Posts by Ghita Greenwood

Robinhood Let the Agents In. The Real Question Is Who Answers When One Gets It Wrong. I read a launch announcement the way a contractor reads a revised building code — skim the headline, then hunt for the one line that changes how I actually have to work. Robinhood gave me plenty to skim on…

The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting OpenAI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by filing confidential paperwork for an IPO, reportedly on the strength of its…

The European Commission reports more European drivers are buying battery-electric cars and benefitting from growing cost savings, with soaring oil prices fuelled by Middle East instability cited as one driver of the shift. Read More

At GTC Taipei, Nvidia introduced the six-foot Isaac GR00T humanoid — body from China’s Unitree, hands from Singapore startup Sharpa, brain on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor platform — packaging every layer of a working humanoid into one product as a “reference design” others can buy or copy. The thesis: six companies are solving the same balance,…

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…