Intel throws support behind Meta’s Muse Spark Open
Intel has enabled day-0 support for Meta’s Muse Spark Open across Intel Xeon processors and Intel data center GPU platforms, Intel GPU D-series, through targeted low-bit model quantisation. Meta’s official open-weight release of Muse Spark Open, an...
AI course enrollments up 75%
AI course enrollments in South Africa increased 75% year over year, while enrollments in critical thinking courses rose 132%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026. South Africa also ranks second among the 11 sub-Saharan African countries covered and 73rd...
Global recognition for SA-built AI platform
A South African-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to help researchers prepare clinical trial databases faster has placed second in the 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge. Leova was created by Johannesburg-based clinical data management...
SITA ups its game
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has achieved an unqualified audit opinion. Presenting its 2025/26 Annual Report to the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies in Parliament, SITA outlined important progress in strengthening...
Changing structures will not fix governance without changing behaviour
The reported withdrawal of the National State Enterprises Bill and government's consideration of a new model for overseeing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) presents another opportunity to address the governance challenges that have affected these institutions for many...
Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal to invest R1bn
Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal announced a strategic investment of R1-billion in network infrastructure for the 2027 financial year. At a time when South Africa's second-most populous province is experiencing growing demand for data and digital services, this investment...
Why mediation should be on every board’s agenda
Recent court developments have reinforced a clear message for South African boards: mediation is no longer a peripheral legal process but an increasingly important part of effective dispute management. That is the central theme of Mediation as a Mechanism for Dispute...
‘Scammernomics’ aims to hit scammers where it hurts most
Digital banking crime cost South Africa R2,41-billion in reported client claims in 2025, an increase of 29,2% from 2024, according to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) Annual Crime Statistics Report. By Andrew Baker, group CIO at Capitec...
If AI is to be Africa’s next multiplier, it needs a new formula for success
When mobile networks first started rolling out at scale, the African market was considered unviable by many of the companies assessing the continent through the assumptions of more developed markets. By Robert Benvenuti, CEO: data and applied AI at Absa Fixed-line...
Governing AI in African markets: from principles to practice
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves into everyday use across African economies, how it is governed is becoming important, writes Kadi Diallo, head of content for Africa Tech Festival. Governments need frameworks that protect citizens while enabling innovation;...
Lessons from running e-commerce across Africa
South African brands have been handed a reprieve in the United States, but not certainty. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the US trade programme that has given eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the American market since 2000,...
TrendAI Zero Day Initiative awards over $1,2m at Pwn2Own
TrendAI has celebrated the efforts of the global security research community at Pwn2Own Ireland by awarding a total of $1 262 000 in prizes. Contestants discovered and disclosed 98 unique zero-day vulnerabilities across categories including: mobile phones; smart home...