283 Stafford Masie. Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral Prominent technology investor Stafford Masie has launched a stinging public critique of South Africa’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy, warning that the document risks “regulating away” the…
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Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals
215 Kylie Cooper/Reuters Adobe is releasing a new AI assistant designed to help users carry out tasks across its suite of software for editing photos, videos and other digital content. The Firefly…
TCL unveils 2026 product line-up for South Africa
313 Bringing revolutionary SQD-Mini LED TV technology to local consumers for the first time. TCL, the global number one Mini LED and ultra-large screen TV brand (75″+) according to Omdia 2025, and…
Spar’s plan to fix itself
254 The challenges run a little deeper than choice of CEO … The Spar Group is in the process of making its most important appointment in easily the last five years, maybe…
BYD shuns price war in South Africa
224 The BYD Dolphin Surf Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is deliberately avoiding a price war in South Africa as competition ramps up in the continent’s second biggest car market, its local…
R85-million for SA start-up reinventing the stethoscope with AI
255 Cape Town-based medtech start-up AI Diagnostics has raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round to scale the deployment of an AI-powered digital stethoscope, which is designed to detect tuberculosis through lung-sound…
More men than women say they are poor, Stats SA finds
261 The income indicator shows that poverty affects 40% of women versus 41.9% of men. South Africans may be feeling slightly better about their financial situations than they did a decade ago,…
Here’s why financial literacy is your blueprint for a well-designed life
252 Picture: iStock / pixdeluxe As South Africa marks Financial Literacy Month in April, the conversation often centres on restrictive budgeting and cutting back. However, true financial literacy is not about deprivation,…
Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook
235 The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum…
Draft AI policy: South Africa ‘too dependent’ on US, China
233 South Africa’s draft AI policy document – gazetted last week by the department of communications & digital technologies – contains a candid acknowledgement that the country’s reliance on US and Chinese…