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Nvidia releases open dataset, models for multilingual speech AI
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Africa sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks
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Hout Bay’s mussels reveal hidden pollution crisis
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Sports fans want AI to serve up dynamic digital content
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AI helps design superdrugs to kill drug-resistant bacteria
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SA’s growing cyber risk can’t be managed by firewalls alone
Recent cyberattacks on major airlines, mining companies, and government departments have exposed just how vulnerable even South Africa’s most established institutions are and reinforces the reality that cybercrime is no longer simply a hypothetical risk....
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