
WeBuyCars embraces AI amid stiff competition
The used-car dealer turns to artificial intelligence and data analytics as Chinese car brands squeeze margins.
WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026, 00:03

The used-car dealer turns to artificial intelligence and data analytics as Chinese car brands squeeze margins.

The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Valley happy at the same time. Good luck with that.

Break the pattern of unlocking your phone for one thing and then getting sucked into something else. Set up your lock screen to show all the information you need at a glance.

At the ITWeb Security Summit 2026 in Johannesburg, Huawei will argue that as AI moves from experimentation to production, companies must focus on governance, security and operational accountability.

The annual gathering of the Western Cape’s cyber security professionals takes place next week, from 25 to 26 May.

E-mails demanding extortion money, to be paid in monero, have been sent to South African web hosting companies.
Follow our live coverage of Google’s annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI tools and more details about Android XR smart glasses.

Global AI usage climbed to 18% in Q1 2026, while SA’s adoption reached 23% of the working-age population, states a Microsoft study.

South Africa’s internet infrastructure is under attack, with hosting providers hit and a ransom demanded.

Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to start complying with the Take It Down Act. Here’s how more than a dozen of the largest platforms are handling takedown demands for your nudes.

Rising IT hardware costs and supply constraints now carry real operational and financial risks, says Marcelle Steyn, strategic sales lead at InnoVent.

AI now touches every function across the retail value chain, turning customer engagement, operations and supply chains from reactive to predictive, says eBlocks Software.

African businesses can skip heavy compute construction and move directly to token model as a service for on-demand intelligence consumption.
A jury’s rejection of Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.

The Mission Critical Automation specialisation recognises the company’s capability to support automation in environments where downtime, misconfiguration and inconsistency carry real business consequences.
A House transportation bill introduced this week would require owners of electric cars to pay $130 to cover the cost of road repairs.

South Africa has one dermatologist per 250 000 people and teens are filling the gap with ChatGPT, to the alarm of skin specialists.
Most organisations aren’t under-tooled but under-led – and AI will only widen that leadership gap.

Classic swipe apps are not as popular as they used to be. People are tired of the same profiles, unrecognisable processed photos, routine phrases, and texting that leads nowhere. However, the need for live communication remains. Therefore, it is not that online dating is dead; it has only transformed. Today, people are looking for each […]

For years, digitisation was largely the domain of large organisations. Enterprise software was expensive, implementation-heavy, and often designed for operational complexity that small businesses simply did not have. Beyond the software itself, the talent required to configure and maintain these systems placed digitisation even further out of reach for many SMMEs. Then came the SaaS […]

Toyota South Africa has finally put a price on its first battery-electric vehicle, the bZ4X.