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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Battery-electric sales jumped 96% year on year in the first quarter, yet they remain a sliver of the market.
The deal makes MTN the second major South African operator to lean on the Chinese fintech giant for its super-app ambitions.
Citing privacy and regulation, Apple will not offer Siri AI initially in the Europe or China.
OpenAI’s listing will join SpaceX and Anthropic in a trio of trillion-dollar debuts testing investor appetite.
Banking group Absa won’t confirm a launch date, a network partner or whether the MVNO is even still happening.
Identity, credit scoring and liability all assume a human customer – an assumption agentic AI is breaking.
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Nokia’s mobile networks assets are drawing preliminary interest from suitors including Samsung Electronics.
Hyundai plans to double its line-up of hybrid cars as demand for pure electric vehicles slows.
Temu owner PDD Holdings has become the latest company to surprise investors with a gloomy outlook.
Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that Facebook was “pressured” by the US government to censor content related to Covid-19.
The hold of social media on advertisers is weakening while old-school players in the ad industry are reporting a more upbeat experience.
One of the most common criticisms of cryptocurrency is that it is just a way to get around financial rules and regulations. That’s a feature, not a bug.
