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🎙️ Priviso Live is back — and this week's episode is packed.

From a homegrown South African AI breakthrough to robots running a half-marathon in Beijing, this week's episode of Priviso Live covers the stories that matter most at the intersection of technology, security, and governance.

Here's what Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla unpack this week:

🇿🇦 MzansiLM: AI built for South Africa Researchers from Stellenbosch University and UCT have released MzansiLM, a publicly available language model trained on all eleven of South Africa's official languages. Nine of those are considered low-resource in the AI world, meaning the big global models have largely ignored them. This is a significant step toward AI that actually works for South African citizens in healthcare, education, and government services. It is freely available on HuggingFace.

🔬 Wits makes global waves in quantum computing Professor Andrew Forbes and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand have published landmark research in Nature Photonics, engineering quantum states that remain stable even in noisy real-world conditions. The implications for cryptography, secure communications, and financial modelling are considerable, and it feeds directly into South Africa's national Quantum Roadmap.

🛡️ NIST changes how it handles CVEs, and your vulnerability programme should take note CVE submissions have grown 263% since 2020. NIST can no longer enrich every vulnerability. Security teams need to shift to risk-based vulnerability management, now more than ever.

🤖 Google's Gemini AI blocked 8.3 billion malicious ads in 2025 That is not a typo. AI versus AI, and the arms race is well and truly on.

🍽️ Chef Robotics hits 100 million commercial servings Robotic food production is no longer a pilot project. It is mainstream.

🏃 300 humanoid robots run a half-marathon in Beijing Yes, really. Twenty-one kilometres. Bipedal.

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