Infrastructure enables the growth of AI data centres
Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are driving massive growth in data centre builds. Gautham Gnganajothi, senior vice-president and global head of best practice analytics at...
Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments
Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution. “People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of...
AI climate benefits struggle to compete with rising environmental footprint
Artificial intelligence’s (AI) climate benefits risk being overstated as surging data centre emissions and water consumption threaten to outpace efficiency gains, says a new report from GlobalData. While predictive AI can deliver measurable reductions across energy,...
Chief economists expect global economy to stabilise, but …
The global economy is stabilising, but the fiscal support that cushioned successive shocks since 2020 is unlikely to play the same role in the year ahead, according to the World Economic Forum's Chief Economist’s Outlook. A majority (56%) of chief economists surveyed...
Five-year goal to help 3bn people use AI in their own language
Organisations from across the global AI ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to help close one of AI’s most significant access gaps: providing safe, effective AI services in the languages people speak around the world. A group of 60 signatories are uniting...
Crypto winter looks to be ending
Bitcoin’s bulls are back in charge, says Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, as the digital asset pushes past $85 000 and tests its highest level since January. And, he adds, as US spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds attract fresh billions. Inflows have totalled about...
Google and AWS rank highest among enterprise AI platform providers
AI platform providers are racing to incorporate tools that strengthen agentic AI governance, improve visibility into and control over token usage, and support a range of deployment options, says research group GlobalData. To capture the hype around agentic AI, several...
SA’s energy, mining and tech sectors resilience leaders in a three-speed global economy
Three different speeds, driven by three different factors. This is how the global economy is approaching 2027, with uneven and volatile growth, according to Allianz Trade’s Sector Atlas 2026. According to the report by the world's leading trade credit insurance...
New tests could slash SA’s TB deaths by two-thirds
A new study led by University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Associate Professor Leigh Johnson suggests that new tests, which can be performed in clinics on either tongue swab or sputum specimens, could reduce TB incidence by as much as 49% - and TB mortality by as much as 67%...
Bridging the digital divide in the AI era
Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb - The world is in the middle of an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, driven in large part by a multi-billion dollar data centre build-out. But the massive development taking place in the developed world threatens...
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Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer in business
Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer within the business because it can sit between people, data, applications, and workflows. It can operate inside processes, reason across information, use approved tools, interact with enterprise systems, and take action...
Rethinking risk in an unpredictable yet interconnected world
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The role of AI in democratising access to justice
The South African Constitution recognises access to justice as a fundamental human right. But in reality, most South Africans lack access to the legal advice they need to protect themselves and their loved ones, writes Michael Visser, head of services at My AI Lawyer....
Cloud security in the age of complexity: why the risk hasn’t disappeared
For years, cloud adoption was seen as a destination. Organisations moved workloads, updated applications, and welcomed the flexibility and scalability promised by cloud environments. By Kumar Vaibhav, lead senior solution architect L cybersecurity at In2IT Today, that...
AI risk is the next test of ESG maturity
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Why your employees are lying about using AI
Buried in KPMG's global AI research is a detail that gets skipped past too quickly: more than half of employees — 57% — admit they hide their AI use and pass the output off as their own work. By Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI Not "use AI without telling...
Why it’s important for AI to speak our language
When farmers take a photo of unfamiliar spots on a crop and ask a question on their phone, they’re not thinking about digital systems or models. They are looking for reassurance, guidance and something they can act on before the problem spreads. Moments like these are...
The end of cloud-only thinking in SA
For years, “cloud-first” has dominated enterprise technology strategy. But across South Africa, that conversation is beginning to shift. By Dean Wolson, GM: Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo, Southern Africa Today, CIOs are grappling with a more complicated...
Retailers must now earn the trust of AI agents, not just shoppers
Retailers are losing direct control of the customer journey as shoppers hand the path to purchase over to autonomous AI agents. By Linda Saunders, country manager and senior director: solution engineering Africa at Salesforce Salesforce's Fourth Edition State of...
Procurement must deliver more than compliance in 2026
South Africa's micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) contribute around 40% of GDP and employ more than half the country's workforce, according to the Department of Small Business Development, Yet, questions remain about whether billions of rand invested in...
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