AI Both Boon and Bane for SA’s Channel
AI is reshaping South Africa’s formal ICT channel, offering unprecedented speed, scale and intelligence while exposing deep‑seated legacy systems, data silos and skills gaps. GrowthGuru.ai’s co‑founders argue that AI can be a great equaliser for SMEs, but only if partners align strategy, incentives and execution across the ecosystem. The supply chain is moving from high‑volume, low‑margin to high‑value, low‑volume models, with refresh cycles shrinking to two years and inventory devaluation risks rising. Success will depend on human‑centric capability and integrated, agentic AI that drives real‑time collaboration.
Security Researchers Tricked Apple Intelligence Into Cursing at Users. It Could Have Been a Lot Worse
Security researchers at RSAC demonstrated that Apple Intelligence, the on‑device AI built into iPhones, iPads, Macs and Vision Pro, can be hijacked through prompt‑injection attacks. Using a Neural Exec technique combined with a Unicode right‑to‑left override, they forced the model to utter...
The Real AI Race Isn't About Models or Data. It's About Context.
Companies are pouring money into AI tools but see little impact because they lack the business‑specific context that turns raw data into actionable insight. HubSpot argues the missing piece is a contextual infrastructure—its Agentic Customer Platform—that captures and continuously updates...
Where AI Agents Fit in Nonprofit Workflows (And Where They Don’t)
Nonprofit leaders face chronic budget limits and staff burnout, prompting interest in AI agents that can automate routine tasks without adding headcount. Defined as autonomous software that perceives, reasons, and acts, these agents go beyond chatbots by executing multi‑step workflows...
AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth Is Far More Worrying
A recent Guardian analysis argues that blaming the AI chatbot Claude for the bombing of Iran’s Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school misses a deeper problem: the U.S. military’s push to automate the kill chain and remove human judgment from targeting decisions....
Data Governance Is Top Barrier To MSP AI Adoption: Survey
A new AvePoint‑Omdia survey of 333 MSP executives finds data governance and compliance are the biggest obstacles to AI adoption, with 51% naming it the top barrier. The AI services market is projected to reach $276 billion by 2030, creating a...
Why Cleveland Clinic Chose This AI Startup To Rewire Key Healthcare Operations
Cleveland Clinic has teamed with San Francisco AI startup Luminai to automate its complex referral workflow, a high‑volume administrative task that still relies on faxed documents. Luminai, fresh from a $38 million Series B that brings its total capital to about $60 million, is...
Transatlantic Cooperation on AI and National Security
The growing entanglement of artificial‑intelligence (AI) technology with national‑security concerns is testing the transatlantic partnership. U.S. export controls aimed at China are limiting Europe’s ability to innovate, pursue digital sovereignty, and maintain a unified market, while internal U.S. policy swings...
How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI
The article argues that generative AI will soon render traditional keyboard‑centric tasks obsolete, pushing white‑collar work toward a "judgment economy" where human intuition, empathy, and strategic insight become premium assets. It cites industry leaders and studies warning that most white‑collar...
Morocco and EU Sign Deals to Become "Third Voice" In Global AI
The European Union and Morocco launched a Digital Dialogue to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence, digital start‑ups, and secure infrastructure. The partnership includes four European supercomputing centres linking with Morocco’s Mohammed VI University, home to Africa’s most powerful supercomputer, and ongoing...
The Da Vinci Dilemma: Where Do Elite Lawyers Add Value in an AI World?
The article argues that AI is accelerating the breakup of legal work into standardized, repeatable components, forcing elite law firms to rethink the partner role. Senior lawyers will add value primarily through judgment, risk‑bearing, and client assurance rather than billable...
7 Best AI Video Generators I’ve Tried (and Loved!) For 2026
After testing over 20 AI video generators, the author narrows the field to seven standouts—Synthesia, Canva, HeyGen, Creatify AI, VEED, AKOOL and AI Studios—each priced between $10 and $33 per month. The tools were evaluated on quality, speed, multilingual support and workflow...
AI Is Speeding up Time to Insight in Value-Based Care
AI is accelerating the time to insight for value‑based care contracts, according to Brian Overstreet, CEO of Arbital Health. Risk‑based agreements generate massive, complex data sets that traditionally require weeks of manual analysis. Arbital’s AI platform rapidly sifts through this...
Propeller Brings Five MENA Deeptech Startups to Silicon Valley with Kernel Camp
Propeller, an AI‑focused venture capital firm, launched the inaugural Kernel Camp residency, bringing five deep‑tech startups from Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt to Silicon Valley. The eight‑week program embeds founders in the Bay Area ecosystem, offering access to engineers, investors...
CoreWeave Announces $21 Billion AI Cloud Deal with Meta
CoreWeave announced an expanded agreement to provide Meta Platforms with $21 billion in AI‑focused cloud capacity, extending the partnership through December 2032. To fund the deal, CoreWeave will issue $3 billion of convertible senior notes due 2032, with an option for investors to...
From AI Experiments to Operational Impact: What It Really Takes for Enterprises to Realize Value
Enterprise AI projects have long struggled, with 80‑95% failing to deliver measurable value. The article argues that fragmented data, siloed processes, and poor integration—not the technology itself—are the primary culprits. It outlines four essential traits for successful AI: a shared...
The AI CIO Will Govern Outcomes At Scale
Forrester’s new report "The AI CIO" argues that artificial intelligence will remodel the chief information officer’s role more dramatically than the past decade of digital transformation. The focus will shift from merely delivering technology to governing AI‑driven outcomes at scale....
Estonia’s Handhold Secures €3M Seed to Automate B2B Software Sales with AI Agents
Estonia‑based Handhold raised €3 million (≈$3.3 million) in a seed round led by Entourage Capital to automate inbound B2B software sales with multimodal AI agents. The platform assigns each lead a virtual “account manager” that qualifies prospects, delivers custom demos, and guides...
How to Know if Your AI Partner Understands Your Business
Companies often hire AI partners without vetting their business acumen, leading to costly delays. Effective partners start by probing workflow pain points, not by pushing specific models, ensuring solutions address real needs. Experience at a similar company size and stage...
Manulife IM Sticking with Proxy Advisers Despite AI Proposal Push
Manulife Investment Management’s chief sustainability officer told Responsible Investor that the firm will continue to rely on established proxy‑advisory firms even as it pilots an artificial‑intelligence tool for assessing shareholder proposals. The AI pilot is designed to evaluate the ESG...
AI Pioneers Unite to Launch the Shared AI License Foundation to Advance Foundation Model Innovation
Leading AI firms including Anthropic, Genentech, IBM, Meta and Microsoft have launched the Shared AI License Foundation (SAIL), a non‑exclusive patent pool for foundation‑model technologies. The coalition, with observers eBay and TD Bank and members such as Block and Figma,...
AfterQuery Raises $30M To Expand AI Data Solutions
AfterQuery announced a $30 million Series A round that values the applied‑data lab at $300 million. The funding will fuel expansion of its expert network, hiring, and enterprise solutions. The company already works with nearly 100,000 vetted professionals and has surpassed a $100 million...
OpenAI Launches ‘Child Safety Blueprint’ Amid Surge in AI-Generated Abuse
OpenAI unveiled a "Child Safety Blueprint" to tackle the surge in AI‑generated child sexual abuse, a threat that saw a 14% rise in reported incidents in the first half of 2025. The framework, crafted with the National Center for Missing...
OpenAI and Meaghan B Murphy Discuss How Families Are Using ChatGPT Safely and with Confidence with YourUpdateTV
OpenAI partnered with AI‑savvy parent Meaghan B. Murphy for a nationwide media tour aimed at educating families on safe ChatGPT usage. The tour highlighted built‑in safeguards—quiet hours, content filters, and privacy settings—designed to protect teen users while encouraging productive learning....
Amazon CEO Says Chip Business 'On Fire' As AWS Steps Up Challenge To Nvidia
Amazon’s cloud unit reported a $15 billion annual AI revenue run rate and a custom‑chip business now exceeding $20 billion, double the Q4 figure. CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the rapid growth of its Trainium 3 accelerator, which promises better price‑performance than Nvidia GPUs....
Nvidia Rubin GPUs May Be Delayed, Slowing the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure
Nvidia’s next‑gen Rubin GPUs, slated for late‑2024 shipment, face supply delays due to HBM4 memory validation, CX9 interconnect rollout, and higher power and cooling demands. TrendForce now projects Rubin to represent only 22% of Nvidia’s 2026 shipments, down from an...
OpenAI Hits Pause on Flagship UK Data Centre Scheme
OpenAI has placed its flagship $500 bn Stargate AI data‑centre project on hold in the United Kingdom. The scheme, slated for a Tyneside site in partnership with Nscale and Nvidia, would have installed roughly 8,000 Nvidia AI processors. OpenAI cited soaring...
Shilo, Rechat, Lofty Add AI Tools; Associations Bolster Agent Safety
Shilo, Lofty and Rechat each rolled out new AI‑powered tools that automate coaching, lead nurturing and conversation capture for real‑estate agents, all offered at no extra charge to existing customers. Shilo’s Signals builds DISC‑style profiles from over three million calls,...
New Survey Reveals Overwhelmingly Optimistic Results on the Use of AI in Construction
A CMiC‑Dodge survey of more than 6,000 construction firms found that 87% of contractors believe artificial intelligence will have a meaningful impact on the industry. Respondents expect AI to cut time on repetitive tasks (85%), improve decision‑making (over 70%) and...
OPSWAT Adds Predictive AI Engine to MetaDefender for Pre-Execution Threat Detection
OPSWAT introduced Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI‑driven threat detection engine, into the MetaDefender platform. The static‑analysis engine predicts malicious intent in milliseconds, delivering sub‑100‑ms inference while maintaining a tiny memory footprint. In internal tests the engine achieved 99.99%...
How Insurance Leaders Can Leverage AI Without Sacrificing Trust
Capgemini’s WNS unit outlines how insurers can embed control, privacy and compliance into AI deployments while still fostering cross‑jurisdiction collaboration. Techniques such as geographic data restrictions and federated learning enable model training without moving raw data. High‑impact AI use cases...
I Asked 5 Data Leaders About How They Use AI to Automate - and End Integration Nightmares
Data leaders across industries are turning to generative AI and automation to tame complex data‑integration projects. Thomson Reuters is piloting an internal AI tool for M&A due diligence, while Create Music Group runs more than 600 pipelines with Astronomer’s Astro...
AI-Caution Prompts Rising Demand for Authentic, Human-Led Content in Social Buying Journeys
New research from the Retail Technology Show surveyed over 1,000 shoppers and found that 53% distrust AI‑generated social content, rising to 58% among Gen Z. More than half (51%) believe AI threatens brand trust on social platforms, while 43% say authentic,...
Global AI Secures Enterprise Agentic AI Deployment with Fortune Global 500 Pharmaceutical Leader
Global AI Inc. announced a full‑scale production rollout of its Agentic AI Platform with a Fortune Global 500 pharmaceutical company. The solution now runs end‑to‑end across regulatory reporting and payroll functions, linking inventory, ERP, HR and finance systems into a...
XMax Advances AI Strategy Through Development and Deployment of An AI Inference Platform
XMax Inc., through its wholly‑owned subsidiary XMax AI, signed an agreement with Cloud Alliance Inc. to develop and deploy a cloud‑based AI inference platform on Amazon Web Services. The platform will deliver large‑model API access, intelligent routing, authentication, integrated payments,...
How OpenClaw Became Google's Next Big AI Threat After ChatGPT
OpenClaw, an open‑source autonomous AI assistant, has surged in early 2026, offering messaging‑driven agents that operate locally on personal computers. The platform can create subordinate agents, manage files, and execute multistep tasks without constant cloud access, drawing praise from Nvidia’s...
The Death of the CV
DY/DX warns that AI‑generated résumés are stripping the CV of its signalling power, prompting firms to rethink hiring. While South African recruiters are adopting AI for bulk screening, the consultancy argues that keyword‑driven tools can miss high‑potential candidates with non‑linear...
Microsoft Finally Begins Removing Copilot From Notepad on Windows 11 — but the AI Still Persists
Microsoft has begun stripping the Copilot brand from Windows 11 apps, starting with Notepad. The latest Insider build removes the Copilot icon and renames the AI menu to “writing tools,” while preserving the underlying functionality. Settings now list the AI toggle...
OpenAI Halts Stargate UK Data Centre Project
OpenAI announced it is suspending the construction of its Stargate data centre in the United Kingdom, a project originally slated to cost roughly £200 million (about $250 million). The facility was intended to house some of the world’s most powerful AI compute...
Hugging Face's Safetensors, Meta's Helion Join PyTorch Foundation
The PyTorch Foundation announced that Meta’s Helion DSL and Hugging Face’s Safetensors format have joined its portfolio of open‑source AI projects. Helion provides a domain‑specific language for writing custom machine‑learning kernels, while Safetensors delivers a fast, secure tensor serialization method....
Will ChatGPT Ads Become a Meaningful Part of the Performance Media Mix?
ChatGPT advertising is entering the performance media arena, drawing early spend thanks to its large, intent‑rich audience. The article argues that lasting budget allocation will depend less on user numbers and more on the ability to measure outcomes against other...
Argentum AI Selects Rafay for Infrastructure Orchestration
Argentum AI has chosen the Rafay Platform to orchestrate its rapidly expanding AI infrastructure portfolio, which spans more than 3 GW of power across the U.S., Europe and other regions. The unified software‑orchestration layer lets Argentum provision customized GPU compute environments...
The Top Priority for Adobe’s Next CEO? Prepping for the ‘Age of Agents’
Adobe announced that longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after 18 years, triggering a board search for a successor. Analysts say the top priority for the next leader will be reshaping Adobe’s portfolio for the emerging "agentic AI" era,...
CoreWeave, Meta Strike Another $21 Billion Deal for AI Computing
CoreWeave Inc. has inked a new $21 billion agreement to provide AI‑cloud capacity to Meta Platforms through December 2032. The contract builds on a prior $14.2 billion deal that ran until the end of 2021, extending the partnership by an additional year. Compute...
AI Semiconductor Market to Reach USD 1.1 Trillion by 2035
The AI semiconductor market is set to exceed $1.1 trillion by 2035, according to a new industry report. Valued at roughly $102.8 billion in 2025, it is expected to grow at a 27‑33% compound annual growth rate. Growth is fueled by expanding...
Media Distillery Targets Sports Streamers with New Engagement Platform
Media Distillery unveiled an AI‑driven Sports Engagement Suite that automates highlights, real‑time key‑moment detection, chapter navigation, and related shoulder content. The platform aims to ease the labor‑intensive workflow of packaging sports coverage for broadcasters and streaming services. Football will be...
Reusable "Skills" Are Coming To Gemini In Chrome
Google has introduced a new "Skills" button to Gemini in Chrome, currently available in Chrome Canary. The feature lets users save a prompt as a reusable skill and summon it later with a slash command. Google also ships a few pre‑built...
Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said search is evolving from a simple results list into an AI‑driven agent manager that can plan, execute, and coordinate tasks. He envisions future queries becoming "agentic" searches where multiple AI agents run in parallel to...
How AI and Data Analytics Are Driving Payout Optimization Across Platforms
Payout optimization has shifted from a back‑office task to a real‑time business imperative, with AI and analytics now guiding speed, cost, and fraud decisions. Global real‑time payments surged 42% in 2023 and are projected to exceed 511 billion transactions by 2028,...
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 Can Rethink Its Own Coding Strategy Across Hundreds of Iterations
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.1 under an MIT license, an open‑weight model that can self‑revise its coding strategy across hundreds of iterations. In internal tests it generated 21,500 queries per second on a vector‑database benchmark—a six‑fold improvement over Claude Opus 4.6—and delivered...