Out of more than 9 000 AI-generated open-source applications, nine out of 10 contained at least one security vulnerability. (Image created with GenAI) Artificial intelligence (AI) app use is skyrocketing, with more time than ever spent on GenAI apps – projected to reach 36 billion hours in the first half of the year. The release…
More than 1 400 Absa developers are now using AI-assisted coding tools, including GitHub Copilot and Anthropic’s Claude Code, the bank disclosed on Wednesday in a statement on its first-half technology performance. It is the second disclosure of an AI development stack by one of South Africa’s big four banks in a week. Standard Bank named…
Just twenty-four hours after Wired exposed dormant facial recognition code inside Meta’s smart glasses companion app, the tech giant quietly pushed a software update to purge the software. Discovered on June 4, the internal code, dubbed “Name Tag”, was embedded within the core Meta AI application required to pair the wearable hardware to smartphones over…
The B-BBEE ICT Sector Council has launched a formal review of the 2016 ICT sector code and published an updated framework governing equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs) – the very mechanism at the heart of the political storm over Elon Musk’s Starlink and its attempts to enter the South African market. In a statement on…
The author, Workday’s Jannie Malan Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from boardroom curiosity to boardroom mandate. Across South Africa — from Sandton’s financial district to Cape Town’s technology hubs — executives are under growing pressure to demonstrate how AI will deliver real business value. Yet amid the surge in investment and experimentation, a critical question…
Nairobi — Nairobi-Health journalism across Africa is facing what experts describe as a “code red” moment, as mounting public health pressures collide with shrinking newsroom resources, according to the Africa Health Media Trends Report 2026 launched by FINN Partners. The report, released in Nairobi, paints a sobering picture of an industry under strain at a…
Image: Mark Ahsmann Shares in IBM recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI start-up Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernise a programming language run on IBM systems. IBM shares sank 13.2%, their biggest drop since 18 October 2000. Cobol is a programming language…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI has launched its GPT-5.2 artificial intelligence model, after CEO Sam Altman reportedly issued an internal “code red” in early December pausing non‑core projects and redirecting teams to accelerate development in response to Google’s Gemini 3. GPT-5.2 comes with improvements in general intelligence, coding and long-context understanding, the company said…
Kampala — UN Women, in partnership with the Government of Uganda and the African Union Commission, has launched the third phase of the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) at Mountains of the Moon University in the Mid- Western Region of Uganda. The week-long coding camp, ran from June 16 to 25, exposed girls aged…
In today’s complex and fast-paced digital landscape, businesses face a constant balancing act: move fast enough to innovate but stay structured enough to scale efficiently. It’s not just about speed. It’s also about understanding the right business problem and building the right foundations so that rapid experimentation doesn’t come at the cost of long-term sustainability…
