Artificial intelligence could increase Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic output by about four percent over the next decade, but only if governments make substantial investments in electricity, internet connectivity and digital skills, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released Tuesday. Without those reforms, the region would capture only marginal gains from the AI revolution, with…
Kelvin Nhlapo, newly appointed GM of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa. The impact of AI on ICT jobs will be a key focus of the 2026 edition of the ICT Skills Survey, which has gone live and is now open for industry input. Employers of ICT professionals and individual practitioners are invited…
WASHINGTON — Glitz, glamor and geopolitics were on the menu Wednesday night as Washington’s AI elite gathered to mingle and celebrate AI pioneers. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Complete with a red carpet and a dancing humanoid robot, the event could have been mistaken for…
Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, June 11, 2025. Massimo Valicchia | Nurphoto | Getty Images Pope Leo warned over the weekend that a “social calamity” could come from mass unemployment due to the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. Prediction market traders appear to think that…
Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer at Absa Group. The next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) will be defined by autonomous agents, human-AI collaboration and Africa’s ability to build technology ecosystems suited to its own realities. This came to light at ITWeb’s AI Summit 2026, where Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology…
AI cannot succeed in isolation; it must be part of a broader, well-considered transformation journey, says Centrax Digital. (Image supplied) AI is unique in how quietly it enters an organisation – it isn’t introduced as a new solution or new piece of software; rather it features on existing tools and frequently influences outcomes without being…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a narrow technology trade. It is reshaping energy markets, infrastructure spending, and portfolio construction. Investors who focus only on chips and software risk missing where the next phase of value is occurring, according to investing experts on this week’s episode of CNBC’s “ETF Edge.” Some of the trends and innovations…
Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CEO of the South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association. Within the next five years, companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) game are going to need enough power to light up New York City 17 times over, and Goldman Sachs tells us that less than 10% of the needed power will be…
Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CEO of the South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association. Artificial intelligence (AI) really has become a part of our lives. You can’t escape its tentacles even if you tried. Even everything we Google, which was pretty much AI to start with, now comes with an AI summary, often with untrustworthy old…
Generative and agentic AI are no longer experiments for most customer experience (CX) leaders. According to CallMiner’s 2025 CX Landscape Report, 96% of global customer experience and contact centre leaders believe implementing artificial intelligence (including generative and agentic AI) is key to their CX and contact centre strategies, up from 87% in 2024. That said,…
