South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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Icasa expects it will soon appoint a service provider that will run South Africa’s next spectrum auction.
Two of South Africa’s biggest trade unions have rejected an improved 6% salary increase offer from Eskom.
Automated dispatch technology is gaining ground in South Africa as crime drives a surge in security callouts.
BluEnergy Trading has been granted a multi-year energy trading licence, allowing it to buy and sell power.
iOCO has expanded its operations in Saudi Arabia, growing its cloud practice there through a partnership with AWS.
Starlink has intensified its campaign to secure a South African operating licence amid ongoing regulatory delays.
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Qualcomm is making a bigger push into smart glasses with low-power components that can run AI software.
Research firm Counterpoint has cut growth expectations for global smartphone shipments in 2025 to just 1.9%.
Mark Zuckerberg sees future social feeds filled with AI content and AI friends. And fuelling this synthetic future will be AI ads.
Apple is hitting back hard at the European Union, saying its demands are unreasonable and hamper innovation.
