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 finance minister says workshops and road maps have replaced delivery on technology policy.
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.
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Eskom has marked 300 consecutive days without load shedding, with plant outages down 53% year on year.
Prepaid woes and rising bad debts have dragged MTN South Africa’s earnings down, despite strong enterprise growth.
Meta may cut one in five workers as it pours billions into AI infrastructure and talent, three sources have said.
Shoprite has agreed to acquire a majority stake in R&A Cellular, targeting the informal retail sector.
Liquidation looms for the Post Office as its rescue practitioners warn government they intend to wind it up.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has moved to unblock broadband roll-out with a new policy direction.
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If China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chip-making machines.
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.
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Investors ought to be clamouring over GlobalFoundries’ $1-billion initial public offering. Except the company is struggling to make money in a chip boom.
