When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were still university researchers, they warned that advertising could undermine the trustworthiness…
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AI is beginning to influence how boards of directors make decisions in South African companies. Directors use it to do things…
In August 2026, Meta agreed to one of the largest consumer protection settlements in American history. The settlement resolves claims from 47…
Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their…
Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We…
Imagine a manager sends a thoughtful message to one of her hard-working employees after a particularly exhausting week in the…
There is a temptation to divide the future of artificial intelligence (AI) into two possibilities: utopia or catastrophe. Neither extreme is…
The South African government has released a new electricity pricing policy for the first time in 18 years. The policy sets rules…
It is two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed – letting loose a world in which algorithms would shape ever more…
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