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Datatec shareholders took two-thirds of a R7.05-billion special dividend in new shares instead of cash.
A researcher says the agents worked from start to finish without any human supervision at all.
A previously committed amount of R3.8-billion for modernisation and for creditors still owed money was never released.
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Early land-clearing work has begun on what Elon Musk has claimed will be the biggest building on Earth, to build advanced chips.
Standard Bank Group’s banking IT costs grew just 2%, but cloud spending surged 37% as amortisation fell away.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s latest model updates have left Google playing catch-up in frontier AI.
South Africa’s biggest data centre operator expects renewables to cover more than half its consumption by the end of 2027.
Delivery app Sixty60 turned over R25.5-billion, adding R6.6-billion of the group’s R18.1-billion in new sales.
Sixty60’s Pixie has learnt to hold a conversation – the one thing Pick n Pay’s Penny could do that it could not.
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Standard Chartered has raised its year-end target for ether to $7 500 from $4 000.
Elon Musk has accused Apple of breaching antitrust regulations in managing the App Store rankings.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 has landed to a split verdict that has dulled the “seminal” launch moment.
China wants the US to ease export controls on chips critical for artificial intelligence as part of a trade deal.
With the LHC reaching the end of its useful life around 2040, Cern is planning for a massive successor.
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