Simon Brown on 19/08/2026

Lessons SA can take from Spain’s turnaround

Izak Odendaal from Old Mutual Wealth Investment explores how the best-performing big economy in Europe bounced back from a devastating economic crisis in the early 2010s.

S Simon Brown
Rachel Metz, Bloomberg on 19/08/2026

OpenAI makes AI safety changes in wake of hugging face breach

Plans to do more to track how its most capable unreleased models are working through problems and using various online tools, with the goal of alerting safety teams to worrying behaviour within 30 minutes.

R Rachel Metz, Bloomberg
Pyotr Kozlov, Bloomberg on 19/08/2026

Five grain ships struck near Russian Black Sea ports

Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other’s commercial ships and ports in the Black Sea area, raising concerns about global grain supplies.

P Pyotr Kozlov, Bloomberg
Simon Brown on 19/08/2026

Absa delivers – and still looks cheap

Analysis of Spain’s economic turnaround and the lessons SA can take from its recovery, plus a look at why medical savings accounts run out so quickly.

S Simon Brown