231 For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic or hospital. It begins online. The internet has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for…
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Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future
244 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…
Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals
199 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…
BYD shuns price war in South Africa
200 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
219 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…
Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook
201 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
205 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…
The cameras behind Artemis II’s stunning lunar images
286 Two professional photography instructors trained Artemis II astronauts to take pictures of the moon and Earth during their historic lunar flyby and said they were as impressed as the public by…
New man to accelerate wholesale connectivity in the DRC
204 Gaetan Soltesz, GM of FAST Congo With more than 25 years of international telecommunications experience, Gaetan Soltesz is the new GM of FAST Congo, the joint venture formed in the Democratic…
The end of load shedding hasn’t fixed South Africa’s power problem
260 A new interactive report by residential solar energy specialist Wetility shows clear disparities in the reliable supply of electricity across South Africa’s municipalities, with outages lasting about two hours in some…