Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
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Mikel Mabasa was among the most vocal advocates for a coherent South African new energy vehicle policy.
Three MTN Group executives stand in line to share awards worth more than R84-million between them.
A Cape Town start-up has powered an entire Netflix television production base camp on the sun for six months.
Investor Bill Ackman plans to merge Sparc Holdings with Universal Music and list the combined entity in New York.
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Warner Bros Discovery has rejected Paramount’s $108-billion bid, citing weak financing assurances and shareholder risk.
X has sued a start-up seeking to cancel X’s Twitter trademarks so it can “bring Twitter back” as a new social network.
Oracle’s revenue and profit forecasts disappoint investors as soaring AI data-centre spending outpaces expected returns.
Nvidia’s older H200 chips have been cleared for China as new Blackwell models remain tightly restricted.
JB5 is a 30MW data centre that will house Teraco’s first at-scale artificial intelligence workloads. CEO Jan Hnizdo gave TechCentral a tour.
The $6.5-billion deal for OpenAI to acquire Jony Ive’s io is a bet that he can repeat his greatest feat.

































