The ITWeb Brainstorm 2026 CIO Survey finds AI and cyber security are joint top priorities, while budget constraints remain a major barrier.
Enterprises must start thinking about the ability to control, retain and transfer the mechanisms through which its AI systems become better at understanding its business.
AI productivity appears simultaneously impressive and disappointing, as it is advancing faster than the organisations adopting it.
The organisations that will lead in AI will be those that identify their power law use cases fastest − and scale them before their competitors do.
In the AI era, CIOs should be asking which assumptions about technology decision-making are no longer valid.
Sne Dlamini aims to establish Sasol as an insight-driven enterprise that uses technology as a core strategic differentiator.
The draft AI policy is more than a procedural embarrassment – it’s a warning that SA must secure enough control over the AI stack to make that policy enforceable.
With mature regulators in every major sector, SA chose to govern AI through institutions that already exist, have teeth and understand the industries they oversee.
Sasol's Sivuyise Ndzendze advocates for modernising data platforms to enable real-time, governed AI in industrial sectors.
SOLA Group secures funding for its Naos-1 Hybrid Solar and Battery Project in the Free State, with commercial operation targeted for 2028.
Zindi, an online network of professional data science talent, has registered 92 000 practitioners, as the demand for artificial intelligence skills in Africa skyrockets.
The Vaal University of Technology and Standard Bank have teamed up to launch the Standard Bank Centre of Excellence for Hydrogen Energy.
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