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South Africans are turning to AI for financial advice, but can it be trusted?

South Africans are increasingly turning to AI for financial...

AI is no longer a standalone investment theme – it’s everywhere

While information and communications technology (ICT) accounted for the...

Why teachers matter more in the age of AI

Across classrooms in the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and...

AI fluency is not data competence, warns PBT group

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is giving data professionals faster ways...

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Kaspersky discovers vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon chips that can lead to data loss & device compromise

Kaspersky ICS CERT discovered a hardware-level vulnerability affecting Qualcomm chipsets that are widely used in a range of consumer and industrial devices, including smartphones and tablets, car components, IoT...

Otinga.io leads landmark AI Hackathon with impact.com, bringing 250+ global engineers to Cape Town

Otinga.io, the AI-powered innovation partner that helps enterprises run structured hackathons and innovation programmes, announced its role as the event facilitation and platform partner for the impact.com AI Build...

Yellow Card Publishes 2026 Report on Data Protection and AI Governance: A Strategic Blueprint for Financial Institutions in Emerging Markets

Yellow Card, the largest licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure provider for emerging markets, has released its 2026 Report on Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence Governance in Africa. The comprehensive report outlines...

The AI Skills South African Creatives Need – Before the Global Gap Widens

As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, a growing skills divide is emerging in the marketing and creative industries, and South African professionals may need to move quickly to keep pace. The...

Salesforce and Google Cloud Enable AI Agents to Act Across Both Platforms with Deep Context and End-to-End Workflows

 Google Cloud and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced an expanded partnership that will enable AI agents to execute end-to-end workflows across both platforms by solving the long-standing challenge of fragmented...

Draft national AI policy: What it means and what to do now

The publication of South Africa's Draft National AI Policy (Draft Policy) marks a turning point for organisations that develop, deploy or rely on artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond signalling the...

How agentic AI will drive the next evolution of customer experience in South Afric

South African customers now expect problems to be solved before they even complain – on WhatsApp, in‑app, or over the phone – often in minutes, not days. Yet many...

Introducing multi-model intelligence in Researcher

Today, Researcher—Microsoft 365 Copilot's deep research agent for work—takes a significant step forward. Designed to tackle complex research in the flow of work, Researcher now goes further with two...

AI is changing the rules of cloud migration

Six percent. That’s how many database migrations have finished on time. Cloud migrations are even more complex, moving entire workloads across environments in processes that are anything but straightforward....

AI Has Turned Biometric Security Into a Fraud Target, New Data Shows

The systems designed to verify identity and secure financial transactions are rapidly becoming the weakest link in the fight against fraud, as new data reveals the scale of AI-driven...
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80% of IT leaders say the digital workplace Is critical to AI success, yet only 10% have fundamentally redesigned It, Lenovo research finds

Global study of 1,200 IT leaders identifies five connected dimensions of workplace readiness and shows where organisations can focus to turn AI ambition into...

Kaspersky boosts embedded systems protection against BadUSB and offline meddling attacks

The latest update to Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security brings Full Disk Encryption management for Windows and introduces BadUSB protection for Linux-based platforms. In the world...

AI is changing the rules of trust and identity

For years, we have relied on familiar signals to establish trust online. A recognisable face on a video call, a familiar voice on the...

The next challenge for AI-built businesses is getting paid

AI is changing who can build digital products and how quickly they can bring their ideas to life. The latest Africa MSME Pulse survey,...

SAS predictions: 2027 is the year of AI consequences

For years, AI has shown enterprises what’s possible. In 2027, they’ll demand proof that it delivers. As AI moves deeper into business operations and gains...
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