Nov 6, 2026
Holiday retail planning used to follow a predictable playbook: Optimise the checkout funnel; launch the campaigns; stock the shelves; brace for Cyber Week. But in today’s market, that playbook is obsolete. Data from the Salesforce Shopping Index tells the story...
Nov 6, 2026
AI adoption is expanding rapidly across OECD economies, but significant gaps among businesses and generations risk limiting the benefits of digital transformation, according to the OECD Digital Economy and Society Outlook 2026. Large firms are more than twice as...
Nov 6, 2026
The United Nations has launched its first system-wide toolbox designed to ensure that people, rather than machines, remain accountable for public decisions in smart cities in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). AI is already at work in city halls around the...
Nov 6, 2026
CFOs are under increasing pressure to show returns from AI investments, yet productivity gains in most organisations are too marginal to materially impact financial performance or consistently lower headcount, says Gartner, adding that active governance is needed to...
Nov 6, 2026
As AI and increasingly connected technologies reshape the way businesses operate, South African organisations must rethink how they manage cybersecurity, with greater accountability at board level and a stronger focus on resilience, trust, and collaboration. This was...
Nov 5, 2026
The chip selloff triggered by the Democrats’ midterm sweep is likely to deepen in the coming days as investors price in higher energy and financing costs for the AI buildout, though indiscriminate selling now risks punishing the sector’s strongest companies alongside...
