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Tech In Africa

How Breet Financed Its First 1,000 Days Without Venture Capital July 24, 2026
South African VC Exits Are Finally Catching Up, and a New R10bn Raise Is Betting on More July 24, 2026
Uber Is Taking Over Glovo and Talabat’s African Operations in a €14.8bn Delivery Hero Deal July 24, 2026
South African VC exits show early signs of a maturing venture capital ecosystem July 24, 2026
FMO Plans $30 Million Financing Package for M-KOPA’s Kenya E-Mobility Business July 23, 2026
Nigeria Opens $350,000 Funding Programme for Early-Stage Tech Startups July 23, 2026
Egypt’s Mylerz Secures Over USD 2 Million to Grow E-commerce Logistics Operations July 23, 2026
South African Fintech Zazu Lands Seed Investment from Launch Africa Ventures July 23, 2026
Seychelles Fintech Fusepay Launches AI Platform for Trade Businesses July 23, 2026
Botswana Tech Fund Secures $6.7 Million at First Close July 23, 2026

TechCabal

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Zedcrest acquires Leatherback July 28, 2026
Vodacom’s $548 billion mobile money business shows fintech is driving its future July 27, 2026
AI is making it harder to hide income from South Africa’s taxman July 27, 2026
African venture capital is backing fewer founders than ever July 27, 2026
Airtel Money Kenya chief exits months before planned London listing July 27, 2026
Zedcrest Group acquires cross-border payments startup Leatherback in global fintech push July 27, 2026
Unlicenced Kenya’s digital lenders cannot recover loans after court ruling July 27, 2026
The Next Wave: Africa’s payment rails have a participation problem July 27, 2026
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – E-buses in Cape Town July 27, 2026
“The problem was much bigger than we anticipated it to be”: Day 1-1000 of Mida July 25, 2026

How we made it in Africa

Three promising business opportunities in Somalia July 27, 2026
The business opportunities in helping Africans land higher-paying jobs abroad July 25, 2026
Nigeria: How this snack food company won over informal shopkeepers July 20, 2026
Is this crop Nigeria’s next big agribusiness opportunity? July 15, 2026
Nigerian creates business exporting avocados and chillies from Rwanda to European supermarkets July 13, 2026
How we made it in Africa II recognised at 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award July 7, 2026
Ghana: From side hustle to 16 stores – a retail entrepreneur’s story July 3, 2026
The new face of African entrepreneurship July 2, 2026
How this Africa-focused investor manages his own money June 29, 2026
Africa joins the global school chess circuit with first WSTC qualifier June 27, 2026

KachTech Media

TICON Africa Welcomes Global AI Cooperation Organization July 27, 2026
Samsung Launches Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Watch9 with AI Health July 24, 2026
CANAL+ to Broadcast Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Across Africa July 24, 2026
Airtel Africa Reports Strong Customer and Revenue Growth July 23, 2026
Stanbic Kenya Foundation Boosts Digital Learning in Embu July 23, 2026
M-KOPA Reaches 10 Million Customers as Growth Gains Pace July 23, 2026
Banks No Longer Compete on Money. They Compete on Data July 22, 2026
Kenya Music Growth Highlighted by Spotify Streaming Data July 22, 2026
KCB CFAO Youth Training Boosts Automotive and E-Mobility Skills July 22, 2026

IT News Africa – African Business Technology News

More than 4 million South Africans have chosen the new GoTyme Bank app July 27, 2026
Paystack Launches Small Business Launchpad for Nigerian SMEs July 27, 2026
Sedna Africa helps mining companies turn fragmented operational data into a single source of truth July 27, 2026
Telkom Enhances Digital Mobile Contract Sign-Up with End-to-End Online Journey July 27, 2026
Ten insights into how technology is changing decision‑making in the mining industry July 23, 2026
Best Pokémon GO Spoofers for iPhone in 2026: 4 Safe Methods Compared July 23, 2026
Ethio Telecom Profit Jumps as Data Revenue Overtakes Voice, Marking Historic Digital Shift July 23, 2026
Forgot Apple ID Password? How to Remove Activation Lock on iPhone July 23, 2026
Africa’s ICT Ministers Open Conference in Abuja to Decide Telecommunications Union’s Future July 23, 2026
Why retailers are embracing digital payout solutions to improve workforce and customer engagement July 23, 2026

TechCity

Tech Routine for Better Sleep in 2026: How to Use Technology to Rest Better July 27, 2026
5G Nigeria 2026: What’s Actually Available and What’s Just Marketing? July 27, 2026
Dangerous Apps in 2026: 10 Types You Should Delete or Avoid July 22, 2026
How to Use Google Maps Offline in 2026: A Step-by-Step Guide July 22, 2026
How to Use Your Phone Less in 2026 Without Feeling Like You’re Missing Out July 21, 2026
How to Use AI to Learn Faster in 2026: A Practical Beginner’s Guide July 19, 2026
Infinix HOT 70 Pro Officially Available in Nigeria: Active Matrix Cube, AI Features, 5G and IP68 Water Resistance July 17, 2026
How Emoji Are Made: Who Designs Them and Who Decides What Gets Added? July 17, 2026
AI Writing Tools and Students in 2026: What the Research Really Says July 16, 2026
6 Best Sites to Buy Gift Cards Online Instantly in Nigeria (2026) July 15, 2026

AppsAfrica.com | African mobile and tech news – tech events in Africa

TechArena

Swedfund Invests USD 12 Million in Acumen’s Agriculture Fund to Boost Climate Resilience Across Africa July 27, 2026
Airtel Africa Revenue Jumps 31% as East Africa Business Posts Strong Growth July 27, 2026
Kenya Publishes Comprehensive Regulations for Virtual Asset Service Providers July 27, 2026
Kenya Opens Draft AI Policy for Public Participation, Seeks Views Ahead of August Deadline July 24, 2026
Mastercard Foundation Launches $500 Million AHEFT Prize to Transform Higher Education in Africa July 24, 2026
WayaWaya Appoints Former Chase Bank Executive Raj Singh to Board July 24, 2026
Vertiv expands cooling manufacturing capacity to meet AI infrastructure demand July 24, 2026
Opinion | Unpacking the power and potential of choice in enterprise AI July 24, 2026

WeeTracker

Morocco’s Plan To Build Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Is Afoot With Major Backing July 27, 2026
Kenyan Court Delivers Blow To Unlicensed Loan Apps Seeking Debt Repayment July 27, 2026
Egypt’s Fincart Raises Over USD 2.8 M Seed To Expand AI E-commerce Platform July 27, 2026
Nigeria’s Zedcrest Group Acquires Cross-Border Payments Startup Leatherback July 27, 2026
African Female Founders Gain Ground In Startups But Lose Even More Ground In Funding July 27, 2026
Nigeria’s Codar Raises USD 1.5 M To Expand AI & Digital Skills Training July 27, 2026
Kenya’s New Pay & Mental Health Rules For AI Data Workers Rip Outsourcing Playbook July 24, 2026

TechTrendsKE

Absa Bank Unveils the First Mobile Smart ID Branch in South Africa July 28, 2026
TECNO POVA Launches “Own Your Move” Platform in Kenya July 28, 2026
Huawei Says AI Could Become a Major Driver of South Africa’s Economy July 27, 2026
Standard Bank Passes CNY 8 Billion in CIPS Payments as Africa-China Trade Grows July 27, 2026
Vodacom’s Higher Growth Targets Put Safaricom at the Heart of Its Next Chapter July 27, 2026
Paystack Launches Four-Week Growth Programme for Nigerian SMEs July 27, 2026
Abuja Declaration Sets the Tone for Africa’s Connected Future July 27, 2026

Techloy

Xbox May Finally Have a Fix for Slow Game Downloads July 27, 2026
Galaxy S27 Ultra Release Date: Leaks Reveal a Surprise 4th Model July 27, 2026
Who Killed Criston Cole? House of the Dragon Just Changed a Key Part From the Books July 27, 2026
I Tested Claude Cowork. Here's Where It Fits Into My Workflow July 27, 2026
Is Xbox Down Right Now? Error 0x87e107df Update July 27, 2026
What Businesses Should Check Before Renting Multiple Smartphones July 27, 2026
How Professionals Are Using AI to Find Jobs and Get Hired July 26, 2026
Why BlackBerry Lost the Smartphone War July 26, 2026

Africa | Startup News and Analysis on TechCrunch

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple June 16, 2026
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

Ventureburn

What Payment Rails Power Fast Crypto Purchases in 2026 July 28, 2026
Enigma Raises $71M to Advance Physical AI for Robotics July 27, 2026
Binance Alpha to List AEON: How to Claim the 250 AEON Airdrop on July 27 July 27, 2026
Ominimo Raises $22.5 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation July 27, 2026
Antares Raises $470M in Series C to Accelerate Military Microreactor Deployment July 27, 2026
Multiverse Computing Raises $570 Million in Series C Funding for Global Expansion July 27, 2026
10 Best Crypto Lending Platform Options in 2026 (Ranked) July 26, 2026

TechCentral

Canal+ concedes MultiChoice turnaround is not won July 28, 2026
Canal+ bought out Showmax minority shareholder before killing it July 28, 2026
DStv’s subscriber count has gone dark July 28, 2026
Beijing warns of retaliation over US threats to Chinese AI firms July 28, 2026
Apple’s next CEO plants his flag in Hollywood July 28, 2026
Vodacom scales back dividend policy to fund growth push July 27, 2026
South Africa’s banks have become the exit ramp for its fintechs July 27, 2026
Prime spectrum lies idle as the Woan’s ghost lingers July 27, 2026
Out of the blue, China has a new most-valuable company July 27, 2026
Hackers are hiding malware behind AI agents that antivirus cannot see July 27, 2026

Technext

VCs explain what startups must do to get funded in 2026 at the Africa Capital Allocators Mixer July 28, 2026
Before the startups: How Mitchell Elegbe built Interswitch on a ₦200M bet July 28, 2026
Claude’s privacy lie July 28, 2026
MI Abaga believes that AI is the ultimate catalyst for African creators July 27, 2026
Claude shared chats spark privacy concerns after search indexing claims July 27, 2026
2.7% of $1.37 billion raised in H1: “female founders should become more investable” – OuiLife CEO, Dinma Obidiebube says July 27, 2026
Reps push FG to support local drone manufacturing amid rising security threats July 27, 2026

GLOBAL AI/ML NEWS

MIT News – Artificial intelligence

Working to automate nuclear plant operations July 24, 2026
MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission July 23, 2026
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83 July 22, 2026
Following the questions where they lead July 17, 2026
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping July 16, 2026
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design July 15, 2026
Helping AI models to meet the real world July 14, 2026
Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering July 14, 2026
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks July 13, 2026

DEV Community

Everyone says submit to SaaS directories so AI finds you. I measured 172 citations across 4 categories. Directories got 1. July 28, 2026
13 of the 14 tools AI recommends in my category are on the same list. I am not on it. July 28, 2026
What Is Agentic Marketing? How AI Agents Are Replacing the Modern Marketing Stack July 28, 2026
Anthropic deleted 80% of Claude Code's system prompt. No regression. July 28, 2026
Building auditable regulatory reference data: from legal text to versioned CSV July 28, 2026
Signed execution receipts: a primer on why logs are not evidence July 28, 2026
AI Will Kill Your Project and You Won't Even Notice. Part One: Deploy July 28, 2026
AI Coding Assistants Aren't Replacing Developers — They're Changing What "Junior" Means July 28, 2026
You hand-edit headlines to avoid orphaned words. `text-wrap: balance` does it natively. July 28, 2026

OpenAI News

How AI is expanding what people do at work July 27, 2026
Launching Health in ChatGPT July 23, 2026
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions July 22, 2026
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community July 22, 2026
Advancing the next era of national science July 22, 2026
Introducing OpenAI Presence July 22, 2026
NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex July 22, 2026
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program July 21, 2026
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation July 21, 2026
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC July 21, 2026
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models July 20, 2026
A scorecard for the AI age July 17, 2026
Why teens deserve access to safe AI July 16, 2026

Google Deep Blog

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission July 22, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber July 21, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber July 17, 2026
Our approach to bioresilience July 16, 2026
Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi July 13, 2026
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership July 3, 2026
Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash June 30, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS July 27, 2026
Deepgram enhances Amazon SageMaker AI support with AWS IAM Temporary Delegation July 27, 2026
How Guardoc transforms medical document processing with Amazon Nova models July 27, 2026
Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model July 24, 2026
Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS July 24, 2026
Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock July 24, 2026

Databricks

Get Started with Genie One: Top AI Cowork Use Cases for Business Users July 28, 2026
The EU Digital Product Passport: a traceability deadline July 27, 2026
Building AI Literacy: Frameworks, Tools, and Practices July 27, 2026
AI Applications in Finance: A Practical Use Case Guide July 24, 2026
How the FDA Built an AI Platform That 85% of Its Staff Now Use Daily July 23, 2026
Permission isn't purpose: Intent-based authorization in Omnigent July 23, 2026
Provisioning for the Agentic Era: How Databricks Built a Self-Serve Infrastructure Vending Machine July 23, 2026
Why A Frontier Data Agent Outperforms General Coding Agents in Quality and Cost July 23, 2026
Connect Amazon S3 data to Databricks with Delegated IAM Permissions July 23, 2026

AIModels.fyi

Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1 July 27, 2026
Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up? July 16, 2026
Why build a bigger model when you can just loop twice for twice the power? June 22, 2026
Can an AI agent run the entire scientific method without human supervision? June 17, 2026
Why do your coding agents keep getting lost in large repositories? June 11, 2026

Techmeme

Stories by ODSC – Open Data Science on Medium

Consider forwarding this newsletter to a friend or colleague so they can also stay up-to-date on… July 25, 2026
AI Engineering and Agentic Engineering: What Separates the Two July 23, 2026
Why AI Engineering Is Becoming the Must-Have Skill Set for 2026 July 22, 2026
This week at ODSC AI: Super Early Bird Ending, First Speakers Announced for West July 16, 2026
Personal AI Agents Summit 2026: 9 Sessions on Security, MCP, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Gemini July 14, 2026

Towards AI – Medium

aibusiness

Improved Voice Mode Makes Working With Claude Easier July 27, 2026
Neura Robotics to Open Physical AI Training Center July 27, 2026
Tech Companies Urge Caution by US policymakers on Open Models July 27, 2026
Prompt: The AI Threat Model Just Changed July 24, 2026
What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises July 23, 2026
Schneider Electric, AMD Unveil Blueprint for AI Factory Deployments July 23, 2026
UK Robot Maker Humanoid Valued at $1.35 billion July 23, 2026
Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2B July 22, 2026
Microsoft-Mistral Partnership is About Sovereign AI July 22, 2026
Google Cloud, Nvidia Collaborate With German Startup for AI Robots July 22, 2026
Agibot Expands Embodied AI Portfolio With Four New Products July 22, 2026
New Gemini 3.5 Flash Models Are Faster and Cheaper but Not Smarter July 21, 2026
OpenAI Urges Enterprises to Use Its Scorecard to Measure Worth of AI July 21, 2026

AI Weekly — AI News & Updates

AI Weekly Issue #516: OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next? July 22, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #515: China's AI is redrawing the AI race July 20, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #514: Applied AI Is Here: What's Working, What Got Pulled Back, and Why Now July 15, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #513: Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it. July 13, 2026
AI Weekly Issue #512: Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots July 9, 2026

Ahead of AI

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs July 18, 2026
Using Local Coding Agents June 27, 2026
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

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 Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence Volume 10, Issue 4, August 2026 July 26, 2026
Weekly Review 24 July 2026 July 24, 2026
Weekly Review 17 July 2026 July 17, 2026
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Volume 12, Issue 7, July 2026 July 13, 2026
Evolving Systems, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026 July 12, 2026
Weekly Review 10 July 2026 July 10, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 37, Issue 7, July 2026 July 8, 2026
Soft Computing, Volume 30, Issue 6, June 2026 July 5, 2026
Weekly Review 3 July 2026 July 3, 2026
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 34, Issue 7, July 2026 July 2, 2026

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