Headline inflation slowed to 4.3% in July, ending four months of acceleration – and beating market expectations.
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Replying to a customer on WhatsApp will start costing business users money from October. Meta won’t confirm how much.
Crypto arbitrage firm Kastelo says every client watched a compulsory video and signed a mandate before any offshore trade.
Absa has said that 1 400 developers use AI coding tools while its chatbot fields 100 000 queries monthly.
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Pnet says demand for employees skilled in the use of AI has surged 77% in South Africa in the past year.
With Windows 10 support ending next month, nearly 60% of companies worldwide are still using the Microsoft operating system.
Momentum Group’s two new solar installations that could generate a combined 7.5GWh of electricity a year.
Altvest has appointed Stafford Masie as executive chairman and tasked him with leading its bitcoin treasury strategy.
South Africa is in talks with Chinese car makers to encourage them to invest in local production.
Eskom has begun its EV fleet roll-out with 20 vehicles, with 55 public chargers planned and full electrification by 2035.
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Microsoft hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is not an ideal outcome for Altman or Microsoft.
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.
Big Internet companies have long been the target of complaints that they don’t pay enough in taxes. Fed up, more countries are rolling out plans to hit the likes of Facebook and Google with a “digital tax”.
The Trump administration has fired multiple salvos against Huawei since the start of a campaign to derail China’s technological ascendancy. The latest blow threatens to cripple the country’s tech champion.
