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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Eskom’s financial viability remains at risk even though it has stabilised the electricity supply, according to the auditor-general.
Non-bank players in the payments space have joined forces to drive digital financial inclusion.
More than half of South Africa’s population is now covered by a 5G wireless network, according to a new report.
China’s DeepSeek is pressure-testing Zuckerberg’s strategy of embracing the open-source approach to AI development.
Microsoft and OpenAI are probing whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorised manner.
Former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter will face charges related to riots four years ago in which 354 people died.
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Bitcoin renewed its climb towards $30 000 with risk appetite rising across global markets and concern about the fallout from Binance’s legal woes waning.
Investors withdrew US$1.6-billion of cryptocurrency from Binance since it was sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday.
Alibaba Group is planning to split into six units and explore fundraisings or listings for most of them.
The UK plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition.
Flying cars! So futuristic! A world in which they’re buzzing around the skies must be dazzling — like a Popular Mechanics feature come to life! Well, yeah. About that.
As IBM launches its first commercial quantum computer, the technology may well prove to be the most disruptive to happen so far in the information age.
