Browsing: AI and machine learning

South Africa’s big financial firms call artificial intelligence a growth driver, yet benefits are rarely tracked properly.

Five questions every business should answer before putting AI to work, from a veteran South African AI researcher.

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses after months of delays and upheaval.

Wits physicists have built an optical neural network that reads light’s hidden topology without imaging it.

Useful AI has to make judgment calls. The worry is the character those calls create, writes Fanie van Rooyen.

Sam Altman says the world should accept some bad things happening in exchange for AI’s benefits.

Telecoms companies lead BCG’s new index on AI strategic clarity, yet report some of the thinnest returns.

Economists question whether AI can deliver the productivity gains needed to justify trillions in spending.

Google’s new Argon model anchors Gemini 4 and, it claims, rivals OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Opus.

Scaling AI tops the agenda at Dell Technologies Forum, at Kyalami on 3 November.