Anthropic bets AI will outstrip electricity and the internet
TechCentralby Agency Staff·13d ago
Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialisation, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus.
OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra
TechCentralby Agency Staff·13d ago
OpenAI has scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, after internal testing found the system did not meet the company’s safety and alignment...
'Really embarrassing': SA expert on OpenAI's agent escape
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·14d ago
The global reaction when OpenAI’s agents escaped a test environment and broke into Hugging Face’s systems in July was that the machines had become frighteningly capable.
GEC+Africa 2026 celebrates Africa's most promising entrepreneurs
TechCentralby GEC+Africa·14d ago
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress Africa (GEC+Africa) 2026 concluded at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on 17 September, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors...
Why 'access' is failing South Africa's classrooms - and how we fix it
TechCentralby Webafrica·14d ago
The narrative surrounding South Africa’s digital transformation often leans on comfortable, macro-level statistics.
Major bank joins crypto fight against Reserve Bank draft rules
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·14d ago
GoTyme Bank has confirmed it has signed up to Catastrophe, the industry coalition campaigning against draft rules that would bar South African companies from making cross-border payments in...
Your last SQL Server end-of-support deadline
TechCentralby Ascent Technology·14d ago
Somewhere in your estate, a team is scoping a SQL Server 2016 project whose definition of success is that nobody notices anything. The applications must behave exactly as they did.
The steam engine lesson AI doomsayers keep missing
TechCentralby Sam Clarke·14d ago
The debate about artificial intelligence has settled into a tedious equilibrium. Executives are told either that AI will displace jobs on an apocalyptic scale or that it will finally deliver the...
The CX automation boom has an intelligence gap
TechCentralby CallMiner·14d ago
Automation has become the default setting for customer experience (CX). According to CallMiner’s 2026 CX Landscape Report, 99% of CX organisations now use automation in some form across customer...
Spar2U to get a do-over
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·14d ago
Spar will begin piloting a refreshed version of its Spar2U on-demand shopping service from December, the group said on Monday in a trading update that also warned FY2026 earnings would fall short...
OpenAI's rogue agent problem keeps getting bigger
TechCentralby Agency Staff·14d ago
Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two...
Woan's ghost exorcised
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·17d ago
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has formally withdrawn the reservation of high-demand spectrum for a wireless open-access network, more than four years after cabinet moved to scrap the...
Mteto Nyati to stay on as Eskom chairman
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·17d ago
Mteto Nyati will continue as chairman of Eskom’s board, energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Friday, settling a question that had hung over the utility since it reported its annual results...
Insurers carry the can for MIP breach, regulators say
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·17d ago
More than three months after attackers took the personal information of insurance customers from software supplier MIP Holdings, the Information Regulator is still trying to establish how many...
South Africa's car exports face an EV reckoning
TechCentralby Nqobile Dludla·17d ago
South Africa risks losing future vehicle production to Asian rivals as global car makers decide where to build the next generation of electric vehicles, despite a new government tax incentive aimed...
The Courier Guy enhances customer engagement with Telviva
TechCentralby Telviva·19d ago
The Courier Guy, a leading South African courier, has been at the forefront of local delivery services for more than 25 years.
Rogue AI agents are already loose inside big companies
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·19d ago
When OpenAI’s models broke out of a test environment in July and hacked into Hugging Face’s systems to find the answers to a cybersecurity benchmark, it was read as a frontier lab problem: exotic...
Labat now says the law bars it from paying its maiden dividend
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·19d ago
Labat Africa, the JSE-listed technology investment company suspended last month for failing to pay its maiden dividend, now says the Companies Act prohibits it from paying the dividend in its...
Pinnacle takes its channel to Mauritius for TechScape 2026
TechCentralby Pinnacle ICT·19d ago
Pinnacle TechScape 2026 has officially wrapped up, bringing to a close a few memorable days in Mauritius filled with technology, insight, conversation and connection.
Why true customer enablement starts on the inside
TechCentralby Backspace Technologies·19d ago
The telecommunications industry is known for being slow and transactional, with larger players setting the terms in a cold, utility-driven relationship.
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