Water & Infrastructure

Mofosi allays El Niño fears

Environment Minister Thabo Mofosi has urged Basotho not to panic over El Niño forecasts, stating that while below-average rainfall is expected during the 2026/27 rainy season, this does not guarantee drought conditions. The Lesotho Meteorological Services is monitoring El Niño development and working with disaster management authorities to prepare for potential impacts, while encouraging farmers to adopt water conservation and drought-resistant crop varieties.

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Choice matters for your cloud ecosystem

Africa Data Centres' senior VP discusses how organisations are evaluating not just cloud platforms but also connectivity options to reach them. The comments highlight the growing importance of infrastructure choices in cloud deployment strategies. Source: ITWeb

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live is a system designed to enable continuous voice interaction with AI through a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture. The system was built over a six-month development period to support faster and more natural conversations. Source: OpenAI

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

Palantir's CEO Alex Karp commented on the AI industry following the company's strong financial quarter with $1 billion in profit. Karp expressed concerns about the trustworthiness of AI frontier labs for enterprise deployment. Source: TechCrunch

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS has enabled Superblocks, a vibe-coding (low-code/no-code AI development) tool, to be embedded into private AWS cloud environments for customers. This development represents a move toward decoupling applications from underlying AI models in enterprise deployments. Source: TechCrunch

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Choice matters for your cloud ecosystem

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big