South African job listings are starting to appear that are seeking experts to in large language models, a role that is expected to become more common in the future.
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YouTube ex-CEO and one of the first Google employees Susan Wojcicki has died at the age of 56 after two years of living with cancer, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on social media platform X on Saturday.
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The suspected use of AI to fill truck bookings at the Durban Port has left the logistics industry concerned. Meanwhile, Transnet Port Terminals has said it is investigating the matter.
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Recreational golfers’ performance on the course worsens when they use their smartphones for work-related activities but their devices don’t affect their game when used for personal reasons, a study showed.
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South African artificial intelligence research firm Lelapa AI has launched a language model available in five different African languages called InkubaLM, which has some of the same functionalities as platforms like ChatGPT.
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People in South Africa are still illegally accessing Starlink services despite threats from the satellite internet provider to cut users off in April this year.
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With a growth rate of 1%, the economic pie is not getting any bigger and entrepreneurs are forced to compete with each other and navigate increasingly narrow operating margins, say Sejeng Matlhako and Stanley Hlamalani Godi.
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Big South African firms recovered quickly from the CrowdStrike IT outage on Friday, which brought down global IT systems on an unprecedented scale.
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Big South African firms recovered quickly from the CrowdStrike IT outage on Friday, which brought down global IT systems on an unprecedented scale.
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From fearmongering about a looming "World War 3" to false narratives linking a cabal of global elite to a cyberattack, a torrent of online conspiracy theories took off Friday after a major IT crash.
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