Artificial intelligence and machine learning
A Labour Court judge stayed a Post Office arbitration after the CCMA commissioner relied on a non-existent judgment, saying he 'must have relied on AI'.
AI Expo Africa opens in Sandton on 28 October. The advertised R900 trade-show pass covers Thursday only, while two-day business access costs R4,800.
OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT's Free and Go plans in South Africa. What users will see, what advertisers get, and the POPIA questions still open.
Johannesburg's BioInformatiCo placed second in a CDISC challenge for Leova, a clinical-trial data tool. Its performance claims still need testing.
Mustek put R8m into a 51% stake in Business AI. Its annual report shows three staff, an undisclosed operating loss and a pivot away from selling AI tools.
UCT's AfriPGx-AI project gets $1.6m (about R26.4m) from Google.org to predict how African genetic variants affect TB, HIV and malaria drug doses.
Wits researchers have trained an optical neural network to identify 81 light structures. What the Johannesburg experiment proves and what remains untested.
Prosus has reorganised its senior technology leadership around AI and says commerce data from roughly one billion customers can become a proprietary intelligence layer.
Discovery Green’s EnergyOS uses forecasting, allocation models and AI to optimise renewable-electricity savings, coverage and risk for SA businesses.
MTN South Africa is applying AI to revenue assurance, including detecting tunnelling that abuses zero-rated websites to consume data without normal billing.
The CSIR confirms components for Lengau's 4-petaflop replacement arrived about a year ago and are still being prepared for deployment.
Stratos Lab, ECOBLOX and Digital Parks Africa are deploying 50-plus Nvidia B300 HGX servers and 400-plus GPUs in Centurion.