiative to support Africa’s security sector
March 16, 2026
Tony Elumelu Foundation Has Deployed Over $100 Million to African Startups
March 16, 2026
Anambra State and Saudi Technology Hub Sign Memorandum of Understanding
March 16, 2026
South African AI Research Platform Yazi Raises First Institutional Funding
March 16, 2026
Five African Startups Selected for Think Like an Investor 2026 Programme
March 13, 2026
Modern Diesel Engine Technology in Heavy-Duty Vehicles
March 13, 2026
Algeria’s Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets, Moving Into Physical Retail
March 12, 2026
Orca Fraud Secures $2.35M Seed to Bring Real-Time Fraud Intelligence to Emerging Markets
March 12, 2026
Africa’s Business Heroes Opens $1.5M Grant Competition for African Entrepreneurs
March 12, 2026
Zambia Signs MOU With UK Firm to Pilot AI in Schools
March 12, 2026
TechCabal
Botswana launches 12-month startup programme tied to $150m climate fund
March 17, 2026
Fincra sees ‘real volume’ in Africa-Canada corridor with new payments licence
March 17, 2026
I let a Nigerian AI app analyse my skin. Here’s what it got right.
March 17, 2026
CANAL+ plans job cuts at Multichoice in $115 million turnaround plan
March 17, 2026
Kenya seeks public input on draft crypto licencing regulations
March 17, 2026
Kenya moves to criminalise unapproved “high-risk” AI deployment
March 17, 2026
MTN targets 30 million African homes in broadband growth push
March 17, 2026
Uber partners Fido to offer instant loans to drivers in Ghana
March 17, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – A payday for MTN shareholders
March 17, 2026
Spotify payouts show Nigerian artists earned about ₦2 per stream in 2025
March 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
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
TECNO’s CAMON 50 and the New Visibility of the Kenyan Spirit
March 1, 2026
No More Peeking: How the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Solving Privacy in Public Spaces
February 28, 2026
The Invisible Engine: How Daraja 3.0 is Scaling Kenyan Tech Through MPESA
February 17, 2026
Sports Betting in Kenya: Odds, Live Betting, and Platform Guide
February 6, 2026
Sun King HomePlus Max Brings USB-C Laptop Charging to Solar Homes
January 21, 2026
Creative Entrepreneurship: Why Filmmakers Must Start Thinking Like Founders
January 21, 2026
Legal Clarity and Tech Innovation: SportPesa Strategic Pivot for 2026
January 21, 2026
African Business Technology News
FlySafair Introduces Apple Pay & Google Pay for Faster Flight Bookings
March 17, 2026
TrafficGuard Appoints Head of AI to Battle Rising Fraud
March 17, 2026
Cryptocurrency Platform Launches First Structured Crypto Prediction Market in Nigeria
March 17, 2026
The Role of Predictive Algorithms in African Gaming Apps
March 17, 2026
Vox and Nymbis Cloud Solutions partner to deliver a unified cloud, connectivity & security solution
March 17, 2026
AfrexInsure appoints Lesley Ndlovu as New Chief Executive Officer
March 17, 2026
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo Alongside iPhone 17e and iPhone 17
March 16, 2026
Ortec Finance Launches a New Standard in Strategic Asset Allocation Powered by Scenario-Based Machine Learning
March 16, 2026
WSO2 Unveils Platform Portfolio to Power Secure and Sovereign AI Adoption
March 16, 2026
New Robotics Laboratory Opens at Siyifunile Secondary School in Mpumalanga
March 16, 2026
TechCity
Best Noise Cancelling Headphones Review: Top Picks 2026 Guide
March 17, 2026
Electricity’s Critical Role in Nigeria’s Digital Public Infrastructure
March 17, 2026
Battery Optimization Guide: How to Make Your Phone Last All Day (Any Phone)
March 16, 2026
How To Scale A Startup Globally: Practical Playbook For Founders
March 16, 2026
Content Creation Guide for Beginners
March 13, 2026
Future of Electric Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 2026 Growth
March 13, 2026
Social Media Privacy Settings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Yourself Online
March 12, 2026
Online Learning Platforms: Coursera vs Udemy vs YouTube
March 12, 2026
Digital Payment Regulations Africa: What Startups Must Know Now
March 12, 2026
WhatsApp Advanced Features You Are Probably Missing
March 11, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Absa and Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay, a Next‑Generation Solution for Fast, Affordable Global Remittances
March 10, 2026
PawaPay Partners with Deriv to Support Mobile Money Deposits Across African Markets
March 4, 2026
Vantage Capital Leads R635m Investment into SolarAfrica Energy
March 2, 2026
Symbiotics Invests $5.5 in Fido Ghana to Boost AI-Powered Financial Inclusion
March 2, 2026
How Bitnob is Reshaping Enterprise Payments in Africa: Insights from Africa Tech Summit Nairobi
February 18, 2026
Why Digital Identity is Becoming Africa’s Most Critical Tech Infrastructure
February 16, 2026
Delta40 Completes $20M Capital Raise to Build, Invest in & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa
February 12, 2026
TechArena
Old Mutual’s Thrive App is Redefining Financial Wellness Through Technology
March 17, 2026
M-Pesa Rolls Out Tap-to-Pay in Tanzania Allowing Contactless Payments via Smartphones
March 17, 2026
Old Mutual Reports KES 856 Million Profit as Digital Growth and Thrive App Drive Momentum
March 17, 2026
First BPO in a Kenyan Digital Hub Launched with AI Assistance at Siaya Digital Summit
March 17, 2026
Wingu Africa Appoints Prasad Acharya as Director of Sales for Tanzania
March 17, 2026
WaveX Becomes First Reseller for LINX Nairobi and Mombasa Internet Exchanges
March 17, 2026
Visa and Bank of Abyssinia Expand Partnership to Boost Digital Payments in Ethiopia
March 16, 2026
NTT DATA Launches NVIDIA-Powered Enterprise AI Factories to Accelerate Production-Scale AI
March 16, 2026
WeeTracker
Spotify’s Pay Gap Leaves Nigerian Artists With Billions In Streams, Peanuts In Pockets
March 17, 2026
Nigeria Launches iDICE Startup Bridge With Grants & USD 100 K Funding For Founders
March 17, 2026
Bad Blood Between Nigeria’s Creator Economy Rivals Spills Onto The Streets
March 16, 2026
Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets To Expand Omnichannel Retail In Algeria
March 16, 2026
Aqua-Spark Closes USD 48 M Africa Aquaculture Fund
March 16, 2026
African E-commerce Payment Gateways with a Fast Setup Process
March 16, 2026
Oil At $120 Should Be A Win For Nigeria — Verto CEO Says It’s Not So Simple
March 12, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Kenya’s Electric Motorbike Surge Is Starting to Run Through Bolt
March 17, 2026
Wingu Africa Appoints Prasad Acharya as Tanzania Sales Director to Drive Regional Expansion
March 17, 2026
How AI Writing And Editing Tools Are Transforming Digital Content Creation
March 17, 2026
M-Pesa Tanzania Launches Africa’s First Mobile Money Tap-to-Pay Feature
March 17, 2026
Hustler Fund Data Is Building a Nationwide Credit Map and Banks Like KCB Are Already Using It
March 17, 2026
IFC Places $25M Bet on Lightrock’s Africa Fund in Nairobi
March 17, 2026
Kenya Tries a Faster Route to Block Pirate Streams Across the Internet
March 17, 2026
Techloy
Google Chrome Removes ‘Save Image as Type’ Extension After Malware Reports — How to Check and Stay Safe
March 17, 2026
SEC Moves to Clarify Crypto Rules With New OTC Proposal
March 17, 2026
How Automated Cash Flow Analytics Help Lenders Make Smarter Decisions
March 17, 2026
Top 5 Courses to Master Claude AI and Become a Claude Architect
March 17, 2026
Sony Rolls Out Upgraded PSSR on PS5 Pro With Support for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and More
March 17, 2026
Nvidia GTC 2026: Everything Jensen Huang Announced at the Keynote
March 17, 2026
OpenSea Pushes Back SEA Token Launch as NFT Market Slows
March 17, 2026
NVIDIA Launches NemoClaw to Add Security and Control to AI Agents
March 17, 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
Alibaba Launches Wukong AI Platform to Strengthen Enterprise Automation
March 17, 2026
Oil Jumps 2% as Iran War Shuts Strait of Hormuz
March 17, 2026
Halcyon Raises $21M Series A for AI Energy Intelligence
March 16, 2026
Great Sky Raises $14M in Seed Funding to Accelerate Growth
March 16, 2026
Ironlight Group Raises $21 Million to Expand Tokenized Securities Infrastructure
March 16, 2026
Chorus Intelligence Secures $20 Million to Accelerate Global Expansion
March 16, 2026
Relevant Gold Secures $15 Million to Expand Wyoming Gold Projects
March 16, 2026
TechCentral
Post Office limps on – for now
March 17, 2026
AI chip boom is pushing up costs for telecoms operators
March 17, 2026
Samsung’s trifold gamble ends in retreat
March 17, 2026
MTN’s Iran problem: can’t stay, can’t leave
March 17, 2026
SA’s cybersecurity triple bind: more threats, less talent, tighter regulation
March 17, 2026
SA banks race to scale AI and cloud as challenger threat intensifies
March 17, 2026
AI won’t kill SaaS – but it will reshape it, software CEOs say
March 17, 2026
Nvidia targets $1-trillion in AI chip sales as inference demand surges
March 17, 2026
When CTEM, AI and a unified attack surface meet
March 17, 2026
Why finance’s new KPI is decision speed
March 17, 2026
Technext
Finding regulatory balance in Nigeria’s blooming content creation space
March 17, 2026
A complete pre-travel checklist for visiting China
March 17, 2026
FairMoney appoints Gbenga Shobo as Chairman, Debo Aderoju as Executive Director
March 17, 2026
Luno launches crypto prediction market in Nigeria to capitalise on evolving trading behaviours
March 17, 2026
Nigus and Elmirate to invest $200 million in Nigeria’s defence tech
March 17, 2026
OPay introduces XtraCova, a new security protection layer for digital payments
March 17, 2026
Vodacom launches M-Pesa tap-to-pay in Tanzania, a boost for Africa’s digital payments
March 17, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
March 12, 2026
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
March 11, 2026
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
March 11, 2026
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
March 11, 2026
3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression
March 10, 2026
How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology
March 10, 2026
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions
March 9, 2026
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
March 4, 2026
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics
February 27, 2026
DEV Community
How I Safely Share Logs, Configs, and Code with AI -Introducing Privatiser.net
March 17, 2026
Claude Code vs Cursor: I use both. Here's how I actually split the work
March 17, 2026
Built mysh — a MySQL connection manager that auto-masks query output (emails, phones, etc.) befor...
March 17, 2026
Running Your Own WordPress Plugin Update Server Using GitHub
March 17, 2026
I'm a frontend dev who never touched SQL or backend. I launched my first SaaS in 5 months targeting Arab merchants.
March 17, 2026
Docker 29 Broke My VPS. Claude Code Found Two Bugs I Didn’t Know Existed.
March 17, 2026
Did dev fix their mobile app finally? I don't have to go through a layer of forems I'm uninterested in anymore!
March 17, 2026
What's in your headphones when you code? 🎧
March 17, 2026
Tired of Losing Google Meet Chats? I Built a Fix
March 17, 2026
OpenAI News
Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
March 16, 2026
Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex
March 11, 2026
Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
March 11, 2026
From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment
March 11, 2026
Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI
March 11, 2026
Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
March 10, 2026
New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT
March 10, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo
March 9, 2026
How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale
March 6, 2026
Codex Security: now in research preview
March 6, 2026
How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing
March 6, 2026
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good
March 5, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.4
March 5, 2026
Google Deep Blog
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
March 9, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
March 3, 2026
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
February 26, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
February 19, 2026
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
February 18, 2026
Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education
February 17, 2026
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
February 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
AWS and NVIDIA deepen strategic collaboration to accelerate AI from pilot to production
March 16, 2026
Agentic AI in the Enterprise Part 2: Guidance by Persona
March 16, 2026
Introducing Disaggregated Inference on AWS powered by llm-d
March 16, 2026
How Workhuman built multi-tenant self-service reporting using Amazon Quick Sight embedded dashboards
March 16, 2026
Build an offline feature store using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and SageMaker Catalog
March 16, 2026
P-EAGLE: Faster LLM inference with Parallel Speculative Decoding in vLLM
March 13, 2026
Databricks
How TetraScience accelerates biopharma with production-ready data and scientific intelligence
March 16, 2026
Talking to the Ground
March 16, 2026
How Delta Sharing Supports ABAC Sharing for Providers and Recipients
March 16, 2026
Develop and deploy Serverless JARs
March 16, 2026
Ship quality enterprise AI agents to business users with Agent Bricks and Databricks Apps
March 16, 2026
GCI Drives Value for Their Customers and Their Business with Databricks
March 16, 2026
Breaking the Microbatch Barrier: The Architecture of Apache Spark Real-Time Mode
March 16, 2026
Serverless Workspaces in Azure Databricks is now Generally Available
March 13, 2026
AI Governance Is the Strategy: Why Successful AI Initiatives Begins with Control, Not Code
March 12, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Can AI *really* research like us? This new framework puts it to the test.
January 16, 2026
Can an AI *finally* react like a real person during a video call?
January 11, 2026
Model of the Month: chatterbox-turbo
January 7, 2026
Can text *finally* make robots dance exactly how we want them to?
January 3, 2026
Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction?
December 27, 2025
Techmeme
Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
March 17, 2026
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (The Information)
March 17, 2026
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, joining Tencent and Alibaba in racing to capitalize on agentic AI (Bloomberg)
March 17, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
What Boards Should Actually Be Asking About AI in 2026
March 12, 2026
AI Teammates, the Death of SaaS, Capturing Enterprise Intelligence, and Tonight’s D.C. Meetup
March 12, 2026
AI Engineer vs Data Scientist Salary in 2026: Why Production Skills Pay More
March 11, 2026
Managing Human + AI Workflows: The Operating Model Most Teams Are Missing
March 10, 2026
AI Copilots at Work: Practical Tools, Open-Source Options, and Strategy
March 9, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
I Gave Claude Code Complete Autonomous Control Over My Production AWS Infrastructure for 72 Hours —…
March 17, 2026
The 4 Code Generation Capabilities: How AI Became Your Programming Partner
March 17, 2026
AWS Bedrock Agents vs. AgentCore: Which AI Stack Should You Use in Production?
March 17, 2026
Claude Code Section 1: The Foundations — 8 Concepts Every Developer Must Know
March 17, 2026
Day 1 to Production: Observability for AI-Powered Applications
March 17, 2026
aibusiness
Nvidia Devises a More Secure OpenClaw Stack for Enterprises
March 17, 2026
Nvidia Intros Data Factory, Robotics Models in Physical AI Push
March 16, 2026
Meta Spends Another $27B on AI Infrastructure With Nebius
March 16, 2026
AI Innovation vs. Adoption: Why They Are Misaligned
March 16, 2026
New Microsoft AI Agents to Help Modernize Enterprises
March 16, 2026
AI Customer Support Startup Now Valued at $2 billion
March 13, 2026
AI Safety From a Hardware Perspective
March 12, 2026
Ford’s New AI Tool Offers In-Depth Insight Into Its CVs
March 12, 2026
AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion
March 11, 2026
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network
March 11, 2026
Contextual Data is Important for Enterprises' AI Projects
March 10, 2026
Neura Launches Europe's Largest Physical AI Training Center
March 10, 2026
French AI Startup Building World Models Raises $1.03 billion
March 10, 2026
AI News Weekly
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : Future lost in transation - Mar 15th 2026
March 15, 2026
AI News Weekly - The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee - Mar 11th 2026
March 11, 2026
AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026
March 9, 2026
AI News Weekly - GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes - Mar 6th 2026
March 6, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time - Mar 3rd 2026
March 3, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)
July 1, 2025
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
June 17, 2025
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course
May 10, 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 13 March 2026
March 13, 2026
Weekly Review 6 March 2026
March 6, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2026
March 1, 2026
Weekly Review 27 February 2026
February 27, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2026
February 25, 2026
Weekly Review 20 February 2026
February 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2026
February 17, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2026
February 16, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2026
February 15, 2026
Weekly Review 13 February 2026
February 13, 2026
MarkTechPost
Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models
March 17, 2026
How to Build High-Performance GPU-Accelerated Simulations and Differentiable Physics Workflows Using NVIDIA Warp Kernels
March 17, 2026
Mistral AI Releases Mistral Small 4: A 119B-Parameter MoE Model that Unifies Instruct, Reasoning, and Multimodal Workloads
March 16, 2026
Moonshot AI Releases 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 to Replace Fixed Residual Mixing with Depth-Wise Attention for Better Scaling in Transformers
March 16, 2026
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