Catching even a fraction of the upside will be a deliberate act of statecraft, not a stroke of luck.
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South Africa regards nuclear power as a critical part of its baseload energy mix.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, the latest instalment of a technology that has helped transform global business and culture.
Bank fees, a lack of features and low consumer awareness have slowed uptake of the PayShap rapid payments platform.
Vodacom has said it has placed South Africa’s first “native” voice call on 5G – known as Voice over New Radio, or VoNR.
Good growth at online fashion retailer Bash has helped lift the contribution to The Foschini Group’s Africa sales to 7%.
Starlink appears to be losing its appeal in urban Kenya due to high costs, slow speeds and better local alternatives.
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OpenAI’s board of directors approached rival Anthropic’s CEO about merging the two AI start-ups, sources said.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has testified that Google’s Android operating system is a “fake open platform” in a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.
Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his former colleague Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft.
Sam Altman will not return as CEO of OpenAI despite efforts to bring him back, a report said.
Amazon.com is by far the biggest company in cloud computing. But a new lawsuit shows the extent to which Amazon, which rarely discusses the competition in public, sees Google as a threat.
Politicians and pundits say the world’s largest economies are bound for a seismic “decoupling”. Yet, with businesses harbouring long-term ambitions for these two giant markets, breaking up may be hard to do.
