85 Competition Commission deputy commissioner Hardin Ratshisusu Artificial intelligence poses a challenge for competition regulators, which must balance a desire for innovation and economic growth with the possibility that monopolistic, AI-driven markets…
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Apple’s Liquid Glass era has begun
49 Apple’s big software refresh for 2025 is now live: iOS 26, macOS Tahoe (also called macOS 26), iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26 and visionOS all arrived on Monday, offering a…
17% of SA tenants behind on rent, with many more heading toward debt
48 ‘Higher-risk applicants are falling deeper into debt, and lower-risk applicants are actually in a better financial position than they were last year.’ Most South Africans are in danger, as most of…
The rise and fall of operating systems – a 45-year digital timelapse
62 What would it look like to compress more than four decades of technological upheaval into a few minutes of animated bars jostling for dominance? At first glance, these are just numbers…
Microsoft, OpenAI strike provisional deal to reshape AI partnership
68 Microsoft and OpenAI said on Thursday they have signed a non-binding deal for new relationship terms that would allow OpenAI to proceed to restructure itself into a for-profit company, marking a…
PrimeXBT: Empowered trading begins with trust
115 In South Africa’s fast-growing retail trading market, trust has become the ultimate differentiator. Traders have more platforms to choose from than ever before, but choice alone doesn’t guarantee confidence. The empowered…
consumers drawing as much and as often as they can
109 Pension fund members are using their withdrawals under the two-pot retirement system to survive because they are under financial stress. Just over a year since the two-pot retirement system was implemented…
Manufacturing and mining production added to GDP, but no reason for optimism
96 When the GDP figures for the second quarter were announced on Tuesday, it seemed that mining and manufacturing added to the increase. Manufacturing and mining production were a mixed bag heading…
Online shopping boom in South Africa
134 Online retail now makes up nearly 10% of total retail sales in South Africa, and World Wide Worx has forecast the figure will breach that mark for the first time ever…
Momentum flips switch on massive solar projects
119 Momentum Group has switched on two solar energy implementations, one at its Centurion head office in Gauteng and the other at its Parc du Cap regional office in the Western Cape….