Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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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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Capitec Connect will now offer free on-net calls and consumer financing for smartphones.
Eskom is working with Nersa to develop a framework to monetise a daytime surplus created by the boom in rooftop solar.
South Africa’s largest retail bank by client numbers says the roll-out has moved well past the experimental phase.
A sluggish renewables roll-out and a looming 2029 supply gap may complicate the timing of Eskom’s plant closures.
Capitec Connect, a Cell C-hosted MVNO, now has 1.5 million active users and is eyeing home broadband services next.
Google is betting the company’s AI monetisation strategy on digital assistants that can plan, decide and act autonomously.
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OpenAI will begin showing ads to all users of the free and Go versions of ChatGPT in the US in the coming weeks.
A mystery AI model that fuelled DeepSeek speculation is revealed to be from smartphone giant Xiaomi.
A powerful AI model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation.
Samsung has reportedly pulled the plug on its trifold phone after just three months, citing unsustainable production costs.
Internet shutdowns are increasing dramatically across the Africa continent – a new book explains why.
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