SwiftVEE, the largest online livestock trading platform in Africa, featured in Bloomberg’s inaugural 25 African Startups to Watch 2025, has completed its Series A funding round. The transaction brings some of the continent’s most accomplished investors onto swiftVEE’s Cap Table, including HAVAÍC, Old Mutual’s former CEO Iain Williamson and private equity firm EXEO Capital. They […]
MultiChoice South Africa’s BBBEE share scheme, Phuthuma Nathi, is calling on shareholders and families of deceased shareholders to claim dividends owed to them.
Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the...
Researchers at MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built a simulation that models all 151 million American workers and their skills, then maps those skills against the capabilities of over 13,000 AI tools currently in production to see where the two overlap. The answer, according to their analysis: 11.7% of the US labor market’s total wage value, or about $1.2 trillion, sits in tasks...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Call-handling agents powered by AI are to be trialled by Staffordshire Police in a bid to cut waiting times for the non-emergency 101 service. The force is set to become the third in the country to take part in the scheme testing the use of artificial “agents” to deal with calls. Under the system, the AI agent would deal with simple queries like...