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The Electric Question. Director’s View – on the practicality of buying and owning an electric vehicle in South Africa, July 2026 In late May, over lunch at the Waterfront, a fellow director slid his phone across the table. On the screen was a dealer quote for an electric SUV – a little north of R900 000,…

Japan has launched an updated national robotics initiative with the ambition of introducing roughly 10 million robots across the country by 2040. The expanded strategy, announced by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa, now covers 18 sectors, having added food manufacturing and healthcare to the list of priority fields. Central to this plan is…

Across various sectors including technology, entertainment, and banking, numerous companies are imposing restrictions on their employees’ AI usage and urging them to opt for less advanced models to prevent AI-related expenses from escalating uncontrollably. This information comes from internal communications such as leaked Slack conversations, screenshots of company dashboards, emails, and other documentation obtained from…

In its 2026 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike revealed that prompt injection attacks targeted over 90 organizations in 2025, with these manipulated prompts used to execute commands that resulted in credential theft and cryptocurrency loss. CrowdStrike emphasized a fundamental shift, describing prompts as the new form of malware. The report also highlighted a significant 89% year-over-year…

The intense debate surrounding the risks associated with AI has reached unprecedented levels, with experts and policymakers deeply divided over methods to control the rapidly evolving technology before it potentially spins out of control. Regulatory bodies around the world are stepping up their efforts: the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has expressed concerns that the…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has instructed grid operators to expedite interconnection requests made by data centers and other substantial electricity consumers. This mandate requires six major grid operators to demonstrate that data centers can connect to the transmission system efficiently and in an orderly fashion. The responsibility for covering the interconnection costs falls…

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,…