Telkom has guided to a 45-55% earnings jump when it reports this week, but base effects complicate the picture.
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A worsening memory chip shortage, deepened by the Iran war, is driving a record decline in smartphone shipments.
Nvidia’s ARM-based “superchip” takes Nvidia into Qualcomm, Intel and AMD’s territory at the premium end.
The aggressive pricing push shows Dell competing across every tier of a squeezed consumer PC market.
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Foreign providers sell Rica avoidance as an eSim feature, exposing a gap in South Africa’s Sim-registration rules.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX now operates 75% of all manoeuvrable satellites in orbit and is targeting 10 000 launches a year.
FindHomes wants to replace gut-feel property decisions with deeds data, yield forecasts and a WhatsApp AI agent.
Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme.
South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
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Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has reignited fears that legacy software is dangerously exposed to disruption.
Claude maker Anthropic is exploring custom chip design as AI demand outstrips the supply of available hardware.
DeepSeek has reportedly rewritten its code to run on Huawei chips and shut US suppliers out of its next flagship model.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy satellite group Globalstar as it moves to challenge SpaceX’s Starlink.
