174 South African fibre network operator Zoom Fibre has officially entered the internet service provider market with the launch of Get Flex ISP, a move aimed at addressing long-standing customer experience challenges…
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Sam Altman plays down AI ‘jobs apocalypse’ fears
142 OpenAI CEO SSam Altman. Kylie Cooper/Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the…
Reunert’s iqbusiness sets sights on tech consolidation
147 Rob Godlonton Reunert subsidiary iqbusiness is actively evaluating further technology-sector acquisitions following last week’s Silversoft deal, with CEO Rob Godlonton signalling an “active pipeline” targeting AI, cybersecurity, cloud, operational technology and…
Hallucination-hit AI policy delayed to January 2027
155 A revised draft of South Africa’s national policy on AI will only be released for public comment in January 2027, nine months after the original was withdrawn for containing fictitious and…
Home affairs goes ghost-hunting on state payrolls
138 Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber The department of home affairs has built a real-time biometric verification platform for national treasury designed to flush ghost employees out of government payrolls – a…
AI, cybersecurity power standout year for Datatec
156 Datatec Group CEO Jens Montanana Datatec Group has delivered a sharp acceleration in earnings for the year ended 28 February 2026, with the JSE-listed international technology distribution and services group benefiting…
South Africa’s unlikely telecoms giant
160 Pepkor Holdings’ cellular business has pivoted decisively from selling phones to financing them, the JSE-listed retailer’s interim results showed on Tuesday, with its smartphone rental book swelling to R2.6-billion in the…
Luce lit: Ferrari unveils its first electric car
146 Ferrari presented its first fully electric car on Monday, marking a high-stakes shift by the luxury sports car maker as competitors including Porsche and Lamborghini scale back their EV ambitions, citing…
Retro Rabbit / SmarTek21 refines the art and science of product delivery
162 Rouan van der Walt, head of delivery at Retro Rabbit / SmarTek21 Too many development projects fail to deliver the expected value, largely because they are executed in a fragmented way…
Pope urges world to hit brakes on AI
117 Pope Leo XIV. Yara Nardi/Reuters Pope Leo on Monday urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development of AI systems in his first major document, warning that they spread…