Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a…
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South Africa’s first attempt to establish a binding artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework came to an abrupt halt just 16…
A woman strolls into a grocery store, thinking about grabbing some apples. Before she even reaches the produce aisle, a…
OpenAI officially discontinued its video generation tool, Sora, on April 26, 2026. I’m a computer scientist who’s been developing AI tools…