256 This is a big year for the African data centres industry, with active IT load across the continent set to expand by 66%, far outpacing the global average growth rate. South…
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Inflation spikes higher – and the worst is still to come
169 South Africa’s headline consumer inflation rate accelerated to 4% year on year in April, sharply higher than the previous month’s 3.1% reading, data from the country’s statistics agency showed on Wednesday….
Best payment processing providers in Africa
170 Africa is not one payment market. It is a collection of markets with varying customer behaviors, financial regulations, mobile money ecosystems, banking systems and levels of infrastructure. In some countries, mobile…
Eskom to go to market for 5.2GW of new nuclear within a year
157 Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme that could be launched within 12 months, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The…
South Africa is sleepwalking into another AI policy failure
248 The author, Celeste Labuschagne A pattern is emerging within our schooling system that needs highlighting as South Africa faces its next major technology decision. In coding and robotics, with the best…
The Mythos hacking threat is looking overblown
197 Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in April that Mythos had uncovered…
MTN to turn its African towers into an AI inference grid
228 MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi MTN Group plans to convert its African tower estate into a distributed AI compute fabric, installing open GPU infrastructure at base-station sites so that the…
Disney+ hikes prices in South Africa
259 Disney+ has increased the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa. The Premium plan now costs R179/month, up from R159 previously. That is a 12.6% increase. The change took…
Why online learning is the future of education
198 If you grew up in the 1990s and 2000s, you’ll probably remember sitting down at a specific time to watch your favourite show. You had to quickly run to grab a…
Google launches the biggest reinvention of search in 25 years
155 Google on Tuesday put AI agents directly into its search box and rolled out a faster, cheaper version of its Gemini model, aiming to blunt gains by rivals Anthropic and OpenAI among…
