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Kenya’s Senate is once again considering a proposal to strip the IEBC of the duty to stream polling station results live as they’re announced. The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot and Minority Leader Stewart Madzayo, deletes the section requiring this public feed and replaces it with a system centered on electronic transmission of results to tallying centers.

The High Court has stopped the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) from impounding imported vehicles that dealers haven’t yet registered, at least for now. Dealers get a fresh 60-day window to comply before NTSA can move against them. Justice Ngaah Jairus made the ruling after the Car Importers Association of Kenya (CIAK) sued NTSA over a December 2024 directive.

Meta spent much of 2025 fighting off the narrative that it had fallen behind in AI, after a rocky Llama 4 launch and a costly reshuffle of its research division. Now, with the damage sufficiently repaired, its chief executive has returned to the spotlight, presenting a philosophical case for the construction and sharing of AI. The problem is that his argument about openness and trust comes across very differently when you consider what Meta actually did last year.

Kenya’s clean-cooking market has spent 2026 relearning how fragile its subsidized fuel model was. When the country’s dominant bioethanol network shut down at the end of January after losing government authorization for the carbon credits that financed its pricing, roughly 1.5 million households lost access to their cheapest alternative to charcoal and kerosene almost overnight. Into that quiet has stepped Moto Nzuri, a bioethanol refill ATM operating out of Ongata Rongai.

After drafting an email, Gmail gives you a short grace period after hitting send in case you spot a mistake. By default it’s only 5 seconds, but you can stretch that up to 30 seconds. Here’s how to change it and why it’s worth doing. When you send an email, Gmail holds it for a few seconds before it actually leaves your outbox. During that window, a small “Undo” prompt appears on your screen. If you tap or click it, the email gets pulled back as a draft so you can fix it before resending.

Apple just killed its iPhone Upgrade Program and replaced it with something bigger. Starting this week, you can lease an iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, or iPad instead of buying it outright, through a new partnership with Klarna. Prices start at $17.99 a month for an iPhone, $11.99 for an Apple Watch, $24.99 for a Mac, and $11.99 for an iPad. iPhones and Watches come with 12- or 24-month terms. Macs and iPads get 24- or 36-month terms. Not every product qualifies.

Bingo Technologies has opened pre-orders for the Bingo E2, an electric vehicle designed specifically for ride-hailing and delivery drivers in Kenya. The Bingo E2 targets a problem that has kept EVs out of reach for many drivers in cities like Nairobi, where more than 500,000 rides happen every day: there hasn’t been an EV that’s both affordable and reliable enough to stay on the road all day without long charging breaks.

Kenya has spent the better part of a year building toward the draft Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy 2026, and the document now sits in public hands. The State Department for ICT and Digital Economy, under the Ministry of Information, Communications, and Digital Economy, opened it for comment through August 4, giving citizens, researchers, industry, and civil society a narrow but real window to shape how the country will govern the technology.

X has finally turned its long-promised payments feature into a real product. On July 27, 2026, X Money went live in the United States, starting with Premium and Premium+ subscribers. It is not just another way to send cash to someone; X is building it as a full digital bank inside a social media app, and the ambition behind it says a lot about where global tech companies think money is headed.

Anne Kinuthia-Otieno has left her job as managing director of Airtel Money Kenya, ending a run of nearly five years at the head of the company. She announced the move herself on LinkedIn on Saturday, July 25, 2026, saying she was moving on to something new without giving details. No successor has been named yet, and the company has not put out its own statement on the departure.