Tech In Africa
- African Development Bank Approves €6.5 Million Investment in Saviu II Venture Capital Fund March 6, 2026
- SolarAfrica Acquires Full Ownership of Commercial Energy South Africa in ZAR 635 Million Transaction March 6, 2026
- Google brings AI Overviews and AI Mode to 13 African languages, including Kiswahili and Somali March 6, 2026
- ALP REIT raises $34.55 million in oversubscribed offer, becoming NSE’s first Dollar-denominated security March 6, 2026
- AI adoption succeeds or fails on skills, not software March 5, 2026
- Noah and Nafolo Launch Stablecoin Virtual Accounts to End Cross-Border Payment Friction in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 4, 2026
- UNICEF Venture Fund Opens Applications for Blockchain Solutions March 3, 2026
- European Investment Bank Deployed €3.1 Billion in Africa in 2025 March 3, 2026
- Africa Is Not Missing the AI Wave — It’s Playing a Different Game March 3, 2026
- Nigeria’s VC Slowdown: Normalization or Warning Sign? March 3, 2026
TechCabal
- Kenyan court strikes down law criminalising false information online March 6, 2026
- 69% of Africa’s biometric fintech fraud is now AI-generated, says report March 6, 2026
- Nigeria exited the FATF grey list. Now it wants to set the rules for African fintech March 6, 2026
- Kenyan rights group wants Meta’s smart glasses footage investigated March 6, 2026
- Chukwuemeka Afigbo says Africa’s deep tech problem is structural. He’s already fixing it. March 6, 2026
- “Where there’s mystery, there’s margin”: How the Ndichu brothers built WapiPay March 6, 2026
- Quick Fire 🔥 with Udeme Jalekun March 6, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Show’s over, Showmax March 6, 2026
- Google’s AI search now works in Yoruba and Hausa for Nigerian users March 5, 2026
- Cybercrime costs Africa $10 billion a year. AI is about to make that number bigger. March 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
- 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
- 10 Questions to Ask a Telecoms Provider before Signing Up March 6, 2026
- Showmax to Close: Industry Expert Weighs in on what this means for the streaming landscape March 6, 2026
- Google Brings AI Overviews & AI Mode to 13 African Languages March 6, 2026
- StanChart Appoints Head of Digital Assets for GCNA, South Asia & ASEAN March 6, 2026
- Ethio telecom and Ericsson Sign Landmark Network Expansion and Modernization Agreement March 5, 2026
- Intron Launches Voice AI for Africa with 24 Languages March 5, 2026
- Absa x Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay March 5, 2026
- Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates the Path to Scalable Production AI March 4, 2026
- Elekta Appoints Nexeva Healthcare Solutions as Strategic Partner in South Africa March 4, 2026
- Time Out South Africa Appoints New Managing Director March 4, 2026
TechCity
- How to Start Contributing to Open Source: A Beginner’s Guide March 6, 2026
- Startup Funding Rounds Explained: A Practical Guide for Founders March 6, 2026
- Smartphone Photography Tips: How to Take Better Photos With Any Phone March 5, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence for Small Business: Practical Growth Guide March 5, 2026
- Complete Phone Backup Guide: Never Lose Your Photos Again March 4, 2026
- How to Start an Ecommerce Business: Step-by-Step Guide 2026 March 4, 2026
- Mobile Money Explained: How OPay, PalmPay, M-Pesa and Others Actually Work March 3, 2026
- Best Budget Smartphones 2024: Top Picks Under $300 Worldwide March 3, 2026
- How to Transfer WhatsApp Without Losing Messages March 2, 2026
- NOW LIVE!. PRE-ORDER THE TECNO CAMON 50 SERIES AND FANTASTIC GIFTS AWAIT YOU March 2, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- 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
- Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 12 Ventures Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase January 27, 2026
TechArena
- Banking on security: Why threat intelligence is a compliance imperative for Kenya’s financial sector March 6, 2026
- Powering the telco to techco evolution through polycloud, agentic AI, and digital trust March 6, 2026
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2026 March 6, 2026
- Exploring the Growth of Online Slot Games in the Digital Gaming World March 6, 2026
- Google Expands AI Search Features to 13 African Languages Including Kiswahili March 5, 2026
- Document Fraud Dominates Identity Verification Rejections in East Africa, Report Finds March 5, 2026
- Why Digital Trust Matters: Secure, Responsible AI for African SMEs? March 5, 2026
- Eight Million DDoS Attacks in Six Months: NETSCOUT Warns of a Hyper-Scale Cyber Threat Era March 5, 2026
WeeTracker
- A Nigerian Startup’s Newest Model Is Crushing OpenAI And Google March 6, 2026
- How M-KOPA Put 5,000+ Electric Bikes On Kenyan Roads—Fast March 5, 2026
- Canal+ Pulls Plug On Showmax As African Streaming Losses Mount March 5, 2026
- SolarAfrica Consolidates C&I Solar Portfolio In USD 39 M Mezzanine Deal March 4, 2026
- Eyone Medical Raises USD 1.7 M To Power Senegal’s Digital Health Push March 4, 2026
- Saviu Partners Secures USD 7.6 M From AfDB To Scale Francophone Africa Startups March 4, 2026
- Hlayisani Capital Hits USD 30 M First Close For Venture Fund II March 4, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Court of Appeal Declares Key Cybercrime Act Clauses Unconstitutional March 6, 2026
- M-Pesa at 19: How Kenya’s Mobile Money Pioneer Reshaped Payments and Everyday Finance March 6, 2026
- Cassava Technologies Launches Africa’s First AI-Powered Autonomous Network March 6, 2026
- Bolt South Africa Has Officially Registered Under New Regulations March 6, 2026
- Kanessa Muluneh | The Art of Scaling Startups: Why Marketing Is the Missing Growth Engine March 6, 2026
- 61% of Kenyans Believe Culinary Talent Has No Gender, Bolt Food Survey Finds March 5, 2026
- Safaricom and MTN Ranked Among World’s Top 10 Strongest Telecoms Brands March 5, 2026
Techloy
- Why a React Gantt Chart Component Is a Smart Choice for Building a Project Management App in 2026 March 6, 2026
- Lumma Stealer Malware: How the ClickFix Campaign Tricks Windows Users March 6, 2026
- 🔐 A Startup’s Cloud Security Nightmare March 6, 2026
- How Anthropic’s AI Talks With the Pentagon Unfolded: Full Timeline March 6, 2026
- $200 Gift Card Lawsuit Against T-Mobile: Who Qualifies to Claim? March 6, 2026
- OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 and ChatGPT for Excel — Here’s What’s New March 6, 2026
- Slay the Spire 2 Sets New Roguelike Record on Steam With 177K Concurrent Players March 6, 2026
- Week 10’s Biggest Startup Funding Rounds in Africa & the Middle East, Led by Fig Security, as Cybersecurity Drew the Biggest Checks March 6, 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
- Pi (PI) Price Prediction 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030 March 6, 2026
- Cylake Raises $45M Seed to Expand Cybersecurity Platform March 6, 2026
- Levitate Raises $16M to Expand AI Marketing Platform March 6, 2026
- Nominal Raises $80M to Expand AI Engineering Data Platform March 6, 2026
- From Idea to Investment: What Venture Capital Actually Sees in AI Startups March 6, 2026
- Liminal Custody Surpasses $100 Billion in Institutional Transactions March 5, 2026
- Validio Secures $30M To Enhance Enterprise AI Data Quality March 5, 2026
TechCentral
- Telkom to hike mobile and fixed tariffs from 1 April March 6, 2026
- GSMA warns geopolitics could split global mobile standards March 6, 2026
- iStore prices MacBook Neo at R11 999 in South Africa March 6, 2026
- ‘You’ll want a piece of it’: Citroën teases Basalt SUV Coupé March 6, 2026
- Meta to allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp amid EU pressure March 6, 2026
- MultiChoice pulls the plug on Showmax March 5, 2026
- Apple just dropped a bomb on the Windows world March 5, 2026
- TCS | Sink or swim? Antony Makins on how AI is rewriting the rules of work March 5, 2026
- The hidden drag on South Africa’s mobile networks March 5, 2026
- Capitec’s new AI tool knows your problem before you explain it March 5, 2026
Technext
- Former interior minister media aide, Ridwan Adelaja joins Husk Power as Strategic Communications Manager March 6, 2026
- Safaricom’s M-PESA hits 40 million active customers in Kenya after 19 years of operation March 6, 2026
- Teknowledge deepens Microsoft partnership to equip 10,000 Nigerians with AI skills March 6, 2026
- The 2026 Electoral Act stipulates 10-year jail time for ballot device manipulation March 6, 2026
- How M-KOPA unlocked N231bn in Nigeria’s credit economy despite endemic default culture March 6, 2026
- BuildHers Circle is here! March 6, 2026
- INEC website crashes, raising alarming questions about Nigeria’s electoral infrastructure March 6, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster March 4, 2026
- Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics February 27, 2026
- New method could increase LLM training efficiency February 26, 2026
- Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world February 25, 2026
- AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology February 25, 2026
- Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy February 25, 2026
- Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users February 19, 2026
- Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models February 19, 2026
- Parking-aware navigation system could prevent frustration and emissions February 19, 2026
DEV Community
- Why We Don't Use Socket Connections for Everything March 6, 2026
- Why is moving money from card to bank account so difficult? Building VZr0 to explore a simpler flow March 6, 2026
- The Combinatorial Explosion Problem: Why Adding One Modifier Can Collapse Your Output Space March 6, 2026
- One simple action will put you in the top 50% of respondents... March 6, 2026
- Free API: Look Up Any US Tariff Rate in Seconds March 6, 2026
- How I optimized my SvelteKit website from 70 to 95+ on mobile Lighthouse tests March 6, 2026
- What's Left When You Have Nothing Left March 6, 2026
- Exploring Cross-Chain NFT Marketplaces and Their Benefits March 6, 2026
- You Deployed a Service With No Revenue Endpoint: Future of Filmmaking by Renzo Merbis March 6, 2026
OpenAI News
- How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing March 6, 2026
- GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card March 5, 2026
- Introducing GPT-5.4 March 5, 2026
- Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good March 5, 2026
- Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity March 5, 2026
- Introducing the Adoption news channel March 5, 2026
- Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations March 5, 2026
- The five AI value models driving business reinvention March 5, 2026
- Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons March 4, 2026
- Understanding AI and learning outcomes March 4, 2026
- How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism March 4, 2026
- GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations March 3, 2026
- GPT-5.3 Instant System Card March 3, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think February 9, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
- Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline March 5, 2026
- Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints March 5, 2026
- Embed Amazon Quick Suite chat agents in enterprise applications March 4, 2026
- Unlock powerful call center analytics with Amazon Nova foundation models March 4, 2026
- How Ricoh built a scalable intelligent document processing solution on AWS March 4, 2026
- Building a scalable virtual try-on solution using Amazon Nova on AWS: part 1 March 3, 2026
Databricks
- Turning Insight Into Impact with Databricks and Global Orphan Project March 5, 2026
- Meet KARL: A Faster Agent for Enterprise Knowledge, powered by custom RL March 5, 2026
- New in Migrations: Faster and More Predictable March 5, 2026
- Unified data discovery with business context in Unity Catalog March 4, 2026
- Bayer Consumer Health scales global self-service analytics with Unity Catalog March 4, 2026
- Azure Databricks Lakebase is Generally Available March 3, 2026
- Tutorial: How to ship AI/BI Dashboard changes safely at scale with Databricks Asset Bundles March 3, 2026
- From Tribal Knowledge to Instant Answers: Building Reffy on Databricks March 2, 2026
- Real-Time Mode: Ultra-low latency streaming on Spark APIs without a second engine March 2, 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
- Robinhood debuts its $658.4M venture fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, offering retail investors access to private companies like Databricks (Manya Saini/Reuters) March 6, 2026
- Hayden AI, which raised $180M for its traffic management system, sues its ex-CEO Chris Carson Jr. for allegedly using its data to start a competitor and more (William Hicks/San Francisco Business ...) March 6, 2026
- Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) March 6, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- MIT’s Michael Schrage on KPAIs, Promptathons, and Creating Value with AI March 5, 2026
- Why AI POCs Fail: The Real Gap Between Pilot and Production March 5, 2026
- Model Quantization, AI Career Disruption, KPAIs, and Document AI Workflows March 5, 2026
- Agentic AI vs SaaS: What the “Death of SaaS” Really Means for Enterprise Work March 4, 2026
- Inside ODSC AI East 2026: Sessions, Speakers, and What to Expect This Year March 4, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- The $100 Million Correction: How AI Finally Learned to Count in Six Months March 6, 2026
- Soft Robotics: A Non-Rigid Approach to Robotics March 6, 2026
- Intent Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Systems March 6, 2026
- Vibe Coding Didn’t Break These Startups. Vibe Deploying Did! March 6, 2026
- How I Built a Real-Time Traffic Accident Detector Running at 100+ FPS (And Improved Recall by +4) March 6, 2026
aibusiness
- Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Meta AI Glasses Privacy Claims March 6, 2026
- Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode Available in Google Search in US March 5, 2026
- Underwater Data Center Project Aboard Offshore Wind Turbine March 5, 2026
- Perplexity, CoreWeave Deal Boosts Inferencing March 5, 2026
- Euro Regulators Question Meta Over AI Glasses Privacy Fears March 5, 2026
- Nvidia Takes on Telco Industry With Open Source Model March 4, 2026
- Humanoid Robots Now Assembling Cars in Europe and China March 4, 2026
- OpenAI Says ChatGPT Instant 5.3 is Less Cringe, More Accurate March 4, 2026
- IBM Targets Voice Capabilities in Watsonx With Deepgram Partnership March 4, 2026
- Amazon Spends Another $21B to Beef up Spain's AI Infrastructure March 4, 2026
- Capgemini Joins OpenAI's Frontier Alliance to Scale Enterprise AI March 4, 2026
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Offers Choice on How It Processes Inputs March 3, 2026
- Vibe Coding Was Just the Beginning March 3, 2026
AI News Weekly
- 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
- AI News Weekly - Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI. - Feb 26th 2026 February 26, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition - Feb 19th 2026 February 19, 2026
- AI News Weekly - Issue #465: the DOOM edition : 5 ways AI could destroy everything - Feb 12th 2026 February 12, 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 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
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026 February 12, 2026
MarkTechPost
- Liquid AI Releases LocalCowork Powered By LFM2-24B-A2B to Execute Privacy-First Agent Workflows Locally Via Model Context Protocol (MCP) March 6, 2026
- A Coding Guide to Build a Scalable End-to-End Machine Learning Data Pipeline Using Daft for High-Performance Structured and Image Data Processing March 5, 2026
- Google AI Releases a CLI Tool (gws) for Workspace APIs: Providing a Unified Interface for Humans and AI Agents March 5, 2026
- OpenAI Releases Symphony: An Open Source Agentic Framework for Orchestrating Autonomous AI Agents through Structured, Scalable Implementation Runs March 5, 2026
