Editor’s pick
Google wants you to buy a new laptop for Gemini, and four of the five cost over $1,000
Pre-orders opened this week for Googlebook, an Android laptop built to make your phone and your computer behave like one machine.
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Meta's Muse does not chat with you, but opens a browser and does the shopping itself
Meta's new agent app has been downloaded faster than ChatGPT was at the same age, on one firm's narrowed comparison, and nobody outside Meta yet knows whether people are using it.
South African diesel has climbed R9.32 a litre this year, and the next increase lands on 7 October
Wars involving Iran and Ukraine have taken refined fuel out of the global market, and the South African pump price is set off what the world charges for it.
Aveng turns over R26.4 billion a year, and the whole company is worth R545 million on the JSE
Fraser Wyllie becomes chief executive of the 137-year-old contractor on 1 October, the third person in the chair in nine months.
A South African bank has broken even on 100,000 customers, where rivals needed more than 2 million
Bank Zero made money for the first time in August, less than five years after it opened, on a banking platform it wrote itself for under R300 million.
Vumatel's owner cost Remgro R93 million last year, and this year it added R319 million
Vodacom's arrival inside Maziv turned Remgro's fibre arm from a drag into a contributor, and only four months of it are in the numbers.
Musk says a tunnel will move you between Austin and San Antonio in under 30 minutes
The post named a speed and a journey time, and left out the route, the cost, the timeline and the government partner.
The Roundup — Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Editor’s pick
Electricity is heading for ten times its 2008 price, while everything else sits at two and a half
For the two decades before 2008 Eskom's price rose slower than inflation, and for the eighteen years since it has risen roughly three times faster.
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One share rose 23% on Friday and another fell 11%, and neither company had announced a thing
A committee decision taken on 2 September moved JSE shares on Friday without a single company announcement, and how far each one moved came down to how much of it was available to buy.
Australia's Treasury has cut its 40-year growth forecast, and it is counting on AI to hold up the rest
Fewer children, slower population growth and one productivity assumption of 1.2% a year that the report says the spread of AI is likely to support.