Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
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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.
IT distributors were once glorified box droppers. Today they need to be so much more, says Westcon-Comstor CEO David Grant.
Supporting MVNOs like Capitec Connect is critical to Cell C’s successful turnaround, CEO Jorge Mendes has said.
Energy security, food security and even jobs: what government could have done instead of trying to save the Post Office.
Google has unveiled the biggest update to its Android mobile operating system in years.
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YouTube is developing an AI tool that would let creators record audio using the voices of famous musicians.
Nokia will cut up to 14 000 jobs as part of a new cost-savings plan after third-quarter sales dropped 20%.
Netflix increased subscription prices for some streaming plans on Wednesday as it reported strong subscriber growth.
A major cyberattack on a financial services payments system could lead to global losses of US$3.5-trillion, Lloyd’s of London said.
Stephen Wolfram is a cult figure in programming and mathematics. Last week, he launched a new venture: the Wolfram Physics Project, an ambitious attempt to develop a new physics of our universe.
Society is seemingly trapped in amber, frozen in place by the coronavirus. But really we’re speeding ever faster toward a technological future.
