AI subscriptions nearly doubled in 2025, with 43% of Discovery Bank Visa clients paying for access to chatbots.
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Government has set a 2028 deadline to redesign the State IT Agency – but it comes after years of false starts.
The speed at which the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is enacted will determine how quickly Usaasa is dissolved.
The Johannesburg-Durban N3 corridor will get its first off-grid, solar-powered EV charging stations within weeks.
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OpenAI has launched GPT-5, the latest instalment of a technology that has helped transform global business and culture.
Bank fees, a lack of features and low consumer awareness have slowed uptake of the PayShap rapid payments platform.
Vodacom has said it has placed South Africa’s first “native” voice call on 5G – known as Voice over New Radio, or VoNR.
Good growth at online fashion retailer Bash has helped lift the contribution to The Foschini Group’s Africa sales to 7%.
Starlink appears to be losing its appeal in urban Kenya due to high costs, slow speeds and better local alternatives.
MTN Group said on Thursday that it expects to report a huge growth in earnings in the first half of its 2025 financial year.
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KoBold Metals, a Bill Gates-backed mining start-up, has used AI to uncover a huge copper deposit in Zambia.
Yandex has struck a $5.2-billion cash-and-share deal to sell all its assets in Russia.
A multinational company lost R492-million after scammers fooled employees with a fake group video call.
The UK government will meet Post Office workers to discuss handing them ownership of the network.
Elon Musk’s decision to invest US$1.5-billion of Tesla’s cash in bitcoin is financial dynamite that unites two speculative bubbles. There’s plenty to suggest the move is inadvisable
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.

































