359 The author, Zero Carbon Charge founder Joubert Roux Driving forward while staring into the rearview mirror is not only reckless, it is a surefire way to crash. Yet this is exactly…
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South African start-up using AI to make video content more accessible
509 Nick Argyros, chief operating officer, and Francois Schreuder, CEO, Phonetik AI Phonetik AI, a South African start-up building large language models that create subtitles, closed captions and narration, is helping the…
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Apple, OpenAI accused by Musk of rigging AI market
399 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, has sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence. Apple and OpenAI…
Trump threatens global tariff war over digital taxes
411 Donald Trump. Image: Gage Skidmore US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries that have digital taxes with “subsequent additional tariffs” on their goods if those nations do not remove such…
Consumers may cough up billions more, after Nersa’s closed-door Eskom deal
322A pricing expert estimates the electricity tariff increase could rise as much as 25.24%. All indications are that the energy regulator Nersa has once again entered a settlement with Eskom regarding its…
First step for rail reform but it needs swift implementation
465 The new operators will move about 20 million tonnes more annually from 2026/27 and unlock R100 billion in rolling stock investments. Rail reform took a big step forward last week when…
State capitalism creeps into corporate America
507 US President Donald Trump said he wants to make more investments in healthy US companies on Monday. Whether corporate America is on board is another story. The White House announced a…
South Africa’s fibre roll-out stalled while regulators shuffled paper
509 Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare South Africa’s competition authorities need to improve the speed at which they make decisions to limit the harm that drawn-out regulatory processes have on businesses, their associated…
BHF heads for ConCourt to review passing of NHI Bill in parliament
469 The BHF believes the NHI Act is unconstitutional because it didn’t have meaningful public participation The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) is heading for the Constitutional Court to ask that it…