South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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The fight over who owns South Africa’s transmission grid has burst spectacularly into the open.
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.
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Naspers subsidiary Prosus is acquiring online travel agency Despegar.com for the equivalent of R32-billion.
The chair of the portfolio committee on communications is digging in for a fight with minister Solly Malatsi.
Science-fiction, fantasy, horror and other forms of speculative fiction are breathing new life into African writing.
OpenAI is testing new reasoning AI models, o3 and o3 mini, in a sign of growing competition with Google.
Prosus chairman Koos Bekker plans to use the money to fund building operations at hotels in South Africa, the UK and Italy.
Eskom’s risk premium is dwindling as a turnaround at the state-owned electricity company gathers momentum.
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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.
China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a top executive at Huawei is not immediately released, calling her arrest as she changed planes in Canada “unreasonable, unconscionable and vile in nature”.
Huawei chief financial officer Wanzhou Meng faces extradition to the US over potential violations of American sanctions on Iran. Here are the latest developments.
