158 Telecommunications infrastructure theft and power outages continue to hold back connectivity in South Africa, with the cost burden on mobile and fibre operators more than doubling in a year. According to…
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Cape Town start-up powers six-month Netflix production with the sun
165 Cinergy’s CineRay mobile solar PV system powering production for season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece A Cape Town start-up has powered an entire Netflix production base camp on the sun for…
Donovan Marsh on AI and the future of filmmaking
158 Award-winning South African film director Donovan Marsh has pivoted to artificial intelligence filmmaking and believes generative AI tools could fundamentally reshape how movies are made – and who gets to make…
R230-million in the bag for Endeavor’s third Harvest Fund
224 Endeavor South Africa CEO Alison Collier Endeavor South Africa has announced the final close of its Harvest Fund III at R230-million, bringing together institutional investors and founder capital to back later-stage…
Maidar Secure, Strike48 bring agentic AI to the SOC
163 Maidar Secure, a provider of managed security services and security operations centre (SOC) solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Strike48, developer of what it describes as the industry’s only truly…
Vodacom Business moves to crack the SME tech gap
195 Everyone agrees that small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the South African economy. But the reality on the ground tells a different story – too many small businesses are…
OpenAI takes the fight to Elon Musk
144 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters OpenAI has urged the California and Delaware attorneys-general in the US to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates’ “improper and anticompetitive behavior” ahead of a trial…
Cabinet approves draft AI policy for public comment
187 Cabinet has approved the publication of South Africa’s draft national AI policy for public comment, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said. Ntshavheni said on Thursday during a press conference that…
Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa’s pay-TV collapse
183 The number of pay-TV subscribers in South Africa fell below seven million for the first time in at least five years, dropping 9.6% from 7.4 million to 6.7 million in the…
How agentic AI is reshaping banking in South Africa
308 The author, Absa’s Lindelani Ramukumba Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative AI were barely on the public radar. Yet the technology has already evolved into its…