A new policy direction asks Icasa to define essential facilities and sets out a dispute process that could pause roll-outs.
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South Africa’s big financial firms call artificial intelligence a growth driver, yet benefits are rarely tracked properly.
Growth came mainly from low-margin Microsoft and Sage distribution, and flat costs did the rest.
Rand stablecoin issuers want treasury’s revised crypto rules to treat their tokens as payments, not capital.
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Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme.
South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
Disney+ has hiked the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa by more than 12%.
Google has put agents into Search and slashed prices to win enterprise business from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pro-AI commencement speakers are getting booed as Gen Z turns against the technology and its layoffs.
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X has accused a global advertising alliance of unlawfully conspiring to boycott the social media site.
Intel is in the process of receiving the second of ASML’s new €350-million “High NA” EUV tools, CEO Pat Gelsinger said.
Worries over a delay in the launch of Nvidia’s upcoming Blackwell AI chips may be exaggerated, analysts said.
Honor is receiving R&D funding, tax breaks and support to expand overseas ahead of a planned listing.
For the past six years, Jared Birchall has served as the right-hand man for Elon Musk, handling the fortune and whimsies of the world’s richest person.
It was one of the most frenzied and unpredictable takeover bids ever, with Elon Musk sealing a deal to acquire Twitter for $44-billion within weeks of anyone even knowing he was an investor.
