OpenAI will publicly launch its most capable model, GPT‑5.6, on Thursday, after delaying the launch last month at the US government’s request amid national security concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused. This comes on the heels of the US government lifting curbs on Anthropic’s latest Fable and Mythos AI models last week, less…
Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel Small software bugs that developers once safely ignored can now be strung together by AI into working exploits – and the code to launch those attacks at scale generated on demand. That is the warning from Meerah Rajavel, global CIO of Palo Alto Networks, who spoke to TechCentral during…
The world’s food systems face real and urgent challenges. These include climate change, nutrition insecurity, food safety, and unequal access to markets. Research has produced practical solutions to each of these that could benefit hundreds of millions of people. Too few are moved into widespread use. For years, the development sector has flattered itself with…
The government has intensified its campaign to reposition the country as one of West Africa’s emerging investment destinations, using economic diplomacy to showcase opportunities across critical sectors while seeking to convert international goodwill into long-term capital inflows. At a High-Level Diplomatic Investment Forum organized by the Embassy of Liberia in Accra, ambassadors accredited to Liberia,…
Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies – and to violent extremists. For over a year, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has been exerting pressure on communities and military positions in northern Cameroon’s Darak district. The group aims to extend its control beyond the…
The first stage is human with an AI assistant. (Image source: 123RF) There is a productivity crisis in many organisations today. Leaders are under pressure to move faster, improve service and do more with teams that are already stretched. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index shows that 53% of leaders say productivity must increase, while 80%…
Absa Group CITO Johnson Idesoh Absa Group will deploy AI-powered “super agents” to scan its systems for vulnerabilities and shorten patch cycles as it prepares its defences against a new class of frontier AI models capable of finding and exploiting software weaknesses at speed. Group chief information and technology officer Johnson Idesoh told TechCentral’s Meet…
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Across the continent, GDP has risen on the back of more workers, more capital and a commodity super-cycle, rather than through genuine gains in productivity and innovation. Too little labour has moved out of subsistence agriculture into higher-productivity manufacturing and modern services. As the recent Africa Business Forum in Addis Ababa…
There are moments when a forum stops being a gathering and becomes a mirror. The Lomé Peace and Security Forum (11-12 October 2025) did exactly that–a quiet reframing of African peace and security through the lens of technological power. It exposed a shift African policymakers still treat as peripheral: the future of peace will be…
