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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Increases range from 6% to 10% depending on the service, with uncapped LTE and 5G plans spared.
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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Chinese miners and refiners are driving a surge in African lithium output, shrugging off concerns over a glut.
A group of Chinese companies has won a contract to build a 100MW solar plant in Botswana.
Vodacom’s spectrum pooling case against Icasa and MTN will soon be heard in the high court in Pretoria.
Eastgate Shopping Centre in Johannesburg now has the largest “registered” rooftop solar installation in Africa.
Canal+ plans to double its stake in MC Vision to become the majority shareholder of the Mauritian pay-TV company.
MTN-owned Chenosis has built an API marketplace for developers and has big plans for large language models and AI.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under US federal investigation for potential animal welfare violations.
Microsoft has offered Sony a 10-year contract to make each new Call of Duty release available on PlayStation the same day it comes to Xbox.
Cryptocurrency broker Genesis and its parent DCG owe customers of crypto exchange Gemini $900-million, the FT reported.
Apple’s iPhone 14 generation may fall 16 million units shy of expectations this year.
