The IPO filing sets out Anthropic’s ambitions, and the cost of pursuing them, as investors grow wary of the AI boom.
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Absa says customers who hand banking credentials to an AI agent may be held liable, as local banks keep outside agents out.
Paris Mashile led Icasa’s fight to cut mobile termination rates, and admitted when the regulator fell short.
DigiDeeds, co-founded by a former Capitec executive, creates digital records of homes outside the title-deed system.
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Rand stablecoin issuers want treasury’s revised crypto rules to treat their tokens as payments, not capital.
A new policy direction asks Icasa to define essential facilities and sets out a dispute process that could pause roll-outs.
Enoch Godongwana says the draft cross-border rules need “a different approach” and a second version is coming.
Discovery has moved cybercrime to the top of its risk register, warning frontier AI models are speeding up attacks.
Diesel’s levy drops by R3/l and petrol’s by R1.50/l from 4 November, at a cost of R10-billion in tax revenue.
Bolt’s electric category is live in Johannesburg, with a Santaco-affiliated association owning the BYD fleet.
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Apple has unveiled the HomeView, a $299 smart-home hub built around Siri AI, as it takes on rivals in the connected home.
AI infrastructure investment is keeping global growth at about 3%, says IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva.
SpaceX is reportedly paying $8-billion for 800MHz spectrum to boost its Starlink Mobile service in the US.
A memory chip crunch means the powerful laptops needed for local AI are very expensive.
Mark Zuckerberg says competition and liability already push AI labs to build safely, breaking with rivals.
Frontier labs have backed Demis Hassabis’s call for a self-regulator, but critics warn it hands Washington the off-switch.

































