228 Participants hold their laptops as they line up to install and set up OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing. Florence Lo/Reuters Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics…
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OpenAI plans desktop ‘super app’
187 OpenAI has confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop “super app” to simplify user experience. OpenAI…
GWM eyes plant options in South Africa
237 Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car maker Great Wall Motor (GWM) is weighing whether to share a manufacturing facility with another car maker in South Africa or acquire an existing plant if available…
Eskom must build renewables or face extinction: Mteto Nyati
172 Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati has said the establishment of a fourth entity within the utility’s unbundling plan — a dedicated renewables business called Eskom Green — is…
How Acer Africa is bridging the digital divide through local innovation
232 As we power through 2026, I find myself reflecting on a year of “firsts” for Acer Africa. Last year was not merely about shipping units; it was a year where we…
South Africa wants to tax online gambling. The industry is fighting back
204 As a boom in online gambling across Africa gathers pace, governments are hiking taxes to contain addiction risks and fill depleted state coffers. In by far the biggest market, South Africa,…
Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter
184 Ryan Porter With more than 25 years in business management and over two decades leading complex IT environments, Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter has spent his career turning technology into a…
Arctic Wolf unpacks the evolving threat landscape for SA businesses
206 Most security teams can tell you what they’ve deployed. Far fewer can answer the board’s next question: are we actually less exposed than we were three months ago? In many organisations,…
Adobe faces fresh probe over subscription cancellation fees
219 Adobe’s head office in San Jose, California The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) — the UK equivalent of South Africa’s Competition Commission — has launched a formal investigation into Adobe over…
Africa’s first Nvidia RTX Pro GPU servers have landed
171 For years, African developers, researchers, studios and AI teams have had no choice but to rent GPU infrastructure from overseas. This meant paying in dollars or euros, contending with high latency…
