Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
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Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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OpenAI’s Sora is finally here, and it’s mind-blowing, according to reports. This and more in today’s edition of Bookmarks.
Google has claimed it can now solve a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
US President-elect Donald Trump must decide which bothers him more: Europe or Big Tech.
Primetime viewership statistics show that soapies, news and sports are why South Africans watch TV.
WhatsApp is evolving from a messaging app into an “everything app” under Meta. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
To execute vital structural changes, we need to address the three real constraints to South Africa’s growth.
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Mark Zuckerberg said it’s “time to move on” from speculation about a cage fight with Elon Musk.
SK Telecom will invest $10-million in Anthropic to strengthen its telecoms-driven AI business.
Sam Bankman-Fried will prepare for his fraud trial from a jail where inmates have complained of shocking conditions.
The SEC has delayed a decision on whether to approve Ark Investment Management’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
New research shows South African universities are good at producing academic papers, but not at translating them into innovations and patents. That needs to change.
That growing apprehension marks a stark turnaround for a company that has seemed invincible for years.

































