Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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AI computing capacity promises to drive economic growth in South Africa but will also drive up demand for electricity.
Eskom suspended load shedding at 10am on Sunday after recovering more than 3GW of generating capacity.
Much of the slump reflects Wall Street’s rapid rotation out of companies tied to artificial intelligence.
Apple has confirmed that it’s delaying the release of a new AI-infused Siri digital assistant.
Treasury is likely to opt for a smaller, 0.5 percentage point hike in a rescheduled budget to be presented on Wednesday.
Elon Musk has drawn an angry response for claiming Starlink is “not allowed to operate in South Africa because I’m not black”.
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Chinese hackers targeted Kenya’s government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions.
Microsoft has started making available a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT and its search engine Bing.
Bill Gates believes the technology race to win is the development of the top AI agent.
Intel has provided a handful of new details on a chip for artificial intelligence computing it plans to introduce in 2025.
