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Nvidia’s H200 exports to China could reshape AI investment
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Job applicants don’t trust AI evaluations
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Modest growth for African passenger air travel
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Latin American banking trojan in expansion mode
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SA’s procurement pay lags global average
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Agentic AI set to change how we work
Organisations will soon have AI colleagues working alongside human employees in the workplace, fundamentally changing the future of work. Prosus explores this transformative shift in a new research report, ‘The Rise of the Agentic Workforce: How Autonomous AI Agents...
End users will spend $213bn on information security this year
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European public cloud spending holds up to tariffs
According to the Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC), public cloud services spending in Europe will total $229-billion in 2025 and will reach $452-billion by 2029, recording a five-year...
Webb telescope traces the many shapes of nebulae
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Vodacom Business, HPE GreenLake aim to accelerate hybrid cloud transformation
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Vertiv more than doubles manufacturing capacity after acquisition
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Shaping the future of SA education
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