195 South Africa’s motoring sector is hitting an inflection point. While full electric vehicles dominate headlines, alternative powertrain technologies are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to shifting consumer behaviour on…
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Everyone wants a piece of SpaceX
144 SpaceX has drawn investor demand of about US$150-billion for its IPO, about double the $75-billion it is seeking to raise, according to two people familiar with the matter. An oversubscription rate…
OpenAI plans ChatGPT ‘super app’
139 OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT overhaul yet, aiming to turn it into a “super app” with coding tools and AI agents to boost revenue ahead of a potential stock market…
Surplus groceries, straight from the browser
162 Still Good co-founders Lorenzo Parisi and Nabeel Gool A South African start-up is selling near-expiry groceries at up to 65% off through a web app built specifically around the realities of…
Cabinet hands the Post Office a board, but not a bailout
140 Cabinet has approved a new board for the South African Post Office, removing a key procedural hurdle to the troubled entity applying to exit business rescue – but handing the incoming…
Bash powers TFG online sales as group profit tumbles
166 The Foschini Group’s online business was one of the few bright spots in a bruising financial year, with its Bash platform driving a 49.2% surge in e-commerce sales across its South…
The real hurdle for South Africa’s AI voicebots isn’t the AI
149 In the world of AI voice technology, the difference between a satisfied customer and a frustrated hang-up is measured in milliseconds. While the global hype focuses on the brilliance of large…
The real cloud challenge isn’t adoption – it’s doing it well
150 Joel Chacko, executive head of cloud services at Vodacom Business South African organisations have largely embraced cloud computing, but industry experts argue that the real challenge is no longer whether to…
In South Africa, the bundle is the new battleground
159 The most important thing Amazon launched in South Africa this week was not Prime. It was the bundle. When Amazon switched on Prime locally on Tuesday, the obvious headline was the…
What happens when AI no longer needs us to improve
144 Anthropic has warned that frontier AI developers should establish a coordinated, verifiable way to slow down or temporarily pause development if advanced systems begin improving themselves faster than society can manage…
