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, 3+ day ago   (860+ words) South African talk radio is the last big pool of news that nobody can search. Locl is an attempt to change that: a platform that listens to the live streams of the country’s major English-language talk stations, transcribes everything, indexes…...

2+ week, 4+ 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,…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (342+ words) Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told a Unisa audience recently that South Africa would keep coal in its mix as the backbone of its cheap energy assets, and that scientists are working on technology that will solve the environmental concerns around…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (435+ words) Africa’s digital economy is expanding rapidly. Governments are digitising public services, businesses are accelerating digital transformation and millions more citizens are participating in the online economy. This creates enormous opportunities, but it also increases exposure to cybercrime, ransomware, digital fraud,…...