South Africa does not have a digital talent shortage. What it has is a shortage of work-ready talent.
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Dual-listed lender Investec is putting Microsoft’s AI assistant on every desk in South Africa and the UK.
Anthropic has launched an AI agent in the Slack app that can work alongside employees in group chats.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
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BAIC will start assembling its newly launched B30 off-road SUV at its factory in the Eastern Cape as early as January.
SpaceX has criticised the time it is taking communications minister Solly Malatsi to issue a policy directive on licensing rules.
Seacom is targeting the fourth quarter of 2026 to reach financial close on its massive planned subsea broadband cable system.
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has warned that a mobile market with too many players might not be sustainable.
Competitive pricing and stronger value offerings are luring customers away from larger mobile operators to Telkom.
Mercedes-Benz South Africa said CEO-designate Abey Kgotle has resigned for personal reasons.
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Microsoft and Quantinuum said they have achieved a key step in making quantum computers a commercial reality.
The earthquake has endangered production at TSMC, the world’s largest maker of advanced chips.
Amazon.com is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out technology from grocery stores.
Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally.
Five years ago, Microsoft and Google agreed to cease using their substantial lobbying firepower against each other. That truce, forged at the time by two new CEOs wanting a fresh start, expired in April.
When government announced it was bringing in outside shareholders to take a majority holding in South African Airways, there was a lot of chatter that it was now following the “Telkom model”. By Larry Claasen.
