Bolt’s electric category is live in Johannesburg, with a Santaco-affiliated association owning the BYD fleet.
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Enoch Godongwana says the draft cross-border rules need “a different approach” and a second version is coming.
Discovery has moved cybercrime to the top of its risk register, warning frontier AI models are speeding up attacks.
Diesel’s levy drops by R3/l and petrol’s by R1.50/l from 4 November, at a cost of R10-billion in tax revenue.
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New MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman wants R4-billion to R6-billion in savings by 2029 via a “structural reset”.
MTN Group’s Ambition 2030 strategic plan targets tripled fibre, fintech up 13-fold and a doubling of data usage.
Retail investors are dumping bitcoin to fund the SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI listings, leaving crypto in the doldrums.
Altron subsidiary Netstar wants to use anonymised movement data from 2.2 million vehicles to support various industries.
Visa is enrolling local banks for autonomous AI payments, but most consumers still don’t trust AI agents with their money.
TechCentral has an opening for on-site role for a meticulous sub-editor who lives and breathes good journalism.
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OpenAI accused Elon Musk of harassment in a legal fight that’s unfolding as it weighs a shift to a for-profit model.
The EU has voted to impose tariffs as high as 45% on electric vehicles from China in a move set to increase trade tensions.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has raised $6.6-billion from investors, including Microsoft and Nvidia.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Elon Musk’s views on Britain are out of sync with other major investors.
