4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (579+ words) Apple on Wednesday unveiled a foldable called iPhone Duo, introducing the biggest change in years in the company’s flagship product. The US$1 999 starting price for the iPhone Duo means it will could cost north of R50 000 when it is launched in…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (400+ words) Huawei and Xiaomi launched new flagship foldable smartphones on Monday, stepping up competition in China’s premium handset market ahead of Apple’s product launch later this week. Huawei’s new Mate XT2 series, which fold out twice into a tablet-sized screen, features its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (409+ words) Nvidia is investing US$3.5-billion in Taiwan’s MediaTek, the latest deal to widen the American chip maker’s financial ties across the AI industry. This week’s move follows Nvidia’s guarantee of up to $105-billion earlier this month for OpenAI’s Ohio data…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (385+ words) OpenAI has determined that one of its upcoming models is so capable it requires additional safety measures before it can be launched. The model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) South Africans bought markedly fewer smartphones in the first half of 2026 and paid considerably more for the ones they did buy, according to NielsenIQ’s latest State of the Retail Nation analysis. Telecoms is the largest category in the local tech…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (515+ words) NEWORDER has partnered with Lasso Security, a Tel Aviv-based AI security company, to bring agentic AI protection to South Africa. The platform lets NEWORDER run continuous adversarial testing against a client’s AI agents — attacking them the way an outsider would,…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (304+ words) OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a further escalation in the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk. Musk and…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (729+ words) Nvidia’s reported move to acquire Hugging Face for about US$12.9-billion (R207-billion) looks, at first glance, like a strange bet. The target is a 10-year-old start-up with roughly $150-million in annual revenue that was last formally valued at $4.5-billion in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) Pick n Pay has built a shoppable video feed into its asap! delivery app, the second feature launch on the platform in two months as the retailer tries to close ground on Checkers Sixty60. The feature, Pick n Pay Inspire, runs…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (268+ words) Cell C is in discussions with SpaceX’s Starlink and with Amazon Leo about both reselling their satellite broadband products and a possible direct-to-device offering, CEO Jorge Mendes said. Mendes would not give details, saying the talks remain confidential. “We’re in…...