Australia in trouble in second test against South Africa, stumbles to 69-6 at lunch on day four

GQEBERHA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Marco Jansen claimed four wickets on Wednesday to reduce Australia to 69-6 at lunch on day four of the second cricket test.

Jansen took 4-15 in six overs, with Anrich Nortje taking 1-5 before walking off injured, as Australia sputtered early on.

Steve Smith is unbeaten on 26 at the break, with Beau Webster for company, as Australia trails by 356 runs in the first innings. It needs to reach 226 to avoid the follow-on.

Skipper Temba Bavuma had scored a career-best 179 to help South Africa score 425-9d in its first innings.

Australia resumed 3-1 and endured a horrid first hour, losing another three wickets. Overall, it was 66-5 in the morning session.

Nightwatchman Scott Boland was the first to go as he was caught behind off Jansen on the seventh ball of the day.

Jansen then trapped Travis Head lbw for 14 after a review and Simon Harmer took a superb catch at gully to send back Marnus Labuschagne (14) with Australia reduced to 45-4 in 14 overs.

Nortje could only manage another 2.3 overs before a lower-body injury forced him to walk off, leaving the Proteas a bowler short for the remainder of the match.

Matt Renshaw and Smith nearly batted out the second hour of play without any further damage.

Jansen then returned just before the break to strike twice in one over as Renshaw was caught at third slip and Alex Carey was caught behind for a duck two balls later.

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Australia's Matt Renshaw, right, walks back to pavilion after dismissal during day four of the second cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Gqeberha, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Australia's Matt Renshaw plays a shot on day four of the second cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Gqeberha, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa's Marco Jansen, centre, celebrates the wicket of Australia's Matt Renshaw during day four of the second cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Gqeberha, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Australia's Steven Smith, left and Australia's Matt Renshaw, right run between the wickets during day four of the second cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Gqeberha, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa's Marco Jansen celebrates the wicket of Australia's Alex Carey during day four of the second cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Gqeberha, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

BERLIN (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe's lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build AI data centers with the massive computing capacity the continent's developers need but currently lack.

In an upbeat speech Wednesday at a company conference for developers and investors in Berlin, Huang also laid out tools to keep AI applications from running amok by confining them in a digital “sandbox.”

“Europe's AI economy is starting, and it's accelerating, and it's great to see,” Huang, striding across the stage in his trademark leather jacket and sneakers, said in front of some 3,000 developers, analysts and journalists at Berlin's Tempodrom auditorium.

Huang, whose company designs the computer chips and software used by AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI, frequently name-checked European partner companies such as Siemens, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen's Audi.

“Europe is building its AI economy" as the technology moves from language models to so-called physical AI in manufacturing, Huang said. “Every company in the future will be an AI company.”

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius, whose company is working on developing autonomous driving technology with Nvidia, said that the technology could reduce the number of auto fatalities caused by human error “down to zero... we will have safer streets once we have full autonomy.”

Huang said Nvidia's design for the Vera Rubin DSK Pod, a ready-made modular computing center that is delivered in a shipping-container like box, will reduce the time needed to set up a data center from months to days. The pod “will change the way people build AI centers,” Huang told attendees of the Nvidia GTC conference.

He said Nvidia had invested $10 billion in European startups and partners in the past year.

Building out data centers is key for Europe, which has only about 5% of the world's AI computing capacity, compared to 75% in the U.S. Lack of the massive computing power, or “compute” in digital jargon, needed to train AI applications is a key obstacle for European developers.

“The big bottleneck is compute,” said Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, president and managing director of General Catalyst, ahead of the speech. General Catalyst invests in AI companies.

Huang was briefly interrupted by protesters who stood up with a banner urging him to “clean up" his business. Huang promised “to talk to you later” and urged security to avoid rough handling as they removed the protesters.

Huang also addressed concerns about safety by talking about the company's OpenShell open-source software designed to exert external control over what AI applications are doing and block them if they violate company policy.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote on the company's GTC event in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Visitors attend Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivering his keynote on the company's GTC event in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote on the company's GTC event in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stands near a Mercedes car as he delivers his keynote on the company's GTC event in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)