Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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Sim waste is a massive and growing problem, with local operators producing an estimated 180 million cards annually.
MultiChoice Group, with the assistance of law enforcement authorities, has conducted anti-piracy operations in Gauteng.
Lobby group Outa has accused Eskom of relying on price increases instead of improving operational efficiencies.
South Africa’s private sector maintained its growth trajectory in October, bolstered by a decline in costs and selling prices.
Microsoft has reached $1-million giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
Some urban centres in Africa are already at capacity, Elon Musk said on Monday.
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Microsoft has started adding its recently upgraded Bing search engine to its Windows computer software.
The chatbot battle is heating up, and Mark Zuckerberg is making it clear that Meta Platforms is focusing on artificial intelligence-powered tools, too.
Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab, a report said.
MWC Barcelona is the scene of a fight between Big Tech companies and telecoms operators over who should fund the rollout of 5G and broadband.
Shares in Tencent jumped in Hong Kong on Friday morning amid reports that China had reopened the door for new game titles. Traders should curb their enthusiasm.
Why didn’t Facebook do a full accounting after March of all its partnership arrangements that hooked outside companies into Facebook data? It cannot seem to clean up its own mess.
