South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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FNB is revamping its eWallet service and adding a WhatsApp channel to bring more users into the formal banking system.
Canal+ has struck deals with Google and OpenAI to bring generative AI to its production teams and streaming app.
Canal+ is heading to the JSE by mid-2026 – and is betting big on Africa to drive future growth.
Canal+ is investing €100-million to fix MultiChoice – but a continued subscriber exodus shows righting the ship won’t be easy.
Absa has taken a R2.4-billion hit after a strategy shift left software assets with zero recoverable value.
Leo Brent Bozell III has highlighted the billions in American tech investment in South Africa – and the stakes for relations.
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Intel plans to release technical details about its forthcoming chip for laptops on Thursday. The stakes are high.
The three winners secured 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”.
Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, which makes hardware and software for prototypes of robots and other electronic gadgets.
Some of the world’s largest investors warned that early-stage valuations are starting to look frothy.
