68 Visa’s Lineshree Moodley South Africa’s consumers have spent the past few years ditching cash for taps, virtual cards and even payment rings. The country’s businesses, by and large, have not. That…
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OpenAI and Broadcom build a chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
70 Broadcom CEO Hock Tan OpenAI has showed off the company’s first custom AI chip, which it designed with Broadcom, as it seeks to speed its development of its infrastructure. AI labs…
Absa’s silence and the banking MVNO move no one has tried
74 South Africa has four banking MVNOs (Capitec Connect, FNB Connect, Standard Bank Connect and Nedbank Connect), and they’re all essentially running the exact same playbook. The logic is simple enough: use…
GTA 6 retail price locked in
75 Take-Two Interactive Software has priced its highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI at US$79.99 (R1 330 at the time of publication) and will launch the game on 19 November, the company said…
Investec deploying AI tools to every employee
65 Lyndon Subroyen, global head of digital and technology at Investec Investec has switched on Microsoft Copilot for all 8 000 of its employees, describing the move as the first full-workforce deployment…
Everyday wins worth celebrating in today’s economy
63 Picture: iStock/Rockaa With rising living costs, high interest rates and ongoing financial pressure, many South Africans are feeling the squeeze. According to the World Bank Group, a vast majority of South…
Anthropic puts Claude inside Slack as a tagable co-worker
75 Anthropic has launched an AI agent inside Salesforce’s Slack app that can work alongside employees in group chats, deepening its push into the enterprise market that has emerged as a key…
The spaza is not informal
80 My father-in-law ran a shop in the village of Mpoza, Mount Frere. He is gone now. The shop is still there, still open, still serving Mpoza, because the community still needs…
How to negotiate a salary increase with confidence
97 PICTURE: PEXELS/ NEGOTIATING Asking for a raise can feel intimidating, but approaching the conversation with preparation and confidence can increase your chances of success. Salary negotiations are a normal part of…
Have your say on the bill that could reshape SA telecoms
82 Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies has invited written submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, opening the public phase of a legislative process that could reshape how spectrum,…