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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Proposals by US filmmakers could lead to studios and production houses returning more of their operations to American soil.
Investors have long fretted over risks posed by AI to Google’s search business. The threat has became much more immediate.
Retailer Spar has claimed it is making significant headway, especially in townships and more rural parts of South Africa.
Suspects allegedly used “specialised software” to steal about R7-million in cash from Western Cape ATMs.
Apple’s silicon design group is working on new chips that will serve as the brains for future devices.
The ransom-seeking cybercriminals behind the extortion group Lockbit appear to have suffered a breach of their own.
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Ferrari has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars.
The green light from the UK competition watchdog for Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision should prompt self-criticism all round.
Hamas uses a global financing network, including cryptocurrencies, to bypass international sanctions.
The European Union has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X, the first under new EU tech rules.
The public debate on strategies to tackle Covid-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. The two need to be parts of a coherent whole.
The tech bubble is popping, but not in the way anyone expected. After years of fretting that free-spending start-ups with unrealistic valuations would bring down the start-up economy on its own, a global pandemic is doing it in instead.
