South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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Fintech start-up NjiaPay has bagged $2.1-million in seed funding to simplify payments across Africa.
The World Bank has committed to a credit guarantee facility aimed at unlocking $10-billion for infrastructure investment.
Increases range from 6% to 10% depending on the service, with uncapped LTE and 5G plans spared.
Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.
Apple retailer iStore has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new MacBook Neo at R11 999 for the 256GB model.
AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta said, aiming to head off a possible order from EU antitrust regulators.
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Meta has tasted success with its smart glasses, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg describing them as the perfect way for humans to reach for the AI promise of “superintelligence”.
Huawei has broken years of secrecy to reveal its road map to compete against Nvidia in advanced AI chips.
Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement between the US and China to keep TikTok operating in the US.
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety alleges Google’s AI summaries use its journalism without its consent.
