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Tech In Africa

Rwanda Expands with Zipline to Become First Country in the World with Nationwide Autonomous Delivery Including Africa’s First Urban Drone Delivery Network February 5, 2026
From Figma to SheCode Africa: How Mfonobong Umondia Is Building a Mentorship Pipeline for Aspiring Community Managers February 4, 2026
South Africa Joins Afreximbank, announces US$8bn Country Programme February 4, 2026
LekeeLekee, Nigeria’s Indigenous Social Media Platform, Pioneers Africa’s Digital Sovereignty February 4, 2026
WAXAL: Google and African Institutions Unite to Empower Indigenous Languages in AI February 4, 2026
Qualcomm Unveils Make in Africa Programme to Empower African Startups February 4, 2026
Africa’s Tech Sector Surges as Japan and Gulf Investors Lead $180 Billion Influx February 4, 2026
Yakeey Raises $15 Million to Revolutionize Morocco’s Real Estate Market February 4, 2026
Digital Twins: The 2026 Shift to 3D Player Avatars in Professional Football February 4, 2026
Liberia’s Surna Technologies Gains Global Recognition for Advancing Sovereign AI February 4, 2026

TechCabal

After KOKO’s shutdown, what happens to its 1.5 million customers? February 6, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – MTN eyes IHS takeover February 6, 2026
US-backed Zipline partners with Rwanda for drone delivery of medicines February 5, 2026
eTranzact beats Q4 revenue forecast but misses 2025 profit target February 5, 2026
South Africa’s Lesaka hits first profit since 2022 despite merchant slowdown February 5, 2026
For South Africa’s auto tech sector, AGOA’s extension is a lifeline February 5, 2026
This Abuja-based studio sees AI as Africa’s next story shift February 5, 2026
Infrastructure, not influence, defines creator earnings in Africa February 5, 2026
Cape Town’s AI traffic cameras showed promise. The law will decide February 5, 2026
Fintechs ask CBN for growth fund, regulator says it can only play matchmaker February 5, 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

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
Bridging the Digital Gap: How Wikipedia Next 25 Years Will Depend on the Global South January 16, 2026
The BAKE Awards 2026: Digital Storytelling’s Trillion-Shilling Moment January 14, 2026
A New Gas-Powered Commute: Proto and OLA Energy Bet on LPG in Kenya January 14, 2026
OPPO’s Reno15 Series: The “Sponge” Strategy for Smartphone Longevity January 14, 2026
The Math of the Win: How Betika “Must Be Won” Jackpot Ends the Rollover Era December 23, 2025
As Festive Season Arrives, Digital Fraud Surge December 23, 2025

African Business Technology News

Rethinking Infrastructure: Why Dell Private Cloud Outperforms HCI February 6, 2026
Mastercard Welcomes the 2026 YES Cohort tackling Youth Unemployment February 5, 2026
South Africa Joins Afreximbank, Announces US$8bn Country Programme February 5, 2026
Binance Pay Brings Crypto Payments to 650,000 SA Merchants February 5, 2026
Ethio telecom, Djibouti Telecom & Sudatel Sign Landmark Fiber Connectivity Agreement February 5, 2026
”Phishing & Social Engineering are the most Significant Risks for South African organizations” February 4, 2026
Superbalist Adopts Generative Engine Optimization to Future-Proof E-commerce February 4, 2026
How to Use AI to Solve South Africa’s Biggest Challenges February 4, 2026
Iress Appoints Dominic Rey to Lead Wealth Management in South Africa February 4, 2026
Uber Eats & Gauteng Govt Partnership Delivers Record Growth February 4, 2026

TechCity

Bloomwit Releases 2026 Visibility Report for African SMEs February 5, 2026
Egypt to Host the Region’s First Major AI Summit Under Patronage of President El-Sisi February 2, 2026
Mobile performance in Nigeria: a significant improvement driven by 4G February 2, 2026
Moniepoint Disburses ₦1 Trillion in Loans to 70,000 Nigerian Businesses January 31, 2026
Microsoft Tests ‘Command Palette Dock’: A macOS-Style Top Bar for Windows 11 January 31, 2026
African Corporate Travel AI Startup TripDesk Hits $2.3M Revenue 4 Months After Launch January 30, 2026
NISSAN MAGNITE MAKES ITS TUNISIA DEBUT, REDEFINING THE COMPACT SUV SEGMENT January 30, 2026
How to Check Internet Speed January 29, 2026
AfricAI Secures Exclusive Continental Rights to Deploy Advanced Robotics Platforms Across Africa in Landmark Deal with Micropolis Robotics January 29, 2026
The Gender Gap in Rural Niger State’s Digital Identity January 28, 2026

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

Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 27, 2026
Flutterwave Partners with Turnkey to Power Secure Stablecoin Wallets for Customers January 27, 2026
Fincra Announced as Headline Supporter of Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2026 to Drive Dialogue on Building the Rails for an Integrated Africa January 12, 2026
Levene Energy Secures $64M Facility from Afreximbank to Acquire Strategic Stake in Axxela Limited January 12, 2026
Luno Partners with AltSchool Africa to Launch Crypto Education Programme for 15,000 Nigerians January 5, 2026
Cassava Technologies and Gebeya Inc. Partner to Launch Africa’s First AI Powered Creator Platform December 17, 2025
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Opens Applications for 2026 Investment Showcase December 2, 2025

TechArena

Absa, Microsoft and Women in Tech Expand ElevateHer AI Programme Across Nine African Markets February 6, 2026
LG Positions Africa as Key Growth Frontier for AI-Powered Smart Home Expansion at InnoFest 2026 MEA February 6, 2026
Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as Chief Product & Technology Officer February 6, 2026
Deepfake Scams and AI-Generated Malware Are Now Top Cyber Risks for Kenya, ESET Warns February 5, 2026
Google Opens Applications for 10th Cohort of Startups Accelerator Africa February 5, 2026
LG Electronics Sets Strategic Direction to Drive Growth, Innovation and Profitability February 5, 2026
Old Mutual Partners with Paystack to Strengthen Digital Payments Across Its Insurance and Investment Platforms February 4, 2026
The Smartphone as an AI Platform: What On-Device AI Really Means for Africa February 4, 2026

WeeTracker

MTN Makes Major U-Turn As It Bids To Buy Back Towers It Sold Off For Years February 5, 2026
Rwanda Expands Drone Delivery Nationwide, Now Includes Groceries February 5, 2026
Lula Raises USD 21 M To Expand SME Lending In South Africa February 4, 2026
The USD 5 B Invisible Lending Machine That Is Rwanda’s Oldest Fintech February 4, 2026
LemFi Launches Remittance Services in Australia as Global Expansion Continues February 4, 2026
TikTok’s Kenyan Business Grows, But Creators Question Their Share Of The Pie February 4, 2026
GoCab Raises USD 45 M To Scale ‘Ethical’ Mobility Financing In Africa February 3, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Nigeria Stops Chasing the Fintech Moment and Starts Trying to Define It February 6, 2026
Small Instalments, Bigger Consequences In Kenya’s Smartphone Economy February 6, 2026
Assembly Plants Come Online as the Electric Car Question Remains Unsettled February 6, 2026
Bolt Now Represents 24% of Kenya’s Electric Vehicle Fleet February 6, 2026
Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as CPTO to Drive Product-Led Scale February 6, 2026
LG Positions Africa as Key Growth Frontier for AI-Powered Smart Home Expansion February 6, 2026
Kenya’s Banking Order Changed While Absa Stayed Profitable, and Now It Has to Catch Up February 5, 2026

Techloy

Ghana and Zambia Announce Visa Waiver Agreement for Visa-Free Travel February 6, 2026
Canva Now Lets You Create and Edit Designs Directly Inside ChatGPT February 6, 2026
Week 6's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Africa & the Middle East, Led by Kitopi, as FoodTech Drew the Biggest Check February 6, 2026
Tesla Model Y vs BYD Sealion 7 February 6, 2026
Asia’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 6, Led by LimX Dynamics, With Big Bets on Robotics and DeepTech February 6, 2026
LatAm’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Week 6, Led by Tapi, With Big Bets on Fintech Infrastructure February 6, 2026
The Missing Layer Between Technology and Business Outcomes February 5, 2026
All the Major Gaming Announcements from the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 2026 February 5, 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

Morpho (MORPHO) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 February 4, 2026
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270M To Scale Autonomous Construction February 4, 2026
Opinion Labs Raises $20M For Onchain Prediction Expansion February 4, 2026
TRM Labs Raises $70 Million To Expand Blockchain Crime Intelligence February 4, 2026
Responsible Gambling Technology: AI That Detects Problem Behavior Before It Escalates February 4, 2026
Positron Raises $230 Million To Expand AI Memory Chips February 4, 2026
Ares Interactive Raises $70M Series A for New Franchises February 4, 2026

TechCentral

Every electric car you can buy in South Africa in early 2026, ranked by price February 6, 2026
From stocks to crypto, markets reel as AI doubts grow February 6, 2026
South Africa deepens China ties as US trade tensions escalate February 6, 2026
The skills gap is a thinking gap: why SA employers can’t find problem solvers February 6, 2026
Big changes at Lesaka as Bank Zero deal nears completion February 6, 2026
South Africa’s stablecoin silence is becoming a policy failure February 6, 2026
Makro bets on refurbished tech as consumers hunt value February 6, 2026
Bitcoin faces another reckoning February 6, 2026
MTN Group in talks to buy out IHS Towers February 5, 2026
Taxi industry bets on digital payments to modernise operations February 5, 2026

Technext

NCC, NDPC sign MoU to strengthen data protection and privacy in telecoms February 6, 2026
238 network outages in January 2026 raises concerns about reliable telco service February 6, 2026
Bitcoin fell off badly February 6, 2026
Deepfake: why Nigeria needs a ‘Microsoft Partnership’ before the 2027 elections February 6, 2026
Digital payment fraud drops by 51% as Nigerian fintechs fight with AI – CBN report February 6, 2026
Paga promises to address unresolved PayPal issues February 5, 2026
Optasia pushes responsible AI in Nigeria as privacy takes centre stage at National Privacy Week 2026 February 5, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models February 5, 2026
Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing February 4, 2026
Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows February 4, 2026
3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs February 4, 2026
Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship February 3, 2026
Counter intelligence February 3, 2026
SMART launches new Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care research group February 3, 2026
How generative AI can help scientists synthesize complex materials February 2, 2026
The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence January 30, 2026

DEV Community

The Armored AI Agent You Can Actually Trust February 6, 2026
Teaching Claude Code Your Standards February 6, 2026
Building a Resilience Engine in Python: Internals of LimitPal (Part 2) February 6, 2026
When Are Custom Hooks an Advantage in React, and When Do They Become a Liability? February 6, 2026
Augmented Coding Patterns: The Developer's Playbook for Working With AI February 6, 2026
Boosting LCP: A Guide to fetchpriority="high" February 6, 2026
The Singleton Design Pattern: A Complete Guide for Developers February 6, 2026
1.5M Tokens Exposed: How Moltbook’s 🦀 AI Social Network Tripped on Security February 6, 2026
Optimizing CI/CD as the development team grows February 6, 2026

OpenAI News

GPT-5 lowers the cost of cell-free protein synthesis February 5, 2026
Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber February 5, 2026
Introducing OpenAI Frontier February 5, 2026
Navigating health questions with ChatGPT February 5, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex System Card February 5, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex February 5, 2026
Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server February 4, 2026
VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability February 4, 2026
The Sora feed philosophy February 3, 2026
Snowflake and OpenAI partner to bring frontier intelligence to enterprise data February 2, 2026
Introducing the Codex app February 2, 2026
Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent January 29, 2026
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT January 29, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds January 29, 2026
D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions January 16, 2026
Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control January 13, 2026
Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 December 23, 2025
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed December 17, 2025
Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior December 16, 2025
Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice experiences December 12, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

How Associa transforms document classification with the GenAI IDP Accelerator and Amazon Bedrock February 5, 2026
A practical guide to Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings February 5, 2026
Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references February 4, 2026
Democratizing business intelligence: BGL’s journey with Claude Agent SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 3, 2026
Use Amazon Quick Suite custom action connectors to upload text files to Google Drive using OpenAPI specification February 3, 2026
AI agents in enterprises: Best practices with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore February 3, 2026

Databricks

Tutorial: 3 Free Databricks Analytics Projects You Can Do In An Afternoon February 5, 2026
From Data to Dialogue: A Best Practices Guide for Building High-Performing Genie Spaces February 5, 2026
The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 2) February 4, 2026
The Top 10 Best Practices for AI/BI Dashboards Performance Optimization (Part 1) February 4, 2026
Unlocking the Future of Energy with Smart Meter Innovation February 4, 2026
Data Quality Monitoring at scale with Agentic AI February 4, 2026
How enterprises are preparing for agentic AI February 4, 2026
Accelerating Drug Discovery: From FASTA Files to GenAI Insights on Databricks February 4, 2026
Delta Lake Explained: Boost Data Reliability in Cloud Storage February 3, 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

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

The ODSC AI East Schedule Preview, Agentic AI Workflows, 2026 AI Trends, Agent Costs, and Coding… February 5, 2026
From Graphs to Generative AI: Building Context That Pays — Part 1 January 30, 2026
AI in Clinical Research: From Pilot Studies to Real-World Scale January 30, 2026
Taking Back the Math: How Everyday Numbers Can Empower Us in an Algorithmic World January 29, 2026
AI Agents for Business Leaders: Benefits, Risks, and What to Ask Before Deploying January 29, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

OpenAI Shipped Eight Amazing Things in 72 hours February 6, 2026
Beyond AI Tools: How I Architect Systems That Actually Run the Business February 6, 2026
OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex: The AI That Learned to Code Itself February 6, 2026
Building State-of-the-Art Vision-Enabled RAG Pipelines (2026) February 6, 2026
Word Embeddings in NLP: From Bag-of-Words to Transformers (Part 1) February 6, 2026

aibusiness

Robotaxi Leader Waymo Confirms $16B Funding Round February 5, 2026
Opinion Divided on Moltbook Social Network for AI Agents February 4, 2026
Panic Rises in Legal Industry Due to Anthropic’s AI Plugins February 4, 2026
Nvidia, Dassault Systèmes to Build Industrial AI Platform February 4, 2026
Claude Plots a Route for NASA Rover on Mars February 3, 2026
Change is Coming to xAI After Musk Merges it with SpaceX February 3, 2026
Snowflake Deal Latest Move into Enterprise Market by OpenAI February 3, 2026
Combatting Cultural Bias in the Translation of AI Models February 2, 2026
New York Robotics Consortium Launches with 160 Startups February 2, 2026
Process Mining Matures in the Age of Generative AI February 2, 2026
ServiceNow and Anthropic Disclose AI Deal January 30, 2026
Apple Acquires Israeli Startup Q.AI January 30, 2026
Google DeepMind Introduces Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash January 29, 2026

AI News Weekly

AI News Weekly - Issue #464: 5 reasons will will not get AGI soon - Feb 5th 2026 February 5, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #463: All about The "Moltbook" Phenomenon - Feb 2nd 2026 February 2, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI? - Jan 29th 2026 January 29, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #461: - Jan 21st 2026 January 21, 2026
AI News Weekly - Issue #460: - Jan 20th 2026 January 20, 2026

Ahead of AI

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 State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning April 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

Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2026 February 5, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2025 February 4, 2026
Weekly Review 30 January 2026 January 30, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2026 January 29, 2026
Weekly Review 23 January 2026 January 23, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2026 January 21, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2026 January 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026 January 19, 2026
Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence 2025 January 18, 2026

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