South Africans are getting better at spotting fraud
Scams are becoming increasingly convincing, aided by AI, with an astonishing 85% of South Africans encountering one in the past year, says Thalia Pillay of Orca Fraud.
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ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa
South Africans experienced challenges using Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and X’s Grok on Thursday, 3 September 2026.
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AI | Department of Science and Innovation | IRIS | Large Language Models | MakerLabs | Rene Mattheus
Serious concerns about robot teachers in South Africa
A cybercrime and digital safety attorney said plans to introduce AI-powered robot teachers in every South African classroom were a POPIA minefield. That was even before knowing the robots were actually from India and not a local innovation.
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AI | Bill Gates | Microsoft
Five takeaways from Bill Gates’s essay on AI’s potential risks
Gates argues that society cannot afford to wait for AI’s risks to become clearer. The question is whether regulators and tech firms can act quickly enough to keep pace.
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Nvidia graphics cards and AI servers worth R798 million being installed in South African data centre
Stratos Lab is deploying over 50 Nvidia AI servers from Gigabyte, comprising over 400 GPUs, at a data centre in Centurion.
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Firewall for stopping dodgy tenders in South Africa
OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage says there is already an independent platform that can use AI to detect dodgy tender deals, government is just not interested in it.
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MTN has formed a new company
MTN has established Africa Data Hub following a strategic partnership with an undisclosed UAE-backed data centre investment platform.
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‘We’re becoming an AI-enabled organisation’ – Standard Bank’s Margaret Nienaber
Around a third of its technology staff are now utilising AI-enabled coding applications, driving early productivity gains of roughly 20%, says the bank.
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AI’s lucrative jobs boom is leaving women behind globally
Women hold just 27% of AI roles at AI companies and risk missing out on economic mobility as a result, says LinkedIn’s Sarah Steinberg.
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AI | capex | Capital markets | Dudu Ramela | equities | Merchant West
Quality investing beyond the AI momentum boom
Why do markets reward momentum but overlook quality? Neal Hoogwerf, equity analyst at Merchant West Investments, discusses finding durable businesses, navigating the AI investment boom, and separating market noise from long-term value.