Mary Barra speaks onstage during WSJ’s Future of Everything 2025 at The Glasshouse on May 28, 2025 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images NEW YORK — General Motors is targeting a suite of new software initiatives for its vehicles over the next three years, including an in-vehicle artificial intelligence assistant from Google…
South Africa spends a lot of time worrying about anchor industries like mining, finance and energy. They dominate headlines and boardroom agendas, but while we watch those traditional levers creak and strain, we’re ignoring a resource that could impact our long-term growth trajectory significantly. South Africa has one of the richest pools of diversely experienced…
Fresh from the global launch of its flagship Xiaomi 15T Series, co-engineered with Leica, Xiaomi South Africa is marking World Animal Month with #XiaomiPETriotism, a campaign that zooms into creating awareness about shelter pet adoption by capturing the unconditional love between rescued animals and the people who open their homes to them. At its core,…
The Manufacturing Centre of Excellence will partner with OEMs to teach new energy vehicle skills. The Automotive Industry Development Centre (AIDC) is preparing to launch a skills development training centre in Pretoria, to upskill automotive workers and train students in a range of new energy vehicle (NEV) skills. The Manufacturing Centre of Excellence, which will…
Africa’s innovators in the spotlight. The Africa Deep Tech Challenge (ADTC) 2025 has officially concluded, spotlighting Africa’s brightest innovators solving for “resource-constrained computing”. Launched on May 14, 2025, the Challenge set out to identify and empower breakthrough solutions that thrive under Africa’s unique infrastructural realities. In the words of Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founding Partner at Future…
A new hypercar has seemingly dethroned Bugatti’s record for the fastest production car, and unsurprisingly, it’s an electric vehicle. During a livestream from the Automotive Testing Papenburg site in Germany, the YangWang U9 Extreme hit a top speed of 496.22 km/h (or around 308.33 mph), edging out the previous record holder, the Bugatti Chiron Super…
Dion Harvey, regional GM at Red Hat, sub-Saharan Africa. Artificial intelligence and quantum computing are foundational to the current global “technology arms race”, said Dion Harvey, regional GM of Red Hat SSA. Speaking at the company’s partner and customer focused Connect 2025 Johannesburg Summit at Melrose Arch this week, Harvey reiterated the company’s focus on…
Apple’s recent launch of the iPhone Air raises questions about its product strategy, particularly the marketing tactic of “anchoring.” This practice involves positioning a less appealing product near a more desirable one to make the latter seem like a better value. With the new iPhone Air, Apple appears to be using this method to push…
Guvendemir | E+ | Getty Images A wave of defense tech startups in Silicon Valley is drawing billions in funding and reshaping America’s national security. Anduril Industries, recently valued at $30.5 billion following its latest funding round, is among the so-called “neoprimes” — companies challenging the dominance of legacy contractors, dubbed “primes,” such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop…
Lujiazui Business Districk in Pudong, Shanghai, China. Liqun Liu | Construction Photography | Hulton Archive | Getty Images SINGAPORE — As China seeks to entice back foreign capital amid dwindling inbound investment, global investors eyeing opportunities in the country remain wary of more fundamental constraints: Beijing’s iron grip on capital flows and lack of policy…
