How much for that AI?

If you use AI often, prepare for a day when free models start charging.

Remarkable robots

From book scanners to robotic horses, the machines are rising in unexpected ways.

Innovation

James Francis

The contender

Emile Burger has presided over 40% year-on-year growth at Tarsus. How did he manage this?

Cover story

Matthew Burbidge

Payback, one artefact at a time

A game for anyone who has ever felt the need to loot Western museums and bring home African artefacts.

Innovation

Tiana Cline

Hitting the payments sweet spot in Africa

Payment gateways are creating a grassroots financial revolution on the continent.

Business

James Francis

More power to ya

As AI services ramp up, where are datacentres going to get their power?

Technology

Matthew Burbidge

Counting the cost of microplastic pollution

As tiny plastic fragments move through Gauteng’s rivers, they’re beginning to expose how fast fashion, ageing infrastructure and policy are connected.

Verticals

Tiana Cline

Technology never stands still. Neither does Sarah Blignaut.

SARS’ deputy CTO on the value of hard work, integrity and compassion.

Innovation

Romantia Mashabane

Mining data, saving lives

The CIO of Platinum Health, Quantin van Rensburg, is thriving on the opportunity to overhaul the company’s IT.

C-Suite

Lesley Stones

Model of security

CISOs and their teams must protect their critical assets, while keeping ahead of regulatory imperatives. Meanwhile, cloud, supply chain and GenAI are increasing the attack surface. Cyber platforms may offer a solution. What are you asking of your cyber vendor?

Roundtable

Matthew Burbidge

How to choose the right partner

The foundation for any relationship is trust.

Roundtable

Matthew Burbidge

Local AI startups take aim at US market

The weak rand means local startups can turbo-boost earnings servicing clients overseas.

Business

Stephen Timm

In search of life-long learning

How are local institutions using their learning management systems?

Roundtable

Matthew Burbidge

On the frontline

Companies are waking up to the fact that their frontline workers need to be digitally included.

Reportback

Matthew Burbidge

Do you want to pay for those rusks with Bitcoin?

An innovative technology is making it easier for consumers to make payments with crypto.

Business

Tamsin Mackay

Teaming up with Gemini

Google named its AI model Gemini because it merged its DeepMind and Google Brain teams. What happens when it’s paired with a company?

Innovation

Tamsin Mackay

The death of the wallet

Wallets are now an endangered species, helped by the imminent demise of physical credit cards.

Business

Alistair Fairweather

AWS goes all in on agentic AI

Amazon spent $34.2bn on chips and datacentres in the last quarter. It’s now paying off.

Event Archive

Matthew Burbidge

When is a monopoly not a monopoly?

With antitrust, can we still blame regulators, prosecutors and judges who don’t understand the technology?

Business

Adam Oxford

This supercomputer has seatbelts

On being a passenger princess in a Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous robo-carriage.

Technology

Tiana Cline

With AI tools, don’t lose your humanity

In the age of the Dead Internet, being alive is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Technology

Samantha Perry

Shopping without borders

Most South Africans don’t care which platform they’re buying from, they just care about price.

Business

Nafisa Akabor

Drive like no one’s watching

The MG Cyberster is not meant to be practical; it’s meant to be fast.

Technology

Nafisa Akabor

Why is edtech failing in South Africa?

While edtech solutions promise to address long-standing challenges in the education system, a lack of contextual awareness and support means that many fail to deliver.

Features

Joanne Carew

With enterprise security, speed kills

If the enterprise will not slow down, security has to change. The question is how.

Features

Tiana Cline

Your call is important to us

AI’s immersion into the contact centre may be the turning point for companies wanting to humanise connections and build better customer relationships.

Features

Tamsin Mackay