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The ITWeb Brainstorm 2026 CIO Survey finds AI and cyber security are joint top priorities, while budget constraints remain a major barrier.

The company expects over R24 billion in savings in 2027, while McKinsey says AI job losses globally have fallen short of expectations.

South Africa’s AI course enrolments surge 75%, highlighting growing efforts to combine technical expertise with essential human skills.

The directors approving AI spend have, for the most part, barely used the technology. The disappointing returns are no accident.

Cape Town digital marketing agency expands into ChatGPT advertising, helping South African businesses reach customers through AI-powered conversations and discovery.

The burning question for South African security leaders right now is whether they have the visibility to know when their organisation is exposed.

Picsart, the AI media production and distribution platform, where 100M+ creators and businesses worldwide make, market and monetize content, today launched Marketing Studio, bringing content creation, advertising strategy, creative testing and paid distribution into one connected experience.

AI safety cannot become a private understanding between the tech and political elites, with oversight serving those it should scrutinise.

Fortanix® Inc., a global leader in data and AI security and pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced support for CNCF Confidential Containers (CoCo) in Fortanix Confidential AI, enabling organizations to run AI workloads on Kubernetes inside hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), on confidential CPUs and GPUs

Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced it has acquired Elementary Data, a provider of the widely adopted data observability solution that powers every workflow and AI agent with reliable data.

Effective managed detection and response environments require boundaries between actions AI can perform and those requiring human authorisation.

The country is not short of people who can prompt an AI model. It is short of engineers who can tell when the model is wrong.

For decades, we have treated encryption as a mathematical fortress, but we are entering a new era – Post-AI Cryptography.

AI is rewriting the HR rulebook, changing everything from recruitment through to exit. But this innovation is not without its risks.