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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Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has offloaded shares in the company he leads for R20-million.
Parliament’s deliberations over the SABC Bill have been halted to allow for high-level political discussions.
South Africa’s telecommunications giants face off in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday and Friday.
Montegray Capital chairman Michael Jordaan said this week that South Africa has more important short-term priorities.
OpenAI will release a GPT-5 model as a comprehensive AI system that will incorporate o3 along with other technologies.
Tailings dam disasters can be prevented using a combination data analytics, IoT technology and engineering expertise.
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Nokia has signed a new long-term patent licence agreement with Apple.
Apple’s market capitalisation on Friday breached the $3-trillion mark for the first time since January 2022.
The two countries are set to deliver a blow to China’s chip makers soon by further restricting sales of chip-making equipment.
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.
Rarely does an audience Q&A session include a question as incendiary as, “Why is this fraud allowed to speak at this conference?” But that’s how a discussion about bitcoin ended up last year in Seoul.
