Wojtek Piorko, MD for Africa at Vertiv. Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to core infrastructure, bringing with it new demands on data centres worldwide. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI conversation has accelerated dramatically – evolving from early curiosity to a strategic priority for organisations across industries. “In just…
LOS ANGELES — Actor Randolph Mantooth, best known for his role as firefighter and medic John Gage in NBC’s “Emergency!” television series in the 1970s, has died at age 80 after a long illness, his family said Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Mantooth’s role and…
OpenAI has showcased a new AI agent meant to help white-collar workers access the power of coding tools without the price shock. The agent, called ChatGPT Work, combines OpenAI’s popular chatbot with its AI coding tool, Codex, to create documents, presentations and websites, the company said. The service is powered by OpenAI’s most advanced AI…
Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram. The feature was part of a broad rollout of Muse Image, a new AI image generation tool Instagram’s parent company released on Tuesday. It allowed users of the…
Tidiane Lo, VP for the MEA region at Westcon-Comstor. (Image supplied) Westcon-Comstor has confirmed an Africa-wide distribution deal with identity security provider BeyondTrust. Tidiane Lo, VP for the MEA region at Westcon-Comstor, said the agreement enables a unified distribution strategy across 51 countries, expanding scale, partner reach and market coverage. The deal applies to all…
Iranian officials privately told Trump advisers that they made a mistake in shooting at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, that the attacks stemmed from an “errant” sect of hardliners who are trying to undermine negotiations, and that they want to keep talking, senior U.S. officials said on Friday. The White House wants the…
Rain South Africa and Huawei are jointly accelerating the deployment of a sub-1GHz massive Mimo 5G network across South Africa, with plans to scale it to a multi-thousand-site commercial network. The move marks a major breakthrough in wireless communications and opens a new chapter in the evolution of 5G, aiming to deliver ubiquitous, high-quality 5G…
Vancouver, Canada: In an era of artificial intelligence, deepfakes and data-driven decision-making, Canada is moving to revise its privacy laws through Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act. Announced in June, Bill C-36 is Canada’s first major overhaul of private-sector privacy legislation in more than 25 years. The bill explicitly recognises privacy as…
In this episode of ITWebTV, Sibahle Malinga talks to Alastair Tempest, CEO of the Ecommerce Forum South Africa, who believes the local e-commerce sector’s biggest challenge is not inadequate legislation but weak enforcement and a lack of resources to police cross-border e-commerce.#eCommerce #Retail #SouthAfrica The South African Revenue Service’s customs system is still failing to…
The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Sam Hall | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took the iPhone maker’s intellectual property in order…
