146 Dado Ruvic/Reuters ChatGPT maker OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, joining rival Anthropic in a push towards the stock market as investors seek exposure to the AI…
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Absa goes quiet on its MVNO plans
157 Absa managing executive Nick Nkosi Eight months after telling TechCentral it was readying the launch of a mobile virtual network operator, Absa is giving very little away about how those plans…
Watts & Wheels S1E5: ‘A Bentley of the bush and a car that swims’
148 After a few months away, Watts & Wheels returns for the fifth episode of season 1, with William Kelly in studio and Duncan McLeod dialling in from the Southern Cape. Watch…
TechCentral appoints Dr Fanie van Rooyen as deputy editor
164 Fanie van Rooyen TechCentral has appointed Dr Fanie van Rooyen as its deputy editor, strengthening the leading technology publication’s newsroom as it deepens its coverage of South Africa’s technology, telecommunications and…
How AI agents could rewrite the rules of South African banking
178 AI agents are already initiating financial transactions on behalf of people, and South African banks were not built for that. That was the central warning at Nedbank’s Innovation Day in Johannesburg…
Meta declares war on Israeli spyware firm
183 Meta Platforms said on Monday it is filing a federal court contempt order against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp…
South Africa’s leap to modern Wi-Fi has barely begun
179 South Africa is the only country on the African continent registering any meaningful use of the latest 6GHz Wi-Fi spectrum – and even its leading position barely shows up on the…
End of the line for the green ID book in South Africa
175 President Cyril Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed South Africa’s digital identity overhaul at the centre of government’s crackdown on illegal migration, committing to set a date after which the green…
The city that wowed the world in 2010 is now bankrupt
184 Johannesburg As the World Cup kicks off this week in North America, I am reminded of our hosting of the event in 2010. The first match will again be South Africa…
Apple plays AI catch-up as Siri gets a long-awaited reboot
195 When Apple holds its developer conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters on Monday, the big draw will be a widely expected overhaul to Siri, the AI assistant the iPhone maker two…