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HCLTech scales South Africa operations with new headquarters featuring an AI Center of Excellence

Doubles down on upskilling of local talent with graduation ceremony of fresh batch of learners from HCLTech’s skills development HCLTech, a leading global technology company, is scaling its South Africa...

Why teachers matter more in the age of AI

Across classrooms in the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and beyond, teachers help students understandcomplex ideas, ask better questions, and build confidence. As technology and AI reshape how students learn,...

Are South Africa’s cyber defenders ready for AI?

South Africa’s cybersecurity challenges are growing more complex as the country struggles to fill the roles needed to address them. A 2024 CSIR national survey found that 63% of...

ChatGPT Computer History feature creates a diary of your Mac activity – Kaspersky advises how to configure it

A new feature in the ChatGPT app for macOS is designed to give the AI assistant more context about how someone uses their computer. It reflects a wider shift...

AI can rebuild African banking, but only once it learns to be African

An AI trained on the world's software still arrives at an African bank knowing nothing that matters there. For banking boards, the real task is teaching it what does. A...

From two doors to a dozen: The exponential expansion of the enterprise attack surface

The risk to the business has grown significantly thanks to the widening footprint of the enterprise attack surface, says Richard Frost, Head of Technology Solutions and Consulting at Armata...

South African businesses are building with AI faster than they can secure it

AI is making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to build customer-facing software without a traditional development team. As more business owners use the technology to create...

South African workers are embracing AI faster than their employers can keep up, new Oliver Wyman research finds

Nearly two-thirds say AI has made them more productive, but only one in ten non-managers believes their employer has explained its AI strategy South African employees are rapidly integrating AI...

AI has put every team on the cybersecurity front line

AI is making attacks more convincing, putting finance, HR, customer service and other non-technical teams increasingly at risk. AI was linked to more than half of the cybercrime cases recorded...

Windhoek summit to tackle the cyber gaps AI is exposing

Namibian business and technology leaders will come together in Windhoek on 13 October for the 2026 Namibian Cyber Security Summit, hosted by The Cloud Crew and DigitalShield, as organisations...

SMB study: Small banks lead in AI – but scale lags

As AI use proliferates in the SMB sector, small banks, credit unions and lenders have put banking on the AI leaderboard – ahead of similarly sized firms in insurance,...

Cybersecurity is everyone’s problem. Here’s how to build a security culture that lasts

Cybersecurity training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don’t invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a...
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Human-orchestrated AI: why emerging markets need a smarter model of oversight

The debate around artificial intelligence in enterprise strategy is often trapped in a false binary: machine autonomy or human control. Either we allow AI...

Dell Technologies Forum Johannesburg to Focus on Scaling AI, Modern Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience

Dell Technologies Forum 2026 will take place at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg on 3 November, bringing together business and technology leaders to...

HCLTech scales South Africa operations with new headquarters featuring an AI Center of Excellence

Doubles down on upskilling of local talent with graduation ceremony of fresh batch of learners from HCLTech’s skills development HCLTech, a leading global technology company,...

Why teachers matter more in the age of AI

Across classrooms in the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and beyond, teachers help students understandcomplex ideas, ask better questions, and build confidence. As technology and...

AI agents can now act. Who is accountable when they get it wrong?

Artificial intelligence is crossing an important line. It is moving from technology that tells people what they could do to technology that can increasingly...
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