Nvidia to buy Hugging Face in $12,9bn deal

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,93-billion. “Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a post announcing the...
Peak retail season prep starts now

Peak retail season prep starts now

The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late, writes Melinda Ellis van Zyl, enterprise sales lead of Shiprazor. Most South African digital retailers lock their systems down weeks...

Data centres could unlock economic growth

The South African Human Rights Commission has raised important questions about the human rights implications of data centres at a time when digital infrastructure is becoming increasingly important to South Africa’s future. It’s a conversation we should be...
Trusted systems the future of AI finance

Trusted systems the future of AI finance

We are in the age of autonomous agents, writes Aaron Harris, chief technology officer of Sage. Recently, I, like many others in tech, have been experimenting with always-on AI agent frameworks like OpenClaw. In one week, I burned through over 220 million tokens. The...
What work can safely be delegated to AI?

What work can safely be delegated to AI?

For the past two years, most business uses of AI have helped people produce, find, or interpret information. By Paul Spagnoletti, chief revenue officer of Synthesis Chatbots answer questions, copilots draft content, coding tools suggest changes, and search systems...