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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Wall Street is buying what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is selling. There are reasons for this optimism – and reasons to question it.
Amazon.com, Google, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are embarking on an unprecedented year of spending.
After failing to show up on Wednesday, SpaceX has now formally “withdrawn its interest” in presenting to the regulator.
Starlink is already “sold out” in many African cities, including Nairobi, Lusaka and Harare.
Amazon is set to release its long-awaited – and delayed – Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service.
Industry body ACT has told Icasa that the satellite licensing regime should not benefit some players over others.
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Vodafone and CK Hutchison have finally unveiled the £15-billion merger of their British mobile operations.
The tech investor warned its profit dropped significantly last year due to impairments and lower contributions from Tencent.
Amazon Web Services is considering using new artificial intelligence chips from AMD, an AWS executive said.
Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya.
This is the moment the US technology superpowers surely knew was coming: the US government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. It and other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests.
The launch of 60 Starlink satellites by Elon Musk’s SpaceX has grabbed the attention of people around the globe. With Musk planning for up to 12 000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, this fleet could forever change our view of the heavens.

































