Norrsken22 general partner Lexi Novitske on Chinese AI, OPay and PalmPay, the US investor retreat and where African tech exits will come from.

Leon Schreiber demonstrated South Africa's first working digital ID on his own phone. It will be voluntary, but there is no launch date yet.

Absa will keep over-the-counter cash only at selected branches as it pushes customers to ATMs, self-service devices and future agency banking.

Home affairs will stop producing the green ID book in March 2027, and it will cease to be valid ID on 31 March 2028.

Blu Label executive pay was shaped by Cell C in FY2026, from a once-off R2.5-million bonus to delayed share awards. The Levys earned R33-million each.

Google has unveiled Argon, its Gemini 4 flagship, after months of delays left it behind OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race.

Huawei’s Mate 90 series uses a 3D “LogicFolding” chip design to boost performance as US curbs and rising memory costs squeeze supply.

BMW's restructuring plan centres on AI, management cuts and two new models as it tries to restore investor confidence after profit warnings.

With listings down from more than 800 to about 280, the JSE and TIA are preparing 10 tech SMEs to raise capital – with no grants.

Apple plans to launch its long-delayed smart-home hub on 13 October, alongside a new HomePod mini and Apple TV, Bloomberg reports.

The subsea cable route linking Africa, Brazil and the US is getting more capacity, with Ciena equipment enabling 800Gbit/s services on Monet.

Mustek profit nearly tripled in FY2026, but gross margin shrank and cheaper debt and forex gains did the work. Operating cash flow collapsed.

Capitec's fintech business contributed R2.7-billion to interim earnings, closing in on its core bank, as Capitec Connect net income rose 72%.

OpenAI has unveiled dots, always-on AI agents that pursue goals across apps on their own, as it battles Meta for the agent market.

Apple CEO John Ternus is weighing an engineering-led overhaul with more frequent product launches and fewer middle managers.

MIP Holdings CEO Richard Firth, who paid a ransom, wants ransomware payments banned. Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White urges a different approach.

A US court has denied MTN’s bid to appeal a ruling in the Zobay case, sending two Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuits into discovery.

A US court has denied MTN’s bid to appeal a ruling in the Zobay case, sending two Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuits into discovery.

Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White and Check Point’s Adam Ely discuss rogue AI agents, OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach and who is accountable.

RX Africa says Comic Con Africa is now the world's fourth-largest Comic Con, capping tickets at 20,000 a day for about 80,000 visitors.

Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White and Check Point’s Adam Ely discuss rogue AI agents, OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach and who is accountable.

DStv is testing free upgrades: Select subscribers who pay on time get seven days of Sports, with other packages to follow by year-end.

Electric delivery bikes get a boost as petrol heads for R30/l. Kenya's ARC Ride says its R50 battery swaps undercut fuel by up to 30%.

South Africa added a record 1.92GW of private power in six months. The next crisis is electricity billing: pricing and settling it across suppliers.

Vodacom and Nokia have piloted a compact Massive MIMO antenna that adds 4G and 5G capacity at sites with little room for more equipment.

OpenAI has cancelled the October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it strayed beyond its scope and misreported its actions.

Anthropic's IPO prospectus bets AI will outstrip electricity and the internet, but reveals a near-$42-billion loss and $518-billion in commitments.

Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White says OpenAI’s rogue agents breached Hugging Face through embarrassingly basic flaws, not AI brilliance.

GoTyme Bank has joined the Catastrophe crypto coalition, warning that uneven rules push crypto activity offshore and out of regulators’ sight.

AI doomsayers assume demand for intelligence is fixed. The Jevons paradox – and the steam engine – suggests cheaper AI will create more work.

Spar is resetting its on-demand grocery service while cutting IT costs and warning of weaker earnings.

Rogue agents at OpenAI leaked 53 ChatGPT user images and probed US government sites, and the company says its review will take months.

Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the Woan spectrum reservation, leaving Icasa free to license high-demand spectrum reserved since 2019.

Mteto Nyati stays on as Eskom chairman as Ramokgopa tells the board to stop relying on bailouts and double-digit tariff hikes.

Regulators say insurers carry the reporting obligations from the MIP breach, and that MIP's ransom payment settles nothing.

Ford and Toyota warn South Africa's car exports risk losing future production to Asia as a 150% EV tax break falls short.

Check Point’s Adam Ely says rogue AI agents are already a problem inside ordinary companies, not only at frontier AI labs.

Labat Africa says the Companies Act bars it from paying its maiden dividend after its board overlooked the effect of a share issue.

Norrsken22’s Lexi Novitske says African start-ups are building on Chinese AI models as US private capital retreats from the continent.

Airtel Money plans a London IPO, with pricing due in mid-October, that the FT reports could value the African fintech at up to $9-billion.

Altron expects first-half headline earnings from continuing operations to rise up to 17%, with the bigger group number flattered by the Nexus disposal.

Apple is pitching its new AI desktops to corporate buyers as a cheaper option than renting data centre capacity - with no cost per token.

Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has bought R20.8-million of shares in the operator he runs, paying 15% more for the second tranche than the first four days earlier.

South Africa will not shake its dependence on cash until it fixes identity, says outgoing Nedbank COO Mfundo Nkuhlu.

Prosus has appointed WeTransfer co-founder Nalden as chief product officer and says it intends to build the leading AI lab in Europe.

Africa Bitcoin Corporation founder Warren Wheatley has resigned as CEO, three weeks after the FSCA debarred him for 20 years over share manipulation.

AMD touched a $1-trillion valuation for the first time and the Nasdaq closed at a record, as investors bet that AI spending is still expanding.

Bank Zero broke even in August and took on half a million end customers from Mukuru in the same month, more than doubling the size of its platform.

A trojan hidden in film torrents has infected hundreds of machines and hides its command servers on the Solana blockchain.

Resignations, rogue agents and a call to decelerate. How 10 days in September turned the AI industry’s growth-at-all-costs mantra on its head.