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Anthropic projects revenue of up to $200-billion by 2028, against a $47-billion run rate today, as it prepares for a mega-listing.
Silver Lake is said to be in talks to acquire Workday in a deal that would rank among the largest software buyouts in history.
Icasa has withdrawn the allegation three days after a councillor raised it in parliament, conceding it had done no investigation.
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UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Institute wants to scale commercially, with a suborbital flight targeted for 2028.
Polling finds 58% of registered voters would exempt US companies from B-BBEE in exchange for investment and jobs.
Early land-clearing work has begun on what Elon Musk has claimed will be the biggest building on Earth, to build advanced chips.
Standard Bank Group’s banking IT costs grew just 2%, but cloud spending surged 37% as amortisation fell away.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s latest model updates have left Google playing catch-up in frontier AI.
South Africa’s biggest data centre operator expects renewables to cover more than half its consumption by the end of 2027.
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Ukrainian intelligence says Moscow’s Rassvet satellite network is scaling much faster than Western analysts had anticipated.
The safety feature reaches South Africa before year-end amid lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over AI chatbots.
The company suffered a steeper one-day fall than during the 1987 Black Monday crash.
OpenAI will reportedly launch a portable, screen-free smart speaker as its first consumer hardware product.
Frontier labs have backed Demis Hassabis’s call for a self-regulator, but critics warn it hands Washington the off-switch.
Iran is choking the world’s oil artery. The internet has its own Hormuzes, a new report has warned.

































