A former OpenAI researcher claims AI models are far easier to understand than researchers assumed.
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Online now accounts for more than a tenth of TFG Africa’s sales, and the store estate is shrinking.
Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in mid-2027 to make room for its Cybercab robo-taxi.
AA CEO Bobby Ramagwede warns South Africa’s car manufacturing industry could be decimated within five years.
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Cabinet has adopted a more ambitious emissions reduction target ahead of a United Nations climate conference in November.
The Competition Competition has green-lighted JSE-listed technology group Altron’s acquisition of information security specialist Lawtrust.
The cost of the intractable semiconductor shortage has ballooned by more than 90%, pushing the total hit to 2021 revenue for the world’s car makers to $210-billion.
Jubilant SAA staff at the country’s biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline took to the skies for the first time in a year.
Business Leadership South Africa has torn strips off communications regulator Icasa over its intention to withdraw temporary spectrum from operators at the end of November.
Remgro-controlled CIVH reduced its losses in the year ended 30 June 2021, with its contribution to headline earnings of a loss of R435-million, from R649-million a year ago.
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Microsoft said on Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy GitHub, the code repository company popular with many software developers, for $7.5bn (about R94bn) in shares. The acquisition provides a way forward
Facebook is disputing a New York Times report about how it shares data with device makers from Apple and Amazon to Samsung. They’re privy to Facebook users’ information but it’s nothing like the access that led to the
For Microsoft, acquiring GitHub would be both a return to the company’s earliest roots and a sharp turnaround from where it was a decade ago. The software maker has agreed to acquire GitHub, the code-repository
It was not a normal Facebook shareholder meeting. On Thursday in Menlo Park, California, one investor compared the social network’s poor stewardship of user data to a human rights violation. Another warned that
Are Cell C, Dimension Data and Andile Ngcaba’s investment firm Convergence Partners planning to build a national fibre-optic telecommunications network? Rumours have begun circulating that the three companies are in talks about doing exactly that. TechCentral has established from various parties that preliminary talks are already underway.
SA’s mobile operators are upset at the growing delays they face in having environmental impact assessments concluded for the construction of new base stations. They say it’s holding back the sector. Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt used a media briefing earlier this week to criticise municipal bureaucrats for the lengthy delays.
