The AI extinction risk may be real, but the cure on offer looks more like the leading labs building a competitive moat.
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The finance minister says workshops and road maps have replaced delivery on technology policy.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia’s own full-year target implies second-half revenue could come in well below the first half.
A stronger rand has absorbed almost all of Apple’s US price increase – but only at the cheaper storage tiers.
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Shortly after 2pm, the currency was trading at R16.78/$, continuing a firming trend that started in April.
MK and the EFF claim communications minister Solly Malatsi’s policy directive undermines transformation and unlawfully clears the way for the launch of Elon Musk’s Starlink in South Africa.
The ANC has taken aim at DA minister Solly Malatsi’s policy directive on BEE, leaving Icasa caught in the crossfire.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has asked Icasa urgently to align its ownership regulations with the ICT BEE sector code.
Local manufacturing will drive investment but won’t produce many jobs, according to industry association Sapvia.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 with stronger intelligence and coding capabilities amid intensifying competition from Google.
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Fox, ESPN and Warner Bros Discovery will launch a sports streaming service later this year.
Researchers in the US have found that some Android TV boxes come with malware installed right out of the box.
The amount of money deposited in decentralised finance or DeFi projects has leapt in recent months.
Google has called out a series of software companies that it said were enabling the use of spyware and hacking tools.
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.
