ChatGPT praises dark horse Chinese AI
Sam Altman has welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model.
THURSDAY, 30 JANUARY 2025, 07:24
Sam Altman has welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model.
The company scored 127 out of 130 points on its latest B-BBEE scorecard.
AI is playing an increasingly important role in driving customer and staff engagement by automating routine tasks and enhancing personalisation, says David Meintjes, CEO of Telviva.
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The South African Weather Service has been offline since the weekend after experiencing a cyberattack.
Stellenbosch, South Africa, has been named the country’s surprising up-and-coming technology powerhouse boasting the highest number of tech jobs per capita. With an average of 36 tech-related jobs per 100,000 people, it has surpassed major cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town as a leading destination for tech talent. Midrand followed closely with an average of […]
DeepSeek has claimed its new open-source AI model surpasses Stability AI and OpenAI’s models in benchmarks.
The South African Weather Service has been the target of two cyber attacks, with the second taking down its IT systems.
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JSE-listed retail giant Woolworths revealed a stellar performance for the 26 weeks ending 29 December 2024, with online sales skyrocketing by 37.2%, driven largely by its on-demand service, Woolies Dash, which saw a 49.2% surge. Online sales now make up 6.4% of total Food sales. The retailer’s South African operations reported a 9.1% growth in […]
US President Donald Trump said Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s technology should act as spur for American companies.
A new season of What’s Next with Aki Anastasiou is coming soon and will feature valuable discussions on a wide range of technology-related topics.
The app spooked the markets as well as the bullish sense of American superiority in AI development.
The Gauteng Provincial Government is set to wrap up its new number plate pilot by the end of the 2024/25 financial year.
We asked for your questions on getting healthy in 2025 and you delivered. In the first episode of our listener questions special, Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample what she has uncovered about the scientifically proven ways to cut down on sugar, the truth behind the panic over seed oils, and why it is that some of us seem to have bullet proof immune systems, while others succumb to every bug...
JUWI Renewable Energies today announced plans to begin construction on three major private solar projects in 2025. Representing investments of over R6 billion and totaling 340 megawatts (MW) of capacity. The projects will make a major contribution to South Africa’s clean energy transition while serving key players in the mining, data centre, and energy sectors, […]
An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior: In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft’s “Sydney” chatbot threatened to kill an Australian...
In the first 11 months of 2024, solar energy generation in the US grew by 30%, enabling wind and solar combined to surpass coal for the first time. However, as Ars Technica’s John Timmer reports, “U.S. energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation.” He continues: “Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace,...