Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
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.
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The confirmed planet, called Barnard b, has a predicted diameter about three-quarters that of Earth.
Employees were praying outside StarSat offices on Wednesday as Icasa officials disconnected the company’s infrastructure.
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As promising as AI may be, there’s little chance it will live up to the current hype, says renowned professor Daron Acemoglu.
The conclusion of the Adumo acquisition comes with changes to Lesaka Technologies’ executive structure.
A consortium led by fleet management solutions provider GoMetro has launched South Africa’s first electric minibus taxi.
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Apple’s push to replace the chips inside its devices with homegrown components will include dropping a key Broadcom part in 2025.
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Apple exported more than $2.5-billion worth of iPhones from India from April to December, nearly twice the previous fiscal year’s total.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed Dr Doom for predicting the most recent global financial crisis, has crossed swords with cryptocurrency guru and ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
Investors enamoured of tech stocks that suddenly seem only to fall are searching for answers. The simplest may be that the group just isn’t that special anymore.
