Rufaro Mafinyani
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RUFARO MAFINYANI | Brics and the emerging payments landscape (opens the original)
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The 18th Brics summit closed on September 13 with a 140-paragraph declaration adopted by consensus, and no common currency in it. India’s foreign ministry said so plainly, and the balance-of-payments arithmetic points the same way. The text instructs the Brics Payment Task Force to continue work on interoperability between payment and messaging channels and wider settlement in local currencies, adding a deliberate qualifier: there is no “one-size-fits-all approach”. The more concrete item is a m
RUFARO MAFINYANI | To regulate or not to regulate AI? (opens the original)
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Picture 1,000 brilliant interns whose behaviour is shaped by instructions and rewards at machine speed. Now imagine they start talking to each other in shorthand you can’t follow. That is frontier AI in September 2026, when the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind said the pace of what they’re building had become alarming. Modern AI isn’t “programmed” the way a banking app is. Traditional software comprises rules a person writes — if this, then that. A neural network starts as noise and
RUFARO MAFINYANI | An enterprise-wide adoption strategy that shows its work (opens the original)
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This is the 16th and final instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a weekly series in Business Day building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI) in plain language. This edition sets out the components of a smart enterprise-wide AI adoption strategy, and the discipline that links it to key performance indicators (KPIs) and proves real return on investment. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Networked Agents and Decentralised AI (Nanda) initiative reviewed more than 300 ent
RUFARO MAFINYANI | The AI tool landscape — a curated map by business function (opens the original)
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This is the 15th instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series in Business Day building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI), in plain language. On Monday Standard Bank named Amazon Bedrock as its enterprise AI platform. Some 39,000 employees — 72% of the group — actively use generative AI, and about a third of its technology staff use AI coding tools, with claimed productivity gains near 20%. It has not said which models it runs, or how the 20% was measured. The
RUFARO MAFINYANI | AI security, containment and resilience (opens the original)
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This is the 14th instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series in Business Day building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI), in plain language. Last week: what agentic AI may be permitted to do. This week: what happens when that permission is manipulated, borrowed or exceeded. In March a ransomware group calling itself XP95 breached three South African state entities in a single month, taking 3.8TB from the Gauteng provincial government and more than 453,000 fil
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