Money for nothing …
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 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...
Buying AI was the easy part. The work begins with adoption
Something is happening in the South African market that doesn't always surface in the enthusiasm around AI. Customers are investing. Pilots are running. Licences are in place. And 12 months later, the question is why it hasn't delivered. It is not the technology,...
AI becomes a bigger business cost – but what is the return?
For many organisations, AI adoption started small, through proof of concepts and small-scale trials, rather than full-scale rollout. By Junaid Kleinschmidt, intelligence lead for Accenture, South Africa Teams tested chatbots, employees began using generative AI tools,...
The growing push for AI transparency: What businesses should know
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond the hype and is now delivering real business value, as companies across the world use it to generate marketing material, social media content, product images, videos and customer communications. Melissa Morris and Jameel Hamid...
Forget the AI hype: SA’s AI race is about power, infrastructure and execution
For years, South Africa’s electricity crisis was one of the biggest obstacles to economic growth. Now Eskom is reportedly talking to some of the world’s largest technology companies about using surplus electricity to power the data centres needed for the next wave of...
Even in autonomy, human insight remains
With the advent of AI, IIoT technologies, and digital twins, today’s industrial operators no longer scramble to silence alarms, they focus on how quickly they can interpret the intelligence behind them. This is in contrast to the constant vigilance that came from...
Redefining work for the AI era
The way we work is changing faster than our organisations are changing to support it, writes Sergio Maccotta, senior vice-president and GM of SAP MEA South. From the rise of the Autonomous Enterprise to the case for embedding AI at the very core of business...
The future of AI in SA must be built, not imported
South Africa has learned repeatedly that access to strategic infrastructure and control over it are not the same thing. By President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa From mining and electricity to rail and telecommunications networks, the country’s economic trajectory...
Get your data ready for AI
AI is only as good as the data that feeds it – businesses who don’t have that in place will never reap the full benefits of an investment in AI. This is according to Peter Clarke, CEO LanDynamix, who says: “Bad data and poor prompts produce bad AI results....
Companies brace for the token economy’s surprise hidden bill
In most boardrooms AI is still sold as a magic elixir, promising smarter decisions, happier customers, and fewer staff. However, as companies move from AI experiments to AI‑everywhere, a token economy is taking shape, and its hidden bill is about to land. AI token...
Nutanix lets enterprises run production agentic AI their way
Nutanix has announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, and the upcoming general availability of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19, along with new incentives, programmes, and resources designed to help partners accelerate growth on...