Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
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.
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MTN South Africa has unveiled a partnership with police in the Eastern Cape to crack down on rampant infrastructure crime.
Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan may disrupt global trade, but South Africa’s tech sector remains largely unaffected – for now.
Elon Musk has showcased a version of the Grok chatbot technology that the billionaire has said is the “smartest AI on Earth”.
Government has drafted an early retirement offer for civil servants in an effort to reduce the public sector wage bill.
South Africa’s EV tax incentive will help boost manufacturing. But the industry faces challenges, including sustainability issues.
OpenAI is considering granting special voting rights to its non-profit board to preserve the power of its directors.
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Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform. Legal experts doubt it would win.
The two companies have showcased new products, including an AI image generator and an AI model upgrade.
China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin.
Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday launched a direct challenge to Twitter with Threads, garnering millions of users in hours.
There will be stories of palace intrigue involving Jony Ive, the Apple design chief who announced Thursday that he is planning to exit the company after more than a quarter of a century. This is a simpler tale: it was time.
Among Facebook’s justifications for introducing a new digital currency, libra, the company has offered one pious rationale: to connect the 1.7 billion adults who lack bank accounts to the global financial system.
