Cabinet has approved a new SITA board, for a three-year period. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) A full complement of new board members has been announced by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). This, as the embattled entity also welcomed its first permanent managing director Magatho Mello on 1 April, promising much-needed leadership stability for the…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up whose low-cost model stunned the world last year, launched a preview of its highly anticipated new model, the V4, on Friday. The pro version of V4 outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing only Google’s Gemini Pro 3.1 which is a closed-source model, DeepSeek said. The V4 also comes…
More than a decade after government first proposed an opt-out registry, it is set to be implemented. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Pexels) The Direct Marketing Association of South Africa (DMASA) welcomes government’s move to cut down on spam calls through the creation of an opt-out registry, but says there will be implementation challenges. Late last…
Cell C listed on the JSE on Thursday, completing a multi-year turnaround that not only reshaped the business but rescued it from the jaws of business collapse. The shares began trading on Thursday under the code “CCD”, priced at R26.50, giving the operator a market capitalisation of roughly R9-billion. The shares opened at R27 apiece….
After months of anticipation, OpenAI has officially released GPT-5, its most advanced large language model to date. The new model, which is now available for both free and paid users, promises across-the-board improvements in writing, coding, reasoning, and safety. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: iPad Pro and VR? In a press briefing,…
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a peace deal in Washington aimed at ending decades of devastating conflict between the two neighbours, and potentially granting the US lucrative mineral access. The deal demands the “disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration” of armed groups fighting in eastern DR Congo. Further details are scant and…
