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Nielsen Sports SA launches AI-powered platform, putting 150 million sports fan data points at users’ fingertips

Nielsen Sports South Africa used its Annual Sports Trends Breakfast, held on 23 July 2026 at The Forum, Bryanston, to unveil SIYA (Sponsorship Intelligence Yielding Answers), an AI-powered platform...

Your access to AI models is not a competitive advantag

Artificial intelligence models are becoming more powerful, more accessible and less expensive to use. While this is good news for businesses seeking to adopt the technology, it also creates...

Kaspersky uncovers new Mirage Kitten malware used in cyber-espionage campaign across the Middle East and Africa

Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered a previously undocumented malware set used by Mirage Kitten APT. The findings were revealed at its annual Kaspersky Cyber Security...

IITPSA SIGCyber experts call for governance-first approach as Shadow AI becomes a business reality

Organisations should move beyond trying to eliminate Shadow AI and instead focus on governance, visibility and employee education to reduce cyber risk while enabling responsible AI adoption. This is...

SA’s financial services industry: protecting the talent pipeline crucial in the age of AI

Traditional graduate training model under historic pressure South Africa’s financial sector has long served as a vital gateway for young talent. Banks, insurers, and investment firms have traditionally absorbed the...

Microsoft introduces Project Perception – a new agentic security system designed for the realities of AI

The rules of cybersecurity are changing as AI-powered attackers operate at machine speed, increasing the scale, complexity, and efficiency of cyber threats. To keep pace, organisations require a new...

Johannesburg manufacturer launches one of South Africa’s first AI wallpaper visualisers

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the way people shop, design and make decisions. Now, it is entering South Africa’s wallpaper industry. Johannesburg-based manufacturer Wallpaper Online has launched what is believed...

SAS: For agentic AI ROI, invest in human judgment

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to agentic AI systems that can take action across workflows, SAS leaders say the next test of AI ROI will be whether organisations...

Young South Africans design the future – one AI-Powered sneaker at a time

Recently more than 30 schools gathered at the Amazon Think Big Space in Cape Town for the Amazon Think Big Community Challenge - a global initiative, in partnership with...

AI is compressing cyberattack timelines and targeting ungoverned AI identities, Sophos AI Security report finds

Sophos today released its AI Security 2026 Report, finding that attackers are operationalizing artificial intelligence (AI) to collapse attack workflows from weeks to days. The report finds that AI’s most immediate...

Connectivity as infrastructure: Building networks for technology and revenue growth

Connectivity is becoming more than just a utility priced purely on data volume. In 2026, its story is changing, moving away from the concept of network access as a...

Corruption may just get more expensive: What the PRECCA Amendment Bill means for you

South Africa has been fighting corruption with legislation that, frankly, lacked teeth. The Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004 (PRECCA) has long been the cornerstone...
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South Africa’s insurers enter the age of agentic AI as CX becomes the new battleground

Despite South African insurers investing significantly in digital transformation over the past decade, many customers still experience fragmented and slow journeys that rely heavily...

Founders at Work returns with a stronger focus on practical AI implementation for scaling founders

The second instalment builds on insights from 1 523 scaling founders across all nine provinces and will help established QSE businesses move from experimenting...

Kaspersky reveals how generations discover sales offers and shares online security tips

A recent global Kaspersky survey highlights that Gen Z finds sales offers through creators and social media (48%), while Boomers prefer search engines (38%)...

More Than “A Human in the Loop”

Good grammar, perfect spelling, and beautifully constructed sentences were once hallmarks of a great copywriter. But as AI becomes increasingly capable of mastering these...
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