BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen unpacks the challenges – and opportunities – facing a sector under pressure.

This on-demand webinar explores how empathy, AI and human insight can unite to transform customer experience.

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list

“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.

Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including...

Autonomous AI agents are set to transform how small businesses design, manage and deliver value, according to AWS.

The department of communications’ performance has sparked criticism in parliament.

This hit debut from Finland is intensely readable, but could have delved more deeply into the links between human progress and environmental destruction

In November 1741 Georg Wilhelm Steller, “theologian, naturalist, and curious man”, was shipwrecked on an island between Alaska and Russia. There he found, floating in the shallow waters, a vast sirenian, Hydrodamalis gigas, nine feet long and...

Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list

A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.

The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823), regarded as someone who has...

Apple reportedly plans to use a 1.2 trillion-parameter AI model from Google to help power a revamp of its Siri voice assistant.

Safaricom of Kenya on Thursday reported group earnings before interest and taxes of KSh65.2-billion , up 54.5% from a year ago.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race.

The largest supermoon of the year, the so-called ‘beaver’ moon is the biggest and brightest of 2025, just 357,000 km from Earth

Watch November’s ‘beaver’ supermoon rising over Sydney’s Bondi beach – video

Glowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

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Jon Watts, the Guardian’s global environment editor, goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?

In episode two of this miniseries from June 2025, Jon meets the people trying to make sure the rainforest is worth more standing than cut down – from a government minister attempting to establish Brazil’s...

The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.

Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel prize-winning theory and suggest universe could end in ‘big crunch’

Astronomers have cast doubt on a Nobel prize-winning theory that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, suggesting that instead it may be slowing down.

If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe, raising the possibility that rather than expanding for...

In the 2023 remarks from the King he said AI was “no less important than the discovery of electricity” but warned the risks must be tackled.

SNP MP Pete Wishart says he is seeking legal advice over the “disturbing” AI-generated social media post.

Vodacom said on Wednesday that it had reached an out-of-court settlement in a dispute with former employee Nkosana Makate.

The world should watch out bubbles in financial markets, the head of the World Economic Forum has warned.