A new industry report argues that the sector mistook innovation for inclusion and left informal markets behind.
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Oracle’s total workforce declined 13%, or about 21 000 employees, last year, partly driven by the adoption of AI.
Namibia on Monday said it had dismissed an appeal by Starlink against the rejection of its licence applications.
Johannesburg’s enterprise IT departments, not Cape Town’s start-ups, are driving a worrying tech skills exodus.
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Time magazine named the architects of AI its “Person of the Year”, citing their ability to deliver the age of thinking machines.
Vodacom South Africa has given its post-paid customers notice that it will increase prices at above inflation.
Sebenza’s partnership with Toyota is going to speed up activation as the taxi Wi-Fi service scales nationwide.
With global momentum building for child online protection, South Africa faces growing pressure to strengthen its own rules.
OpenAI has warned that its upcoming AI models could pose a “high” cybersecurity risk, as their capabilities advance rapidly.
MTN South Africa will increase prices for its consumer contract customers with effect from February 2026 but is promising more value.
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Sonos is entering the headphones market, part of an effort to turn the company into a broader maker of consumer technology.
Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of creating a voice for ChatGPT that sounded “eerily similar” to hers.
Apple has launched an aggressive discounting campaign in China as it fights to retain market share against Huawei.
Investors, traders and mining executives have warned for years that the world faced a critical shortfall of copper.
The techno-anarchist pioneers of cryptocurrencies believed they were creating a new form of unregulated, decentralised money. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
The world’s richest countries are courting South Africa as a model of how to transition to a more climate-friendly future from a dependency on coal. It’s a pity about the politics, then.
