South Africa’s AI policy will be rewritten. The threat won’t wait, writes Palo Alto Networks’ Justin Lee.
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Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones – but at a big long-term cost to consumers.
Co-founders Bradley Wattrus and Lungisa Matshoba will return to CFO and chief product and technology roles.
TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim says South Africa’s patching problem is about to be compounded by agentic AI.
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The South African Weather Service expects its website and other IT systems to be restored in the next week.
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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”.
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Apple’s market capitalisation on Friday breached the $3-trillion mark for the first time since January 2022.
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The authors claim OpenAI misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial intelligence system.
5G networks will allow vast gobs of data to be transmitted at great speeds. And more data usually means more money for mobile carriers. But there’s a hitch. Cloud giants such as Amazon.com and Microsoft are lurking.
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