South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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MTN Group will spend up to R6-billion buying back and cancelling its own shares over the next three years.
South African start-up AirhostSwap lets Airbnb hosts swap their empty nights for stays at properties worldwide.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia has smashed its listing guidance, with revenue up 76% and users climbing 43% to 432 million.
Strong growth in Ghana and Uganda has pushed transaction volumes past the half a trillion dollar mark.
MTN is planning AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as it bets on Africa’s infrastructure boom.
Eskom has marked 300 consecutive days without load shedding, with plant outages down 53% year on year.
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Google plans to build a large AI data centre on the remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island.
Autonomous AI agents are set to transform how small businesses design, manage and deliver value, according to AWS.
Apple reportedly plans to use a 1.2 trillion-parameter AI model from Google to help power a revamp of its Siri voice assistant.
The world should watch out bubbles in financial markets, the head of the World Economic Forum has warned.
Google’s antitrust trial, like Microsoft’s, may have inadvertently spurred innovation by competitors, challenging its search dominance.
Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.
