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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Naspers is considering making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for South African staff after Discovery took the step earlier this month.
Africa-focused cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has raised $15-million in a series-A venture capital funding round.
Frogfoot Networks, the open-access fibre provider, has acquired the fibre-to-the-home assets of Link Africa Western Cape for an undisclosed sum.
Newly appointed Adapt IT CEO Tiffany Dunsdon will remain based in Perth, where she has lived for the past 12 years.
Alviva has reported a 1% improvement in full-year revenue, though the number would have been “substantially” higher if it wasn’t for global shortages in semiconductors.
+OneX, the systems integrator founded by former EOH executive Rob Godlonton, has made another acquisition – this time of software firm Code Maven.
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Just a few months ago, Tencent reigned as the most valuable company in Asia, but it has since suffered a record stock plunge that has wiped more than $140-billion off its market value.
Japan is making a push to develop flying cars, enlisting companies including Uber Technologies and Airbus in a government-led group to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade.
Volkswagen has mapped out details of its transformation from a mass manufacturer of cars to a provider of transportation services by unveiling a car-sharing service and promising digital acquisitions.
Facebook said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March.
South Africans will be amazed to learn that Kenyans pay Ksh4/minute, or about 34c/minute, to make a mobile phone call — and that’s one of the most expensive rates on offer in the East African nation
Neotel’s ability to continue as a going concern has been questioned by its independent auditors, Deloitte & Touche. But CEO Ajay Pandey says there’s no reason for alarm and insists that the company































