
LinkedIn Invited My AI ‘Cofounder’ to Give a Corporate Talk—Then Banned It
When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate?
SATURDAY, 21 MARCH 2026, 03:25

When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate?

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide.

The rise of finfluencers is a double-edged sword – representing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the financial sector.

The ActiveBreeze smart bed cools from within, pairing airflow tech with surprisingly detailed sleep data.

After series of delays, US space agency hopes to carry out first crewed flyby of the moon in more than half a century
Nasa has begun returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.
Artemis engineers began the manoeuvre, which can take up to 12 hours, at 8pm local time. The US space agency...

The company plans to pass an additional one million homes over the next five years, as it targets two million subscribers nationwide.

The technology manufacturer has doubled its commercial market share in two years and is betting on AI-powered devices to sustain momentum.

Companies looking to enhance workforce performance and efficiency should consider investing in soft skills development, says iSpring.

Liquid’s Pitch-a-thon highlights youth innovation, awarding Estopini top prize for addressing delivery gaps using taxi infrastructure.

Somerset West-based NewSpace Systems has opened what it says is Africa’s largest space manufacturing facility.

South African executives are under pressure to show AI ROI. Workday offers a practical playbook for the C-suite.

Using equity equivalents to let huge vendors avoid B-BBEE relies on a magic trick, writes ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet.

International Digital Cleanup Day highlights the dangers of ‘data toxicity’, with cyber security experts warning that unmanaged information is a liability.

South Africa stands at a decisive moment for its mining industry, shaped not only by rising global demand for critical minerals, but also by leveraging the knowledge, skills and research capacity required to extract them responsibly, efficiently and competitively. As artificial intelligence, automation and digital systems reimagine mining worldwide and the industry undergoes a promising […]
AleRunner writes: “China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades,” reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that “China’s decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis...

Online fraud harms companies and consumers alike, and places an unwelcome burden on consumers to prove they are not trying to commit fraud.

AI is institutional scaffolding, not a shortcut, and juniors should explore all the ways it can be utilised, says Webber Wentzel.

IOT technologies can connect people, equipment and environmental conditions into a single integrated safety ecosystem, says Quentin Daffarn, CEO at UC-Wireless.

Companies should partner with colocation data centres that have the infrastructure and scale to underpin the AI journey, rather than attempting to do so in-house, says Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres.

Norfolk and Suffolk researchers say the false information about autism and ADHD is most worrying.

OpenClaw, the AI agent dubbed “the next ChatGPT”, has captured the imagination of millions in China.