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CA Proposes Six-Month Grace Period Before Telcos Can Recycle Dormant SIM Cards
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has published draft procedural and technical safeguards g...
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Meta Bricks Cameras on Thousands of AI Glasses in Crackdown on Covert Recording
Meta has confirmed that a mandatory software update has permanently disabled the cameras on thousand...
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Kenya's Startup Bill, Explained: What It Promises and Why Founders Are Divided
Kenya's tech ecosystem has spent nearly five years waiting for a single piece of legislation that co...
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Kenya Gets a "Responsible AI Governor," Days After Its Draft AI Policy Closed for Public Comment
Kenyan technology executive Michael Michie Kamau has been named the country's Responsible AI Governo...
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Opinion: Kenya's New Cyber Café Rules Fight Yesterday's Threat
Starting Friday, August 14, 2026, a Kenyan walking into a cyber café to print a form or check email ...
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Anthropic Starts Watermarking Claude's Text Output, and the Move Reaches Kenyan Users Too
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by its newe...
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Kenya's Cyber Cafés Must Now ID Every Customer as New CA Rules Take Effect Friday
Anonymous browsing at Kenya's neighbourhood cyber cafés ends on Friday, August 14, 2026. New licensi...
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When the Algorithm Does the Firing: What Meta's Layoff Lawsuit Means for Kenya's AI Bill
A lawsuit filed in a California federal court in July has become the clearest test yet of what happe...
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Why A Gigabyte In Kenya Still Costs What It Cost A Decade Ago, Even As Apps Grew Heavier
Kenyan mobile subscribers have spent the better part of 2026 complaining that their data bundles are...
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Why Midrange Smartphone Prices Keep Climbing in Kenya
Smartphones in Kenya have become significantly more expensive over the past six years, and a new tax...
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KRA's New Cargo Declaration Rule Kicks In Today, With Blockchain Overhaul Waiting in the Wings
Kenya's ports entered a new regulatory regime on Monday, August 3, 2026, as the Kenya Revenue Author...
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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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Kenya Just Created a Cabinet Committee on AI. Here Is What It Actually Does, and Why It Might Not Fix the Real Problem
On June 30, 2026, during a Cabinet meeting chaired by President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi...
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Meta Says Kenya's Digital Economy Could Hit $13 Billion by 2035. Here Is the Honest Assessment.
Meta has just dropped a major economic impact report for Sub-Saharan Africa, researched by public po...
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When Regulators Panic Faster Than AI Labs Can Ship: What the Fable 5 Ban Really Tells Us
Three days. That is how long Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 lasted in the wild before the US gov...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Lending: How Mobile Loan Apps Are Making and Breaking Kenya's Small Businesses
The scale of Kenya's digital lending ecosystem is staggering. As of April 2026, the Central Bank of ...
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Kenya Has the Most Expensive Diesel in East Africa. Here Is Why, and Who Is Responsible.
Following EPRA's latest review, which took effect on May 15, 2026, super petrol in Nairobi now retai...
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Kenya's AI Bill Says You Must Be Told When You Are Talking to a Chatbot. Here Is What It Actually Proposes.
If you have ever chatted with a customer service bot on a Kenyan bank's website without knowing it w...
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Kenya's Data Regulator Has Officially Opened an Investigation Into Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses. Here Is What Happens Next.
On March 31, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner confirmed in a formal letter that it has...
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Will Cheap Smartphones Vanish From Kenya? Breaking Down the CA's New Mobile Device Rules.
The Communications Authority issued a public notice yesterday ( March 24, 2026) announcing updated T...
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