Editors and publishers are more on our guard with AI than they were with the internet and social media, writes John Micklethwait.
Subscribe to the newsletter
Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning.
Top News
A ransomware group called RansomHouse appears to have been responsible for an attack on Cell C that compromised the data of some of its clients.
There is a growing sense that developing practical fusion energy is no longer an if but a when.
Increased collaboration with Nvidia has pushed investor optimism over the AI growth potential for MediaTek to a new level.
More News
The average post-paid subscriber on MTN’s network consumes 21.9GB of data a month – up 44% year on year.
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed “Operator”.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to withdraw the SABC Bill is causing major political ructions.
Teraco has raised an R8-billion syndicated loan and announced it will build a 40MW “hyperscale” data centre in Johannesburg.
Technology investor Prosus hopes to list Indian digital payments and lending firm PayU next year.
These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours.
World News
A bruising contest among local smartphone players has pushed Apple’s iPhone into sixth place in China.
Amazon is developing its own processors to limit its reliance on costly Nvidia chips – the so-called Nvidia tax.
WhatsApp has hit 100 million monthly active users in the US and is growing its daily audience by double digits.
Even as Republicans eye Silicon Valley’s chequebook, many of the industry’s biggest donors applauded Kamala Harris.
Some African governments are spending vast sums on mass surveillance of their own citizens.
Zambia is one of the cheapest countries for Starlink satellite internet services in the world; the US is most expensive.