Chinese state media says Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development is really about containing Beijing.
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JSE-listed fintech Optasia’s own full-year target implies second-half revenue could come in well below the first half.
A stronger rand has absorbed almost all of Apple’s US price increase – but only at the cheaper storage tiers.
The AI extinction risk may be real, but the cure on offer looks more like the leading labs building a competitive moat.
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The banking industry has released its annual crime statistics for 2020, and the figures for digital banking fraud are concerning.
Business Unity South Africa has criticised the lack of urgency by government in taking the hard decisions to create an environment for investment and growth.
The consortium behind the planned 2Africa submarine cable system has announced the project will be expanded further, making it the longest such system ever deployed.
Software services group Adapt IT eked out a 1% improvement in revenue in what will likely be its final set of results as a listed company on the JSE.
Huge Group has abandoned its efforts to play a role in the future of Adapt IT. That much is clear after it emerged on Tuesday that it has sold its 1.9% stake.
South Africa could save R100-billion by accelerating the closing of coal-fired power plants in return for cheap loans to fund a transition to cleaner forms of electricity.
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Storm clouds are brewing over the global technology industry. A host of hardware companies are sitting on inventory stockpiles not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago.
Toyota is investing $500-million more in Uber, underscoring the Japanese car maker’s efforts to catch up on self-driving technology as General Motors and Waymo lead the race to upend transportation with autonomous vehicles.
A red 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO owned by a former Microsoft employee sold for $48.4-million (about R690-million) on Saturday in California, the most ever paid for a classic car at auction.
Elon Musk has scrapped his plan to take Tesla private, a remarkable reversal more than two weeks after blindsiding employees and investors with the idea in a bombshell tweet.
With Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, set to debut this week and Richard Branson’s iPad magazine, Project, already on its second edition, SA media houses are revving up to provide their own tablet editions
Red Bull’s plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in SA, piggybacking off Cell C’s network, could be the first of many such entrants, analysts say. Rumours are circulating that another
