149 Standard Bank Group’s Simon Just Standard Bank has come out in defence of a market-led approach to open banking in South Africa that the Reserve Bank recently criticised, while the fintech…
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Anthropic’s Mythos is the cyberthreat every CISO feared
120 Late last month, the industry learnt that Anthropic is developing Claude Capybara – also referred to internally as Mythos – a powerful new AI model with substantially improved capabilities in vulnerability…
Shoprite bakes AI into Sixty60 with Pixie launch
151 ShopriteX, the innovation arm of the Shoprite Group, has launched Pixie, an AI-powered shopping assistant inside the Sixty60 app — starting with Xtra Savings Plus members. Pixie is a personalised recommendation…
Modernising legacy systems – without the downtime
123 Across industries, critical operations still run on longstanding platforms. Core banking engines, policy administration systems, trade platforms and public sector registries continue to process transactions reliably, underpin compliance and hold decades…
Why South Africa’s EV market is going nowhere slowly
137 Audi South Africa’s Asif Hoosen South Africa’s electric vehicle market is failing to grow and Audi says import taxes and a lack of consumer incentives are largely to blame, with the…
Why South Africa’s EV market is going nowhere slowly
119 Audi South Africa’s Asif Hoosen South Africa’s electric vehicle market is failing to grow and Audi says import taxes and a lack of consumer incentives are largely to blame, with the…
Major boost for Starlink
132 The US Federal Communications Commission is set to approve rule revisions this month to ease power limits on satellite spectrum use, giving a major boost to space-based broadband services such as…
M-KOPA’s 2025 impact: women at the heart of digital inclusion
144 For millions of South Africans, access to opportunity is still determined by access to tools, particularly smartphones and digital financial services that allow for participation in the modern economy. M-KOPA South…
Africa switches on as Europe dims the lights
130 Daily satellite observations have revealed a continued nighttime brightening globally due to artificial lighting, with important regional variations including a surge in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia alongside a deliberate dimming…
MVNOs take centre stage in legislative shake-up
148 Dominic Cull South Africa’s burgeoning mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space is set to take centre stage as parliament discusses proposed amendments to the country’s most important piece of ICT sector…