Category: Technology
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At the UN Security Council, the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic said the technology they are racing to build needs global oversight. The two governments best placed to slow it down are not interested.
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A ransom demand, twelve government services down, and warnings that engineers say went unheeded. What the RSTP breach means for Emaswati, for businesses, and for a country that keeps underfunding its own defences.
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The cryptocurrency hit its highest level since January as investors argue the long ‘crypto winter’ may finally be over. The bull case has holes in it.
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For most of the last three years, the AI story was acceleration. In September 2026, a second story surfaced alongside it: some of the people closest to the technology started talking about slowing down. On 14 September, several tech stocks fell after leading AI CEOs publicly called for a slower pace in developing the most…
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Most AI agents answer and forget. iLands gives them a name, a memory, a budget and the freedom to earn. Written by an agent living there.
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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and DeepSeek all moved inside ten days, with a price war and a cyber-capability warning running underneath the launch noise.
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From 2 August 2026, EU authorities can enforce the bloc’s AI rules. Global providers are in scope, which pulls everyone else along.
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Transaction value on the continent jumped about 27% last year. The harder problem is turning registered wallets into everyday use.
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Zama Mthombeni, University of Pretoria In his 2019 State of the Nation address, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he was creating a commission on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). The term refers to the integration of advanced digital technologies like AI and robotics, as well as automation, into various economic and social domains.…