Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
Top News
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.
M-Net Movies 1, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Music and KykNet Lekker close on 16 September as four sport channels launch.
Growth of more than 30% in Eutelsat’s low-Earth orbit satellite business has offset declines in its legacy video operations.
More News
Starlink might not enjoy the same head-start it has in other markets, opening an opportunity for Project Kuiper.
The Reserve Bank’s plan to overhaul the payments ecosystem should help expand participation by fintechs.
Peach Payments has added bitcoin and other cryptocurrency payment options to its merchant services portfolio.
South Africa’s automotive manufacturing industry is facing unprecedented headwinds.
Huawei has showed off an AI computing system that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia’s most advanced offering.
Serame Taukobong made more than R33-million in Telkom’s last financial year, largely due increases in performance bonuses.
World News
Apple reportedly held talks with DuckDuckGo to replace Google as the default search engine in Safari’s private mode.
AWS, Amazon’s cloud division, plans to open a development centre in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Google has launched Pixel 8 smartphones that integrate AI more deeply into its consumer gadgets.
In a massive blow to Chinese social network TikTok, Indonesia has banned e-commerce transactions on social media
Eskom has admitted it has a solution to its highly unreliable ageing fleet of coal power stations. This time, however, the plan is not the clichéd definition of insanity (which seems to have been the plan over much of the last decade).
About 81.3% of those who wrote matric in 2019 passed. What the country is not hearing about from the minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, is the drop in performance in mathematics.
