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Altman and Musk take their feud to the developers
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (304+ words) OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a further escalation in the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk. Musk and…...
Musk's Terafab: 1 300 Loftus Versfeld pitches under one roof
2+ week, 3+ day ago (660+ words) In a stretch of cattle country about 120km north-west of Houston, contractors have started clearing land for what Elon Musk claims will be the largest building ever constructed. The project is called Terafab. It is a joint venture between Tesla and…...
South Africa's hybrid boom is masking a flat electric car market
3+ week, 6+ day ago (440+ words) One in every 17 new vehicles sold in South Africa is now electrified, according to automotive industry body Naamsa. But only one in 123 is fully electric. Naamsa reported 3 045 new-energy vehicle sales in June, a 104.2% increase on the same month a year…...
Load shedding is over - and that's exposing a new energy crisis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (536+ words) South Africa’s structural reform programme has lost momentum for the first time since formal tracking began, with electricity reforms deteriorating even as Eskom itself delivers its most stable performance in years. The fourth quarterly review of the BLSA Reform Tracker,…...
The rands-and-cents case for electric trucks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (322+ words) TechCentral Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning. The rands-and-cents case for electric trucks TechCentral is proud to present the first episode of Watts & Wheels with Wills, our new interview show…...
R16-billion solar bet exposes South Africa's grid crisis
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (422+ words) R16-billion solar bet exposes South Africa’s grid crisis TechCentral Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning. R16-billion solar bet exposes South Africa’s grid crisis Energy regulator Nersa has approved generation licences…...
How Sixty60 turned lockdown luck into a lasting lead
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (633+ words) It was a surreal moment, standing in a Checkers in Stellenbosch in 2020, when I looked up from my trolley and caught sight of myself in a mirror, masked. This is real. This is the world now. I turned to my…...
South Africa's EV sales nearly double - but the base is still tiny
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (346+ words) South Africa’s electric vehicle market is growing quickly, albeit off a very small base. Battery-electric vehicle sales rose 96% year on year in the first quarter of 2026, according to Naamsa – the Automotive Business Council, almost doubling on the same period in…...
Cape Town pioneers pooled wheeling of renewable electricity
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (476+ words) Cape Town has wheeled renewable electricity across multiple buildings simultaneously for the first time, in a pooled arrangement that its architects say solves one of the biggest commercial obstacles to scaling private power deals. Those buildings are the recently refurbished…...
There's an oddity hiding in South Africa's EV market
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (429+ words) Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) outsold pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) by more than two to one in South Africa last year, marking the local market out as a global outlier even as overall electric car adoption remained stuck below 1% of…...