Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.
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China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
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South Africa’s national treasury is investigating a link to the global attacks on Microsoft’s SharePoint software.
Netflix has launched an on-the-job training initiative aimed at nurturing talent in South Africa’s creative industry.
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker has posted its worst quarterly sales decline in more than a decade.
The world’s best known AI accelerationists have been in Silicon Valley. Now there’s one sitting in the White House.
A cyber-espionage campaign centred on vulnerable Microsoft software now involves the deployment of ransomware.
The Competition Tribunal has agreed to support the acquisition of MultiChoice Group by Groupe Canal+.
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OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the start-up at the centre of the AI boom.
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will leave the company on 3 June, and will be replaced by Matt Garman.
The US has pressed China and Russia to ensure that only humans would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.
Apple has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the start-up’s technology on the iPhone.
A new game, Wordle, is taking Twitter by storm. It’s a word-search game that has a romantic origin story that could rival anything from Shakespeare.
By the end of Netflix’s 45-minute earnings interview on Thursday, its stock was down more than 20% and a pall had been cast over the entertainment industry.
