For years, cloud sovereignty was shorthand for data residency. Keep it local, keep it compliant, so the thinking went, and you’ll keep regulators happy. But as AI rewires what organisations actually need from their infrastructure, sovereignty is now more than simply where a server sits. Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red…
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Nvidia’s reported move to acquire Hugging Face for about US$12.9-billion (R207-billion) looks, at first glance, like a strange bet. The target is a 10-year-old start-up with roughly $150-million in annual revenue that was last formally valued at $4.5-billion in a 2023 funding round. A near-triple markup for a company only…
Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. Some 95% of executives say their organisations have already experienced negative consequences from enterprise AI use, with direct financial loss as the most common outcome. Agentic AI compounds that risk dramatically. Agents that can read, write, trigger workflows and initiate transactions under a single broadly permissioned identity are…
A man looks inside the Changan Deepal S05 REEV during a press conference for the unveiling of the Chinese model at the WesBank Festival of Motoring. Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car makers launched a raft of electric, hybrid and bakkie models at South Africa’s biggest motor show last week, betting on growing demand for electrified vehicles…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=7SYogg8ILAD3tUG3&v=AxAgeglgSeA&feature=youtu.be Electronic Arts Inc. and Bit Reactor, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, announced today that Star Wars Zero Company™, a single-player turn-based tactics game set in the twilight of the Clone Wars™, is now available for PC via the EA app, Steam, and Epic Games Store, and PlayStation®5 and XBOX Series consoles. In Star Wars…
A solar farm at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine, south-west of Johannesburg. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters South Africa’s mining firms are accelerating investment in renewable energy as they seek to diversify power sources, cut costs and meet decarbonisation targets, marking a shift after decades of reliance on state utility Eskom. Anglo American and Sibanye Stillwater are among…
Rennie Naidoo, Professor of Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. Few ideas in cyber security have been repeated as often, or accepted as easily, as the claim that the end-user is the weakest link. It appears in awareness programmes, boardroom presentations, vendor messaging, academic journals and conference speeches. The reasoning is familiar….
Nvidia’s B300 GPU 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, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months….
A technician documents fibre and CPE equipment during a home installation – the moment every sign-up is trying to reach. (Image: Splynx) For an internet service provider, a sale doesn’t happen when the truck arrives to install the router. It happens earlier – the moment a user lands on the sign-up form and decides whether…
Telviva CEO David Meintjes Telviva, a provider of cloud-based unified communications, has launched Viva, an intelligent voice and text-based digital agent designed to make enterprise-grade AI practical, affordable and accessible for South African businesses. Built and hosted locally, Viva is the next step in Telviva’s work on business conversations, changing how companies route interactions and…
