Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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Much of the slump reflects Wall Street’s rapid rotation out of companies tied to artificial intelligence.
Apple has confirmed that it’s delaying the release of a new AI-infused Siri digital assistant.
Treasury is likely to opt for a smaller, 0.5 percentage point hike in a rescheduled budget to be presented on Wednesday.
Elon Musk has drawn an angry response for claiming Starlink is “not allowed to operate in South Africa because I’m not black”.
The dreaded Eskom power cuts are back again, for the third time this year, with stage-3 outages until Monday.
China’s DeepSeek is just one player in a country that has rapidly developed a vast ecosystem of AI companies.
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Apple’s high-yield savings account has reached over $10-billion in customer deposits.
French broadcaster Canal+ could eventually invest $300-million in PCCW-owned streaming platform Viu.
Bitcoin’s rebound this year could have room to run if the US economy manages to achieve a soft landing.
Apple is likely to report a dip in iPhone sales in its latest quarter as shoppers held out for a new model in a slow economy.
Get ready, TV fans, because the next few months are going to be wild. Deep-pocketed giants are spending billions of dollars on so much new streaming content that there will be little reason to leave your couch this summer.
Earlier this week, FNB customers woke up to a huge inconvenience: the online banking system now requires you to manually type your password. However, this will actually make this problem worse, not better. By Alistair Fairweather.
