Most African firms see agentic AI as critical to their cloud strategies, but only a third are actively scaling implementations.
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Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has been urged to reduce taxes on electric cars in Wednesday’s budget speech.
Standard Bank has spent R1-billion rebuilding its business banking platform, giving clients more real-time controls.
Nvidia heads into quarterly earnings under pressure to prove AI spending isn’t a bubble as rivals close in.
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DFA has spent more than R800-million upgrading and “futureproofing” its national fibre network.
The South African Weather Service has been offline since the weekend after experiencing a cyberattack.
DeepSeek has claimed its new open-source AI model surpasses Stability AI and OpenAI’s models in benchmarks.
US President Donald Trump said Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s technology should act as spur for American companies.
Sentech must install 220 000 set-top boxes by 31 March to meet the analogue television switch-off deadline.
Chinese start-up DeepSeek has shaken the belief that only a few firms with huge budgets can compete in the artificial intelligence field.
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Enterprise Linux developer SUSE surged as much as 60% after buyout firm EQT said it will take it private.
Bitcoin hit a fresh two-month low, breaking out of its recent tight range, as a wave of risk-off sentiment grips world markets.
Xi Jinping’s visit next week for the Brics summit marks a rare journey abroad for a leader who has preferred to stay home this year amid mounting political problems.
Microsoft will pull the plug on Xbox 360’s online store and marketplace next year, as it focuses on its latest consoles.
South Africa’s economy was roaring along in 2007 on the back of the global commodities boom when power shortages struck, bringing mines and smelters to a halt.
There will be another bull market, much larger than the first one, where the potential is finally realised. And we won’t have to wait 20 years for the second act.
