Dis-Chem doubled spending on its X, bigly labs unit as headline earnings per share fell 12.8%.
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AI tools that reverse engineer paid programs are producing free clones of Office, Photoshop and other software.
Experts blame a compromised engineer’s laptop for the Binance breach, but warn that AI is raising the risk for everyone.
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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.
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Volvo will use a single software system backed by powerful chips from Nvidia for all future models.
BMW, working in partnership with Toyota, plans to start selling hydrogen-powered vehicles within four years.
Christophe Fouquet, speaking in New York, said he expects push-back against US-led restrictions to grow.
SpaceX has cautioned employees not to travel to Brazil amid an escalating feud between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge.
