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Companies rein in AI spending as running costs mount

Regulator hits FNB with R1-million Popia fine

Governing AI in African markets: from principles to practice

Ethiopia leaves South Africa in the dust on electric vehicles

Telviva earns ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security

The unregulated online market betting on South Africa’s next mayors

Microsoft offers voluntary severance to 60 000 staff as AI bill mounts

The start-up turning township addresses into alternative credit data

Anthropic’s IPO filing lays bare the cost of the AI race

SA banks warn customers not to share logins with AI agents

TCS+ | Vox on AI, data rules and omnichannel communication for SMEs

Vodacom’s summer deals undercut its own smartphone data prices by two-thirds

MTN and Huawei claim industry first in microwave spectrum reuse

Former Icasa chairman Paris Mashile has died

Hisense marks 30 years in SA with R500 000 in rewards vouchers

Blu Label starts building its first power plant

Paratus connects Tanzania to Africa and beyond with new Dar es Salaam PoP

Pick n Pay’s online sales jump while store sales barely grow

Rand Mutual Assurance probes alleged theft of 1.68 million claim records

Global PHP scramble reaches the Union Buildings

The roof that powers two malls and an office park

TCS | The Cape Town firm quietly connecting Eskom, Pep and 6 000 ATMs

Openserve, Huawei test fibre-ready state housing in KZN

Stop turning CEOs into content creators

Anthropic’s IPO stands alone

Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo goes on sale in South Africa

South Africa’s digital ID could change how you pay

AI’s boardroom honeymoon is over

4Sight revenue jumps 29%, but software resale squeezes margins

Rand stablecoin issuers welcome treasury’s crypto rethink

Malatsi asks Icasa to rewrite network-sharing rules

TCS+ | Boards are underestimating the cost of a cyberattack, says Arctic Wolf

DStv’s South African revenue keeps sliding

Why investors are souring on Netflix

PHP flaws trigger global scramble as hackers pounce

Innovex 2026: taking opportunity to where potential lives

Discovery ranks cybercrime as its top risk, citing frontier AI

Godongwana cuts fuel levy again, with diesel getting the bigger break

Bolt EVs hit Sandton and the OR Tambo airport run

Treasury puts R150-million behind MyMzansi government app

Treasury backs down on crypto rules after ‘thousands’ of comments

Critical PHP vulnerabilities put a large part of the web at risk

Vodacom pitches a lighter AI rulebook as Pretoria redraws its policy

Disney opens its vault to Netflix in South Africa

Newspapers hit with import duty to save South Africa’s last newsprint machine

Before South Africa licenses Starlink, it should look at Ukraine

SpaceX could swallow Tesla

Your AI isn’t as smart as it sounds

Reserve Bank’s ATM plan meets a wall of polite silence

Why a robotaxi would struggle to make money in Sandton

How to choose a .co.za domain without paying more later

Most of Datatec’s R7-billion payout was taken in shares, not cash

This is what an AI-run hacking spree looks like

AI music is here and the South African rulebook is blank

SA start-up wants to put a padlock on your phone calls

Celebrating South Africa’s rising stars: the leaders shaping what comes next

Post Office wants R2.2-billion from government as it braces for another loss

A software revolution is heading for South African driveways

Ispa asks if government still cares about the cost to communicate

Banks to lose their grip on South Africa’s payments system

The R77 000 iPhone has arrived in South Africa

South Africa’s ATM network faces its biggest overhaul in decades

Africa’s mobile operators pay more for less spectrum, GSMA says

Netflix is losing the battle for your screen time

Safaricom control to stay with Vodacom until appeal

Why South Africa is turning its back on ‘screwdriver’ car plants

Paratus Zambia delivers Starlink to thousands of children in Family Legacy schools

Why cybersecurity is now a national security issue for South Africa

Armoured cars and cyber cover: the new executive perks in South Africa

Your car’s ADAS may be seeing skew

Data sovereignty in South Africa is not an address

OpenAI turns the tables on Apple in trade secrets fight

South Africa’s midday power glut is a hidden risk for wheeling deals

Ampath finds no evidence that test results were taken in breach

eMedia CEO breaks silence on eNCA retrenchments

MIP attackers rank fourth on ransomware leak sites, says Microsoft

iOCO CEO Rhys Summerton’s naartjie theory of share buybacks

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is finally here

AI is only as good as your asset data