RAMageddon puts pressure on smartphone prices
A wave of price increases across this summer's flagship smartphone launches offers the clearest evidence yet that the AI-driven memory shortage - often dubbed RAMageddon - is reshaping the mobile device market: what phones cost, how much memory they carry, and which...
Festive demands come up against a new cost squeeze
With the release of GoTyme Bank’s SME Outlook for Q4 2026 report, its group executive, Miguel da Silva, examines the economic forces likely to shape the critical festive-trading quarter – from resilient but selective consumer demand to rising fuel costs, constrained...
Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments
Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution. “People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of...
AI climate benefits struggle to compete with rising environmental footprint
Artificial intelligence’s (AI) climate benefits risk being overstated as surging data centre emissions and water consumption threaten to outpace efficiency gains, says a new report from GlobalData. While predictive AI can deliver measurable reductions across energy,...
Chief economists expect global economy to stabilise, but …
The global economy is stabilising, but the fiscal support that cushioned successive shocks since 2020 is unlikely to play the same role in the year ahead, according to the World Economic Forum's Chief Economist’s Outlook. A majority (56%) of chief economists surveyed...
Five-year goal to help 3bn people use AI in their own language
Organisations from across the global AI ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to help close one of AI’s most significant access gaps: providing safe, effective AI services in the languages people speak around the world. A group of 60 signatories are uniting...
Crypto winter looks to be ending
Bitcoin’s bulls are back in charge, says Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, as the digital asset pushes past $85 000 and tests its highest level since January. And, he adds, as US spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds attract fresh billions. Inflows have totalled about...
Google and AWS rank highest among enterprise AI platform providers
AI platform providers are racing to incorporate tools that strengthen agentic AI governance, improve visibility into and control over token usage, and support a range of deployment options, says research group GlobalData. To capture the hype around agentic AI, several...
SA’s energy, mining and tech sectors resilience leaders in a three-speed global economy
Three different speeds, driven by three different factors. This is how the global economy is approaching 2027, with uneven and volatile growth, according to Allianz Trade’s Sector Atlas 2026. According to the report by the world's leading trade credit insurance...
New tests could slash SA’s TB deaths by two-thirds
A new study led by University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Associate Professor Leigh Johnson suggests that new tests, which can be performed in clinics on either tongue swab or sputum specimens, could reduce TB incidence by as much as 49% - and TB mortality by as much as 67%...
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Telecoms uptime is as much a function of finance as it is engineering
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Sovereign cloud: real control, or just the appearance of it?
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The foundation every AI strategy needs
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CX and fan engagement are finally converging
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AI has improved execs’ work – but they don’t know how
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When one click costs thousands
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What happens when your AI assistant learns your bad workplace habits?
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How to assess whether your business is ready for AI
When business leaders ask me where to start with AI, I often find that the pressure to act has arrived before the plan, writes Charmé van der Westhuizen, new business development manager at IPT. They have seen what Microsoft 365 Copilot can do, employees are already...
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