Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, marking its entry into a key focus area for AI companies. An agentic coding tool is an AI-powered software application that can autonomously perform coding-related tasks. xAI’s model, called grok-code-fast-1, will be available for free for a limited…
Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Quantum computing, open source, agentic AI and innovation are key to strategies being developed to future-proof organisations, according to Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Speaking at the Red Hat Technology Innovation event hosted in Johannesburg this week, Busansky…
The popular Ford Ranger model is manufactured at the company’s plant outside Pretoria Ford Motor’s South African unit plans to lay off more than 470 employees as it seeks to adjust production capacity to match current and future market demands, the South African Solidarity union said on Thursday. Ford has sent an official notice to…
SITA’s head office in Erasmuskloof, Pretoria. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) says it played a limited and advisory role in the procurement efforts for ICT equipment for the two Commissions of Inquiry set to get under way. This, after it was approached for assistance by the Department of Justice and…
Bankserv Africa – now PayInc – CEO Stephen Linnell Automated clearing house and settlements hub BankservAfrica on Thursday announced a major refresh of the company’s brand, changing its name to PayInc to align itself with shifts in the local payments landscape. The move goes well beyond a name change, however, and marks a significant shift…
Adrian Hinchcliffe, editor-in-chief at ITWeb; Nomonde White-Ndlovu, CIO at Bidvest Bank – winner of the Visionary CIO Award 2024; and Tshifhiwa Ramuthaga, founder and CEO of TGR Global Enterprises. (Photo: IITPSA) Nominations are now open for this year’s Institute of IT Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) President’s Awards, which include the Visionary CIO Award. Established nearly…
Vodacom South Africa said on Friday that it has begun testing an advanced new 5G technology than promises ultra-fast wireless downloads. The company has deployed “dual-band massive multiple input, multiple output” (Mimo) radio at a site in Cape Town, which it has claimed is the first time the technology has been deployed in Africa. “The…
Starlink operator SpaceX “cannot undermine the sovereignty of South Africa” if it wishes to operate in the country. This was the message from Khusela Sangoni-Diko, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies, during a wide-ranging interview with ITWeb TV. She also reflected on the workings of the committee under the Government of…
The Ingonyama Trust, a statutory body established in 1994 to manage communal land in KwaZulu-Natal for the benefit of Zulu tribes and communities, has been the subject of an attempted ransomware attack, the effects of which are still under investigation. A senior IT expert, who disclosed details of the incident to TechCentral, said NightSpire has…
Globally, fraud is escalating. Rates have nearly doubled from 0.70% in 2023 to 1.39% in early 2025, with 82.9% of surveyed operators reporting a rise in fraud. But the picture varies sharply by region, where Latin America’s fraud rate surged by nearly 32%, while mature markets like Europe and North America also saw increases, though…
