AMD and Intel collaborate to simplify AI development on x86 systems
AMD and Intel are collaborating to combine their x86 CPU optimisation work for PyTorch in oneDNN, an open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL) that helps AI workloads run efficiently on CPUs. The collaboration gives...
Nvidia focuses on water and power consumption with DSX platform
Nvidia says that some of Europe’s leading ecosystem partners, including CoreWeave, Firmus, Nscale and Google Cloud, are planning to adopt Nvidia DSX AI Factory Platform to build AI factories that minimise water consumption for cooling and use less power for the same...
Ampath confirms hack, but disputes theft of 80m patient records
Ampath, one of the country’s biggest pathology labs, has confirmed that it has been the victim of a cyberattack, but has issued a statement clarifying the claim by hackers that “80-million patient records” have been stolen. The company says it has contained the...
Smartphone shipments tank, with worse to come
The global smartphone market shrank 22.0% year-on-year to 255,3-million units in the third quarter of 2026 (3Q26), according to the preliminary data from IDC Research (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Shipments tanked 22% year-on-year (YoY) in 3Q26,...
Google funds UCT to accelerate AI platform
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has secured $1,6-million (approximately R26,4-million) from Google.org to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that could help doctors make safer, more effective treatment decisions for African patients by mapping...
$3,5trn of AI infrastructure spend risks being exposed to impairment
More than $3,5-trillion of AI infrastructure spending could be exposed to impairment by the end of 2030, if AI providers continue their current pace of capital spending, according to Gartner. “In 2026, AI providers are expected to spend nearly $1-trillion on AI...
Local insurance industry resilient, but risks are evolving
South Africa's insurance industry delivered strong financial results in 2025, supported by solid capital positions, improved profitability across key segments, and favourable investment conditions, says KPMG. However, its latest South African Insurance Industry Survey...
Climate risks are SA’s next economic challenge
For much of the past two years, economists, policymakers, and businesses have focused on familiar risks: inflation, interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and slowing global growth, writes Aroni Chaudhuri, chief Africa economist at Coface. Yet one of the more...
Last-minute Black Friday tips for smaller merchants
Less than six weeks’ out from Black Friday, bigger retailers probably have their systems locked down and nobody wants to start rebuilding a checkout - but some of the things that cost merchants sales don’t require a total rebuild to fix. The Online Retail in South...
What Gen Z expects from the future of technology
Yesterday (14 October 2026) was International E-Waste Day, and Kaspersky is highlighting an emerging paradox in Gen Z’s behaviour: while Gen Z is the most digitally immersed generation, it also leads in awareness of technology’s environmental impact. Indeed, one in...
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By Barry Buck, with Claude Opus 4.8 - Last week OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, and the AGI era was declared — mostly by people with something to sell. OpenAI’s president closed the launch briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.” Nvidia’s CEO, whose chips trained it,...
The last thing rural SA needs is a competition holiday
The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so that six of South Africa’s largest network operators can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure rollout. By Paul Colmer, executive member of the...
The role of flash storage in the era of physical AI
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been particularly good at answering questions, many may be wondering how else the technology could help us in our daily lives. Well, we are already starting to see the next phase of AI, where intelligence has leapt off the screen...
Peak retail season prep starts now
The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late, writes Melinda Ellis van Zyl, enterprise sales lead of Shiprazor. Most South African digital retailers lock their systems down weeks...
The model is the easy part. What happens around it determines if AI works
Many AI projects start when someone sees an impressive demonstration and asks where the technology could be used. This is usually where the conversation moves towards products before anyone has established which business problem needs attention or what a worthwhile...
The future of customer service is automated, but must retain a human heart
Customer self-service is not a new phenomenon; it’s just much easier than in years gone by, writes Kelvin Brown, customer operations executive at Telviva. Yet, despite this, everyone reading this will relate to being “trapped” in a seemingly never-ending loop in...
The business case doesn’t end at go-live
A migration, modernisation programme or new application may be delivered on time and still fail to produce its expected return. The difference is usually made in the months and years after launch, writes Byron Phillips, head of managed operations at Synthesis. Go-live...
SA’s fibre market enters its next chapter: what happens after the rollout race?
The South African fibre landscape is currently dominated by noise, from the arrival of LEO satellites to infrastructure operators launching their own retail ISPs. Trevor van Zyl, CEO of Octotel, says the focus must shift from simply laying cable to solving complex,...
Security monitoring should not cost more the harder you look
Security maturity in the mid-market over the next few years will be decided as much by pricing models as by technology. By Christo Coetzer, founder and MD of BlueVision Technologies. The most important question a growing business can put to a prospective security...
AI raises the bar for digital literacy
Most professionals today know how to send an email, navigate a basic spreadsheet, put together a presentation or make a video call without thinking twice. By Michelle Dobson, head of brand at Pnet Even young people joining the workforce have grown up with smartphones...
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