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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Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when a software failure knocked users offline.
South African satellite and space innovators in the Western Cape university town stand out in a recent Nasa report.
The security, warehousing and logistics sectors in South Africa are already making extensive use of in-camera AI.
South Africa’s national treasury is investigating a link to the global attacks on Microsoft’s SharePoint software.
Netflix has launched an on-the-job training initiative aimed at nurturing talent in South Africa’s creative industry.
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker has posted its worst quarterly sales decline in more than a decade.
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Higher demand for AI chips prompted Wall Street analysts to hike their price targets for the semiconductor giants.
Succession swept the top prizes at the strike-delayed Emmy Awards on Monday night.
OpenAI has sought to address fears that its tech will meddle with elections as a third of the globe heads to the polls.
Elon Musk said he would be uncomfortable growing AI/robotics at Tesla without at least a 25% voting control of the company.
Samsung Electronics is pouring $116-billion into its next-generation chip business that includes fabricating silicon for external clients, betting it can finally close the gap on industry leader TSMC.
Tencent joined much of China’s Internet sector in a $290-billion selloff on Wednesday after Beijing signalled its strongest intentions yet to rein in Big Tech. Yet it’s in some ways better shielded than its peers.
