AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta said, aiming to head off a possible order from EU antitrust regulators.
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Increases range from 6% to 10% depending on the service, with uncapped LTE and 5G plans spared.
Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.
Apple retailer iStore has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new MacBook Neo at R11 999 for the 256GB model.
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Most African firms see agentic AI as critical to their cloud strategies, but only a third are actively scaling implementations.
Sola Group has begun construction on a solar and battery project that will wheel dispatchable power to Sasol and Air Liquide.
Altron’s platform businesses now drive 90% of its profit as the group guides for 30%-plus earnings growth.
A Johannesburg company is applying technology to herd management as South Africa fights foot-and-mouth disease.
Usaasa has published a draft manual for how South Africa’s Universal Service Fund should be administered and spent.
IBM shares plunged 13% – their worst day in 25 years – after Anthropic said Claude Code could modernise Cobol systems.
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Warner Bros Discovery has rejected Paramount’s $108-billion bid, citing weak financing assurances and shareholder risk.
X has sued a start-up seeking to cancel X’s Twitter trademarks so it can “bring Twitter back” as a new social network.
Oracle’s revenue and profit forecasts disappoint investors as soaring AI data-centre spending outpaces expected returns.
Nvidia’s older H200 chips have been cleared for China as new Blackwell models remain tightly restricted.
