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Microsoft will invest an additional 5.4 billion rand ($296.81 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in South Africa, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said on Thursday. Smith also said at an event in Johannesburg that the world's biggest software maker would pay for technical certification exams for 50,