Intel aims to enable AI from chip to system

Intel has unveiled new development that address customers’ chip-to-systems-level AI needs with solutions tailored to address their specific industry challenges. The new offerings include: New rackscale AI infrastructure: Intel announced rackscale AI infrastructure for...

Global costs rise as trade and financial fragmentation spread

Geoeconomic fragmentation is imposing an annual cost of $213-billion to $307-billion on the global economy, according to a new World Economic Forum report. Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic security concerns and shifting trade relationships across major...

AI is reshaping jobs faster than companies can reshape work

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer simply boosting productivity and saving time at work, it is fundamentally reshaping the nature of work, leadership, and employee experience, according to new survey data from Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Nearly...

SA the top African target for digital fraud

South Africa had the highest rate of suspected digital fraud among the African countries analysed in a new study, with 3% of transactions involving consumers in South Africa being suspected of digital fraud during 2025 – slightly below the global average of 3,8%. In...

Nvidia Drive Hyperion aims to power a robotaxi-ready world

Nvidia has announced a major expansion of the Nvidia Drive Hyperion robotaxi-ready platform ecosystem, bringing together leading global automakers, manufacturing and autonomous vehicle (AV) software ecosystem partners along with ride-hailing mobility providers to...

1 000x improvement with Microsoft’s new quantum chip

Microsoft today unveiled Majorana 2, its newest topological quantum chip featuring a next-generation materials stack and qubits that are 1 000 times more reliable than their predecessors. With this progress, the team now expects to achieve a scalable quantum computer...

Vehicle sales defy headwinds to hit 12-year high

New vehicles sales in May reached 51 071 units, the highest monthly total recorded since May 2013 and representing a 12,8% increase over May 2025, according to naamsa | The Automotive Business Council. “Rising new vehicle sales in South Africa continue to confound...

SOC blind spot could miss threats

A new global Kaspersky Security Services report ‘Anatomy of a Cyber World’* reveals a blind spot in enterprise security operations centres (SOCs): while performance is typically measured by detection and response speed, organisations rarely assess whether they’re...

Resurgence of vulnerable whales in southeastern Atlantic

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world’s two largest whale species – blue and fin - in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, published in the...

Sizekhaya kicks off as lottery operator

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has welcomed Sizekhaya  as South Africa’s new South Africa's National Lottery and Sports Pools operator, effective today (1 June 2026). NLC board chairperson Professor Barney Pityana says the transition marks an important...

Nvidia and Microsoft reinvent Windows PCs for personal AI

Nvidia yesterday unveiled Nvidia RTX Spark, a new superchip that it says reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents, offering a new class of computer that moves from tool to teammate. Designed for AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings Nvidia...

Advanced AI models are reshaping cybersecurity

Anthropic recently announced a powerful new model named Mythos, trained to identify critical security flaws in software. The model proved capable enough that Anthropic opted against a general release, concluding that AI has reached a point where it can match all but...

PMI declined in April

The seasonally adjusted PMI declined by 1.8 points to 50.8 in May, from 52.6 in April. While the headline index remained above the neutral 50-point mark, the underlying survey results point to a deterioration in conditions from April to May. Manufacturers benefitted...

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Connectivity has become a board-level strategic issue

There was a time when connectivity was seen as infrastructure, or worse, as background noise for the IT department while business decision-makers focused on more important decisions. By Willem van Zyl, chief technology officer of  Backspace Technologies Those days are...

When a school is offline, opportunity is not just delayed, it is denied

South Africa has approximately 23,000 public schools, yet around 17 000 remain completely offline. That means only about 6 000 have some form of internet connectivity, while roughly 74% of public schools have no access at all - not for teaching and learning, not for...

Most data strategies fail before they start

Most organisations do not have a data strategy problem, but one of visibility. Across industries, businesses continue to invest in platforms, tools, and skills to become more data-driven. Yet many of these strategies struggle to deliver sustained value. The reason is...

Your next best prompt engineer is a business analyst

In the rush to deploy AI, most organisations have been asking the wrong question. By Martin Pienaar, chief operations officer at Mindworx Academy The debate has centred on which platforms to use and how quickly engineering teams can ship. The harder question, and the...

Infrastructure is the real hurdle for SA’s AI bots to overcome

In the world of AI voice technology, the difference between a satisfied customer and a frustrated hang-up is measured in mere milliseconds. By Bruce von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream While the global hype focuses on the brilliance of Large Language Models (LLMs), the real...

SA’s circular economy could be in for a boost

South African solar and battery backup consumers are in for yet another round of industry-wide price increases, but it’s not all bad news. By Lance Dickerson, MD of Revov SA But before we dig into that, no discussion about the proliferation of behind-the-meter solar...

How the SME can become the enterprise’s most secure asset

The enterprise Goliath is worried about their suppliers, writes Lucas Molefe, cybersecurity expert at ESET Southern Africa. These SMEs are underprepared and disproportionately targeted, with 43% of cyber-attacks directed at their digital front door. Added to this,...

Dell closes the gap between AI ambition and outcomes

Dell Technologies has announced a broad set of advancements to the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, delivering the foundation enterprises need to move from AI ambition to realised outcomes. With more than 5 000 customers already deploying the Dell AI Factory, these...

Lenovo enables fast deployment of production-ready agentic AI

Lenovo is enabling enterprises to deploy production-ready, agentic AI solutions in as little as one week, eliminating the long development cycles that typically delay AI from reaching production, while maintaining enterprise-grade security, governance, and control....

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