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The United Nations has called on major artificial intelligence companies to publicly disclose the full environmental cost of their data centres and to power them with renewable energy, launching a transparency initiative for the sector.
The rapid global build-out of data centres to fuel the AI revolution has drawn scrutiny from environmental groups for high energy a...
Naspers, through its subsidiary Prosus, has launched a new agentic AI platform for businesses in South Africa called ToqanClaw — and the company says it is completely free to use, with no tokens or usage limits.
Similar to the OpenClaw platform, ToqanClaw draws on multiple AI models from major providers, including Anthropic and other open-source models. Prosus said ...
South Africa’s fruit export industry, long regarded as one of the country’s most advanced agricultural sectors, is facing a technological shift as artificial intelligence begins to reshape how growers, exporters and supply chains operate. Industry experts say AI-driven forecasting, planning and market intelligence could redefine decisions from farm to port.
Jaco Fer...
As AI continues to accelerate cyber risk globally, Microsoft has announced a new multi-model, AI-driven vulnerability discovery system — codenamed MDASH and embedded with more than 100 individual agents — and is now onboarding South African customers into the programme.
MDASH provides a harness for defenders to use multiple increasingly powerful models combined with...
As artificial intelligence adoption accelerates worldwide, a South African-founded startup is seeking to make AI infrastructure more affordable, accessible and sustainable.
Supascale AI has officially launched its cloud AI marketplace — a platform that enables businesses, developers and creators to access leading AI models at significantly lower costs while allowing...