Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
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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.
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Lesaka Technologies has agreed to buy the digital bank chaired by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan for R1.1-billion.
The Competition Tribunal has found that Vodacom’s Maziv deal would have caused harm to competition and market innovation.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, boasting the world’s largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos.
TymeBank is considering legal action to stop home affairs from implementing huge increases in the fees companies must pay to verify their clients’ identities.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has backed the communications minister’s plans for BEE reform in the ICT sector.
The AI message summary feature allows WhatsApp users to get summarised versions of all their unread messages.
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China has reportedly ordered civil servants not to use Apple’s iPhones and other foreign devices for work.
Elon Musk withdrew a loan of $1-billion from SpaceX around the time he was acquiring Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings said it will unveil an artificial intelligence chatbot.
Stock traders have forgotten what a bubble looks like. Nvidia will remind them, says the founder of Research Affiliates.
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.
Now that Microsoft has restored some of its former glory, the company is going for an even more unlikely comeback: rewriting the history of its much-maligned phone business.
