The Post Office has received an unqualified audit opinion for the first time in six years but it’s survival remains in doubt.
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Sam Altman says the singularity has arrived. Two South African experts agree on the test, not the verdict.
Battery-electric cars remain under 1% of the market despite NEV sales figures doubling year on year, Naamsa data shows.
The SABC’s streaming platform has passed three million registered users, though hasn’t said how many are active viewers.
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Standard Bank has pledged R750-million in a strategic equity partnership with New GX Capital’s clean-tech fund.
The renewed deal between the state entities is aimed at boosting clean energy and advanced manufacturing.
Amazon South Africa has introduced a new feature that allows clients to pick a preferred delivery slot.
A momentous week in the technology sector made it clear there is no sign the boom in building AI infrastructure is slowing.
OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38-billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon Web Services.
JSE-listed technology group Altron has lifted its interim dividend by 20% even as it warns of a “tough trading environment” in IT services.
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The tech industry has started 2024 with another wave of job cuts, paring back even further after widespread layoffs last year.
Toyota, the world’s top-selling car maker, raised its profit forecast for the current year to ¥4.9-trillion.
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.
If Apple is going to make a success of its car project, it has to target the $230-billion luxury automobile market. But displacing 125-year-old incumbents like Mercedes-Benz won’t be straightforward.
The more utopian scenarios for crypto, whether proponents realise it or not, rely on the notion that crypto remains simultaneously fringe and mainstream. That will be a hard trick to pull off.
