South Africa’s biggest data centre operator expects renewables to cover more than half its consumption by the end of 2027.
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Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks on personalised Vitality, the limits of AI coding and why growth beats cost-cutting.
Standard Bank Group’s banking IT costs grew just 2%, but cloud spending surged 37% as amortisation fell away.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s latest model updates have left Google playing catch-up in frontier AI.
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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”.
The dreaded Eskom power cuts are back again, for the third time this year, with stage-3 outages until Monday.
China’s DeepSeek is just one player in a country that has rapidly developed a vast ecosystem of AI companies.
An influential South African government agency has recommended the country phase out coal-fired power stations.
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In a significant turn of events, Intel is working with ARM to potentially use that company’s technology in its factories.
Twitter now has about 1 500 employees, a sharp decline from the “just under 8 000 staff members” it had before he took it over.
Tencent Holdings tumbled by the most in seven weeks amid speculation its controlling shareholder, Naspers-controlled Prosus, may speed up selling shares.
US politicians are set to vote next week on a bill to crack down on China’s Huawei and ZTE.
When Jeff Bezos alleged in a blog post Thursday that he was the victim of blackmail attempts by the publisher of the National Enquirer, he underscored risks particular to billionaires in the digital age.
As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship this week, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.
