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Noah and Payd Partner to Provide Stablecoin-Based Salary Payments for African Digital Workers
February 13, 2026
Jesutomiwa Salam Was Shaped by Scarcity but Now Builds AI Systems That Solve the Same Challenges
February 13, 2026
Electric Motorcycle Company Spiro Secures $7M Debt Financing from Nithio
February 13, 2026
IFC Commits Up to $8M to Aruwa Capital’s Second Fund Targeting West African SMEs
February 13, 2026
Delta40 Raises $20 Million to Expand Venture Studio–Led Startup Financing Across Africa
February 11, 2026
DR Congo Signs AI-Powered Geological Mapping Deal With US Investment Firm
February 11, 2026
Prop Trading Career in Nigeria: Market Reality, Income Potential, and Long-Term Outlook
February 9, 2026
Africa Must Rewire US$29.5 Trillion Mineral Endowment Around Industry, Infrastructure and Demand, Africa Finance Corporation Study Say
February 9, 2026
Wave, Visa and Ecobank Senegal launch virtual card to expand online payments
February 9, 2026
Amid the AI boom, Ijeoma Eti Is Solving the Harder Problem Everyone Is Ignoring: Infrastructure Trust, Security, and Compliance
February 9, 2026
TechCabal
Top phones to surprise your partner this Valentine’s Day
February 13, 2026
From love to loss: Top Valentine’s Day online scams and how to avoid them
February 13, 2026
Kenya’s WapiPay targets billions in diaspora cash to unlock credit for households
February 13, 2026
With SmartCash reboot, Airtel tries again to crack Nigeria’s mobile money market
February 13, 2026
Why your Android phone is hanging and how to fix it
February 13, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – inDrive’s new side hustle
February 13, 2026
Quick Fire 🔥 with John Ohio
February 13, 2026
Payd taps Noah for stablecoin-powered payments for African freelancers
February 12, 2026
Valentine’s Day 2026: 8 digital safety tips to avoid online scams
February 12, 2026
Africa’s trade ambitions hinge on fixing its payment rails, says Fincra CEO
February 12, 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
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
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
African Business Technology News
RS Group–SolarAid Collaboration Targets Safer Solar Access to 150,000 People Across Africa
February 13, 2026
The Role of Visual Storytelling in Driving Tech Innovation Adoption Across Markets
February 13, 2026
MTN SA Marks 300 Million Subscriber Milestone
February 13, 2026
Check Point Warns of 44% Surge in Valentine’s Day Phishing Ahead of 14 February
February 13, 2026
Kaspersky Warns Against ‘Valentine’s Gift’ Card Scams
February 13, 2026
Cybersecurity Company Appoints Head of Channel for Africa
February 12, 2026
inDrive Launches New In-App Ad Platform in South Africa
February 12, 2026
2 Leadership Appointments Strengthen Altron’s Transformative Growth strategy
February 12, 2026
How SaaS supply chains became cybersecurity’s new weak link
February 11, 2026
Sun King Launches EZ 1 Smartphone in Kenya
February 11, 2026
TechCity
No-Code Tech Summit 3.0 is coming to the mainland with $1000 up for grabs
February 13, 2026
Why Nigeria’s Rural Poor Can’t Access Digital Public Infrastructure
February 13, 2026
Discord to Launch Global Age Verification and ‘Teen-by-Default’ Settings
February 13, 2026
OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Deep Research with GPT-5.2
February 13, 2026
Comparison Of Smartwatches Under 50k Naira: Top Budget Picks
February 13, 2026
Inaugural Ai Everything MEA Egypt Opens with Sovereign AI and Global Intelligence Infrastructure at the Forefront
February 12, 2026
The Cost of Invisibility: How African SMEs Lose Revenue Online
February 12, 2026
Vincent Mabaso appointed Head of Channel – Africa, Check Point Software Technologies
February 12, 2026
Love Is in the Air — and So Are Scammers: Valentine’s Day 2026 Threats to Watch For
February 12, 2026
Latest African Tech Startup Funding Rounds: 2026 Trends
February 12, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
Delta40 Completes $20M Capital Raise to Build, Invest in & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa
February 12, 2026
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
TechArena
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Joins Absa as Personal & Private Banking CEO in Major Post–M-PESA Move
February 13, 2026
Westcon-Comstor Brings Meter’s Networking-as-a-Service to EMEA
February 13, 2026
Co-op Bank Powers World Vision’s Shift to Secure Online Donations as Global Aid Tightens
February 13, 2026
Agridex and Tradeflow Partner to Channel Institutional Capital into Kenya’s SME and Agriculture Trade
February 12, 2026
KCB and Visa Roll Out Business Credit Card for Kenyan SMEs
February 12, 2026
Konza Technopolis Joins Global ‘7 Wonders of Future Cities’ Initiative
February 12, 2026
LG Introduces Locally Adaptive AI Smart Home Solutions for Africa at InnoFest 2026 MEA
February 12, 2026
LG Debuts LG ThinQ Pro for B2B Customers at KBIS 2026
February 11, 2026
WeeTracker
Nigeria’s New Tax Law Is Forcing Remote Workers To Get Clever (Or Pay Dearly)
February 13, 2026
Jumia Shrinks And Rethinks In Slow March Towards Elusive Profit
February 12, 2026
Beltone Completes USD 235 M Baobab Group Acquisition In Financial Services Push
February 12, 2026
Aruwa Capital Secures Up To USD 8 M IFC Commitment For Fund II To Back Startups
February 12, 2026
Spiro Secures USD 7 M Loan To Scale Electric Motorcycles In Africa
February 12, 2026
Kenya’s Govt Is Quietly Waging War With Google Over Content It Wants Gone
February 12, 2026
Delta40 Raises USD 20 M To Build & Support Innovative Ventures Across Africa
February 12, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Konza Listed in the Global 7 Wonders of Future Cities Initiative
February 13, 2026
KCB Bank and Visa Launch New Business Credit Card to Empower Kenyan SMEs
February 13, 2026
Odibets Raises the Bar With Enhanced Aviator Missions and Competitive Challenges
February 12, 2026
Africa Built Digital Payments. Crossing Borders Still Feels Hard
February 12, 2026
Fragmented Regulation Keeps African Money Moving Slowly
February 12, 2026
Kenya Sets April 30 Starlink ID Verification Deadline
February 12, 2026
African Startups Adjust to the Discipline That Comes With Japanese Investment
February 12, 2026
Techloy
North Korea-Linked Hackers Used Google’s Gemini for Cyber-Espionage, Report Says
February 13, 2026
👨🏾💼 The Return to #FounderMode
February 13, 2026
The Rise of Health-Based Lawsuits in the Digital Age
February 13, 2026
The 10 Best Episodes of The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett Podcast
February 13, 2026
Who’s Winning the Crypto Race? Asia and America Clash at Consensus Hong Kong 2026
February 13, 2026
The Benefits of Using an ID Scanner for Bars and Nightclubs
February 13, 2026
8 Countries Offering Fast Long-Term Residency Permits for Tech Professionals
February 13, 2026
Youth Mobility Visa Approvals in the UK Decline 11% as Global AI Talent Race Heats Up
February 13, 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
Didero Raises $30M to Reinvent Procurement With AI
February 13, 2026
Inference Research Secures $20M for AI Quant Trading
February 13, 2026
Real-Time Settlements: When Money Starts Moving Like a Text Message
February 13, 2026
Uptiq Raises $25M to Add AI Agents to Bank Workflows
February 13, 2026
10 Best Crypto Exchanges in India February 2026
February 12, 2026
MEXC vs Bybit: Trading Fees, Tools, Apps Comparison Feb 2026
February 12, 2026
Binance Review Feb 2026: Trading, Fees, App & More Explained
February 12, 2026
TechCentral
Cell C delivers maiden results with growth momentum, financial flexibility
February 13, 2026
MVNO business shines in Cell C’s first post-listing results
February 13, 2026
Start-up king joins Paratus Rwanda
February 13, 2026
Ramaphosa presses ahead with Eskom break-up
February 13, 2026
Cell C cleans up its balance sheet but faces tough trading reality
February 13, 2026
The key technology takeaways from Ramaphosa’s 2026 Sona
February 13, 2026
Toyota SA CEO: NEV inaction will cost South Africa its motoring industry
February 12, 2026
Russia bans WhatsApp
February 12, 2026
Censorship-resistant internet from space
February 12, 2026
Chip shortage hits PCs as AI swallows the world’s memory supply
February 12, 2026
Technext
Maroc Telecom records $760 million net profit in 2025
February 13, 2026
Ellington Bank launches into the Nigerian Market; set to redefine the world of digital banking
February 13, 2026
MTN, Airtel, Glo others must now inform subscribers of data breach within 48 hrs
February 13, 2026
What do your phone signal bars mean? A simple explanation
February 13, 2026
10 Nigerian female tech founders to watch in 2026
February 13, 2026
Why Zambia’s rate cut matters, Starlink wants face-to-face checks, other tech stories
February 13, 2026
“Tax ID requirement is for corporate customers only”- Ikeja Electric clarifies
February 12, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty
February 12, 2026
Accelerating science with AI and simulations
February 12, 2026
Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat
February 11, 2026
AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways
February 10, 2026
3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
February 10, 2026
Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
February 9, 2026
“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio
February 6, 2026
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
DEV Community
SwiftUI Idempotency & Duplicate Prevention (Correctness in Distributed Systems)
February 13, 2026
AI Voice Agents for Estate Agents in Ireland: Never Miss a Property Enquiry Again
February 13, 2026
GDE Article Publishing Options
February 13, 2026
Cost-Sentry: Optimizing AWS Spend with AI-Driven FinOps Auditing
February 13, 2026
JavaScript Execution Context: What Actually Happens When You Hit "Run"?
February 13, 2026
AI in Brazilian Healthcare: How Small Tech Teams Are Solving Problems Big Pharma Can't
February 13, 2026
Page Structure: From Logical Trees to Raw Bytes
February 13, 2026
Stop Making Users Wait with APEX_AUTOMATION
February 13, 2026
CodeCraft IDE: An Open Source Platform for Interpretation, Conversion and Modernization of Legacy Systems in Informix 4GL
February 13, 2026
OpenAI News
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT
February 13, 2026
Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora
February 13, 2026
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
February 12, 2026
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
February 11, 2026
Bringing ChatGPT to GenAI.mil
February 9, 2026
Testing ads in ChatGPT
February 9, 2026
Making AI work for everyone, everywhere: our approach to localization
February 6, 2026
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
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
February 5, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex System Card
February 5, 2026
Navigating health questions with ChatGPT
February 5, 2026
Google Deep Blog
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
February 12, 2026
Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think
February 9, 2026
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
Artificial Intelligence
AI meets HR: Transforming talent acquisition with Amazon Bedrock
February 12, 2026
Build long-running MCP servers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Strands Agents integration
February 12, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B MoE model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
February 11, 2026
Mastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guide
February 11, 2026
Swann provides Generative AI to millions of IoT Devices using Amazon Bedrock
February 11, 2026
How LinqAlpha assesses investment theses using Devil’s Advocate on Amazon Bedrock
February 11, 2026
Databricks
Getting the Full Picture: Unifying Databricks and Cloud Infrastructure Costs
February 12, 2026
Domain Intelligence Wins: What “High-Quality” Actually Means in Production AI
February 12, 2026
AI/BI Genie, Foundational Model API, and Databricks Assistant Now Generally Available in AWS GovCloud
February 12, 2026
The Collaboration Advantage: How Modern Retailers and CPG Brands Win Together
February 12, 2026
What’s New in AI/BI - February 2026 Roundup
February 11, 2026
Building What’s Next. Together. Introducing the Brickbuilder Partner Network for the Agentic AI Era
February 11, 2026
Structured vs unstructured data
February 11, 2026
How AI Is Transforming Data Analytics
February 11, 2026
Modernize your Data Engineering Platform with Lakeflow on Azure Databricks
February 10, 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
Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
February 13, 2026
PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become "undercorns," startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold (Dan Primack/Axios)
February 13, 2026
The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
February 13, 2026
aibusiness
OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Shows What’s Possible with Cerebras
February 13, 2026
New Waymo Robotaxi now Running Fully Autonomously on US Roads
February 13, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30B, Bringing its Valuation to $380B
February 13, 2026
Meet Latam-GPT, the new Open Source AI Model for Latin America
February 12, 2026
ElevenLabs Insures Agents, Targeting Enterprises' Fears
February 12, 2026
Mistral Cites Euro Vision With $1.4B for Swedish AI Data Center
February 11, 2026
Alibaba unveils RynnBrain AI model to power robots
February 11, 2026
AI Startup Runway Raises $315M, Pivots to World Models
February 10, 2026
EU Warns Meta not to Block Rival AI Bots From WhatsApp
February 10, 2026
Mistral Drops new Speech-to-Text AI Models
February 10, 2026
Startup Introduces 'Large Tabular Model' for Spreadsheet Data
February 9, 2026
AI Lawsuits in 2026: Settlements, Licensing Deals, Litigation
February 9, 2026
OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers
February 6, 2026
AI News Weekly
AI News Weekly - Issue #465: the DOOM edition : 5 ways AI could destroy everything - Feb 12th 2026
February 12, 2026
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
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
Weekly Review 13 February 2026
February 13, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026
February 12, 2026
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
MarkTechPost
Kyutai Releases Hibiki-Zero: A3B Parameter Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation Model Using GRPO Reinforcement Learning Without Any Word-Level Aligned Data
February 13, 2026
Google DeepMind Introduces Aletheia: The AI Agent Moving from Math Competitions to Fully Autonomous Professional Research Discoveries
February 13, 2026
How to Align Large Language Models with Human Preferences Using Direct Preference Optimization, QLoRA, and Ultra-Feedback
February 13, 2026
OpenAI Releases a Research Preview of GPT‑5.3-Codex-Spark: A 15x Faster AI Coding Model Delivering Over 1000 Tokens Per Second on Cerebras Hardware
February 12, 2026
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