Tech In Africa
- BFree Secures New Funding to Buy Up Africa’s Bad Loans April 21, 2026
- Algeria Launches Its First Startup Cluster Dedicated to AI and Cybersecurity April 21, 2026
- Nigeria’s Terra Industries Takes Its Drone Manufacturing Ambitions to Ghana April 21, 2026
- Speedinvest Launches Dedicated MEA Fund Backed by Mubadala, QIA, and EIB Global April 20, 2026
- Lua Raises $5.8 Million to Build the Operating System for Human and AI Agent Teams April 20, 2026
- Koto.sn Launches as Senegal’s First New Car Price Comparison Platform April 20, 2026
- Five MENA Deep-Tech Startups Touch Down in Silicon Valley for Propeller’s First-Ever Kernel Camp April 17, 2026
- ZSystems Raises $1.65 Million to Bring Morocco’s $40 Billion Traditional Retail Sector Online April 16, 2026
- Standard Bank Anchors $330 Million Refinancing for Optasia as Africa’s Banks Line Up Behind the JSE-Listed AI Fintech April 16, 2026
- AI Diagnostics Raises R85 Million to Put a Smarter Stethoscope in the Hands of Frontline TB Fighters April 16, 2026
TechCabal
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya freezes Binance wallets April 22, 2026
- Nigerian Web3 startups raised $43 million in 2025, but growth remains early April 21, 2026
- Kenya wants lenders to prove borrowers can repay before approving loans April 21, 2026
- Kenyan authorities freeze some Binance accounts in widening crackdown April 21, 2026
- How to check your 2026 JAMB results April 21, 2026
- Afrisends says it is building what West Africa’s supply chains still lack April 21, 2026
- Nigerian banks will now verify fraud-linked mobile numbers under new CBN–NCC agreement April 21, 2026
- Infinix GT 50 Pro launches April 24. Here’s everything you need to know April 21, 2026
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Terra’s drones fly to Ghana April 21, 2026
- AXIAN’s Benjamin Toulouze says CVCs can move faster than VCs April 20, 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
- Safaricom’s Big Bang / Cold Turkey New My OneApp Rollout: A Brave but Costly Mistake April 15, 2026
- TECNO Unveils EllaClaw Beta, Bringing the First OpenClaw-Powered AI Agent to Kenya April 9, 2026
- What problems are people having with M-PESA and mySafaricom apps that My OneApp intends to solve? April 3, 2026
- 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
African Business Technology News
- Ozow & Lula Partner to Expand Access to Business Funding for SMEs April 21, 2026
- Fraudsters may target AI mandates as agentic commerce takes off April 21, 2026
- The Smart Way To Compare Tech Degrees in Germany Before Applying April 21, 2026
- The Rise of Mobile-First FinTech Solutions: Betting Apps Driving Digital Payments in Africa April 21, 2026
- Commercial Bank in East Africa to integrate USDA Payments April 21, 2026
- NTT DATA Becomes First Network Operator to Reach 400Gbps Peering Milestone April 20, 2026
- admyt Launches SA’s First Card-Linked Parking Reward Benefit with Discovery Bank April 20, 2026
- inDrive Introduces Cashless Payments in South Africa April 20, 2026
- 5 Things You Must Check Before Buying a Data Plan for Your Next Trip April 20, 2026
- SAPVIA and City Power Forge Collaborative Path for Sustainable Solar Energy in Johannesburg April 17, 2026
TechCity
- AI as a Creative Tool: Where It Helps and Where It Gets in the Way April 21, 2026
- Top Ecommerce Platforms For Startups: Best Picks For 2026 April 21, 2026
- Earth Week: The E-Waste Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About April 20, 2026
- Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO: John Ternus Takes Over September 2026 April 20, 2026
- How To Protect Your Data Online: 10 Smart Habits April 20, 2026
- Cybersecurity for Small Business Owners: The 5 Things You Actually Need April 17, 2026
- Digital Payment Trends in Emerging Markets: What’s Next April 17, 2026
- The Problem With Always-On Work Culture and the Apps That Enable It April 16, 2026
- Top 9 Sites to Recharge Airtime Online in Nigeria April 16, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence Tools for Small Business That Save Time April 16, 2026
AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa
- Africa Tech Summit London Returns to London Stock Exchange on May 29 for its Landmark 10th Edition April 20, 2026
- Kredete Partners with Visa Africa to Advance Stablecoin-Backed Card Innovation Across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council April 20, 2026
- VALR Launches AI Service for Humans and AI Agents April 16, 2026
- Cascador Opens Applications to its 2026 ScaleUp Program to Accelerate Africa’s Next Generation of Growth-Stage Founders April 16, 2026
- Duplo and Ozow Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Local Payments and Expense Management for Businesses in South Africa April 16, 2026
- Paga Group Marks 17 Years of Building Africa’s Financial Services Infrastructure with Major Leadership Evolution April 15, 2026
- M-KOPA South Africa Impact Report Reveals Women are Driving the Country’s Digital Inclusion Charge April 13, 2026
TechArena
- Credit Bank Explores Stablecoin Integration with Anzens to Cut Cross-Border Payment Costs April 22, 2026
- 4 Kenyan Startups Selected for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa’s 10th Cohort April 21, 2026
- NTT DATA reaches 400Gbps peering milestone at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange April 21, 2026
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies Closes $660 Million Debt Deal April 21, 2026
- TCL Positions SQD-Mini LED as Next-Gen Display Breakthrough Amid Industry Shift April 20, 2026
- Kenya’s Rising Incomes Are Fueling a Boom in Smart Home Appliances April 18, 2026
- ALX accelerates gender parity in Africa’s tech and AI workforce April 17, 2026
- Lua Raises $5.8M to Build “Operating System” for Human–AI Agent Collaboration April 17, 2026
WeeTracker
- Inside Chowdeck, Devs & Execs Compete To Personally Deliver Dinner To Doorsteps April 21, 2026
- Africa’s Hottest Defence Startup Goes All In On Ghana Over Nigerian Home Base April 20, 2026
- Nigeria’s Telcos’ Fintech Business In Limbo As It Loses Key Airtime Lending Pillar April 20, 2026
- How Losing One Client Suddenly Collapsed 1000+ Jobs In Kenya’s AI Hub April 16, 2026
- SA’s AI Diagnostics Raises USD 5 M To Scale AI Stethoscope For TB Detection April 16, 2026
- The Jobs AI Will Replace First In Africa & The Ones It Can’t Touch (For Now) April 15, 2026
- SA’s Refiant AI Raises USD 5 M Seed To Build Energy-Efficient AI Models April 14, 2026
TechTrendsKE
- Four Kenyan Startups Land Spots in Google Accelerator Africa Cohort April 22, 2026
- Vivo Set to Launch V70 FE in Kenya – A 200 MP AI Travel Portrait Smartphone April 22, 2026
- Visa Joins CRAFT Addis 2026 as Lead Partner to Boost Africa’s Creator Economy April 22, 2026
- Digital Loan Limits Under Scrutiny as Kenya Eyes New Lending Rules April 21, 2026
- Vision Plus Bets on AI TVs With Whale OS Deal April 21, 2026
- BrighterMonday partners with Kenya’s security sector to boost corporate security leadership and youth employment April 21, 2026
- Anzens Partners with Credit Bank to Explore Stablecoin Integration in Kenya April 21, 2026
Techloy
- Xbox Game Pass Price Cut: Ultimate Drops to $22.99, but with a Major Call of Duty Catch April 22, 2026
- Splatoon Raiders: Release Date, Gameplay, and Everything We Know April 22, 2026
- Inside AI-Driven Advertising: Platform Market Landscape April 21, 2026
- Best AI Roleplay Chatbots That Won't Break Character Mid-Scene April 21, 2026
- 3 Best AI Tools for Startup Pitch Decks: Native vs. Standalone Pitch Builders April 21, 2026
- The 2026 Guide to the UAE Golden Visa: A Roadmap for Tech Talent April 21, 2026
- Amazon Stock Rises After $25B Anthropic Deal Locks In $100B AWS Spend April 21, 2026
- How to Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping Websites in 2026 April 21, 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
- Bitcoin Jumps to $78K as Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire April 22, 2026
- NeoCognition Secures $40M Seed Funding With Intel CEO April 22, 2026
- Fintech Monk Raises $25M to Automate Receivables April 22, 2026
- What Is a Crypto Wallet & How Does It Work? (Guide) April 22, 2026
- Reliable Robotics Raises $160M To Accelerate Autonomous Aircraft Systems April 21, 2026
- Tava Health Raises $40M Series C To Expand Mental Health Platform April 21, 2026
- AcuityMD Raises $80M AI MedTech Funding Round April 21, 2026
TechCentral
- Eskom to decide fate of older coal stations by September April 22, 2026
- How AnyDesk is redefining remote access for African enterprises April 22, 2026
- Capitec bets big on AI – and keeps hiring April 22, 2026
- Capitec blows up MVNO pricing with free on-net calls April 22, 2026
- After mobile, Capitec Connect eyes home broadband push April 22, 2026
- Centracom’s Pindrop takes the pain out of wholesale fibre April 22, 2026
- Conversational AI is rewriting the customer service playbook April 22, 2026
- RAM price relief? SK Hynix plans $13-billion Korean fab April 22, 2026
- Liquid dodges debt crunch – at a hefty price April 21, 2026
- Microsoft slashes Xbox Game Pass prices in big strategy shift April 21, 2026
Technext
- From getting a 4/20 in French, Owoade Apotierioluwa built a multilingual AI to help others April 22, 2026
- Nigerian Army got Community-Noted 4 times in 2 years, here is what that tells us April 22, 2026
- How JAMB plans to conduct admission process for 2026 underage UTME candidates April 22, 2026
- Well done, Cook April 22, 2026
- CBN issues urgent scam alert as fraudsters impersonate bank to steal Nigerians’ data April 22, 2026
- One Device, Many Hustles: Why the TECNO CAMON 50 Series Fits the Modern Nigerian Entrepreneur April 21, 2026
- How Cell C roaming deals prove network sharing is a viable route to attain network quality April 21, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
- Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners April 17, 2026
- Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere April 17, 2026
- Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI April 14, 2026
- Human-machine teaming dives underwater April 14, 2026
- A philosophy of work April 9, 2026
- New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning April 9, 2026
- Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano April 7, 2026
- Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware April 7, 2026
- Working to advance the nuclear renaissance April 3, 2026
DEV Community
- The Test Manager’s Guide: From Chaos to Predictable Quality — Part 3: Transition KPIs — Measuring Structural Health April 22, 2026
- I'm writing this down before I lose the thread April 22, 2026
- Claude Code Ya No Viene en tu Suscripcion de $20/mes — Alternativas por Menos de $50 April 22, 2026
- What is a Service Level Objectives (SLO) an what it means for performance testing April 22, 2026
- The Architecture Tax April 22, 2026
- 5 Security Mistakes I See on Every Server Audit April 22, 2026
- Level Up Your Dev Setup: Get GitHub Copilot for Free with the Student Developer Pack April 22, 2026
- I Shouldn’t Be Sharing This: 37 Google Dork Patterns That Still Surface Exposed AWS Keys in 2026 April 22, 2026
- Why `isLoading` Breaks Down in Complex React Apps April 22, 2026
OpenAI News
- Scaling Codex to enterprises worldwide April 21, 2026
- OpenAI helps Hyatt advance AI among colleagues April 20, 2026
- Codex for (almost) everything April 16, 2026
- Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research April 16, 2026
- Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all April 16, 2026
- The next evolution of the Agents SDK April 15, 2026
- Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense April 14, 2026
- Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI April 13, 2026
- Creating images with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
- Financial services April 10, 2026
- ChatGPT for customer success teams April 10, 2026
- Responsible and safe use of AI April 10, 2026
- Brainstorming with ChatGPT April 10, 2026
Google Deep Blog
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech April 15, 2026
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Powering real-world robotics tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning April 13, 2026
- Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models April 2, 2026
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
- From developer desks to the whole organization: Running Claude Cowork in Amazon Bedrock April 21, 2026
- End-to-end lineage with DVC and Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow apps April 21, 2026
- Accelerate Generative AI Inference on Amazon SageMaker AI with G7e Instances April 20, 2026
- ToolSimulator: scalable tool testing for AI agents April 20, 2026
- Omnichannel ordering with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic April 20, 2026
- Introducing granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock April 17, 2026
Databricks
- Multimodal Data Integration: Production Architectures for Healthcare AI April 22, 2026
- Stop Hand-Coding Change Data Capture Pipelines April 22, 2026
- Introducing the Databricks Excel Add-in for Business Users April 21, 2026
- Real-Time Decisioning for AI Agents: Why you Need a Customer Context Layer First April 21, 2026
- Bridging Data Science and Marketing: Databricks Unveils Delta Sharing Integration for Adobe Experience Platform and Agentic Marketing Workflows April 20, 2026
- Take Control: Customer-Managed Keys for Lakebase Postgres April 20, 2026
- Get hands on with agents, vibe coding and more at Data+ AI Summit April 20, 2026
- Mercedes-Benz Builds a Cross-Cloud Data Mesh with Delta Sharing and Intelligent Replication, Cutting Costs by 66% April 20, 2026
- What Is a Transactional Database? April 20, 2026
AIModels.fyi
- The prompt isn't hiding inside the image April 14, 2026
- Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem April 11, 2026
- Meta traded its biggest community asset for a commerce engine April 9, 2026
- Netflix's VOID shows video editing has finally learned the laws of physics April 8, 2026
- Why wait until the end to realize your model’s code won’t actually run? April 2, 2026
Techmeme
- Sources detail how Elon Musk has de-emphasized SpaceX's original aim of reaching Mars as it prepares to go public, focusing instead on AI and other moonshots (Ryan Mac/New York Times) April 22, 2026
- A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM (Reuters) April 22, 2026
- Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week (Sam Sabin/Axios) April 22, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
- Enterprise AI in Practice: 6 Must-Watch Sessions on Scaling Agentic Systems April 21, 2026
- Practical AgentOps: Getting Started with MLflow 3 April 21, 2026
- The AI Infrastructure Stack in 2026: Companies Building the Future of AI April 20, 2026
- What Can You Do With a Free ODSC AI East Expo Pass? April 20, 2026
- Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation April 20, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
- GPT-4 Has 1.8 Trillion Parameters. It Uses 2% of Them Per Token. April 22, 2026
- Adopting, Advancing, and Adapting to AI April 22, 2026
- AI and Machine Learning in High Throughput Screening: The End of Blind Drug Discovery April 22, 2026
- First GPT-4o, Now Opus 4.5. We’re All Building on Rented Land. April 22, 2026
- Intent Classification isn’t a Quality Gate April 22, 2026
aibusiness
- Chinese Volkswagens to Feature AI Agents That Give Cars ‘Personality’ April 21, 2026
- Hyundai, DeepX Partner to Develop AI Platform for Robotics April 21, 2026
- Neura Robotics, AWS Collaborate to Bring Physical AI to the Real World April 21, 2026
- Anthropic Seals $100B Infrastructure Deal With Amazon April 21, 2026
- AMD's Vision for AI PCs in the Age of Agentic AI April 21, 2026
- Adobe Launches AI Agent Platform for CX April 20, 2026
- Siemens Trials Nvidia-Powered Humanoid April 20, 2026
- AI Chipmaker Cerebras Files for IPO April 20, 2026
- Physical AI Edges Closer to Real-World Deployments April 20, 2026
- Chinese Vendor Claims First Large-Scale Embodied AI Deployment April 20, 2026
- UK Launches $675 Million Fund for AI Startups April 20, 2026
- US, California Use Purchasing Power to Set AI Rules April 20, 2026
- The Real AI Shift Isn’t New Models. It’s Control. April 17, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
- AI Weekly Issue #486: Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI April 22, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #485: When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret April 19, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #484: Your AI chats can be used against you in court April 16, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #483: 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract April 13, 2026
- AI Weekly Issue #482: AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious April 10, 2026
Ahead of AI
- My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures April 18, 2026
- Components of A Coding Agent April 4, 2026
- 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
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 17 April 2026 April 17, 2026
- Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2026 April 15, 2026
- Weekly Review 10 April 2026 April 10, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026 April 8, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2026 April 6, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2025 April 5, 2026
- Weekly Review 3 April 2026 April 3, 2026
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 4, April 2026 April 2, 2026
- 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
MarkTechPost
- Photon Releases Spectrum: An Open-Source TypeScript Framework that Deploys AI Agents Directly to iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram April 22, 2026
- OpenAI Open-Sources Euphony: A Browser-Based Visualization Tool for Harmony Chat Data and Codex Session Logs April 22, 2026
- Hugging Face Releases ml-intern: An Open-Source AI Agent that Automates the LLM Post-Training Workflow April 22, 2026
- A Coding Implementation to Build a Conditional Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization Pipeline with Hyperopt, TPE, and Early Stopping April 22, 2026
