Perception of banks’ value on a decline
Discovery Bank has emerged as the leader in South Africa’s latest consumer banking customer experience rankings, according to the 2025 Customer Experience (CE) Index for the sector. Absa followed in second position, with Standard Bank and Nedbank in a combined third...
PC market enters volatile year with positive growth
Global PC shipments grew 2,5% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching 65,6-million units, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Despite deteriorating...
‘Extraordinary’ number of ground-breaking quantum research projects in SA
A hundred years have passed since the discovery (or invention) of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, and Schrödinger - which is why 2025 was proclaimed an international year by the United Nations (UN) – and the current significance of quantum science is...
AI transformation is outpacing security readiness across Africa
As organisations across Africa accelerate their AI-driven digital transformation, cyberattackers are moving even faster - exploiting new AI systems, data pipelines, and autonomous agents that were never designed with security in mind, according to new research from...
Meta launches first LLM from its Superintelligence Labs
Meta has Meta has announced Muse Spark, the first in a new series of large language models built by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Over the last nine months, Meta Superintelligence Labs rebuilt its AI stack from the ground up, on a fast development cycle we have run...
Salesforce positions Slack as a new interface for work
Salesforce has launched Slack as the new interface for work — where people, agents, data, and apps come together in one place. With this update, Slackbot evolves from a helpful assistant into an active teammate that can execute work across systems, reducing context...
Nutanix delivers a platform for the agentic AI era
Nutanix yesterday announced new capabilities to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution designed to help organisations operate reliably as AI workloads expand, cloud environments grow more complex, and hardware supply constraints drive the need for more flexible...
Marvell joins the Nivida ecosystem
Nvidia and Marvell Technology have announced a strategic partnership to connect Marvell to the Nvidia AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystem through Nvidia NVLink Fusion. The companies will also collaborate on silicon photonics technology. In addition, Nvidia has invested...
Talent is in the eye of the customer
By Barry Buck - A former Microsoft Azure engineer recently published a six-part essay series lamenting how Azure never lived up to its potential. Rushed to market in 2008, perpetually on life support, plagued by a talent exodus and architectural drift – his words, not...
Banks are already using agentic AI: here’s why it matters
Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative artificial intelligence were barely on the public radar, yet the technology has already evolved into its next iteration: agentic AI, a new breed of systems that are semi- or fully autonomous and able to...
Trust will make or break AI voice agents
South African businesses are showing real interest in AI voice agents, and for good reason. By Bruce von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream The technology has come a long way and can now respond quickly, hold more natural conversations and create a better, locally relevant...
AI adoption will depend on skills, governance, execution – not just technology
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves from experimentation to everyday business use, South African organisations are discovering that success depends far less on sophisticated algorithms than on skills, oversight and operational discipline. While AI tools have become...