AI fraud is outpacing banking defences
South Africans are increasingly being targeted by AI-generated fraudsters who sound just like bank employees. However, many local banks are still struggling with legacy tech, slow change processes, limited data visibility, and a risk that is growing faster than their...
AI inference costs set to soar
AI inference costs per agentic workflow will increase more than five-fold through 2028 according to Gartner. As AI products evolve from assistive features to multistep execution, product leaders face a new margin challenge with falling model prices subsidising more...
If GenAI provides support, customers want access to a human
Customers have mixed feelings using GenAI for customer support, as 50% of customers say their interactions are easier when companies use GenAI, yet 87% of customers say it is essential for companies to provide an option to reach a human agent when using GenAI,...
Frontline workers using AI less likely to burn out
Frontline workers who use AI on the job are less likely to report being burned out. This is according to a 10-country global study of 8 200 frontline employees by UKG, a global AI platform for HR, pay, and workforce management. Frontline workers — those who must be...
June sees a fall in air passenger demand
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its latest data on passenger air travel based on year-on-year traffic and capacity data provided by airlines in each region worldwide during June 2026 compared with the same month in 2025. According to...
Absa uses AI/OCR to transform debt review
Absa has successfully implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) and optical character recognition (OCR) solution within its debt review team, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of the debt review process for over-indebted South African consumers....
AI, refresh cycles put new life into network security hardware
Worldwide spending on network security hardware is forecast to exceed $90-billion during 2025 to 2030, according to new report from Dell’Oro Group. Hardware revenue - comprising physical firewall, SWG appliance, WAF and ADC appliance - is projected to achieve a seven...
Stablecoins just went mainstream, but most investors haven’t priced it in
Stablecoins just moved to a core financial infrastructure, and most investors haven’t caught up. This is the word from Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, as Mastercard just completed its acquisition of BVNK, the London-based stablecoin infrastructure firm, in a deal...
Roman telescope aims to travel 1m miles into space
This month could see the launch a new space telescope that aims to travel 1-million miles and record billions of galaxies. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could launch from the Kennedy Space Station as early as 30 August aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The Roman...
Consumer confidence drives strong vehicle sales
South Africa's new vehicle market maintained its strong momentum in July, with almost 85% of all vehicles sold during the month being retailed through dealerships. The results point to improving consumer confidence, with broad-based growth across all major vehicle...
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Identity recovery matters in cyber resilience
Traditionally, cyber recovery planning has been centred on data, systems and infrastructure, yet the one element that determines whether any recovery can actually begin is identity. By Shola Khosa, senior solutions architect at Data Management Professionals South...
Female representation in STEM is no longer optional
South Africa’s STEM industries sit at the centre of economic growth, innovation, and competitiveness. They shape the technologies, systems, and infrastructure that drive business and society forward. Yet despite the strategic importance of these sectors, women remain...
AI will change your retirement in three ways. Only one of them is good news
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Video can maximise efficiency and security resilience
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How AI can transform cybersecurity research
In just eight weeks, Cisco scanned 1,8-billion lines of code in over 25 coding languages across the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio, a process that would have taken a world-class security research team eight years to complete. And we are only getting started, writes...
Identity management must adapt to AI agents
AI agents are fast being deployed across organisations and within business units, often with unchecked access to sensitive systems and data. Businesses need to move quickly to enforce new identity strategies to mitigate the new risks this presents. Neil van Wyngaard,...
Nedbank uncovers data talent through national analytics challenge
The Nedbank N*ovation Data & Analytics Masters, a national programme designed to identify and fast-track South Africa’s top data and engineering practitioners into a real hiring pathway, has concluded. The challenge drew over 1 200 registrations, culminated in an...
Visa, FNB, RMB partner to launch Visa Commercial Pay
Visa, in partnership with First National Bank (FNB) and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), have announced the launch of Visa Commercial Pay (VCP) in South Africa. Visa Commercial Pay is a fully integrated business-to-business (B2B) payment solution designed to simplify how...
TrendAI named as OpenAI Daybreak Trusted Partner
TrendAI has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Programme – gaining access to OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities purpose-built for cybersecurity. TrendAI managed security teams are already deploying agentic triage capabilities powered by OpenAI's frontier AI...
Is SA’s cybersecurity lagging AI adoption?
South Africa now features among the most targeted countries on the continent for cybercrime, with regional policing analyses warning of sustained growth in financially motivated attacks, including business email compromise and ransomware. The CSIR State of...
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