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Absa Expands ElevateHer AI programme Across Africa
As Africa’s digital economy continues to scale, demand for AI and digital skills is accelerating across the continent. Yet women remain underrepresented in technology-driven roles, despite growing participation and strong early adoption. Absa, in partnership with Microsoft Elevate and Women…
5 Ready-to-Go AI Use Cases for South African businesses
From boardrooms to back offices, South African companies are moving beyond AI hype and into execution. But as pressure builds to show tangible ROI, business leaders are looking for practical, proven AI use cases they can deploy today, not three…
Google & African Institutions Launch New Project
Google and a consortium of leading African research institutions announced the launch of WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset designed to catalyze research and build more inclusive AI technologies. The WAXAL dataset was developed over three years with funding…
Vertiv Announces New AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Service for Data Centers & AI Factories
Vertiv announced the launch of Vertiv™ Next Predict, an AI-powered managed service that fundamentally transforms data center maintenance. Moving beyond traditional time-based and reactive models, the service industrializes operations by analyzing asset behavior before risks materialize. Vertiv Next Predict is…
South Africa: Microsoft, SABC launch national AI skills drive via SABC Plus
Microsoft South Africa and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have announced a new partnership to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) fluency and digital skills training to millions of South Africans through the public broadcaster’s digital platform, SABC Plus. The collaboration…
Sage Announces Global Partnership with an AI Lab Based in Portugal
Sage has just announced a new global partnership with Augusta Labs, an applied AI lab that helps enterprises build and scale AI transformation. Businesses now expect more from the software they rely on, including faster insights, smarter automation, and experiences…
HUMAIN and Infra Announce AI & Digital Financing Framework Agreement
HUMAIN and the National Infrastructure Fund (“Infra”) announced on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland, a Strategic Financing Framework Agreement of up to $1.2 billion to support the expansion of AI and…
2026 Predictions: Evolving Data Centers for an AI-driven Future
The AI disruptions of the past few years have only been the prologue to what’s coming in 2026: AI’s full integration into data center processes and builds. It’s a moment we’ve been building up to ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT brought…
Agentic AI Unveiled: The Future of Intelligent, Autonomous Systems
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) represents a significant evolution in the field, enabling systems to operate independently without requiring constant human intervention. Unlike traditional AI, which relies on predefined instructions, agentic AI can make decisions, take actions, and learn in real…
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Unveils a World First Hybrid AI Campaign
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has unveiled an industry-first, multi-platform digital advertising campaign created using Hybrid AI. The fusion of human-led creative disciplines, including live action, CGI, and photography, with cutting-edge generative AI, and featuring the world’s largest AI digital twin…
2026 Predictions: Human Behaviour, Not AI, Will Determine Who Wins in 2026
As global organisations race to embed AI, redesign operating models and introduce new digital capabilities, South African enterprises are confronting a more complex reality. The technology exists, the ambition is high, but execution, and more specifically, human behaviour, remains the…
How Can Quantum Computing & AI Drive the Next Wave of Cyber Defence Innovation
We are standing at the edge of a new cybersecurity frontier, shaped by quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the ever-expanding Internet of Things (IoT). It’s exciting, no doubt, but also a little daunting. Traditional perimeter-based defenses are no longer…
Google Gemini’s New Search History Feature
Google has rolled out a major update to its Gemini AI platform: the ability to access and leverage your search history. This feature, introduced under the “Personalization (experimental)” setting in Gemini Apps, allows the AI to tailor responses based on…
Masakhane Hub Announces Funding to Bridge AI Gap for 50 African Languages
While Africa is home to over 2,000 languages, they are almost absent from the global digital landscape; none of the top 34 languages used globally on the internet are African. This imbalance risks not only excluding more than one billion…
Are African Businesses Ready for AI-Driven Cyber Threats?
A new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) reveals that artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the cybersecurity landscape and exposing major gaps in corporate defenses. Despite growing awareness of the risks, the pace of cyber defense adoption is failing to…
OpenAI Launches New ChatGPT Health Feature to Review Medical Records
OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature in the United States that can analyze people’s medical records to provide better answers, but campaigners warn it raises privacy concerns. OpenAI said conversations in ChatGPT Health would be stored separately from other…
