Section 189 protects against retrenchments in South Africa. But natural attrition needs no consultation, and AI is accelerating it.
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Industry warns national treasury’s biggest exchange-control rewrite in 60 years could undo South Africa’s hard-won crypto gains.
The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and OpenAI may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has promised “consequence management” for officials responsible.
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Coinbase has forecast a hit of between $180-million and $400-million from a cyberattack.
US President Donald Trump said he’s asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to stop building iPhone plants in India.
For a brief period on Wednesday, all Grok wanted to do was discuss a conspiracy theory about “white genocide” in South Africa.
The European Commission has been urged to rein in allegedly high fees charged by Visa and Mastercard.
South Africa should pause before blindly copying European AI regulation, writes Martin van Staden.
Spar Group has linked data rewards to shopper behaviour with its new MVNO offering.
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Toyota unveiled a Lexus concept car with a roughly 1 000km range on Wednesday that it aims to roll out by 2026.
Google’s cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, even as sales at Microsoft’s cloud unit boomed.
A Chinese miner has been accused of violating Namibia’s ban on critical raw mineral exports.
Rising rates have made already stretched US Big Tech valuations look increasingly expensive.
The post-pandemic landscape will be very different. The individual’s autonomy over their data may be lost forever. Our mobiles will keep us safe – by spying on us.
The rapid emergence of the pandemic defaulted policy to intervene first and ask questions later. But the dust is now settling, and the strategic endgame can and should be made transparent.
