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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TechCentral tested the new ChatGPT voice model – and it’s surprisingly good at Afrikaans (not so much at isiZulu).
Eskom has constructed a road – albeit a short one – entirely out of ash from one of its coal-fired power stations.
Old Mutual will unveil South Africa’s newest bank in the first quarter of next year.
Maziv has appointed two regulatory professionals from MTN and Telkom in senior roles.
Tapping a card or smartphone at the point of sale is rapidly taking off as a payment method in South Africa.
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FTX customers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said moves by the island’s most valuable chip maker to build factories overseas is a sign of its power abroad.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725-million, or about R12.4-billion, to resolve a class-action lawsuit.
In a rare show of frustration, Pony Ma said internal reviews this year had exposed corruption and mismanagement at Tencent.
Elon Musk is in jeopardy of losing control over the electric car company he founded, with the Securities and Exchange Commission suing the billionaire for his explosive August tweet about taking Tesla private.
At this year’s Beijing Auto Show, a retired Chinese bureaucrat bent down to run his hands over the hood of a sleek sports coupe billed as the world’s fastest battery-powered car, and he smiled like a proud father.
