Can AI taste wine?

The centuries-old practice of wine evaluation is getting a thoroughly modern twist as a researcher shows...

Cisco Live: Red carpet rolls
out for AgenticOps 

The next evolution of the agentic AI era was unveiled at Cisco Live 2025 in San...

AI and skills: Africa’s
double helix

The Agentforce World Tour unpacked a business future driven by a combination of autonomous agents and...

Signpost: Auto-sapiens systems 
are the next next

The smartest executive in the room may soon no longer be human, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK from...

Why AI can’t smell
the flowers

AI needs to touch, feel and smell to have a sense of the world, a psychology...

AI accelerates toward
human intelligence

Society must prepare for a future where human-level intelligence may not be uniquely human, writes JASON...

AI skills essential, say 99% in SAP survey

New findings show a critical gap in AI skills across SA, Kenya, and Nigeria, despite widespread...

When does good
AI go bad?  

A new study explores when and why the output of large language models goes awry and...

Netflix flexes new AI tech

The streaming platform’s GenAI discovery tool lets users search for shows with phrases like ‘scary, but...

Visa rolls out
Intelligent Commerce

Visa is enabling AI agents to handle transactions, expanding its network for a time when autonomous...

Gen AI transforms manufacturing, but…

Despite clear opportunities to improve efficiency and bottom-line performance, a new NTT Data report finds that...

Signpost: The Emperor’s
new algorithm

According to HPE, only a third of organisations have an AI strategy, even though most talk...

AI brings sign
language to life

New tech translates American Sign Language gestures into text in real time using deep learning and...

Report reveals rise of AI-powered cybercrime

Check Point's inaugural AI Security Report, released at the RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco this...

AI investment raises risk

As AI adoption accelerates, there is a need for stronger security strategies to protect innovation, writes...

It’s a boss, but not as we know it

Agentic AI has taken the world by storm this year, and now we must welcome the...

AI decodes Parkinson’s Disease in the Cloud

Precise mapping of a patient’s brain can enable a wider range of treatments, writes DR ROWLAND...

The rise of AI with
a team spirit

Google unveiled an Agent Development Kit at the Cloud Next 2025 conference in Las Vegas last...

AI predicts lightning-induced wildfires

Bar-Ilan University researchers have created technology capable of predicting lightning-sparked wildfires with more than 90% accuracy.

Worldwide GenAI spend to
hit $644bn this year

Gartner warns that CIOs must prepare for rising GenAI spend, fuelled by better foundational models and...