Standard Bank and Huawei forge strategic cloud partnership
TechCentralby Huawei South Africa·29 Sept 2026
Standard Bank has deepened its strategic technology collaboration with Huawei as the group accelerates the modernisation of its banking platforms to support growth, innovation and greater financial...
Electric delivery bikes gain ground as petrol heads for R30/litre
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·29 Sept 2026
Kenyan motorcycle company ARC Ride has launched an electric delivery bike in South Africa priced from R22 500, betting that last-mile riders paying close to R27/l for petrol would rather pay per...
South Africa's next energy crisis is in the accounts department
TechCentralby Craig Holmes·29 Sept 2026
In the first half of 2026, 17 independent power producer projects reached commercial operation in South Africa, adding 1.92GW.
Anthropic bets AI will outstrip electricity and the internet
TechCentralby Agency Staff·29 Sept 2026
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·29 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·28 Sept 2026
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·25 Sept 2026
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·25 Sept 2026
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·25 Sept 2026
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·25 Sept 2026
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·23 Sept 2026
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·23 Sept 2026
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...
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