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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Wednesday’s budget speech shows spending on science and technology education is a priority, despite fiscal constraints.
Shares in Reunert fell sharply on Wednesday, before regaining some ground, after a weaker-than-expected trading update.
Africa has established the continent’s first space agency to boost Earth observation and data sharing.
Google’s AI moves are its latest effort to fend off growing competition from start-ups like OpenAI.
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance wants the upper 6GHz band available for “unrestrained” Wi-Fi operations.
Elon Musk has sharply attacked South Africa’s BEE legislation, describing it as “utterly wrong and improper”.
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Apple has found itself the target of a £785-million class-action lawsuit brought by more than 1 500 app developers.
Adobe’s $20-billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma will face a full-scale EU antitrust probe, sources said.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally.
Elon Musk has explained his decision to strip Twitter of its famous blue-bird logo as a move to remake the business.
A financial crisis confronting South Africa’s state power utility has become a national debt problem.
Most discussions about artificial intelligence are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. This could end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt.
