Hallucinated citations have landed communications minister Solly Malatsi in a political storm, with his credibility on the line.
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Communications minister Solly Malatsi has promised “consequence management” for officials responsible.
Section 189 protects against retrenchments in South Africa. But natural attrition needs no consultation, and AI is accelerating it.
Capital spending at SpaceX more than doubled last year, exceeding revenue and raising fears of further raises.
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Financial services have become an increasingly important component of Vodacom Group’s revenue mix.
Zimbabwean officials have backtracked on their show of support for an “inventor” who claimed to have found a way to create “free” energy using radio waves.
South Africans are warming to idea of shopping online, with retailers’ sales showing big growth over the festive season.
Tesla is a car company. Its stock is something else entirely.
OpenAI is releasing a new AI tool that’s designed to carry out time-consuming online research on just about anything.
Internet service providers have called for a debate on the “growing global issue of age verification on the internet”.
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Japanese car maker Suzuki said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with SkyDrive to make “flying cars”.
European antitrust regulators are preparing to launch a formal investigation into the deal, the FT said.
The platform for central bank digital currencies will enable transactions between countries, the IMF said.
Elon Musk said that he bought Twitter because the social network was having a “corrosive effect” on society that he hoped to improve.
The US government is sharpening its antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech. The justice department and Federal Trade Commission last week divvied up antitrust oversight for Apple, Amazon.com, Facebook and Google.
When Naspers lists in Amsterdam, it will bring with it a dual shareholding structure to match or even exceed the worst practices of tech behemoths such as Facebook or Google parent Alphabet.
