Caleb Musili

When East Africa's largest bank by assets calls its own general meeting and hands out KSh 22.5 billion to shareholders in a single year, it deserves more than a passing headline.

The scale of Kenya's digital lending ecosystem is staggering. As of April 2026, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has licensed 227 Digital Credit Providers (DCPs), following a fresh batch of 32 new approvals announced on April 14, 2026.

A share (also called a stock) is simply a small piece of ownership in a company. When a company like Safaricom, Equity Bank, or KCB wants to raise money from the public, it lists on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and divides itself into millions of tiny ownership units. Each unit is a share. When you buy one, you become a part-owner of that company, even if it is just a fraction of a percent.

If you woke up to an email from Google yesterday with the subject line "Updates to your Google AI Pro plan," you were not alone. Subscribers across the world received the same message, and the reaction on social media has been, to put it mildly, not great. Google has overhauled how usage limits work on its AI Pro subscription, and what looked like a routine update is turning out to be a significant downgrade for many users.

Google introduced AI Overviews in May 2024, rolling them out to all U.S. users before expanding to over 200 countries and 40 languages by May 2025. The idea was simple: instead of just showing you links, Google would now summarise the answer for you right there on the search page. Google's pitch to publishers was equally simple: we still cite your site. We link back to you. Think of it as free advertising.

The artificial intelligence industry is in the middle of what can only be described as a full-blown energy emergency. The demand for compute has grown so aggressively that the traditional playbook of "find land, build a data center, plug into the grid" is no longer working fast enough.

Google just made one of its most ambitious hardware moves in years. On May 12, 2026, at the Android Show: I/O Edition, the company officially unveiled the Googlebook — a brand new category of laptops it says are built from the ground up for "Gemini Intelligence."

In May 2024, President William Ruto stood before cameras during a state visit to Washington, D.C., and announced that Microsoft and UAE-based artificial intelligence firm G42 would invest $1 billion to build a geothermal-powered data center in Olkaria, Kenya

If you are a Fitbit user, here is news you cannot afford to miss. Starting May 19, 2026, the Fitbit app you have been using to track your steps, sleep, and workouts is officially becoming the Google Health app. No extra downloads, no manual data migration, no complicated setup. Your app updates automatically, and you pick up right where you left off. For many of us in the Google ecosystem, this is not just a name change; it is a signal that Google is finally going all in on health, and it could not have come at a better time.

It has been a rough few weeks to be a developer. If you host your portfolio, your side project, or your startup on Vercel, you have probably already seen the notification. On April 19, 2026, Vercel confirmed what the security community had already begun piecing together: an unauthorized actor had accessed certain internal Vercel systems. If you have not been contacted directly by Vercel, the company says you are likely not affected. But "likely" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and given the scope of what is being claimed on hacking forums, the full picture is still emerging.