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After several years of experimentation, enterprise AI is moving out of the pilot phase. To date, many organisations limit AI to general-purpose chatbots, often created by small groups of early adopters. According to Nexos.ai, that model will give way to something more operational: fleets of task-specific AI agents embedded directly into business workflows. Even isolated…
Deloitte’s latest UK CFO Survey presents an improving outlook for large UK businesses, with technology investment – particularly in AI – emerging as a dominant strategy. The survey offers the signal that while macroeconomic and geopolitical risks remain elevated, boards are converging increasingly on digital ability as a primary route to productivity and medium-term growth….
Agentic AI represents a distinct evolution from stateless chatbots toward complex workflows, and scaling it requires new memory architecture. As foundation models scale toward trillions of parameters and context windows reach millions of tokens, the computational cost of remembering history is rising faster than the ability to process it. Organisations deploying these systems now face…
Five of the six witnesses identified to testify during the second phase of parliament’s inquiry into corruption in the policing system have been consulted to provide evidence before the ad hoc committee concludes on 20 February, its senior counsel Norman Arendse said. Presenting a report to the committee on Wednesday, Arendse said the consultations were…
Opposition parties have raised concerns about the appointment of advocate Andy Mothibi as National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), criticising both the integrity of the selection process and the extent of executive discretion exercised by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The presidency announced Mothibi’s appointment on Tuesday after an advisory panel established by the justice ministry concluded…
President Cyril Ramaphosa does not owe Marikana a visit, and expecting him to go to the area is an “abnormal arrangement”, ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe says. The ANC is set to hold its 114th anniversary January 8 celebrations at Moruleng Stadium in the North West and party leaders have been criss-crossing the province, with many…
The future of the social relief of distress (SRD) grant beyond the March 2027 extension remains uncertain. The national treasury has confirmed that there are “no fixed timelines” for finalising proposals on what will replace the R370-a-month grant. In the medium-term budget policy statement tabled in November, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said the SRD grant…
Expert insights from Rein Snoeck Henkemans, Co-Founder of Alumo Energy South Africa’s solar revolution is unfolding at pace. Households and businesses, eager to escape unreliable power, are installing systems at record levels. But beneath this booming market lies a growing and largely unpoliced problem – one that has nothing to do with panels or inverters,…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Advocate Andy Mothibi as the new national director of public prosecutions (NDPP), with effect from 1 February. The decision follows the conclusion of an advisory panel process in which six shortlisted candidates were deemed unsuitable for the role after interviews which were broadcast live on…
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at a $500 million pre-money valuation, according to its CEO, as it looks to capitalize on growing demand for AI systems in regulated industries. The Series B funding round is structured…
Rising labour costs and tighter delivery margins are pushing large platform operators like Grab to look at automation. It’s moved to bring robotics capability in-house by its acquisition of Infermove. Grab operates at a scale where small efficiency gains can have out-sized effects. Its platform supports millions of deliveries in Southeast Asia, many of them…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the South African Communist Party (SACP) that its decision to contest elections independently could weaken the broader liberation alliance and distract voters from the national democratic agenda. At a commemoration event for late liberation leader Joe Slovo, Ramaphosa called for the alliance partners to remain united to advance the National…
As ministers push to loosen rules to speed up AI adoption, The Law Society argues that lawyers just need to know how current laws apply. The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) recently launched a call for evidence on a proposed ‘AI Growth Lab’. This cross-economy sandbox is designed to accelerate the deployment of…
The ANC has called for the immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, condemning what it describes as United States aggression against Caracas. The party accused Washington of acting imperially and said it would work with progressive forces at home and abroad to defend Venezuelan sovereignty, amid ongoing tensions between…
The launch of PubMatic’s AgenticOS marks a change in how artificial intelligence is being operationalised in digital advertising, moving agentic AI from isolated experiments into a system-level capability embedded in programmatic infrastructure. For marketing leaders managing seven-figure budgets in media environments, the implications are practical not theoretical, implying faster decision cycles and a re-balance of…
ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji has vowed to physically “clean out” foreign nationals illegally in South Africa, saying this could mean taking up arms to ensure their removal. Malatji made the remarks in an interview with the Mail & Guardian following his re-election at a conference in Limpopo, where his slate was uncontested. “If…
South African traders quickly notice that markets often move in repeatable ways after big data releases and policy events. Jobs numbers, inflation surprises and South African Reserve Bank announcements rarely create completely unique reactions. Instead, they tend to fall into patterns that repeat with variations. The question is how to turn those patterns into practical…
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) received a record 893 487 applications for the 2026 academic year, with just above 66% submitted by female students. Acting chairperson Mugwena Maluleke said the volume of applications was “a testament to the scale and importance” of the funding scheme, which provides financial aid to needy undergraduate students…
Contract work has evolved to touch privacy, security, revenue recognition, data residency, vendor risk, renewals and numerous internal approvals. At the same time, teams are expected to turn agreements around faster and keep every signed obligation visible after signature. Artificial intelligence is becoming a practical layer in this process. It can read language at scale,…
AI chip shortage became the defining constraint for enterprise AI deployments in 2025, forcing CTOs to confront an uncomfortable reality: semiconductor geopolitics and supply chain physics matter more than software roadmaps or vendor commitments. What began as US export controls restricting advanced AI chips to China evolved into a broader infrastructure crisis affecting enterprises globally—not…
The new Volvo XC60 made a huge difference to a recent Cape Town trip. The Volvo provides luxury, a sense of calm, a feeling of solidity and the quiet assurance that this is a car designed to make life easier. The XC60 T8 Recharge Plug-in Hybrid has an air of sophistication. The Volvo’s familiar 2.0-litre…
Amazon is rolling out a Fire TV redesign that puts more focus on the content, while also simplifying the navigation and layout. The update represents the first major Fire TV release in years from a user experience perspective, the company says, and is accompanied by a refreshed version of the Fire TV app and the…
Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow…
Producing digital advertising at global scale has become less about one standout campaign and more about volume, speed, and consistency. For consumer brands operating across dozens of markets, the challenge is not creativity alone, but how to keep content flowing without repeating expensive production cycles. That pressure is pushing some large companies to test where…
The MK party have reached the zenith of their political existence and are currently engaging in actions that will undermine and diminish their future electoral prospects. The political outfit, previously regarded as promising, is currently sustained primarily by the residual momentum of its electoral success in May 2024, while simultaneously engaging in conduct that is…
Zimbabwe today stands as one of the most sobering case studies in the cyclical pathology of post-liberation governance, a nation where the promise of emancipation has curdled into the practice of entrenchment. The whispers surrounding President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s alleged bid to extend his rule beyond the constitutionally mandated 2028 are not idle chatter; they are…
Motorists will see significant relief at the pumps from midnight on Wednesday, with the prices of petrol and diesel dropping significantly on the back of lower global oil prices and a stronger rand, the department of mineral and petroleum resources said. The cost of petrol will fall by more than 60 cents a litre, while…
Under the clinical floodlights of the Al Medina Stadium in Rabah on Sunday night, the ghost of 1996 retreated further into the shadows of South African history. For Bafana Bafana, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) ended not with the roar of a champion, but with the haunting echoes of what might have been,…
Standard Bank’s Representative Office in Ethiopia has become the first foreign financial institution to be re-licensed under the country’s newly revised Banking Business Proclamation. This milestone comes as Ethiopia advances reforms aimed at increasing foreign investment and strengthening its financial sector. Taitu Wondwosen, Head: Ethiopia, Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking, says, “Launched in 2015,…
As South Africa this weekend joined the global condemnation of the United States military invasion of the oil-rich Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, analysts warned about the adverse geopolitical effect of the move. They predicted that the US offensive would render the world less secure, with more…