144 Cape Town-based messaging platform Turn.io is betting that voice AI can do for the world’s 739 million non-literate adults what text-based digital services have failed to: deliver healthcare to a phone…
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The AI policy that AI broke
130 South Africa’s draft national AI policy is not the first hallucination-fuelled blunder of its kind – and it won’t be the last. But it does offer the department of communications &…
State broadband merger limps into a second decade
124 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT The merger between state-owned signal distributor Sentech and Broadband Infraco (BBI) – the ailing fibre wholesaler meant to serve as South Africa’s “carrier of carriers”…
New DStv owner Canal+ confirms JSE listing date
117 Canal+, the global media and entertainment group that took control of MultiChoice last year, has confirmed it will conduct a secondary listing on the JSE on 3 June, becoming the first…
Pivotal week for US tech stocks
120 Big Tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars over three years to power the AI. But investors still want one answer: will all this spending pay off? Quarterly results from…
AI governance: the key to growth for SA’s financial institutions
131 Advanced AI is reshaping how financial institutions operate and drive growth. At the same time, South Africa’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF’s) grey list has signalled renewed regulatory…
Turn passion into presence with a .digital domain name
125 The most exciting place to build a brand today is online. But simply having a website is no longer enough. To truly stand out, your digital presence needs to feel intentional,…
Sub-Saharan data centre roll-out slows as smaller players falter
134 Sub-Saharan Africa’s data centre roll-out is slowing materially and consolidation is intensifying, according to the latest African Interconnection Report from researcher Balancing Act, commissioned by Wiocc Group. The number of planned…
Taylor Swift trademarks her voice to fight AI fakes
121 US singer Taylor Swift. Daniel Cole/Reuters Pop superstar Taylor Swift has filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an…
Worries over OpenAI’s growth as Anthropic gains ground
131 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Shelby Tauber/Reuters OpenAI has fallen short of its goals for new users and revenue in recent months, sparking concern among some company leaders over whether it can…