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Written by Johan de Villiers Welcome to our latest quarterly newsletter. In this edition, I’ve been exploring a corner of the global technology economy that the international press has been shouting about, and the South African press, oddly, whispering about: the question of where the world’s artificial intelligence infrastructure is actually going to be built.…

Communications regulator Icasa has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA). In a brief media statement on Wednesday, the regulator said it had communicated its position to the ministry and remained…

NVision has raised a $55 million Series B financing round. The investment led by global healthcare giant Abbott signals a paradigm shift in how diseases like cancer are diagnosed, monitored, and treated using the power of quantum mechanics. The round was anchored by Abbott, marking its first strategic move into the quantum diagnostics space. Other…

Seoul Learn, the city-run education welfare platform, has surpassed 40,000 registered users since its 2021 launch, according to an Asiae report. Per Asiae, Seoul City announced it will introduce AI-based English learning and career development content on the platform starting in June. Read More

New Zealand organisations are expected to spend nearly $5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2026, an increase of 20.8 per cent from 2025, as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads accelerates. Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) will see the largest growth (and is the largest spending category at $2.6 billion) with an increase of 27.2…

By Johan de Villiers Welcome to our latest quarterly newsletter. In this edition, I’ve been exploring a fascinating corner of finance that has quietly been reshaping how we understand the future: prediction markets. You may have come across the name Kalshi during the 2024 US elections, or perhaps stumbled onto it through a news headline…

In the logic of the machine learning gold rush, the next breakthrough offering in the industry will be “AI agents” — personal assistants, basically, that can use apps and computers to do tasks on your behalf. If that actually happens — a serious “if,” but not a completely far-fetched possibility, as early efforts have already…

“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial General Intelligence, on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He dismissed the idea that open source models might reduce compute needs and deflected when asked whether European companies would change their generative AI strategies in…

Microsoft is giving its health-care artificial intelligence tools a makeover. The company on Monday unveiled a new voice-activated AI assistant that combines capabilities from its dictation solution, Dragon Medical One, and ambient listening solution, DAX Copilot, into one tool. “Dragon Copilot” will be able to help doctors quickly pull information from medical sources and automatically…

From the Big Bang to the rise of artificial intelligence, AI pioneer Juergen Schmidhuber unpacks history’s rapid-fire advancement — and why 2042 might just be the year AI reaches superhuman levels. Blending insights from biology, technology and the cosmos, he imagines a future where AI expands beyond Earth, redefining life and intelligence in unforeseen ways.…