261 An LG Cloid robot stands on stage during an LG Electronics news conference at CES 2026. Steve Marcus/Reuters Just four years after the launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot that brought artificial…
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Silicon batteries are about to upend smartphone battery life
283 Oppo’s new Find X9 Pro has a 7 500mAh silicon-carbon battery Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s crust after oxygen and its uses in the technology sector are…
Meet the woman who is the highest paid CEO in government
261 The highest-paid SOE CEO is the woman responsible for securing and managing investment to fund major infrastructure and development. South Africa has over 100 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that were established with…
Owning the right data is the new competitive moat in AI
246 Think about the last time you got hooked on a Netflix series. That instant connection wasn’t random; it was the result of years of data analysis. Netflix understands what you watch,…
Major overhaul coming to Gmail
284 Google is rolling out a new wave of artificial intelligence features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into what it has described as a more proactive “inbox assistant” as…
Calls for Sanral tender awards to be independently investigated
279 Outa says too many concerning decisions have been taken by the roads agency and if investigators scratch they will find ‘a lot more irregularities’ than Sanral wants to admit The Organisation…
Telecoms firms lose bid to rein in US tech giants
270 Google, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon will not face heavy-handed regulations in Europe’s digital rule overhaul despite calls from telecommunications companies, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on…
No go for Eskom-Nersa R54bn secret settlement
322Amount ‘little more than a thumbsuck’, court finds. The controversial R54 billion settlement reached in secret in July between Eskom and the energy regulator Nersa, which consumers would have had to pay…
Economic trends expected in 2026: Less cooperation, more distrust?
274 After an economic year that few could have predicted, we asked two economists to look into their crystal ball to see the economic trends we can expect this year. The global…
Absa PMI for December signals manufacturing still under pressure
285While economists do not expect manufacturing to pick up soon, they point out that pricing is at least positive. The Absa PMI for December signals that manufacturing is still under pressure as…