Tech In Africa
- NectarFi Closes $170K Pre-Seed to Build a Full-Stack On-Chain Financial Life for Crypto Users April 15, 2026
- Endeavor South Africa Closes Harvest Fund III at R230 Million to Back the Next Wave of Scale-Ups April 15, 2026
- South Africa’s Refiant AI Raises $5 Million to Make Artificial Intelligence Leaner and Less Energy-Hungry April 15, 2026
- Visa’s Africa Fintech Accelerator Crosses 100-Startup Milestone and Opens Sixth Cohort April 15, 2026
- Belmoney and RwandaCash Partner to Unlock Pan-European Remittances to Rwanda April 14, 2026
- Koto.rw Launches as Rwanda’s First New Car Price Comparison Platform April 13, 2026
- How to Set Up a Secure Online Payment System for Your Website April 10, 2026
- Africa’s Startups Crossed $705 Million in Q1 2026 — and Debt Is Now Driving the Story April 10, 2026
- Visa and Zazu Launch Morocco’s First Fully Digital Business Account April 9, 2026
- Africa Now Has Its First Startup Fund Built Entirely Around Disability Tech April 7, 2026
TechCabal
- What e-invoicing is and why it matters for Nigerian businesses April 16, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya gives credit where it’s due April 16, 2026
- The solar-powered medical kiosks bringing doctors to remote Chadians April 15, 2026
- Three million Nigerians in gig economy, nearly a quarter in ride-hailing, Bolt report says April 15, 2026
- Cellulant hires ex-Xapo Bank executive Anthony Hernandez as COO April 15, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Takealot and wait for delivery April 15, 2026
- Welcome to TechCabal 4.0: Become an Insider April 14, 2026
- Zuri Health expands mobile clinic fleet across high-traffic Nairobi April 14, 2026
- Kenya-based assistive tech accelerator embeds persons with disabilities in product design April 14, 2026
- How two Francophone founders are turning second-hand iPhones into a tech business April 14, 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
- Cross Switch Appoints Nondumiso Siboto as Head of Operations, South Africa April 16, 2026
- TCL Unveils 2026 Product Lineup for South Africa, Bringing Revolutionary SQD-Mini LED TV Technology to Local Consumers April 16, 2026
- Nedbank & Mastercard in Landmark 10-Year Partnership April 15, 2026
- Sony Expands Gaming Gear Range April 15, 2026
- Bayobab CEO Appointed to Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) Board April 15, 2026
- #HISA2026 Returns to Johannesburg—Registration Now Open! April 15, 2026
- SportyTV Acquires Pay Rights for the FIFA World Cup 2026 in South Africa April 14, 2026
- FNB Launches Digital Enablement Program to Accelerate SME Digital Transformation in SA April 14, 2026
- AI is changing the rules of cloud migration April 14, 2026
- Payfast Founder Acquires iVeri April 14, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- 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
- Verto Expands Business Accounts to Enable Seamless Payments from the US to Africa April 9, 2026
- Madica Expands Portfolio With $600K Investment in Three Startups April 9, 2026
TechArena
- Craft Silicon Launches TouristTap Launches in Kenya to Power Cashless Payments for Travelers in Kenya April 15, 2026
- Africa Tech Summit London Returns Marking a 10-Year Milestone April 15, 2026
- Responsible Crypto in Kenya: Moving Beyond Speculation to Sustainable Digital Finance April 15, 2026
- Origin Labs and Intel advance AI skills and innovation across Africa April 15, 2026
- 70% of South Africans Turn to Ride-Hailing for Flexible Earning Opportunities, Bolt’s Gig Economy Report Reveals April 15, 2026
- Applying Fine Dining Principles to Technology Innovation: April 14, 2026
- VALR and Onafriq Deliver Mobile Money Access to Digital Assets for Millions Across Africa April 14, 2026
- Renew Capital Launches Venture Lab to Back African Startups Building the Future of Finance April 14, 2026
WeeTracker
- The Jobs AI Will Replace First In Africa & The Ones It Can’t Touch (For Now) April 15, 2026
- Kenya’s Telecom King Is Losing Its Grip As Customers Take To Rival April 14, 2026
- SA’s Refiant AI Raises USD 5 M Seed To Build Energy-Efficient AI Models April 14, 2026
- WhatsApp ‘Stole’ USD 635 M From South African Telcos’ Mobile Revenue April 14, 2026
- Musk’s Vulgar Outburst Escalates Tensions In Starlink Standoff In South Africa April 13, 2026
- Morocco’s ZSystems Raises USD 1.65 M Seed To Digitise Retail Supply Chain April 13, 2026
- Endeavor South Africa Closes USD 13.6 M Harvest Fund III For Late-Stage Tech April 13, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Africa’s Forex Market in 2026: Key Trends Every Trader Should Watch April 16, 2026
- BasiGo Starts Assembling Electric Vans(Ma3e) in Kenya With AVA April 16, 2026
- Kenya’s 5G User Base Grows Fast as Data Use Climbs April 16, 2026
- Ride-Hailing Fares Drift Upward as Drivers Factor in Higher Fuel Costs April 16, 2026
- eTIMS Uptake Grows as Kenya Pushes to Bring More Taxpayers Into the Net April 16, 2026
- Kenya Backs TouristTap to Link Visa, Mastercard and M-Pesa Payments April 16, 2026
- Eldoret Hospital Ordered to Pay KSh 525,000 Over Patient Data Breach April 16, 2026
Techloy
- HBO Max Enters India Through JioHotstar, Skipping Standalone Launch April 16, 2026
- India’s Emergent Takes on Open-Source Rival OpenClaw With Its Paid AI Agent Wingman April 16, 2026
- What A Diminished Value Appraisal Service Includes For Claim Support April 16, 2026
- 7 Best AI Product Photography Generators for E-commerce in 2026 April 16, 2026
- Google’s New AI Desktop Search App Brings Spotlight-Style Search to Windows April 16, 2026
- Redmi A7 Pro 5G goes on sale in India with 6,300mAh battery and 4 years of Android updates April 15, 2026
- Spotify Wants to Sell You the Book You’re Listening to April 15, 2026
- OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber for Defensive Cybersecurity: What We Know So Far April 15, 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
- MEXC Review April 2026: Is It A Safe Crypto Exchange? April 15, 2026
- Glydways Raises $170M to Scale Transit Technology April 15, 2026
- Contoro Robotics Joins Coupang’s $84M AI Investment April 15, 2026
- What Is CEX in Crypto? Guide to Centralized Exchanges April 15, 2026
- What Is Cryptocurrency Mining & How Does It Work? April 15, 2026
- Turion Raises $75M+ To Scale Space Intelligence Infrastructure April 15, 2026
- AI Crypto and Stock Trading Bots (2026): A Beginner’s Guide April 15, 2026
TechCentral
- Consumers get new weapon against direct marketing spam April 16, 2026
- Gemini gets personal for South African users April 16, 2026
- TrendAI plans Africa expansion April 16, 2026
- Fibre: the backbone of South Africa’s digital health ecosystem April 16, 2026
- South Africa’s AI moment is now – and we risk blowing it April 16, 2026
- Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future April 16, 2026
- Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals April 16, 2026
- Icasa’s infrastructure database plan raises national security alarm April 15, 2026
- BYD shuns price war in South Africa April 15, 2026
- TCS | Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook April 15, 2026
Technext
- Nigerian Fintech Platnova Reaches over 90,000 Users Across 50 Countries at Three-Year Mark April 16, 2026
- Court stops FCCPC from enforcing 2025 digital lending rules April 16, 2026
- 7 women in tech who are inspiring the next generation for growth April 16, 2026
- The POEM framework: How Tomi Davies filters pitch potential in Africa tech funding April 16, 2026
- MTN spent $1.2b with black-owned suppliers in 2025 to meet SA local laws target April 15, 2026
- Snap Inc. is cutting 1,000 jobs to save $500M, focusing on AI to become profitable April 15, 2026
- INVIA secures $1.2M to simplify AI financial platform for SMEs in Egypt April 15, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 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
- Working to advance the nuclear renaissance April 3, 2026
- Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems April 2, 2026
- Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects April 1, 2026
DEV Community
- We ditched worktrees for Claude Code. Here's what we use instead April 16, 2026
- Quando o Banco Não Caiu: Um Incidente de Conexão Que Expôs um Problema de Resiliência na Aplicação April 16, 2026
- On-Device AI Agents vs Cloud AI Agents: Which Path Are You Betting On? April 16, 2026
- Hire Dedicated Laravel Developer: What Actually Works April 16, 2026
- I Built a Site to Help Foreigners Navigate Life in China — As a Local Who Sees the Struggle Every Day April 16, 2026
- "AI Inference Economics: The Unit Economics Framework Startups Actually Use" April 16, 2026
- Less, But Better: Dieter Rams' Design Principles for Platform Engineering in the Agentic AI Era April 16, 2026
- How I built a browser extension that converts at 64% (and kept it under 20KB) April 16, 2026
- Middle Scala Developer Resume Samples That Recruiters Notice April 16, 2026
OpenAI News
- Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all April 16, 2026
- The next evolution of the Agents SDK April 15, 2026
- Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense April 14, 2026
- Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI April 13, 2026
- Creating images with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
- ChatGPT for sales teams April 10, 2026
- Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise April 10, 2026
- Healthcare April 10, 2026
- Applications of AI at OpenAI April 10, 2026
- Financial services April 10, 2026
- ChatGPT for managers April 10, 2026
- ChatGPT for customer success teams April 10, 2026
- Research with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more March 25, 2026
- Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework March 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Create rich, custom tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight April 15, 2026
- Accelerating decode-heavy LLM inference with speculative decoding on AWS Trainium and vLLM April 15, 2026
- Rede Mater Dei de Saúde: Monitoring AI agents in the revenue cycle with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore April 15, 2026
- Navigating the generative AI journey: The Path-to-Value framework from AWS April 14, 2026
- Use-case based deployments on SageMaker JumpStart April 14, 2026
- Best practices to run inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod April 14, 2026
Databricks
- AI Gateway: How to Connect Agents to External MCPs Securely April 15, 2026
- Expanding Agent Governance with Unity AI Gateway April 15, 2026
- Agentic Reasoning in Practice: Making Sense of Structured and Unstructured Data April 14, 2026
- Agent Bricks: The Governed Enterprise Agent Platform April 14, 2026
- 8 AI and data trends shaping financial services in 2026 April 14, 2026
- Building Real-Time Product Search on Databricks April 14, 2026
- Lovable + Databricks: Build Data-Driven Apps at the Speed of Thought April 13, 2026
- Memory Scaling for AI Agents April 10, 2026
- Powering clinical research innovation: How TriNetX uses Databricks to accelerate drug development April 10, 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
- Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) April 16, 2026
- Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back (Clara Hernanz Lizarraga/Bloomberg) April 16, 2026
- TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts (Wall Street Journal) April 16, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Stop Building for the Demo. Start Building for the Decision April 10, 2026
- The Top 10 LLM Training Datasets for 2026 April 9, 2026
- Reasons Why an AI Conference is the Right Idea for Your Career April 8, 2026
- Why Text-Only RAG Falls Short in Healthcare — and How GraphRAG Can Help April 8, 2026
- Free ODSC AI East 2026 Sessions You Can See with an Expo Pass April 7, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- Compounding Knowledge With LLMs. Karpathy’s Wiki Pattern in Action April 16, 2026
- Event-Driven Architecture: An Engineer’s Practical Guide April 16, 2026
- How I Built a Production-Grade Open-Source LLM Pipeline Using Groq and Snowflake April 16, 2026
- Stop Reinventing the Solver Stack April 16, 2026
- The Other 99% April 16, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- 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
- AI Weekly Issue #481: Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed April 9, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #480: Monday Edition : npm compromised by North Korea, Iran targets AI data centers, and nobody wants OpenAI stock April 6, 2026
Ahead of AI
- 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
- LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June) July 1, 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 & 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
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026 April 1, 2026
- Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2026 March 29, 2026
MarkTechPost
- UCSD and Together AI Research Introduces Parcae: A Stable Architecture for Looped Language Models That Achieves the Quality of a Transformer Twice the Size April 16, 2026
- How to Build a Universal Long-Term Memory Layer for AI Agents Using Mem0 and OpenAI April 16, 2026
- A Coding Implementation to Build Multi-Agent AI Systems with SmolAgents Using Code Execution, Tool Calling, and Dynamic Orchestration April 16, 2026
- A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment April 15, 2026
