Slack’s AI upgrade is much bigger than a chatbot
The AI built into the new Slack understands your role, your priorities, your projects, even the way you work.
It’s 1999 all over again: Salesforce puts SA at the centre of agentic AI
In 1999, a Nobel Prize-winning economist said the internet would fizzle out. He was wrong. So are the AI sceptics of today.
Your security tools found 847 problems. Now what?
Your security tools are lying to you.
ITWeb Security Summit 2026: AI, hackers, and 90+ speakers walk into Sandton
South Africa’s premier cybersecurity gathering lands in Johannesburg next week.
Huawei showcases AI-ready data infrastructure at IT Day 2026 in South Africa
The rise of AI is putting new pressure on infrastructure as organisations reconsider how they store, manage, protect and use data. Against this backdrop, Huawei’s annual IT Day focused on the growing need for intelligent computing. The event drew more than 400 customers and partners, with Huawei showcasing its latest AI data infrastructure, all-flash storage […]
Xinghe: Huawei spotlights AI-driven networking and cybersecurity at IP Club 2026
AI-driven networking is moving from theory to deployment and Huawei South Africa is leaning into that future. A key part of that is its Xinghe portfolio – a suite of AI-driven solutions designed to secure and optimise enterprise networks – showcased at IP Club 2026. The event drew more than 450 customers, partners and industry […]
AI in Africa: Ministers confront AI anxiety and the data divide driving it
Before the exhibition halls opened at the Africa Tech Festival and before the big-name tech sponsors took the stage, the conversation about AI in Africa had already turned philosophical at the 2025 Ministerial Forum. Hover Gao, Huawei’s President for Sub-Saharan Africa, had just closed his keynote with a rallying cry for “national computing power” and […]
Africa’s AI leap won’t come from copy-pasting global trends
Africa’s AI leap needs power and vision
Solly Malatsi: ‘Wise choices’ will define the AI era, not machines
When South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, took the stage at the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town on Monday, the message was clear: Africa’s AI future must be built, not borrowed. Each year, a day before the Africa Tech Festival begins, Huawei and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) team up […]
Meet Tarryn Tomlinson, the woman who built an AI Assistant for inclusion
“Because apparently, a woman of colour in a wheelchair can’t build an AI, right?”