12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (295+ words) An essay by Anthropic’s CEO calling for a slowing down of AI development may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a “Cold War playbook” targeting China, the state-backed Global Times said in an…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (518+ words) The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N from Altron Arrow South African organisations have stopped asking what AI might do for them. The questions now are operational: how to deploy it, where it should run, how much compute it needs, and what that…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (624+ words) For years, choosing a laser machine has largely meant choosing the material a business wants to work with. CO₂ lasers handle non-metals such as wood, acrylic, leather, rubber and MDF. Fibre lasers are built for metal. That distinction creates a problem…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (557+ words) The conventional wisdom on AI governance is that it slows you down. Lock the tools down and run everything through committee — and a competitor ships first. Inside the businesses moving fastest with AI, the conversation sounds nothing like that. Generative…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (385+ words) OpenAI has determined that one of its upcoming models is so capable it requires additional safety measures before it can be launched. The model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (515+ words) NEWORDER has partnered with Lasso Security, a Tel Aviv-based AI security company, to bring agentic AI protection to South Africa. The platform lets NEWORDER run continuous adversarial testing against a client’s AI agents — attacking them the way an outsider would,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (664+ words) South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (343+ words) South African businesses have spent years investing in apps, websites, call centres and chatbots. Mobile behaviour, digital convenience and the demand for immediacy have outpaced what those tools can deliver. Agentic AI is stepping into that gap. Across retail, e-commerce,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (718+ words) The pressure is familiar by now. The announcements are everywhere, the board has seen them, and somewhere on your desk is a proposal to enable Microsoft Copilot across the organisation. Perhaps the licences are already bought. The question has narrowed…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (608+ words) South Africa has not been asked to join Pax Silica, the American pact drawing the dividing line through the global AI supply chain, communications minister Solly Malatsi has indicated to TechCentral. Not one African country has signed it. The Pax…...