Vodacom Launches New Super Content Bundle NXT LVL customers
Research indicates that there is a significant rise in content creators in the country, particularly among the youth. The 2024 South African Influencer Benchmark Report reveals that the country hosts over 75,000 influencers across various niches, including fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and travel. These findings underscore the expanding opportunities within South
Read moreCheck Point Highlights Global Malware Threats in May 2025 Cyber Report
SafePay, a relatively new, rapidly growing ransomware group observed in November 2024, has overtaken other threats this month to emerge as the most prevalent actor on the top ransomware group list, according to Check Point Software Technologies’ Global Threat Index for May 2025, an AI-powered, cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform provider. The
Read moreVERA & cheqd Introduce Verifiable Messaging Platform to Combat Business Fraud
Cyber criminals are estimated to send around 3.4 billion emails daily, disguised to appear as if they are from reliable sources. This amounts to more than one trillion phishing emails every year, an issue that most traditional encryption tools do not address. According to the FBI, scams using business emails
Read moreSam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights’ next year
In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman’s futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that
Read moreProxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream. Most fusion companies that have raised over $100 million are based in the United States. Not Proxima Fusion, a
Read moreOpenAI’s open model is delayed
OpenAI was targeting an early summer release date for its open model, which is slated to have similar "reasoning" capabilities to OpenAI's o-series of models.
Read moreVijay Pande, founding partner of a16z bio and health strategy, steps down
Since its founding in 2014, a16z Bio+ Health has raised four funds of nearly $3 billion each, including a $1.5 billion fund that closed in 2022.
Read moreAI storage platform Vast Data aimed for $25B valuation in new round, sources say
The AI-friendly data storage startup is raising capital at a giant leap in valuation.
Read moreApple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services
Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.
Read moreYouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024
YouTube's impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite less interest from venture capitalists.
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