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Laila Bastati, chief commercial officer, APO Group. Source: Supplied.

PR & Communications

Energy, tech, and finance sectors feel comms pressure in Africa

Laila Bastati 1 day

All the 2025 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards

Media

All the 2025 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards

1 Jul 2025

Leading cybersecurity minds to converge at Security Summit in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Cybersecurity

Leading cybersecurity minds to converge at Security Summit in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Issued by ITP Communications 26 May 2025

Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

Media Freedom

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

How to prepare for deepfakes – South Africa’s new digital threat

Digital

How to prepare for deepfakes – South Africa’s new digital threat

Boland Lithebe 3 Apr 2025

Social Media

The evolving battle over social media moderation: Free speech vs regulation

Grant Lapping 25 Mar 2025

Representatives from Google Cloud, Qualcomm Technologies, CKH Group, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone joined the announcement

Technology

Honor invests $10bn in Alpha Plan to mesh AI across devices and ecosystems

Lindsey Schutters 3 Mar 2025

Gerhard Swart is chief technology officer at Performanta

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Finding cybersecurity's place in the world

Gerhard Swart 13 Jan 2025

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Insurance & Actuarial

NLPs and automated image analysis: How AI is being used to prevent insurance fraud

Prescious Mogale and Zaakir Mohamed 6 Dec 2024

Prisa's 2024 Prism Award winners unveiled in Cape Town

PR & Communications

Prisa's 2024 Prism Award winners unveiled in Cape Town

22 Sep 2024

How election misinformation is another wake-up call for critical thinking

Media

How election misinformation is another wake-up call for critical thinking

Marilette Pretorius, Issued by Red & Yellow 27 Jun 2024

Source: © Witness Media Lab Many people have been targeted by deep fakes

Digital

WPP CEO Mark Read targeted by deep fake AI scam

15 May 2024

Dove launches The Code campaign, vowing to reject AI distortion of women's images

Advertising

Dove launches The Code campaign, vowing to reject AI distortion of women's images

Karabo Ledwaba 17 Apr 2024

Marketing

AI-powered automation: A game-changer for marketers

Natascha Torres 19 Mar 2024

Medtech

Unmasking deepfakes: Navigating the threat to medical professional identity and trust

Brenda Kubheka-Chauke 7 Mar 2024

Marketing

OpenAI’s new generative tool Sora could revolutionise marketing and content creation

Omar H. Fares 27 Feb 2024

Media

Deepfakes in South Africa: protecting your image online is the key to fighting them

Layckan Van Gensen 23 Feb 2024

Taylor Swift's deepfake 'nudes': a wake-up call to the dangers of AI

Lifestyle

Taylor Swift's deepfake 'nudes': a wake-up call to the dangers of AI

30 Jan 2024

Craig Blignaut is WiFi product manager at Vox

Internet

SA's slow WiFi standards adoption is a feature, not bug for WiFi 7

Craig Blignaut 26 Jan 2024

Social Media

AI's new low: Taylor Swift targeted with explicit deepfake images

Karabo Ledwaba 26 Jan 2024

#BestofBiz 2023: Legal

Legal

#BestofBiz 2023: Legal

19 Dec 2023

Source: © 123rf Authentic is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023

Media

Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year: Authentic

29 Nov 2023

Media

SABC investigates deepfake videos impersonating journalists

15 Nov 2023

Advertising

Actress Scarlett Johansson takes legal action on AI app that used her likeness

3 Nov 2023

Media

The disturbing trend of state media use of deepfakes

Jordan Richard Schoenherr 14 Apr 2023

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IP Law

ChatGPT: Deepfake and copyright concerns

Stefaans Gerber and Alisha Muller 8 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Gerhard Oosthuizen, chief technology officer at Entersekt.

Trends

5 banking and payment security threats and trends to watch in 2023

Gerhard Oosthuizen 27 Jan 2023

Kanad Bahalkar built the new weapon for sales teams: Potion's AI Video Outreach Solution

Sales

Kanad Bahalkar built the new weapon for sales teams: Potion's AI Video Outreach Solution

Craig Lebrau, Issued by Lebrau Press 22 Nov 2022

4 cybercrime trends that South Africans need to know about

Cybersecurity

4 cybercrime trends that South Africans need to know about

Issued by Domains.co.za 27 Jun 2022

6 technology trends affecting the security sector in 2022

Cybersecurity

6 technology trends affecting the security sector in 2022

Ettiene van der Watt 22 Dec 2021

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Cybersecurity

2022 cybersecurity forecast: Deepfakes, cryptocurrency and mobile wallets

27 Oct 2021

Media

Africa Digital Media Awards announces 2021 winners

23 Jul 2021

Fact from fiction

Media

Fact from fiction

Howard Feldman 25 Jun 2021

#PulpNonFiction: Glamorama and our digital double lives

#PulpNonFiction

#PulpNonFiction: Glamorama and our digital double lives

Bronwyn Williams 8 Mar 2021

#BizTrends2021: AI will have a real-world impact in 2021

Trends

#BizTrends2021: AI will have a real-world impact in 2021

Dries Cronje 13 Jan 2021

10 Cybersecurity predictions for 2020

Cybersecurity

10 Cybersecurity predictions for 2020

11 Dec 2019

Image credit: Samsung AI Center.

Digital

Deepfake apps: Society's new enemy

Riana McArthur 29 Oct 2019

The age of the artificial; the proliferation of 'fake'

Media

The age of the artificial; the proliferation of 'fake'

Molly Fitz-Patrick, Issued by Red & Yellow 3 Sep 2019

This is Momo, or Mother Bird.

Social Media

Why children's social media safety is in the spotlight after the wake of the #Momochallenge hoax

Leigh Andrews 6 Mar 2019

People and technology: What the fakery?

Digital

People and technology: What the fakery?

Angie Hattingh, Issued by Havas Johannesburg 4 Apr 2018