The Reserve Bank wants all of South Africa’s ATMs white-labelled, with free transactions below a threshold, starting with a pilot in January.
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Toyota expects software-defined cars to reach 10 million a year by 2030. South Africa isn’t prepared.
South Africa’s ISP body says neither the communications department nor Icasa seems able to lower the cost to communicate.
Telecoms companies, fintechs and retailers will be able to connect directly to the national payments system.
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MultiChoice is testing a free upgrade week, starting with Select, with other packages to follow.
Electric delivery bikes are expected to get a big boost in South Africa as petrol heads for the R30/litre mark.
Vodacom has piloted a compact Nokia antenna that adds 4G and 5G capacity at space-constrained sites.
Anthropic plans to spend US$518-billion on computing and infrastructure as it eyes a $2-trillion listing.
OpenAI has scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra’s October release after the model failed internal safety and alignment tests.
A leading digital bank has joined the Catastrophe coalition, saying crypto rules should target activities, not technology.
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Four tech giants pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI report results this week – and investors want signs of returns.
OpenAI has fallen short of its goals for new users and revenue in recent months, according to a new report.
Taylor Swift’s filings are aimed at testing whether trademark law can do what copyright cannot in the AI era.
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up that stunned the world last year, has launched a preview of its highly anticipated V4 model.
