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Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai has warned of a potential bubble forming in data center construction, arguing that the pace of that buildout may outstrip initial demand for AI services. From a report: A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate, the billionaire executive and financier said. Many of those...
World Liberty Financial, the crypto business created by President Trump and his sons, unveiled a cryptocurrency called a stablecoin, furthering his ties to an industry his administration regulates.
City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava has issued a stern warning to the utility’s employees and contractors.
Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of artificial intelligence chips, brought the robots together as part of its annual developer conference.
Experts saying using even such a privacy-focussed platform for national security matters is very unusual.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes companies will eventually need fewer software engineers as AI continues to transform programming. “Each software engineer will just do much, much more for a while. And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers,” Altman told Stratechery. AI now handles over 50% of code authorship in many companies, Altman estimated, a significant shift...
Mr D has provided details surrounding a video showing a violent altercation between a few of its delivery drivers and two unknown individuals.
Infinite Reality, a 3D technology company, has acquired Napster for $207 million, the companies announced Tuesday. The deal aims to transform the once-notorious music sharing service into a metaverse platform. Napster, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, was the first major peer-to-peer file-sharing application before legal battles forced its closure in 2001. Since 2016, it has...
The Partners Against Piracy campaign has been instrumental in educating the public, consumers, and businesses about the multifaceted dangers of content piracy.
BYD Energy Storage, a division of BYD Co. Ltd., a global leader in integrated renewable energy solutions, has unveiled its latest innovation -theBYD Battery-Box LV5.0+ – at Solar & Storage Live Africa in Johannesburg. This cutting-edge residential energy storage system expands BYD’s award-winning Battery-Box series, offering enhanced performance, higher power output, and extended warranty...
Plus: Nvidia bets on AI-powered robots, Musk juggles Tesla and politics, and AI fiction takes over Instagram
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week’s edition: 23andMe files for bankruptcy, Nvidia forecasts a fusion of AI and robotics, and AI enables the creation of fiction at the pace of social media.
Genetic testing firm 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The CEO and co-founder...
Preferental founder and CEO Ross Fitzcharles explains the platform’s AI-powered tenant screening features.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first time, demonstrated a huge jump in a computer’s ability to recognize images. Thursday, the Computer History Museum (CHM), in collaboration with...
Tech CEO accused of aiming to privatize space and satellite operations as federal agencies reportedly seek contracts
Elon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees...
Mr. Han was co-chief executive and oversaw the company’s consumer electronics business since 2021.
The addition of Kusile Power Station’s final generation unit comes nearly eight years after the project was supposed to be completed.
Lenovo finally ditches the iconic little red nubbin on this ThinkPad, which raises the question: Is it still a ThinkPad?
The Gauteng Department of e-Government installs additional CCTV cameras in townships, informal settlements and hostels.
Wearable technology is taking centre stage in Discovery Health’s move towards AI-powered health care.
Cassava Technologies has tapped Nvidia to build Africa’s first artificial intelligence “factory”.
In the six months to December 2024, Seacom’s contribution to Remgro’s headline earnings amounted to R2 million, down from R32 million the previous year.