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Paymentology and Bank Zero Partner to Expand Access to South Africa’s Financial Ecosystem
April 1, 2026
AfDB Backs Breega Africa Seed Fund with €7.5M to Boost Early-Stage Startups
March 31, 2026
Ghana’s Ci-Gaba Fund Hits $35M First Close, Targets $91M for West Africa SME Investments
March 31, 2026
ITIDA, Plug and Play Wrap Aswan Bootcamp as Upper Egypt Startups Secure EGP 200M
March 30, 2026
Tunisian Solo Founder Lands FasterCapital Backing for Arabic-First Causal AI Platform
March 30, 2026
Fundamental Analysis Explained: How Investors Evaluate a Company’s True Value
March 30, 2026
Ethiopia Opens Smart Police Station in Addis Ababa
March 25, 2026
Nigerian Startup Bumpa and Kenyan Startup Flowcart Receive Funding from Jobtech Alliance
March 25, 2026
UK Firm Klipboard Acquires South African Sales Platform Skynamo
March 25, 2026
Fintech Platform littlefish Raises $9.5 Million Series A Funding
March 25, 2026
TechCabal
33 banks raise ₦3.37 trillion from Nigerians as CBN ends recapitalisation
April 1, 2026
TechCabal: Four-point-oh
April 1, 2026
Ghana’s National ID cards can now make payments
April 1, 2026
Cassandra Collins on why taking the “wrong“ jobs is the only way to find your career
April 1, 2026
CBN begins virtual asset anti-money laundering supervision, names Paystack, Flutterwave for pilot
April 1, 2026
CBN gives banks 21 days to grade their cyber defences
April 1, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber money
April 1, 2026
Kenyan AI startup bets on local dialects as proof gap remains
March 31, 2026
How a startup built Nigeria’s digital map in nine months
March 31, 2026
For crypto startups, breaking Kenya’s advertising rules could cost $23,000 in fines
March 31, 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
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
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
African Business Technology News
Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration
April 1, 2026
Kaspersky Warns of a New Phishing Technique
April 1, 2026
Lenovo Announces Global Partnership
April 1, 2026
Ozow Strengthens Strategic Risk Capability with Appointment of Chief Risk & Governance Officer
April 1, 2026
Artificial Intelligence and global partnerships are reshaping the future of insurance
March 27, 2026
Space4Good and RINA Partner on Satellite-Based Verification for Infrastructure and Environment
March 27, 2026
AI Already Transformed Education. What’s Next?
March 27, 2026
Westcon-Comstor expands cybersecurity and networking portfolio with Infoblox in Southern Africa
March 26, 2026
HP Announces New AI-Driven Enhancements to its Workforce Experience Platform (WXP)
March 26, 2026
Standard Bank Responds to Social Media Claims by Dr. Anele Mngadi Hammond
March 26, 2026
TechCity
March 2026 Tech Roundup: What Mattered Most
March 30, 2026
Best Laptops For Remote Work: Top Picks For 2026
March 30, 2026
Building Your Developer Portfolio: A Complete How-To Guide
March 27, 2026
How to Secure Digital Wallets: Smart, Practical Protection
March 27, 2026
Git and GitHub: A Complete Beginner’s Guide
March 26, 2026
AI Tools for Small Businesses That Save Time and Money
March 26, 2026
How to Spot Online Scams
March 25, 2026
AWIT Hosts ‘Give to Gain: Balancing the Scale’ IWD 2026 Convening in Lagos
March 25, 2026
The Digital Must-Haves for Every First-Time Entrepreneur: Domain & Professional Email
March 25, 2026
Latest Fintech Trends In Nigeria: What’s Shaping 2026
March 25, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
IFC Partners with Cashi to Expand Digital Payment Services into Central Africa
April 1, 2026
Madica Releases Guidebook on Fundraise for Early-stage Founders
March 31, 2026
Four Climate Ventures to receive US$273,000 in Follow-on Support from BFA Global and FSD Africa
March 27, 2026
Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC in Africa
March 26, 2026
littlefish Raises $9.5M Series A to Power Merchant Infrastructure Across Africa
March 24, 2026
South Africa’s Happy Pay Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Partech
March 24, 2026
Adenia Hits $180 Million Hard Cap at First Close for Entrepreneurial Fund, Announces First Investment
March 20, 2026
TechArena
Safaricom to Unveil My OneApp, Merging M-PESA and MySafaricom Apps
April 1, 2026
M-PESA Is No Longer Just Payments as Safaricom Positions it as a National Infrastructure
April 1, 2026
Truecaller Hits 500 Million Global Users
April 1, 2026
Madica Launches “Zero to Funded” Guide to Help African Founders Navigate Pre-Seed Fundraising
April 1, 2026
Vertiv Launches CoolPhase Wall to Solve Cooling Challenges in Small IT and Edge Environments
April 1, 2026
Safaricom Decode 4.0 Day 1 Recap: AI Takes Center Stage
March 31, 2026
Safaricom’s Dilip Pal: AI Will Power Kenya’s Next Industrial Leap
March 31, 2026
Samsung Launches Galaxy A57 5G and A37 5G in Kenya, Starting from KES 49,000
March 31, 2026
WeeTracker
AfDB Commits USD 8.5 M To Breega Africa Fund To Back Early-Stage Startups
April 1, 2026
Egypt’s Qualiphi Acquires Career Club To Expand AI Career Platform In GCC
April 1, 2026
Angolan Mobility Startup ANDA Raises USD 1.2 M To Scale Drive-To-Own Model
April 1, 2026
Why A Fintech CEO Isn’t Losing Sleep Over Kenya’s Steep New Licensing Fee
April 1, 2026
Novastar Ventures Closes USD 147 M Fund III To Back African Climate & Impact Startups
April 1, 2026
South Africa’s Gig Economy Becomes A Bargain With AI Skills Shortage Looming
March 31, 2026
ITIDA, Plug and Play Back 61 Startups With USD 3.6 M In Upper Egypt
March 31, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Telkom Kenya Falls Below Regulatory Threshold in Annual Network Quality Assessment
April 1, 2026
Safaricom’s FinTech 2.0 Buildout Pulls Developers Into the Core
April 1, 2026
Daraja 3.0, Agentic AI, and 5G Gaming: What Safaricom’s Decode 4.0 Means for Kenyan Developers
April 1, 2026
A Shift Is Taking Shape in Safaricom’s APIs and AI Ecosystem as AI Moves Into Production
April 1, 2026
LOOP Rolls Out Easter Deals Spanning Samsung’s Latest Flagship, Dining, and Live Events
April 1, 2026
Safaricom My OneApp Combines M-Pesa and Telecom Services Into a Single Platform
April 1, 2026
Infinix Targets Kenya’s Booming Creator Economy with NOTE 60 Pro #CreatePro Campaign
April 1, 2026
Techloy
What Dogecoin’s ‘Corporate Restructuring’ Says About Meme Coins Growing Up
April 1, 2026
I Used Claude to Build My CV and LinkedIn — Here’s What an HR Expert Said
April 1, 2026
A Major US Health Records System Was Breached — Patients Still Don’t Know What Was Exposed
April 1, 2026
Elon Musk to Launch X Money This April — Here’s Everything You Need to Know
April 1, 2026
Nothing Takes On Meta and Apple With AI Smart Glasses Plans
April 1, 2026
American Robotaxi Companies Admit Humans Remotely Drive Cars but Won’t Say How Often
April 1, 2026
Oracle Is Laying Off Workers While Pouring Billions Into AI
April 1, 2026
Why a WordPress LMS Is the Best Choice for Content Creators
April 1, 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
Valar Raises $450M to Power AI With Small Reactors
April 1, 2026
TENEX.AI Raises $250M to Expand Cyber Defense Globally
April 1, 2026
Top Quant Trading Platforms for Automated Crypto Trading and Stock Analysis in 2026
April 1, 2026
Navigating Venture Capital Alaska Startups 2026: Trends and Strategic Investment Insights
April 1, 2026
AI Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: Platform Comparison and Key Features
April 1, 2026
PolicyStreet Raises $21M To Expand Embedded Insurance Across Asia
April 1, 2026
Cross River Bank Raises $50M To Accelerate AI And Crypto Expansion
April 1, 2026
TechCentral
Sars to give every taxpayer a digital identity in sweeping tech overhaul
April 1, 2026
R12.1-billion wasted as government IT projects collapse
April 1, 2026
R99 DStv deal to keep Showmax subscribers from bolting
April 1, 2026
TCS | MTN’s Divyesh Joshi on the strategy behind Pi
April 1, 2026
The biggest untapped EV market on Earth is hiding in plain sight
April 1, 2026
Mining’s problem isn’t output, it’s execution – Workday
April 1, 2026
Paratus launches Starlink-powered connectivity for Africa’s essential services
April 1, 2026
US-listed data centre operator Equinix doubles down on South Africa
April 1, 2026
SA finally has a broadband map – and it reveals where the gaps are
March 31, 2026
Bookmakers want banks to cut off offshore online gambling sites
March 31, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
April 1, 2026
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials
March 30, 2026
Seeing sounds
March 26, 2026
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape
March 26, 2026
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly
March 26, 2026
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
March 25, 2026
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
March 25, 2026
How to create “humble” AI
March 24, 2026
Advancing international trade research and finding community
March 23, 2026
DEV Community
The Fallback That Never Fires
April 1, 2026
5 Open-Source AWS Security CLI Tools Worth Trying in 2026
April 1, 2026
Japan Is Building a 1.4nm AI Chip. No, That's Not a Typo.
April 1, 2026
AI Lies About Your Favorite Restaurant
April 1, 2026
How to give your OpenClaw agent Access To Walmart Data in Less Than 2 Minutes
April 1, 2026
Mixture of Experts
April 1, 2026
From Stream to Database: Processing Market Data with Spring Boot, Redis, and Flyway
April 1, 2026
AI Recommendation Poisoning: When Your Assistant Works Against You
April 1, 2026
Why AI Agent Outputs Need Adversarial Review (and How to Add It in One API Call)
April 1, 2026
OpenAI News
Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager
April 1, 2026
Accelerating the next phase of AI
March 31, 2026
Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia
March 29, 2026
STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company
March 27, 2026
Inside our approach to the Model Spec
March 25, 2026
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program
March 25, 2026
Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens
March 24, 2026
Powering product discovery in ChatGPT
March 24, 2026
Update on the OpenAI Foundation
March 24, 2026
Creating with Sora Safely
March 23, 2026
How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
March 19, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Astral
March 19, 2026
OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first
March 17, 2026
Google Deep Blog
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
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
Artificial Intelligence
Automating competitive price intelligence with Amazon Nova Act
April 1, 2026
Build reliable AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
March 31, 2026
Build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
March 31, 2026
Building an AI powered system for compliance evidence collection
March 31, 2026
Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
March 31, 2026
AWS launches frontier agents for security testing and cloud operations
March 31, 2026
Databricks
Announcing the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge
April 1, 2026
How agentic software development will change databases
March 30, 2026
Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse
March 27, 2026
Zero-Downtime Patching in Lakebase Part 1: Prewarming
March 27, 2026
Fizz accelerates ecommerce analytics with Databricks SQL
March 25, 2026
What is a Cloud-Based Database Management System?
March 25, 2026
Tevogen Bio’s Journey to Streamlining Life-Saving Therapies
March 25, 2026
Building an A/B testing analysis framework for mobile gaming on Databricks
March 25, 2026
What are Analytic Applications?
March 25, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?
March 27, 2026
Can you *really* train AI to "get" videos just by showing it a million of them?
March 21, 2026
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
Techmeme
Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a "major incident" (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
April 1, 2026
Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
April 1, 2026
Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
April 1, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
The AI Revolution in Development: Why Outer Loop Agents Are the Next Big Thing
April 1, 2026
What Will AI Coworkers Look Like for the Rest of 2026?
March 31, 2026
When Not to Use AI: Strategic Restraint as a Leadership Skill
March 30, 2026
Evaluating Your Agent’s GPA, Single-Cell Foundation Models, the AI Hiring Gap, and Open-Source…
March 30, 2026
The Verifier–Compiler Loop: Turning Human Preferences into Production Agent Judgment
March 27, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
Hate Speech Detection Still Cooks (Even in 2026)
April 1, 2026
The Silicon Protocol: The Identity Crisis — When Machine Accounts Become Your Real Super-Users
April 1, 2026
75% of What a Neural Network Learns is noise. So is 75% of What You Learned in School.
April 1, 2026
Google’s TurboQuant Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of AI Memory
April 1, 2026
Your AI Just Wrote 500 Lines of Code. Can You Prove Any of It Works?
April 1, 2026
aibusiness
Black Hat USA
August 1, 2026
Black Hat Asia
April 21, 2026
Florida University Rolls Out Autonomous Delivery Robots
April 1, 2026
OpenAI Now Valued at $852B After Funding Round
April 1, 2026
Microsoft Commits $1B to Thailand's AI future
April 1, 2026
Nvidia Invests $2B In Custom Chip Vendor Marvell Technology
March 31, 2026
Databricks to Invest $850M in UK AI Operations
March 31, 2026
Nebius to Build One of Europe’s Largest AI Factories in Finland
March 31, 2026
South Korean AI Chipmaker Raises $400M for Inference
March 31, 2026
Microsoft Brings New AI Capabilities to Copilot Researcher
March 30, 2026
Mistral AI Lands $830M for AI Data Center
March 30, 2026
Under Pressure, LexisNexis Integrates Anthropic Legal AI
March 30, 2026
What Anthropic Mythos Means for the AI Lab and Businesses
March 30, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Artificial Intelligence Newsletter
AI Weekly Issue #477: Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.
March 31, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #476: Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy
March 27, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #475: 100 years from now : The Case for Artificial Stupidity
March 23, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #474: $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad
March 19, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #473: The godfather of AI bets against LLM's
March 17, 2026
Ahead of AI
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
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
June 17, 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 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
Weekly Review 27 March 2026
March 27, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026
March 26, 2026
Upcoming Journal Special Issues
March 25, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026
March 22, 2026
Weekly Review 20 March 2026
March 20, 2026
Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2026
March 20, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026
March 19, 2026
MarkTechPost
How to Build a Production-Ready Gemma 3 1B Instruct Generation AI Pipeline with Hugging Face Transformers, Chat Templates, and Colab Inference
April 1, 2026
Hugging Face Releases TRL v1.0: A Unified Post-Training Stack for SFT, Reward Modeling, DPO, and GRPO Workflows
April 1, 2026
Google AI Releases Veo 3.1 Lite: Giving Developers Low Cost High Speed Video Generation via The Gemini API
April 1, 2026
Liquid AI Released LFM2.5-350M: A Compact 350M Parameter Model Trained on 28T Tokens with Scaled Reinforcement Learning
April 1, 2026
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