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14 African Startups Join MassChallenge 2026 Accelerator, Competing for Up to CHF 1 Million
June 11, 2026
Morocco’s Agenz Raises $5M Seed Round to Scale Real Estate Platform
June 11, 2026
Africa’s AI Startups Are Watching the West Make Expensive Mistakes. They Don’t Have to Repeat Them
June 11, 2026
Algerian Startups Step onto the Global Stage at London Tech Week 2026
June 11, 2026
MTN Eyes Nigeria’s Lending Market as $500bn MoMo Fintech Spinoff Advances
June 11, 2026
Visible From Space: New Research on Zipline’s Impact in Africa Beyond Healthcare
June 10, 2026
African Startups Raise $135 Million in May 2026 as Equity and Debt Funding Balance Out
June 10, 2026
Myka Secures Pre‑Seed Funding to Expand Insurance Access in Nigeria
June 10, 2026
Algeria Opens Its First National AI and Virtual Learning Centre, Eyes 20,000 Startups by 2029
June 10, 2026
Yamify Secures Fresh Funding to Build Africa’s AI Infrastructure From the Ground Up
June 10, 2026
TechCabal
Alliance-backed Daya wants to help businesses manage money using stablecoins
June 11, 2026
AI is now a geopolitical asset. African presidents are racing to catch up.
June 11, 2026
Kenya’s Family Bank secures approval for long-awaited NSE listing
June 11, 2026
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – MTN eyes fintech licences
June 11, 2026
MTN targets Nigeria’s lending market as it seeks fintech licences
June 10, 2026
Everything you need to know about the just-launched OnePlus Turbo 6X and 6X Pro
June 10, 2026
Nigeria’s Roqqu joins race to bring tokenised US stocks to retail investors
June 10, 2026
Beyond financial inclusion, Nigeria’s central bank is chasing regional payments leadership
June 10, 2026
All Apple Intelligence features you should expect in iOS 27
June 10, 2026
timbuktoo’s Joanne Manda on building Africa’s innovation engine from within
June 10, 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
Beyond Accessories: How oraimo Is Building a Lifestyle Technology Ecosystem in Kenya
June 10, 2026
Dental Practice Management Software for Modern Clinics | Dendoo
June 2, 2026
Galaxy A37 and A57: Samsung’s New Creator-First Smartphones Built for Africa’s Digital Generation
May 28, 2026
Visa Kenya Brings Star Wars to Life as Science Fiction Continues to Shape the Future of Technology
May 25, 2026
Safaricom Youth Proposition Partnership EOI Opens Doors for Innovators and Youth-Focused Solution Providers
May 22, 2026
oraimo’s AI-Powered “Space” Upgrade
May 15, 2026
betPawa Equips 575 Players Across 25 Kenyan Teams in Major Sports Development Drive
May 14, 2026
Safaricom Signals Post-Expansion Maturity as Profits Hit KES 100 billion.
May 10, 2026
Kenya to host Global Flyways Summit as Over 40% of Migratory Birds Face Decline
May 4, 2026
IT News Africa – African Business Technology News
inDrive Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
June 11, 2026
City Lodge Hotels Introduces New Buzz App
June 11, 2026
JUMO & Nedbank Launch Next Gen Digital Lending Ecosystem
June 11, 2026
Datacentrix Investing in Education Through CSI Donations
June 11, 2026
Android 16 FRP Bypass Guide: How to Remove Google Account Verification Lock
June 11, 2026
Free Pokémon GO Spoofer for iPhone in 2026 (No Jailbreak)
June 11, 2026
What makes a forex trading app useful for active traders?
June 10, 2026
Google Embeds NotebookLM into Gemini
June 10, 2026
How African Industries Benefit from Open Source, Domain-Specific Models & Platforms
June 10, 2026
Global Payments Platform Unlocks Africa-wide Access for International Merchants
June 10, 2026
TechCity
iOS 27 vs Android 17 AI: Which Platform Is Winning the AI Race in 2026?
June 10, 2026
Apple Intelligence iOS 27 Features: What It Actually Does, Step by Step
June 9, 2026
iOS 27 Announced at WWDC 2026: Everything Apple Just Revealed
June 8, 2026
Tomi Davies, Dr. Victor ‘Gbenga Afolabi to Unveil Africa’s First Ad-Agency GPT at MarkHack 5.0
June 7, 2026
World Environment Day 2026: Sustainable Technology Habits That Actually Make a Difference
June 5, 2026
Best Parental Control App 2026: The Real Review of the Top Options for Families
June 4, 2026
Cyberbullying 2026: What’s Changed and What Parents Still Get Wrong
June 3, 2026
Best VPN Android 2026: Honest Rankings of the Top VPN Apps
June 2, 2026
How to Stay Safe Online: Is Your Internet Connection Actually Private?
June 1, 2026
AgentPR: A Nigerian AI Architect just built Africa first AI powered PR intelligence platform
May 30, 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
Vertiv Unveils Rack Extreme to Power High-Density AI and HPC Data Centres
June 10, 2026
Mitsumi Distribution Expands into India, Iraq and Morocco
June 10, 2026
Westcon-Comstor certified as a Great Place To Work in South Africa
June 10, 2026
NTT DATA Expands Google Cloud Partnership to Scale Agentic AI with Gemini Enterprise
June 10, 2026
Visa Study: 89% of Kenyans Use AI to Shop, But Trust Remains a Barrier at Checkout
June 9, 2026
African Startups Selected for MassChallenge 2026 Accelerator
June 9, 2026
Tibu Health Secures Proparco Funding to Scale ‘Minute Clinics’ Network
June 9, 2026
Only 1 in 10 Docker Hub Images Fully Updated, Kaspersky Study Finds
June 9, 2026
WeeTracker
Morocco’s Agenz Raises USD 5 M Seed Round To Scale Real Estate Platform
June 11, 2026
Airtel Africa Mobile Money Transactions Hit USD 196 B Ahead Of Planned London IPO
June 11, 2026
New Shifts Push South African SMEs From Firefighting To Cautious Growth
June 11, 2026
Zipline’s African Drone Network Finds Gains Beyond Delivering Medical Supplies
June 11, 2026
Egyptians Are Using AI For Shopping But Won’t Let It Touch Their Money
June 10, 2026
Myka Raises Pre-Seed Round To Expand Insurance Access In Nigeria
June 10, 2026
Nigeria Plans Salvage Job For Its eNaira Digital Currency Flop
June 9, 2026
TechTrendsKE
Andela CEO on AI, Talent and the Future of Software Development in Africa
June 11, 2026
The Fibre Revolution Bringing Full-Speed Internet Home
June 11, 2026
Mbadi Announces New Planning Bill to Align Kenya’s Development and Budget Priorities
June 11, 2026
Nigeria’s Bumpa Launches in Kenya, Offering Digital Tools for MSME
June 11, 2026
Simba Corp’s Latest Investment Reflects a Larger Manufacturing Bet on Electric Mobility
June 11, 2026
The Capital Challenge That Caught Up With Kenya’s BNPL Industry
June 11, 2026
Visa and OpenAI Move to Build the Payment Layer for AI Commerce
June 11, 2026
Techloy
Popular Technology in the Welding and Fabrication Industry
June 11, 2026
MTN Says Nigerian Data Is Among the World's Cheapest. Do the Numbers Agree?
June 11, 2026
Best International Payment Platforms in Africa (2026): Fees, Speed & Verdicts
June 11, 2026
Realme P4R 5G Lands in India With an 8,000mAh Battery, But Can It Beat the Oppo Reno 16?
June 11, 2026
What Games Are Coming to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog in June 2026?
June 11, 2026
Xbox Warns of a ‘Reset’ as Layoffs Loom and Hardware Costs Surge
June 11, 2026
Satya Nadella Is Trying to Rein In Microsoft's AI 'Tokenmaxxers'
June 11, 2026
How a VDR Protects More Than Files
June 11, 2026
Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked
June 3, 2026
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
Ventureburn
SonoThera Raises $125M to Advance Gene Therapy
June 11, 2026
KOHO Raises $130M to Accelerate Banking Ambitions
June 11, 2026
The New Word of Mouth Is AI. Is Anyone Recommending You?
June 11, 2026
11 AI Crypto Trading Tools for Earning Money With AI in 2026
June 11, 2026
Neura Robotics Raises Record $1.4B in Funding Round
June 11, 2026
The Crypto Market Is Changing Faster Than Anyone Expected
June 11, 2026
Nesto Raises $302M in Series E at $1.47B Valuation
June 11, 2026
C55 Technology | Latest Tech news | Guardian Nigeria
Flutterwave founder unveils Africa financial OS Vision, calls for shock-ready infrastructure
June 10, 2026
Alphabet to raise $80b for AI goals
June 3, 2026
NRS appoints Upperlink as Nigeria’s e-invoicing platform system integrator
June 3, 2026
Report exposes digital ecosystem execution gap
June 3, 2026
Flutterwave launches global relief package
June 2, 2026
AI-powered cybersecurity key to future of enterprise systems, says expert
May 30, 2026
Top 6 Best Facebook Video Downloaders for Chrome
May 26, 2026
How to Download Instagram Photos Online Using Snapgram: Fast and Ad-Free
May 26, 2026
TechCentral
MTN’s first AI target? Itself
June 11, 2026
Anthropic vs OpenAI and the bitter battle for the future of AI
June 11, 2026
Lost in translation: why AI voice agents fail South Africans
June 11, 2026
Pick n Pay stores to double as nationwide e-waste drop-off network
June 11, 2026
The projects leading Eskom’s 32GW renewables charge
June 11, 2026
AI boom sparks rally, frenzy and fear
June 11, 2026
Trouble at Xbox
June 11, 2026
10 benefits to online learning through Richfield
June 11, 2026
Why a payments company tracks South Africa’s financial pulse
June 11, 2026
MTN South Africa hunts up to R6-billion in savings
June 10, 2026
Technext
Supporting Africa at the 2026 World Cup will cost travelling fans £23,000 – Report
June 11, 2026
MTN Ghana targeted as ‘South Africa Must Go’ protests hit Accra
June 11, 2026
Binance commits $250K to frontline Ebola response in Uganda and DRC
June 11, 2026
ABH 2026: 17 Nigerian entrepreneurs make top 100
June 11, 2026
The SpaceX IPO isn’t draining crypto liquidity: Why the market has it wrong
June 11, 2026
Enza secures Ghana PSP licence to scale digital payments in West Africa
June 11, 2026
Infinix Launches HOT 70 Series with Industry-First 12-Colorway Dynamic Shine Design
June 11, 2026
GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS
MIT News – Artificial intelligence
Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
June 11, 2026
When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”
June 11, 2026
MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
June 11, 2026
Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
June 10, 2026
The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
June 9, 2026
The crucial human component in computing and AI
June 5, 2026
PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs
June 4, 2026
NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery
June 4, 2026
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
June 3, 2026
DEV Community
How to see running queries in Postgres and kill them
June 11, 2026
Kubernetes kills your pod? Here's why
June 11, 2026
Why Comprehensive Code Review Matters More Than You Think
June 11, 2026
AI Test Agents Are Useful, but Only If You Keep Them on a Leash
June 11, 2026
The First RFID Patent Was a Toll Device
June 11, 2026
Vue 3.6 Vapor Mode: Opt Out of the Virtual DOM
June 11, 2026
SkillSpector — Vendor-Backed Security Scanner for AI Agent Skills, Well-Scoped but Dependent on Static Patterns
June 11, 2026
Does the EU AI Act apply to my chatbot?
June 11, 2026
Create a Smaller Video File with H.264 Encoding
June 11, 2026
OpenAI News
BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI
June 11, 2026
How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes
June 11, 2026
Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
June 11, 2026
OpenAI to acquire Ona
June 11, 2026
Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment
June 10, 2026
PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
June 10, 2026
From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI
June 10, 2026
How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits
June 9, 2026
What Codex unlocks for Notion
June 9, 2026
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
June 9, 2026
Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
June 8, 2026
Built to benefit everyone: our plan
June 8, 2026
Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange
June 8, 2026
Google Deep Blog
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
June 10, 2026
Investing in multi-agent AI safety research
June 10, 2026
Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
June 9, 2026
Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
June 9, 2026
Powering the future of robotics in Europe
June 9, 2026
Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond
June 8, 2026
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
May 21, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically
June 11, 2026
Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit
June 11, 2026
Spot trends faster, sort smarter: Unlocking Sparklines and Custom Sort in Amazon Quick
June 11, 2026
Optimize blueprint extraction accuracy in Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
June 11, 2026
How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development
June 11, 2026
Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations
June 10, 2026
Databricks
Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI
June 11, 2026
Ingesting the Milky Way: Petabyte-Scale with Zerobus Ingest
June 11, 2026
How ERGO Hestia reduced time-to-market with Lakebase and Mosaic AI Model Serving
June 11, 2026
Welcoming the first cohort of Databricks student fellows
June 11, 2026
Geospatial Unbounded: Spatial SQL GA with AI/BI Maps, Delta Sharing, and Iceberg v3
June 11, 2026
Azure Databricks at Data + AI Summit 2026 featuring Industry Leaders and Partners
June 11, 2026
Empower your healthcare agents with ready-to-use MCP on Databricks Marketplace
June 11, 2026
How Ecolab rebuilt retail intelligence on Databricks and Anthropic Claude
June 11, 2026
Stop building data products. Start building data services.
June 11, 2026
AIModels.fyi
Why do your coding agents keep getting lost in large repositories?
June 11, 2026
Are you still manually fighting with LaTeX and TikZ to create publication-quality figures?
June 4, 2026
Can your AI agent actually learn from its mistakes or just keep repeating them?
May 28, 2026
Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them?
May 15, 2026
Can we build elite search agents without the massive industrial RL pipelines?
May 10, 2026
Techmeme
Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $6.62B, vs. $6.46B est., and raises its annual forecasts; CFO Dan Durn is leaving for Marvell; ADBE drops 5%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
June 11, 2026
Sources: Founders Fund's ~3% stake in SpaceX is now worth $50B+, after investing $600M; a16z will get the biggest return in its history, with a $10B+ stake (Bloomberg)
June 11, 2026
SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, pricing 555.6M shares at $135 each, giving it a market value of $1.77T (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
June 11, 2026
Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium
What’s New at ODSC AI West 2026: New Tracks, Speakers, and More
June 11, 2026
How to Build Financial Services AI Agents with Claude
June 10, 2026
What Ollama Reveals About Local AI, Agents, and Open Models
June 10, 2026
Ten ODSC AI East 2026 Slides Every Data Scientist Should Review
June 10, 2026
Agentic AI ROI: Why Enterprise Value Depends on What Happens After the Demo
June 9, 2026
Towards AI – Medium
If You’re Not Using These Three Guards in Your AI Agent, It Has Already Sent Your Secrets to the…
June 11, 2026
Building Large Projects with Claude Code - A multi-phase implementation approach
June 11, 2026
Skills Are the Missing Primitive in Your Claude Agent Stack
June 11, 2026
Hallucination Is a Memory Problem: Why No Amount of RLHF Will Fix It
June 11, 2026
They Built an AI So Dangerous the Government Held Emergency Meetings.
June 11, 2026
aibusiness
AI's Hidden Energy Bill: Why Visibility is Becoming Critical for Enterprises
June 11, 2026
Neura Robotics Raises $1.4B for Physical AI
June 11, 2026
Startup Gets OpenAI Backing to Overhaul Enterprise AI Automation
June 11, 2026
Meta Partners With Reliance for First India AI Data Center
June 10, 2026
The Price Enterprises Will Pay for Anthropic Claude Fable 5
June 9, 2026
Waymo Pays $220M for Apple’s Abandoned Self-Driving Car Test Ground
June 9, 2026
OpenAI’s IPO: Navigating Profitability and Market Dynamics
June 9, 2026
Amazon Taps Fiber Optics Producer Corning for Data Center Expansion
June 9, 2026
AI Adoption in the UK is Booming, but Transformation is Stalling
June 9, 2026
Uber and Wayve to Launch London’s First AI Robotaxis
June 8, 2026
Nvidia Forges South Korea Tech Deals in AI Push
June 8, 2026
How Enterprises Should Combat the Growing Shadow AI Problem
June 8, 2026
Google to Pay SpaceX $30B for AI Compute
June 8, 2026
AI Weekly — AI News & Updates
AI Weekly Issue #502: Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT
June 11, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #501: Musk's $1.75 Trillion Bet Isn't a Rocket Company
June 9, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #500: $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking?
June 7, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B
June 4, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #498: Anthropic files for an IPO. NVIDIA ships its stack.
June 1, 2026
Ahead of AI
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
June 6, 2026
Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
May 16, 2026
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
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
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2025
June 10, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2026
June 9, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2026
June 8, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2026
June 7, 2026
Weekly Review 29 May 2026
May 29, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2026
May 28, 2026
Weekly Review 22 May 2026
May 22, 2026
Weekly Review 15 May 2026
May 15, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 5, May 2026
May 12, 2026
Weekly Review 8 May 2026
May 8, 2026
MarkTechPost
xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch
June 11, 2026
Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow
June 11, 2026
Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding
June 11, 2026
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
June 10, 2026
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