Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
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Generation fell 8.1% in June to the weakest reading in seven years, while Eskom’s fleet ran better than at any point since 2017.
M-Net Movies 1, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Music and KykNet Lekker close on 16 September as four sport channels launch.
Growth of more than 30% in Eutelsat’s low-Earth orbit satellite business has offset declines in its legacy video operations.
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Acting CEO Fathima Gany tells TechCentral the Post Office can survive – but only if government honours its funding promise.
ERP specialist Astraia Technology is iOCO’s second purchase in four months as dealmaking accelerates.
Chip-and-Pin, contactless and digital wallet payments are rolling out to 610 Post Office branches by September.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has cast Beijing as champion of a new AI order built on open-source technology.
The bakkie wars just got another jolt of electricity: BYD has launched the Shark 6 Performance in South Africa.
The cost of South African internet domains is going up by 6.2% from 1 October – an increase well above inflation.
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Samsung has reportedly pulled the plug on its trifold phone after just three months, citing unsustainable production costs.
Jensen Huang has unveiled new CPU and Groq-powered AI system as Nvidia targets $1-trillion revenue opportunity.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has launched a series of secretive lectures on the Antichrist in Rome.
Tesla and xAI have launched “Macrohard”, a joint AI project Elon Musk says can replicate what software companies do.
Global carmakers are licensing Chinese EV technology, with the latest models highlighting China’s growing dominance.
South African experts warn that the rush to use AI in software development could have unintended consequences.

































