186 South Africa’s draft national AI policy is not the first hallucination-fuelled blunder of its kind – and it won’t be the last. But it does offer the department of communications &…
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State broadband merger limps into a second decade
180 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT The merger between state-owned signal distributor Sentech and Broadband Infraco (BBI) – the ailing fibre wholesaler meant to serve as South Africa’s “carrier of carriers”…
New DStv owner Canal+ confirms JSE listing date
185 Canal+, the global media and entertainment group that took control of MultiChoice last year, has confirmed it will conduct a secondary listing on the JSE on 3 June, becoming the first…
Pivotal week for US tech stocks
175 Big Tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars over three years to power the AI. But investors still want one answer: will all this spending pay off? Quarterly results from…
AI governance: the key to growth for SA’s financial institutions
179 Advanced AI is reshaping how financial institutions operate and drive growth. At the same time, South Africa’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF’s) grey list has signalled renewed regulatory…
Turn passion into presence with a .digital domain name
161 The most exciting place to build a brand today is online. But simply having a website is no longer enough. To truly stand out, your digital presence needs to feel intentional,…
Sub-Saharan data centre roll-out slows as smaller players falter
214 Sub-Saharan Africa’s data centre roll-out is slowing materially and consolidation is intensifying, according to the latest African Interconnection Report from researcher Balancing Act, commissioned by Wiocc Group. The number of planned…
Taylor Swift trademarks her voice to fight AI fakes
168 US singer Taylor Swift. Daniel Cole/Reuters Pop superstar Taylor Swift has filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an…
Worries over OpenAI’s growth as Anthropic gains ground
171 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI has fallen short of its goals for new users and revenue in recent months, sparking concern among some company leaders over whether it can…
Greg Brockman’s diary takes centre stage in Musk vs OpenAI
187 The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading AI firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary. “This is…