Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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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.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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Sipho Maseko, Neo Lesela, Khanyisile Kweyama and Sonja De Bruyn will be among the new indirect shareholders.
Spotify is increasing the monthly price of its premium subscriptions in selected markets, including South Africa.
South African enterprise software specialist Syspro’s acquisition of Datascope marks its third such deal in the past year.
Taiwan’s threatened chips restrictions on South Africa amid an intensifying diplomatic scuffle might be too difficult to enforce.
The system failure was affecting air traffic control operations, with major delays to flight departures.
Novus Holdings’ offer to buy out other shareholders in technology group Mustek has run into more difficulty.
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China’s solar factories are tapping the brakes as the industry struggles with a price war and overcapacity.
xAI is in talks to raise up to US$6-billion at a proposed valuation of $20-billion, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Nasa’s Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity was the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world.
IBM shares jumped nearly 13% to a more than 10-year high on Thursday amid strong demand for its AI services.
Last year’s backlash against Facebook’s planned digital currency libra would have been most CEOs’ worst nightmare. It hasn’t deterred Mark Zuckerberg.
Eskom is broke and can’t invest in any further capacity. Independent power producers will have to do it, and they will need an independent transmission and market operator that they trust.
