Enterprises are moving beyond AI experimentation as executives demand clearer evidence of financial and operational returns. Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is increasingly delivering business value, but only about a quarter of enterprises are converting their investments into significant financial returns. This is one of the key findings of new research from Google Cloud, in partnership…
Andre den Hond, solutions architect at Arctic Wolf. South African organisations should adopt and enforce an executive-level resilience mandate to defend against agentic AI-powered ransomware, fraud and phishing, according to cyber security and technology professionals. Andre den Hond, solutions architect at Arctic Wolf, says AI is reshaping an already sophisticated threat landscape. “AI is accelerating…
Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India“ — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest-growing large economy. The Indian government has been rushing to sell stakes in state-owned companies this year. So far, it has pared its stake in 10 public…
China’s commerce ministry has accused the US of “AI hegemonism” and threatened countermeasures after senior US officials said Chinese AI companies could face investigations, sanctions and trade restrictions over the alleged theft of US technology. The ministry said on Monday that Washington was threatening Chinese companies with punishment based on allegations they used “distillation” to…
For the past two years, the public conversation around AI has been dominated by one question: will it replace jobs? It’s an understandable worry. Tools like ChatGPT and Claude can write, research, summarise, code and synthesise information at a speed that seemed impossible only a few years ago. It hasn’t helped that both Sam Altman…
Cloud platforms have become the primary building block for how organisations build, scale and operate digital services. But as data flows across geographical boundaries, questions of where it lives, who can access it and which laws govern it have moved from niche compliance concerns to central architectural decisions. For organisations spanning Europe and South Africa,…
Rwanda has once again emerged as a promising place for entrepreneurs, with six local firms earning a place among the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) 2026 Top 100 Entrepreneurs. They were selected from more than 24,000 applications across all 54 African countries. The 2026 edition of the competition, backed by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba…
Workday South Africa MD Kiv Moodley opening the Workday Horizon Johannesburg event Workday has concluded its flagship Workday Horizon Johannesburg event, which was held on 2 June 2026 at the Marriott Hotel, Melrose Arch. The event brought together chief HR officers, CFOs, CIOs and senior business leaders from across South Africa to explore how organisations…
EDITORIAL | Kenya’s G-to-G oil deal smells increasingly like a sovereign transfer of wealth to private firms The Kenyan public was promised stability. What it may have received instead is one of the most opaque and politically loaded commercial arrangements in recent memory. When Nairobi unveiled its Government-to-Government (G-to-G) oil import deal with Saudi Arabia…
Nairobi — Insurance technology firm Turaco has been ranked among Africa’s fastest-growing companies in the latest Financial Times ranking, as Kenyan firms continued to strengthen their presence on the continental list. The report ranked 17 Kenyan companies among Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, giving Kenya the second-highest number of firms after South Africa, which had 51 companies….
