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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Knife Capital has co-led the funding round for the Cape Town-founded customer service firm.
The deal with Standard Bank will fund telecoms equipment imports as Helios Towers expands across the continent.
360Wallet owner has claimed that South Africa’s biggest banks are blocking its cardless cash withdrawal technology.
A landmark report has warned Africa that is “critically underserved” for undersea cable repairs.
Big e-commerce brands are largely absent from Africa – but intermediaries are bringing their goods to shoppers anyway.
EasyEquities owner Purple Group is paying up to $10.75-million for Telescope AI, the start-up behind its AI Baskets feature.
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Apple has unveiled updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, featuring its latest M5-series chips.
OpenAI’s latest funding round valued the ChatGPT maker at $840-billion as Big Tech piled into the blockbuster round.
Payments firm Stripe is reportedly considering an acquisition of PayPal or parts of the digital payments pioneer.
Microsoft has announced that gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring after 38 years, in a major leadership shake-up.
