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AI Research05 Feb 2026

OpenAI Releases GPT-5 with Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, its most advanced language model to date, featuring breakthrough reasoning capabilities that bring AI closer to human-level problem solving.

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Industry News25 Jul 2026

Ling 3.0 Flash Runs in Grok CLI Through OpenRouter

A practical model-routing experiment puts InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash inside Grok CLI, with the request verified through OpenRouter and the same route working in Pi.

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Industry News06 Aug 2026

OpenRouter Lists InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Tiny as a Free Route

OpenRouter now lists InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Tiny as a zero-price route with a 262K-token context window, switchable thinking and instant modes, and a 32K maximum output.

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Industry News04 Feb 2026

Google DeepMind Announces Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google DeepMind launched Gemini 2.5 Pro with native multimodal reasoning, setting new benchmarks across coding, math, and scientific analysis tasks.

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Industry News03 Feb 2026

How South African Businesses Are Adopting AI in 2026

From fintech to healthcare, South African companies are rapidly integrating AI into their operations. We explore the trends driving adoption across the continent.

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Company News30 Jan 2026

AZ Labs Launches Aura: AI Booking Assistant

Introducing Aura, our AI-powered booking assistant that handles scheduling, reminders, and client communications autonomously for service businesses.

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Tutorials28 Jan 2026

Building Effective AI Voice Agents: A Complete Guide

Learn how to design, build, and deploy AI voice agents that deliver natural conversations and measurable business results.

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AI Research25 Jan 2026

Anthropic's Claude 4 Sets New Benchmarks

Anthropic's latest model, Claude 4, pushes the frontier of responsible AI development with state-of-the-art performance on safety and helpfulness benchmarks.

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Industry News22 Jan 2026

The Future of AI Regulation in Africa

As AI adoption accelerates across Africa, governments are developing regulatory frameworks. We examine the policies and what they mean for businesses.

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Tutorials18 Jan 2026

5 Ways AI Is Transforming Legal Services

From contract analysis to legal research, AI is reshaping how law firms operate. Discover the practical applications driving efficiency in the legal sector.

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Company News15 Jan 2026

AZ Labs Expands Into Education and EdTech

We're bringing our AI expertise to the education sector, partnering with institutions to build intelligent tutoring systems and administrative automation.

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Tutorials14 Jul 2026

Deploying AI Voice Agents Under POPIA: What SA Businesses Need to Know

A practical guide to running AI voice agents in South Africa while staying compliant with POPIA. Covers data residency, consent, storage, and how to design voice workflows that respect privacy obligations from day one.

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Industry News07 Aug 2026

NVIDIA NIM Removes DeepSeek V4 and Mistral Medium Models from Free API

NVIDIA removed DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B from the NIM serverless API on 7 August 2026. We confirmed the removals against the live endpoint and tracked where these models still run.

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