Cloud revenue up 63% and custom AI chips winning customers – Alphabet’s surge has grabbed Wall Street’s attention.
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South Africa’s AI policy will be rewritten. The threat won’t wait, writes Palo Alto Networks’ Justin Lee.
South Africa’s PMI hit a near four-year high in April, though analysts have warned that the lift may prove temporary.
A merger of Paymenow and PayCurve will create a 100-strong fintech serving 750 000 employees in four countries.
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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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Samsung Electronics warned demand recovery is largely constrained to high-end chips used in AI.
Women may have more to worry about than men from a coming wave of automation and artificial intelligence.
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest foldable smartphones as it seeks to challenge Apple’s dominance in the premium segment.
Meta’s Threads is adding four new features, including a much-requested chronological timeline. A web version is coming, too.
The decades-old supply chain is starting to split in two: one beyond China’s borders that serves American concerns, and another within the world’s most populous country that caters to local consumers.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is hamstrung by politics and the economy is suffering the consequences.
