Chinese state media says Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development is really about containing Beijing.
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JSE-listed fintech Optasia’s own full-year target implies second-half revenue could come in well below the first half.
A stronger rand has absorbed almost all of Apple’s US price increase – but only at the cheaper storage tiers.
The AI extinction risk may be real, but the cure on offer looks more like the leading labs building a competitive moat.
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Teraco has completed construction of the first phase of JB4, the latest expansion of its “hyperscale” facility at Bredell.
Japan’s Esoteric has released its first-ever analogue turntable. And the Grandioso T1 has a weight to match its eye-watering price tag.
Pick n Pay will soon allow its consumers to pay for groceries with crypto at 39 stores, and at all stores nationwide within months.
Communications regulator Icasa has sworn in four new councillors to its powerful decision-making council.
Naspers has rubbished an report that it is in talks with a Chinese investment company to sell all its remaining shares in Tencent.
Judging by the damage crypto pumps leave in their wake, what’s happening with dogecoin is a dispiriting sign of things to come.
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Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese technology giant Huawei a role in Britain’s 5G network could threaten a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and America, US vice President Mike Pence has indicated.
Uber Technologies said it will deliver a first-ever quarterly profit by the end of the year, signalling that cost-cutting measures are exceeding even the company’s own recent expectations.
Huawei Technologies has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Verizon Communications following an apparent failure to agree licensing terms for the use of its intellectual property.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network is “learning faster” and “prioritising better” as it achieved US$1-billion in quarterly revenue for the first time.
As parliament this week shines a spotlight on the cost of communications in South Africa, it has emerged that Vodacom’s high-end, all-in-one contract packages are significantly more expensive than similar products at other Vodafone-owned operations around the world. An investigation by
StarSat, the pay-television platform previously known as TopTV, will emerge as a “serious competitor” to MultiChoice, the Naspers subsidiary that owns the dominant DStv service. That’s the word from Peter van den Steen, who is overseeing the business rescue of StarSat parent On
