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Treasury Cuts Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms by Up to 40% After Industry Pressure
Kenya's National Treasury has slashed the minimum capital crypto firms need to operate legally in th...
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Airtel Money Kenya Loses the MD Who Took It From Also-Ran to Real Rival
Anne Kinuthia-Otieno has stepped down as Managing Director of Airtel Money Kenya, closing out nearly...
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Google Now Lets You Recover Your Account With a Selfie Video
Google has added a new way into locked accounts: a short selfie video that stands in for a password ...
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Kenya Now Requires a One-Year Warranty on Every Phone and Laptop Sold, With Fines of at Least Sh500,000 for Vendors Who Skip It
Under new rules from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), every mobile phone, tablet, and lap...
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An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test. Here Is What That Actually Proves.
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed that two of its models, including flagship GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out...
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From Research to Revenue: Why Kenyan Universities Struggle to Commercialize IP
Every semester, labs at the University of Nairobi, JKUAT, Strathmore, MUST, and dozens of other inst...
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Ruto Promises Free University Education for All — But the Bill Isn't Law, and the Timing Isn't Neutral
President William Ruto announced on July 21, 2026, that every student admitted to a public universit...
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BasiGo and Rubis Energy Kenya Take EV Charging Beyond Nairobi
Kenya's electric vehicle infrastructure has been almost entirely confined to the capital since the i...
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Why Satellite Towns Stopped Being Nairobi's Affordable Escape
For most of the last decade, moving to a satellite town was the default answer for Nairobi buyers pr...
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The Great Nairobi Divide: Why Houses Are Booming While Apartments Correct
Nairobi's property market is no longer one market. In the same quarter, standalone houses in suburbs...
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SCRYPT Brings Direct Shilling-to-Stablecoin Settlement to Kenya
Kenyan businesses that trade internationally have long faced the same bottleneck: to pay a supplier ...
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Uber Is Buying Glovo's Parent Company. In Kenya, That Means One Firm Could Soon Own Two of the Three Biggest Delivery Apps
Uber has agreed to acquire German food-delivery group Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion, a deal that w...
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How Savo Store Is Rewiring the Way Kenyans Shop on Amazon
Savo Store, a Kenya-focused freight forwarding and procurement service, has built a business around ...
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Jumia's Long Road to Profit: Inside 13 Years of Losses and the Promise of a 2026 Breakeven
Jumia was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, two former McKinsey consultants, al...
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Can You Copyright AI-Generated Work in Kenya? A New Tribunal Ruling Says No, Unless You Do This
The ruling came out of a dispute between Aryeh Movement Limited and Cynthia Beldina Akoth Okello, an...
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The "Ethical" AI Company Is the Internet's Biggest Taker: Inside Anthropic's Crawl-to-Refer Problem
Cloudflare tracks something it calls the crawl-to-refer ratio. It's a simple idea. For every page a ...
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Devolving AI: Inside Microsoft and Stanbic's Push to Move Tech Skills Beyond Nairobi
The two organisations, working alongside Konza Technopolis and Pathways Technologies, have expanded ...
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Why Data Compliance Is Becoming Kenya's New Startup Currency
On June 4, 2026, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) issued a public notice urging...
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Kenya's Ride-Hailing Shake-Up: What a KES 500 Minimum Fare Could Really Mean for Drivers and Passengers
The Ministry of Roads and Transport, through the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), is ...
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Cloudflare Says It's Fixing the AI Web. Is It Just Rewarding the Publishers Who Already Won?
On July 1, 2026, Cloudflare returned with year two of that push. The announcement introduced a new c...
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