
NCIC 2026 draws over 2 000 entries from across SA
The National Cleantech Innovation Challenge attracted innovators from every province, with solutions targeting energy, water, agriculture, waste and logistics.
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The National Cleantech Innovation Challenge attracted innovators from every province, with solutions targeting energy, water, agriculture, waste and logistics.

WeBuyCars plans to offer its AI-powered Inspectify vehicle inspection platform to the broader used-car market.

South Africa’s banks are taking divergent paths on AI, with Investec insisting people, not machines, define the institution.

High-speed networks will be rolled out to schools, circuit offices and teacher development centres, says the provincial department.

FurtherAI, the AI platform purpose-built for insurance, today announced the appointment of Tom Bradley to lead its UK and EU operations.

Africa Finance Corporation has committed up to $100-million to tech fund managers to deepen local venture capital.
John Lennon’s last interview — just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980 — has become a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, debuting Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. In a new interview with the Associated Press, Soderbergh defends the film’s limited use of AI to visualize concepts from that two-hour interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:Soderbergh was resolved to let...

Local organisations renew calls for equitable, resilient and affordable connectivity, and highlight the need for “digital lifelines”.

Participants who got single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from cocaine than those who got placebo
Results from a new clinical trial show that a single dose of psilocybin could be an effective treatment for cocaine addiction.
The study, published in Jama Network Open this month, showed that 19 participants who received a single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from...

Fragmented data, weak governance and siloed systems continue to derail many enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives.

The science, tech and innovation department looks to make big gains, as it secures R10.4 billion for the 2026/2027 financial year.

Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest Capital, is moving its JSE listing from AltX to the main board.

The rollout will tackle rising costs, improve driver safety and support job creation, as SA’ e-hailing sector shifts towards electric mobility.

Paddy Rodgers said the Observatory’s rich history showed the power of human knowledge and the need to avoid “dependence” on AI.

As a business grows, keeping track of every conversation, commitment, and follow-up becomes increasingly difficult. Many small teams rely on memory, personal inboxes, or loosely maintained spreadsheets — an approach that works well enough, until it doesn’t. Contacts slip through the cracks, follow-ups get missed, and customer trust quietly erodes. Teams often start by tracking […]

Campaigners want a major Cape Town data centre plan blocked until its water and power impact is disclosed.

One of the biggest risks of SaaS-based supply chain attacks is that they exploit trust rather than technical weaknesses, says CG Selva Ganesh, VP and CEO SA at In2IT Technologies.

Solid8 will participate at both the Cape Town and Johannesburg events with partners Saviynt, Semperis and Ping.

Too often, cloud decisions are still made as technical choices rather than business-critical investments, says Resilient Innovations.

Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI – well ahead of the rest of the continent.

The attack has been successfully mitigated and full network functionality has been restored, says 1-Grid.