Luis Monzon

Top financial analysts in South Africa have questioned Amazon Leo's capacity to launch its services to local customers, as it remains untested, compared to its larger rival, SpaceX and Starlink.

The AI shopping assistant on Sixty60, Pixie, has seen significant adoption among users on the on-demand shopping platform, with one customer using it to build a grocery basket worth over R36,000.

Microsoft has announced that a select number of South African organisations have been onboarded on a limited private preview of its new AI-powered cybersecurity platform, MDASH.

Concerns are mounting over the surge in South Africans across all age groups who are in serious relationships with AI chatbots.

Naspers, through its subsidiary Prosus, launched a new agentic AI platform for businesses in South Africa on Tuesday, called ToqanClaw, that is completely free to use.

For the first time ever, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) autonomously targeted and executed a cyberattack on the Internet when a combination of OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face in July.

MTN is deploying technology that automatically detects when physical disruptions affect its fibre Internet network, which reduces the time it takes to dispatch technicians to fix problems.

Shoprite X, the innovation wing of Checkers owner Shoprite Group, has announced that its Pixie AI shopping helper has rolled out to all Sixty60 users in South Africa.

Johannesburg is the centre of operations for international cybersecurity giant Kaspersky across its English-speaking African markets, and it is investing to grow across the continent.

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies will launch an in-depth study to identify the causes of the high cost of data, voice and devices needed to communicate in South Africa.