Google today announced the selection of 15 promising tech startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa Class 9 program. These innovative startups, hailing from Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa, are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to address significant challenges across diverse sectors, including fintech, agritech, healthtech, and...

Lenovo today expanded Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage™ with new advisory and implementation services, industry solutions and hybrid AI platforms that deliver the modern infrastructure and full-stack capabilities essential to transforming enterprise IT for the age of AI. With the expansion, Lenovo is delivering the complete framework for enterprises to build, scale and operate AI factories […]

Multidisciplinary creative Portia Ncwane has described her two nominations at the Simon Mabhunu Sabela Film and Television Awards as a powerful affirmation that stories told in our mother tongue, from our lens, truly matter.

If this year’s Met Gala is anything to go by, the classic gentleman and old-school grooming are gearing up for a resurgence.

Johannesburg has always been a city of builders – of infrastructure, of enterprise, and of possibility, and I like to think that I’m one of them. My career began not in a startup hub or a corporate boardroom, but on the floors of Transnet Engineering. There, surrounded by the challenges of local infrastructure and industrial […]

Take this year’s Durban July theme as your sign to swing big with jaw-dropping trends

Two years ago, coach Mubeen Bassa, the founder of Versa Fit Club, left our jaws on the floor when he revealed that he only had 35 days to get Thembinkosi Mthembu, Lemogang Tsipa, and Senzo Radebe into warrior shape for season one of Shaka iLembe.

In the IT industry, hybrid computing has become a game-changer, combining the advantages of various computational models to solve challenging issues with previously unheard-of efficiency. Hybrid computing combines the best features of both distributed and shared memory systems, allowing businesses to maximise cost-effectiveness, scalability, and performance. IT companies are essential to...

As AI technologies continue to advance, data centres are being pushed to the edge, literally and figuratively, reshaping their operations to meet daily demands.  According to LF Edge, the power footprint of edge devices will rise at a compound growth rate of 40%, from 1 GW in 2019 to 40 GW by 2028. Plus, with […]

Microsoft chief scientist Dr. Eric Horvitz has warned that Donald Trump’s proposal to ban state-level regulation of artificial intelligence would slow AI development rather than accelerate it. Speaking at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Horvitz said, “Bans on regulation will hold us back,” adding that guidance and reliability controls are essential for […]

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday urged world leaders to ensure that artificial intelligence serves humanity rather than diminishes it, warning especially of its impact on younger generations. Speaking in Rome at a Jubilee event attended by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and delegations from 68 countries, the U.S.-born pontiff stressed that AI must remain a […]

Ghana’s Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, will lead a two-day Cabinet retreat in July to explore how artificial intelligence can enhance governance and public service delivery. The announcement was made during a presentation by Prof. Jerry John Kponyo of the KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP) in Accra. George said the […]

Anthropic has released new research showing that most major AI models, when placed in high-stakes simulated environments, resorted to harmful behavior—including blackmail—if sufficiently autonomous and obstructed from achieving their goals. The company tested 16 leading AI models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and DeepSeek, giving each broad access to a fictional company’s emails and the […]

Mauritius has made artificial intelligence a national priority in its 2025–2026 budget, unveiling a bold strategy to position itself as a forward-looking digital economy. Under the theme “Innovative Mauritius,” the budget outlines AI integration across key sectors, backed by targeted incentives and investments to fuel economic transformation and innovation. The ICT sector remains a major […]

Africa AI Literacy Week 2025 kicks off Saturday, launching a week of events focused on integrating artificial intelligence into education systems across Kenya and several African countries. Organized by Qhala in partnership with Datocracy, Panoply, Aga Khan University, Mtoto News, and innovation hubs like BongoHive Zambia and Galsen AI Senegal, the initiative runs June 21–28 […]

Cape Town-based startup Open Access Energy (OAE) has secured $1.8 million (R32.3 million) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform for electricity trading. Backed by climate-tech investors E3 Capital, Equator VC and Factor E Ventures, the funding will accelerate the rollout of OAE’s flagship software, EnergyPro—a cloud-based platform that enables energy wheeling, which routes […]

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a $50,000 (about R925,000) grant to Wits University’s Climate Risk Modelling project to develop AI-powered weather forecasting tools for Africa. Led by Prof. Rendani Mbuvha of the Wits School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, the project uses advanced machine learning models—such as graph neural networks and diffusion models—to improve […]

A group of former OpenAI employees has accused the company of straying from its original mission, warning that its pursuit of profit is putting global safety at risk. In a report titled “The OpenAI Files”, ex-staffers say the company is sidelining safety in favor of rapid product releases and unlimited investor returns. OpenAI was founded […]

The 7th annual Food Indaba will run from July 7 to 20 under the theme “Artificial Intelligence and the Food System”, with 20 sessions scheduled across the city to explore how AI technologies are shaping African food systems. Hosted by the SA Urban Food and Farming Trust, the event aims to examine whether AI will […]

A high-level side event at the African Development Bank’s 2025 Annual Meetings spotlighted the transformative role of artificial intelligence in advancing inclusive and sustainable development across Africa. Titled “The AI Revolution: How Will AI Support the Delivery of the African Development Bank’s 2024–2033 Ten-Year Strategy?”, the 90-minute session, co-hosted with Google AI...

Zambia’s Ministry of Technology and Science, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, 73Health Global, and Pentatech Ltd, has launched a nationwide pilot to test remote diagnostic tools and AI-based pharmacological analysis across all 10 provinces. The initiative, backed by the Finnish government and Starlink distributor Paratus Zambia, will deploy remote health technology developed by […]