From digital IDs to AI-powered crime fighting, here are the key tech takeaways from Sona 2026.
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Cell C’s first results as a listed company reveal a cleaner balance sheet but a business still searching for momentum.
While its other segments have showed a relatively muted performance, Cell C’s MVNO business is thriving.
South Africa will push ahead with breaking up Eskom and creating a standalone company to run the transmission grid.
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Competition from rivals, especially in the prepaid segment, is piling the pressure on MTN South Africa.
MTN Group has disclosed that it is now the subject of a grand jury investigation by the US department of justice.
MTN Group has swung to a half-year profit as economic conditions and forex rates showed improved stability.
Standard Bank has warned of a rise of “spoofing” scams, where where fraudsters use AI to impersonate bank officials.
Absa Group’s IT spend for the six months to 30 June reached R8.2-billion as it ramped up spending on security and AI.
Market consolidation in South Africa’s telecoms sector is “long overdue”, MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has said.
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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.
At a packed Miami conference in June, Jack Dorsey, mused in front of thousands of attendees about where his real passion lay: bitcoin.
South Africa’s deepening energy crisis looks set to persist for at least two more years, with operational problems at Eskom showing no signs of abating.
