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A rand stablecoin built for corporate treasuries has been launched just as Pretoria moves to fence those treasuries off.
Customer quiet-quitting is the bill for shortcuts taken years ago. By the time it shows up in the numbers, they have already gone.
Generation fell 8.1% in June to the weakest reading in seven years, while Eskom’s fleet ran better than at any point since 2017.
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For a country with mass youth unemployment, AI’s squeeze on first jobs is hugely significant – and not in a good way.
China’s next five years involve humanoid robots, doubled clean energy and a Global South export drive.
The fight over who owns South Africa’s transmission grid has burst spectacularly into the open.
South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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The Google parent has allayed doubts about its AI strategy, thrusting it back to the forefront of the high-stakes race.
India has proposed requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government.
Samsung has forecasted record operating profit as demand for AI sends memory chip prices sharply higher worldwide.
A senior German politician wants legal action to stop what he has called the “industrialisation of sexual harassment” on X.
Washington’s allies and rivals alike have warned of a devastating blow to global trade.
AI agents’ effect on our autonomy will depend as much on the tech itself as how we choose to engage with it.

































