xAI raises $6bn in funding
Elon Musk’s xAI has closed its Series C funding round of $6-billion with participation from key investors including A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity...
Sales suffer during a transformation
According to a survey by Gartner, only 11% of sales organisations have been able to drive commercial success while executing a transformation. Gartner surveyed 234 heads of sales and senior sales leaders in May through June 2024 to identify productivity levers that...
Telkom reports stronger performance, better results
Telkom has reported stronger operational performance and improved financial results for the 2024 financial year, with group revenue up 1,6% to R43 230-million. Mobile service revenue is up 6,8% to R19 026-million, with more than 20-million subscribers. Openserve's...
IBM adds GenAI to personalise Wimbledon player stories
IBM and The All England Lawn Tennis Club has a new feature for the Wimbledon digital experience that will leverage match data with generative AI (GenAI) from IBM's AI and data platform, watsonx, to keep fans updated on the world's leading players as they advance...
Acer sets up local monitor production
Acer has started producing monitors in South Africa as part of its localisation strategy. The new monitor production programme aims to significantly contribute to job creation in South Africa's technology sector. Additionally, the company recognises that providing...
Gen Z set to transform the workplace
Gen Z will make up 27% of the workforce by 2025, bringing with them a unique set of talents and insights. They are digital natives who have never known a time without the internet. They are strident regarding ethics (and they want their employer to be, too), and while...
How wind energy contributes to energy security
Wind energy continues to lead the energy transition from a fossil-fuel-based economy to a low-carbon renewable energy future in South Africa, with an installed capacity of 3442MW and generating more than 11 000 GWh annually through 34 operational wind farms. With...
Intel Gaudi enables lower-cost AI compute and GenAI
MLCommons' results of its industry AI performance benchmark, MLPerf Training v4.0, demonstrate the choice that Intel Gaudi 2 AI accelerators give enterprises and customers. Community-based software simplifies generative AI (GenAI) development and industry-standard...
Nvidia MLPerf training results demonstrate performance, elasticity
The full-stack Nvidia accelerated computing platform has demonstrated high performance in the latest MLPerf Training v4.0 benchmarks. Nvidia more than tripled the performance on the large language model (LLM) benchmark, based on GPT-3 175B, compared to the...
Young South Africans are buying fewer houses
South Africans under the age of 35 years old are buying fewer houses than before - but they are paying more for them. Data from Lightstone shows that the decline in volumes is proportionately sharper than the overall fall in property purchases over the last six years....
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Enjoy the cloud but beware the thunderstorm
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Best practices for social media security and privacy
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Digital transformation of education holds mixed implications for developing countries
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The high walls of data security
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Nigeria’s Military Pensions Board deploys chatbot over WhatsApp
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Silicon Cape, Huawei Cloud join forces to empower SA startups
Silicon Cape has partnered with Huawei Cloud to provide entrepreneurs and startups with a platform to grow their innovative ideas. This union comes at a time when South Africa is opening its gates to allow for economic growth following two years of the Covid19...
IoT asset tracking for farming gains momentum
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