404 Bank was told it needs to be cross-examined on its accounting and other defects in case against customer FirstRand Bank’s attempt to repossess the home of customer Jan Dry at the…
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Donovan Marsh on AI and the future of filmmaking
320 Award-winning South African film director Donovan Marsh has pivoted to artificial intelligence filmmaking and believes generative AI tools could fundamentally reshape how movies are made – and who gets to make…
R230-million in the bag for Endeavor’s third Harvest Fund
466 Endeavor South Africa CEO Alison Collier Endeavor South Africa has announced the final close of its Harvest Fund III at R230-million, bringing together institutional investors and founder capital to back later-stage…
Maidar Secure, Strike48 bring agentic AI to the SOC
351 Maidar Secure, a provider of managed security services and security operations centre (SOC) solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Strike48, developer of what it describes as the industry’s only truly…
Vodacom Business moves to crack the SME tech gap
441 Everyone agrees that small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the South African economy. But the reality on the ground tells a different story – too many small businesses are…
OpenAI takes the fight to Elon Musk
328 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters OpenAI has urged the California and Delaware attorneys-general in the US to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates’ “improper and anticompetitive behavior” ahead of a trial…
Cabinet approves draft AI policy for public comment
492 Cabinet has approved the publication of South Africa’s draft national AI policy for public comment, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said. Ntshavheni said on Thursday during a press conference that…
Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa’s pay-TV collapse
419 The number of pay-TV subscribers in South Africa fell below seven million for the first time in at least five years, dropping 9.6% from 7.4 million to 6.7 million in the…
How agentic AI is reshaping banking in South Africa
711 The author, Absa’s Lindelani Ramukumba Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative AI were barely on the public radar. Yet the technology has already evolved into its…
South Africa’s 5G boom is bypassing rural areas: Icasa
804 South Africa’s 5G population coverage surged from 46.6% to 58% in a single year, the biggest network coverage jump recorded in communications regulator Icasa’s latest State of the ICT Sector report…