South Africa’s AI policy will be rewritten. The threat won’t wait, writes Palo Alto Networks’ Justin Lee.
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Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones – but at a big long-term cost to consumers.
Co-founders Bradley Wattrus and Lungisa Matshoba will return to CFO and chief product and technology roles.
TrendAI’s Zaheer Ebrahim says South Africa’s patching problem is about to be compounded by agentic AI.
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BankservAfrica has increased the upper payment limit for PayShap transactions from R3 000 to R50 000.
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FNB now facilitates real-time cross border payments in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini.
South Africa plans to create unique identities for its citizens and issue instant visas as it digitises its economy.
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.
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Nvidia forecast revenue above Wall Street estimates as its CEO said use of its chips to power AI) services like chatbots had “gone through the roof in the last 60 days”.
There were more than 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author – and the number is rising daily.
Microsoft has struck a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty and other Activision games to Nvidia’s gaming platform if it’s allowed by regulators to buy Activision.
President Xi Jinping said China must resolve issues in key technological fields from the bottom up as the country deals with US export controls.
The Trump administration has insisted the arrest of a top Huawei executive has nothing to do with trade talks. In Beijing, it’s just the latest US move to contain China’s rise as a global power.
The arrest last week in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, China’s iconic company, is a watershed event.
