209 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday rejected Elon Musk’s claim that he betrayed the ChatGPT maker’s founding mission to serve the public good, and said…
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Canal+ firms up 3 June JSE listing
208 French media and entertainment group Canal+ has formally confirmed it will conduct a secondary listing on the main board of the JSE on Wednesday, 3 June 2026, becoming the first French…
The Up&Up Group on the hidden cost of AI
215 Jason Harrison, chief operating officer of The Up&Up Group Companies large and small are pouring capital into AI projects, chasing the promise of efficiency, speed and scale. But as Jason Harrison,…
Starlink wait set to drag on as Icasa flags legal hurdle
268 Communications regulator Icasa has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the…
Malatsi opens door to ‘some’ partial privatisations of SOEs
170 Communications minister Solly Malatsi Communications minister Solly Malatsi has placed faster, cheaper and more reliable internet at the centre of the department of communications & digital technologies’ agenda for the year…
Naked Insurance launches native app in ChatGPT
180 Naked Insurance CEO Alex Thomson Naked Insurance has launched a native app in ChatGPT that it says can produce a final, binding car insurance quote – a move the Johannesburg-based insurtech…
Don’t miss the Telviva Tech Insights webinar
217 The gap between your business communications stack and your CRM is where your team’s productivity goes to die. In a high-velocity digital environment, siloed channels aren’t just an operational hurdle –…
Don’t miss the Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference
238 The Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference (PADC) returns to the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, on 23-24 June, showcasing the latest in infrastructure, new technologies, expertise and ideas shaping the future…
Herotel becomes South Africa’s largest retail fibre ISP
285 Herotel has become South Africa’s largest retail fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet service provider by connected homes, according to the latest Africa Analysis FTTH Quarter Tracking report. The Stellenbosch-based ISP, which is owned…
Joosub warns of 24 months of pain for phone buyers
232 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has warned that smartphone prices will rise sharply amid the RAM supply crisis, supply-chain restrictions and rising fuel prices. Joosub told TechCentral on Monday that the…