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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Resources giant Anglo American has conducted a trial of SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, in South Africa.
DFA has spent more than R800-million upgrading and “futureproofing” its national fibre network.
The South African Weather Service has been offline since the weekend after experiencing a cyberattack.
DeepSeek has claimed its new open-source AI model surpasses Stability AI and OpenAI’s models in benchmarks.
US President Donald Trump said Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s technology should act as spur for American companies.
Sentech must install 220 000 set-top boxes by 31 March to meet the analogue television switch-off deadline.
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Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reported at the weekend.
Nasdaq has agreed to buy financial software firm Adenza from private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $10.5-billion.
AMD gets its shot to prove it’s also a player in AI computing on Tuesday when executives introduce new data centre chips.
The World Bank Group’s private investment arm and guarantee agency have pledged more support for Safaricom Ethiopia.
Beijing is gearing up to use its dominance of rare earths to hit back in its deepening trade war with Washington.
Few homegrown Google products have been as successful as Chrome. Now rivals are warning that the Web browser has become too powerful and that Google is abusing that dominance.
