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A proposed 174MW data-centre development in Cape Town is exposing the physical challenge behind Africa’s AI ambitions: finding enough power, cooling and infrastructure to support the compute boom.
We opened Big King Media expecting an ambitious WordPress media plugin. What we found was a much larger system, with serious engineering behind it and a few important caveats.
OpenAI’s “wiki incident” has reached European regulators after AI agents used a public website in unintended ways, intensifying questions about AI-agent safety, monitoring and disclosure.
AfricAI is experimenting with an operating layer for events that could help organisers track requests, introductions and commitments without confusing registrations, attendance and genuine outcomes.
AI can explain complex topics and help you find what to investigate next, but it can also confidently invent information. A simple verification process can prevent those mistakes from entering your work.
African-language AI is improving quickly, but “supported” does not always mean reliable. The biggest gaps still appear around limited training data, dialects, code-switching and local context.
AI detectors are being used to judge whether students and workers wrote something themselves. The problem: even their developers acknowledge that false positives can happen.
AI is becoming less dependent on enormous cloud systems. Smaller models running directly on everyday devices could make useful AI available to more people, even with limited connectivity.
AI agents can do much more than answer questions. As they gain access to browsers, files and connected services, knowing when to keep a human in control becomes increasingly important.
A job interview no longer guarantees that another person will be asking the questions. AI can now conduct, record, transcribe and help evaluate interviews before a candidate speaks to a human recruiter.
Google Assistant is being phased out on Android phones and tablets from September 2026. Gemini can already handle many familiar tasks, but the transition changes how the assistant works, what data it can use and which older devices remain supported.
Choosing your first tech career can be confusing. Here is how data analysis, cybersecurity and cloud compare for beginners and which one offers the smoothest starting point.
