Tech In Africa
- Algeria’s Yassir Acquires Uno Hypermarkets, Moving Into Physical Retail March 12, 2026
- Orca Fraud Secures $2.35M Seed to Bring Real-Time Fraud Intelligence to Emerging Markets March 12, 2026
- Africa’s Business Heroes Opens $1.5M Grant Competition for African Entrepreneurs March 12, 2026
- Zambia Signs MOU With UK Firm to Pilot AI in Schools March 12, 2026
- Kenya Lists East Africa’s First Industrial REIT on the NSE, With $24M UK Anchor March 12, 2026
- Zeno Closes $25M Series A to Scale Full-Stack Electric Motorcycles Across East Africa March 12, 2026
- Hlayisani Capital Hits $30M First Close for Fund II, Targeting South Africa’s Series A Gap March 11, 2026
- Paymentology and Chikwama Pay Launch Africa’s First WhatsApp-Enabled Neobank March 11, 2026
- Morocco’s Ministry of Digital Transition Champions AI as Cornerstone of Industrial and Economic Transformation March 11, 2026
- Cybervergent Closes $3M Seed Round to Scale AI-Powered Cybersecurity Across Africa March 11, 2026
TechCabal
- African startup funding hits $575M in early 2026 as logistics and energy gain ground March 12, 2026
- Nigeria is hosting Africa’s biggest trade fair. Getting in will cost you. March 12, 2026
- A new $500,000 fund targets early-stage African assistive tech startups March 12, 2026
- How to tell if a video is AI-generated or fake March 12, 2026
- Nigeria’s CBN writes AI into its anti-money laundering rules in a historic first March 12, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Will your inDriver get health insurance? March 12, 2026
- Fintechs expanding between Kenya and Rwanda may soon need one licence March 12, 2026
- IFF 2026: Why Africa’s financial future may not belong to banks March 11, 2026
- Nigeria’s tech regulator targets 37 innovation hubs for fifth iHatch cohort March 11, 2026
- For ₦1,300 a month, inDrive drivers in Nigeria can now access healthcare services March 11, 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
- “SA schools must embrace international benchmarking to increase access to quality education” March 12, 2026
- 7 Overlooked Android Features March 12, 2026
- How to Rebuild Job Prospects after Long-Term Unemployment March 12, 2026
- Healthcare Under Attack? Why is Cybersecurity Now Critical? March 12, 2026
- FNB Launches eWallet on WhatsApp March 12, 2026
- How to Recover Data from Formatted SD Card March 11, 2026
- Top-5 White-Label Payment Gateway Providers Powering PSPs and Fintechs March 11, 2026
- Modernising Banking & Insurance for Africa’s Digital Economy March 11, 2026
- Agentic AI Company Partners with InterNetX to Enable Seamless Domain Access March 11, 2026
- South African Parents Urged to Rethink Online Sharing of Children’s Data March 10, 2026
TechCity
- Online Learning Platforms: Coursera vs Udemy vs YouTube March 12, 2026
- Digital Payment Regulations Africa: What Startups Must Know Now March 12, 2026
- WhatsApp Advanced Features You Are Probably Missing March 11, 2026
- AWIT to Host International Women’s Day 2026 Tech Dialogue in Lagos March 11, 2026
- Best Laptops for Software Developers: Top Picks 2026 Guide Now March 11, 2026
- Career Transition to Tech: A Complete How-To Guide March 10, 2026
- Infinix NOTE 60 Pro Debuts with Snapdragon Power, 6500mAh Battery and LED Design March 10, 2026
- Blockchain Technology in Banking: Use Cases, Risks, and ROI March 10, 2026
- Learning to Code in 2026: The Honest Guide Nobody Else Will Give You March 9, 2026
- Budget Smartphones March 2026: We Tested 5 Under $200. Here’s the Honest Truth. March 9, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- Absa and Thunes Unveil Absa Global Pay, a Next‑Generation Solution for Fast, Affordable Global Remittances March 10, 2026
- 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
TechArena
- Tich App Launches to Connect Urban Kenyan Youth with Gig and Short-Term Jobs March 12, 2026
- MultiChoice to Discontinue Showmax as Streaming Services Evolve March 12, 2026
- AI for All: How Samsung Is Reimagining the Connected Home in East Africa March 12, 2026
- Safaricom Says M-PESA Has Reached 40 Million Customers as Service Marks 19 Years March 12, 2026
- KCB reports KES 68.4B profit as digital channels handle 99% of transactions March 11, 2026
- Nutanix, AWS and Datamellon Host Executive Workshop on Hybrid Cloud and AI in Lagos March 11, 2026
- Liquid C2 and CyberCoach Partner to Help African Organisations Reduce Human Cyber Risk March 11, 2026
- TikTok Hosts Sub-Saharan Africa Safer Internet Summit in Nairobi, Announces $200,000 AI Literacy Support March 11, 2026
WeeTracker
- Oil At $120 Should Be A Win For Nigeria — Verto CEO Says It’s Not So Simple March 12, 2026
- The Startup Chasing Bold Do-Over In African B2B E-Commerce As Early Models Fail March 11, 2026
- SA’s Yazi Raises Funding To Expand WhatsApp-Based AI Research Platform March 11, 2026
- Cybervergent Raises USD 3 M Seed To Scale AI-Driven Cybersecurity Platform In Africa March 10, 2026
- LemFi Secures Bank of Canada Registration March 10, 2026
- Exclusive: How Prembly’s ‘Fraud Bank’ Could Finally Make Nigeria’s Fintech Rivals Talk To Each Other March 10, 2026
- Fintech Innovation in Africa & The Rapid Evolution of Digital Trading Platforms March 9, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Africa’s Creator Economy Is Learning the Discipline of Infrastructure March 12, 2026
- Zoza na Odibets App: Get Paid Just for Betting on the Odibets App March 12, 2026
- M-TIBA Parent CarePay Group Announces Leadership Changes March 12, 2026
- How Online Tools Help Writers Create Clearer And More Accurate Content March 12, 2026
- Liquid Kenya CEO on How the Company is Building Africa’s AI-Ready Future March 12, 2026
- Samsung Marks Historic 20-Year Reign as World’s No. 1 TV Brand March 12, 2026
- Western Union Expands Digital Remittance Access in South Africa Through Sasai Fintech Partnership March 12, 2026
Techloy
- Kenya and Rwanda Agree to Recognise Each Other’s Fintech Licences March 12, 2026
- How Workplace Atmosphere Is Influencing Employee Productivity March 12, 2026
- Google Maps Launches Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation, Both Powered by Gemini March 12, 2026
- Mini Projector Trends in 2026: What Works Best for Small Apartments? March 12, 2026
- iQOO Z11x 5G Launches in India With Massive 7,200mAh Battery March 12, 2026
- Binance.US Appoints Compliance Veteran Stephen Gregory as New CEO March 12, 2026
- Here Are All the Games Coming to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium in March 2026 March 12, 2026
- 10 API Security Companies Redefining Application Protection March 12, 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
- ORO Labs Raises $100M to Accelerate AI-Powered Procurement Orchestration March 12, 2026
- Scanner raises $22M to scale security data platform March 12, 2026
- Replit Raises $400 Million to Expand AI-Powered App Creation March 12, 2026
- Mind Robotics Raises $500M to Build AI-Powered Factory Robots March 12, 2026
- Cryptio Raises $45 Million to Expand Enterprise Crypto Accounting March 12, 2026
- Wonderful Raises $150M to Scale Global Enterprise AI Agents March 12, 2026
- StageOne Ventures Raises $165M to Back Israeli AI Infrastructure Startups March 12, 2026
TechCentral
- DStv’s high entry price is killing subscriber growth, says Canal+ March 12, 2026
- Standard Bank IT bill tops R14-billion as software spending shifts March 12, 2026
- Illegal streaming crackdown nets arrests, convictions in Cape Town March 12, 2026
- Vodacom claims African first with 254Mbit/s 5G uplink test March 12, 2026
- UCT astronomers uncover vast hidden supercluster behind the Milky Way March 12, 2026
- Musk launches Macrohard in cheeky nod to Microsoft March 12, 2026
- Rowboats and solar panels: the reality of connecting rural Africa March 12, 2026
- How AI is changing the way we work March 12, 2026
- Domains.co.za introduces complete domain protection service March 12, 2026
- Canal+ shares crash on weak MultiChoice outlook March 11, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- 3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences March 11, 2026
- New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots March 11, 2026
- A better method for planning complex visual tasks March 11, 2026
- 3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression March 10, 2026
- How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology March 10, 2026
- Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions March 9, 2026
- 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
DEV Community
- AI Agents That Actually Work, Building Reliable UI Automation with Amazon Nova Act March 12, 2026
- I Ran My First Real Agile Sprint and Shipped to Production Every Day for 5 Days March 12, 2026
- MU Online in Rust: Hardening the Foundation, runtime, Timeouts, and Packet Size Limits March 12, 2026
- Build a Real-Time AI Analytics Dashboard with InsForge, FastAPI, and Claude Code March 12, 2026
- Building a plugin for a React visual editor with Puck March 12, 2026
- Your Uptime Monitor Says Green. Your Users Disagree. March 12, 2026
- Auth Portal — a production-ready authentication system built with FastAPI and Python. March 12, 2026
- How to make your React app multilingual March 12, 2026
- A Developer's Guide to Post-Quantum Migration March 12, 2026
OpenAI News
- Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex March 11, 2026
- Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection March 11, 2026
- From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment March 11, 2026
- Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI March 11, 2026
- Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs March 10, 2026
- New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT March 10, 2026
- OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo March 9, 2026
- Codex Security: now in research preview March 6, 2026
- How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale March 6, 2026
- How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing March 6, 2026
- Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good March 5, 2026
- Introducing GPT-5.4 March 5, 2026
- GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card March 5, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- 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
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- Multimodal embeddings at scale: AI data lake for media and entertainment workloads March 12, 2026
- Fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron Speech ASR on Amazon EC2 for domain adaptation March 12, 2026
- Operationalizing Agentic AI Part 1: A Stakeholder’s Guide March 11, 2026
- Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock March 10, 2026
- Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock March 9, 2026
- Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference March 9, 2026
Databricks
- 10 Data Warehouse Migration Myths Blocking AI-readiness (and Your Blueprint for Seamless Modernization) March 12, 2026
- The Evolution of Data Engineering: How Serverless Compute is Transforming Notebooks, Lakeflow Jobs, and Spark Declarative Pipelines March 12, 2026
- How Ontologies Help Nuclear Scale to Meet Global Energy Demand March 11, 2026
- Mitigating The Risk of Prompt Injection for AI Agents on Databricks March 11, 2026
- Introducing Genie Code March 11, 2026
- Your Databricks Guide to HIMSS26 March 11, 2026
- Databricks acquires Quotient AI to power AI agent evaluations March 11, 2026
- Beyond Provisioning: The Developer’s Guide to Databricks Lakebase Autoscaling March 11, 2026
- Bringing Visualizations to Life in Multi‑Agent Systems With Vega‑Lite March 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
- Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg) March 12, 2026
- Michael Dell says "I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools", responding to a question on the Anthropic feud (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) March 12, 2026
- Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) March 12, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- What Boards Should Actually Be Asking About AI in 2026 March 12, 2026
- AI Teammates, the Death of SaaS, Capturing Enterprise Intelligence, and Tonight’s D.C. Meetup March 12, 2026
- AI Engineer vs Data Scientist Salary in 2026: Why Production Skills Pay More March 11, 2026
- Managing Human + AI Workflows: The Operating Model Most Teams Are Missing March 10, 2026
- AI Copilots at Work: Practical Tools, Open-Source Options, and Strategy March 9, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- 20 Agentic AI Projects That Will Define Real-World AI in 2026 March 12, 2026
- The 10,000-Tool Agent March 12, 2026
- LAI #118: What’s Actually Happening Inside Your AI Models March 12, 2026
- Crack ML Interviews with Confidence: K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN, 35 Q&A) March 12, 2026
- OpenAI-Compatible Is Becoming a Fiction We Keep Paying For — The Production Edges That Break in… March 12, 2026
aibusiness
- Ford’s New AI Tool Offers In-Depth Insight Into Its CVs March 12, 2026
- AI Legal Platform now Valued at $5.5 Billion March 11, 2026
- Meta Acquires Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network March 11, 2026
- Contextual Data is Important for Enterprises' AI Projects March 10, 2026
- Neura Launches Europe's Largest Physical AI Training Center March 10, 2026
- French AI Startup Building World Models Raises $1.03 billion March 10, 2026
- Building an AI-Ready Data Ecosystem at Capital One March 10, 2026
- Dealing With AI's Effect on Jobs and Opportunities in Data March 9, 2026
- ABB, Nvidia Partner to Deliver Physical AI at Scale March 9, 2026
- OpenClaw Forces Enterprise Strategy Questions March 9, 2026
- Nscale Valued at $14.6B After Raising Another $2B March 9, 2026
- Microsoft Recommits to AI Agents With New Copilot Features March 9, 2026
- OpenAI Launches Codex Security to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities March 9, 2026
AI News Weekly
- AI News Weekly - The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee - Mar 11th 2026 March 11, 2026
- AI News Weekly - 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort - Mar 9th 2026 March 9, 2026
- 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
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
- How to Design a Streaming Decision Agent with Partial Reasoning, Online Replanning, and Reactive Mid-Execution Adaptation in Dynamic Environments March 11, 2026
- NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: A 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivering 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI March 11, 2026
- Google AI Introduces Gemini Embedding 2: A Multimodal Embedding Model that Lets Your Bring Text, Images, Video, Audio, and Docs into the Embedding Space March 11, 2026
- Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Absurdly Controllable Emotion March 11, 2026
