Meta’s AI Academy Kenya applications close today, with KSh1 million in funding for two startups
Meta opened AI Academy Kenya with This Is Digital. Two startups win about KES 650,000 each. Applications close 30th September.
Meta opened AI Academy Kenya with This Is Digital. Two startups win about KES 650,000 each. Applications close 30th September.
Former CBK governor Patrick Njoroge wants Kenya's law to pay M-Pesa users interest on wallets. Comments close 9th October 2026.
Google says LLM-jacking is spreading. One April case shows how far an attacker can get from a single leaked GitHub token.
Africa Tech Festival 2026 returns to Cape Town in November, putting AI, data centres, cloud infrastructure and connectivity high on the agenda for its 29th edition.
Kenyan businesses running customer care on the WhatsApp Business Platform will begin paying for service messages from October 1st, with Meta set to charge roughly Sh0.52 per delivered message after the first 1,000 free service messages each month.
Kenya detected 72.16 million DDoS threats in the year to June 2026, more than double the previous year's figure, according to the Communications Authority.
This week's events cover AI, startups, quantum computing, Python, and tech communities across Nairobi. Founder sessions, hackathons, conferences, and hands-on workshops are happening between September 30 and October 4.
Starlink had 27,616 Kenyan subscribers in June, up 58.5% in a year, just days before pausing sign-ups in seven counties.
The International Business Training College (IBTC) has expanded its data centre workforce development programme to Kenya
Latitude59 is returning to Kenya for the fourth consecutive year, applications are open
Kenya’s proposed payments bill could open up the financial data held by banks, M-Pesa and other providers, creating new room for fintechs to build services around information that has traditionally stayed inside individual platforms.
Safaricom went from fifth place in 2014 to Kenya's first million-subscription internet provider, with more than Faiba and Zuku combined.
Minisend is official payment partner of Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 in Nairobi
KCB Group is seeking a 22.23% stake in Pesapal, with Tanzania’s competition regulator revealing the size of the previously undisclosed investment. The deal is still under regulatory review, while the purchase price remains undisclosed.
Airtel Money is targeting a London IPO at a valuation of up to $9 billion. Existing shareholders are seeking at least $800 million, while Airtel Africa remains the majority owner.
After a decade focused on expanding women’s access to technology, She Code Africa is placing greater emphasis on…
Google's Nairobi Gemini workshop covered creative tools and a student offer with 12 free months, verification requirements and paid renewal
Kenya is moving digital-content tax collection into creator platforms. YouTube is already rolling it out, while TikTok is preparing to follow.
PAPSS payments grew about 1,000% in a year. Kenya connected through Pesalink in February, and the average payment got smaller.
Enterprise automation dominates Nairobi this week. System architects and founders should catch the JW Marriott agentic conference and Saturday's intense n8n workflow hackathons.
Kenyan investors have lost Sh93 billion in startup failures, and the collapse of these young businesses has left thousands of Kenyans jobless. The pattern is painfully consistent: firms hired aggressively to chase scale, burned through capital, and never reached profitability.
TikTok is asking Kenyan creators for tax details. The residency answer on its new form decides whether it withholds 5%.
Vodacom plans to appeal a Kenyan High Court ruling that ordered the cancellation of its $1.6 billion purchase of an additional 15% stake in Safaricom from the Kenyan government. The court ruled on Tuesday that the government had failed to adequately involve the public in the sale and that the process
Kenya’s Communications Authority is proposing new licences for GSM-based alarm systems and data centres. The proposals include a Sh680 annual fee per alarm unit and a Sh100,000 standalone data-centre licence.
Kenya has appointed Lorna A. Omondi Ogolla and Dr Joy Kibor to the Board of Directors of the newly established... Source
Circle is buying cross-border payments company TazaPay for $400 million, bringing local payment rails and banking integrations deeper into its stablecoin business.
Amaco wants to build a $1.5 billion, self-powered AI data centre in Mombasa, sidestepping the grid dependency that stalled Kenya's last mega data-centre deal with Microsoft and G42.
Anthropic caught a Kenyan operator using its Claude AI to mass-produce fake grassroots social media posts praising CS Opiyo Wandayi and attacking the opposition.
Meta and This Is Digital have launched AI Academy Kenya, offering practical AI training for Kenyan students, developers, startups and professionals. The programme combines an AI Pitchathon with an eight-week Masterclass focused on building and using AI tools.
Airtel’s Kenyan Wholesale Fibre Business Made Zero Revenue Before It Shut Down