President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Image source: Presidency) South Africa recommends BRICS establish an international mechanism for the independent scientific evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI), said president Cyril Ramaphosa. This, amid the accelerated pace of AI development, sometimes resulting in AI models escaping test environments to hack companies or blackmail people. Ramaphosa made his comments during a…
Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada Optasia reported a 58.1% jump in first-half revenue on Monday in its maiden interim results as a JSE-listed company. The full-year target it published alongside those numbers implies growth will slow sharply over the remaining six months – and, at the bottom of the range, that revenue will go backwards. Revenue…
SA investment firm DNI has invested more than R2.1 billion across the country’s digital economy. (Image: istockphoto.com) DNI, a privately owned South African investment company, has announced investments exceeding R2.1 billion across connectivity, digital services and fintech. The investment spans Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa, Mission Mobile and KnowRoaming, adding complementary capabilities in fibre infrastructure, device…
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has accused government of substituting workshops and road maps for delivery on technology policy, pointing to a broadcast digital migration programme 16 years overdue and South Africa’s continued absence of an AI strategy. Godongwana was delivering the keynote address at the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s annual…
Dr Mlungisi Cele, director-general at the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. (Image source: GovernmentZA) South Africa is seeking to strengthen its pipeline of scientists and innovators through investment in young researchers, skills development and international cooperation. So said Dr Mlungisi Cele, director-general at the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), who participated in…
SA20 has launched the rain SA20 Derby Series, a set of standalone fixtures between leading South African cricket schools, and named mobile network operator rain as title sponsor of both the new series and rain Schools SA20, the league’s national schools T20 competition. The Derby Series opens on Tuesday, 22 September, when Menlo Park hosts…
SAPS, via SITA, seeks a service provider to supply, deliver, support and maintain body-worn and vehicle dashboard cameras. (Image source: iStock) It’s another busy week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with around 800 new requests placed on the platform over the past week. The ICT industry fares well with municipalities, in particular, offering a range…
The author, AlgoSec’s Simone Santana AI models and autonomous agents have moved out of isolated experiments and into the core of enterprise operations. They are being connected to databases, business applications, cloud platforms, internal application programming interfaces (APIs), software development environments and third-party services. That creates real business value. It also creates a security problem:…
Every business runs on documents nobody fully reads. That is where risk hides and money leaks. One salesperson caught a R65,000 error in five minutes. Any team can too. Robyn F, a busy salesperson, handles more than 50 documents in a typical month, including quotes, purchase orders, and the day-to-day paperwork her role demands. Scrutinizing…
Amit Sahni, Director of Sales, Exaze. (Image: AI-enhanced) More than 25 years in technology sales and business development – including close to six years building Exaze’s presence in South Africa since joining in January 2021 – have taught me things that no management textbook quite captures. The clearest lesson is this: the quality of what…
