AI rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta said, aiming to head off a possible order from EU antitrust regulators.
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Geopolitics, rising infrastructure costs and growing incidents of cyber fraud are top of the GSMA’s agenda.
Apple retailer iStore has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new MacBook Neo at R11 999 for the 256GB model.
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Elon Musk’s absolutist version of free speech has thrown the world’s richest man into the crosshairs of nation states.
Telkom subsidiary Openserve says ADSL will be eliminated from its network within the next two years.
Government has published a national policy framework for AI and is seeking feedback from stakeholders.
On 1 July, electricity costs for some of South Africa’s poorest people went up by as much as 60%.
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Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have sealed the offices and seized the accounts of Vodacom’s operations in the country.
The US has moved to block Microsoft’s $69-billion bid to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard.
Dutch officials are planning to enforce new controls on exports of chip-making equipment to China, a report said.
US President Joe Biden lauded TSMC’s investment in US chip-making facilities a “game changer”. It is no such thing.
Discarded by its globe-trotting parent Naspers after more than three decades, African pay-television heavyweight MultiChoice Group is facing an uncertain future.
Most studies of the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and the economy have focused on developed countries such as the US and Britain. But the gravest threat AI poses is to emerging economies.
