Google Cloud Summit: The off-stage conversation that mattered most

Google’s Senior Vice President for Research, Labs, and Technology, James Manyika, spent about 45 minutes in a room with journalists at Africa’s first Google Cloud Summit. And he was candid in ways that structured settings rarely allow. Some of it was worth paying attention to. AlphaFold and the 32,000 African researchers Manyika mentioned a number […]
The first Google Cloud Summit in Africa came with a warning from Ramaphosa

Johannesburg hosted Google’s first Cloud Summit. Ramaphosa had notes.
Accelerating Industrial Productivity Through 5G Innovation

5G-Advanced is moving beyond consumer connectivity and becoming a key driver of future-ready infrastructure.
Claude Opus 4.8: My AI coworker upgraded itself and I have notes

Claude is now four times less likely to gaslight me.
Google I/O 2026 recap: Agents, models, and a lot of ambition

Google I/O 2025 was big. Here’s everything that dropped, explained without the hype.
Huawei Cloud at MWC26: Cloud computing as the AI era ‘power grid’

MWC26 energy: Huawei Cloud says AI is moving past ‘more compute’ and into real efficiency.
Women in Tech 2025: Closing the digital gap, one programme at a time

Huawei marked the fourth year of its Women in Tech Digital Skills Training programme. For this year’s session, forty women from government and business had signed up for three days of training in AI, cloud, and 5G. It also included a full day of leadership coaching with Henley Business School Africa. The programme is a […]
xAI is hiring ‘waifu engineers’ for R7.7M to build anime chatbots

Totally normal. Nothing to unpack here. Definitely not a cultural red flag…. Everything’s fine….
‘Reckless’: AI experts say xAI’s Grok 4 safety practices are a hot mess

xAI’s ‘reckless rollout’ of Grok 4 could do more harm than good.
Windows Server 2025: Why you really should upgrade

The latest release introduces hotpatching, GPU partitioning and active directory upgrades.