New York passes sweeping law banning AI chatbots from acting as companions to children or pretending to be human.
Prof. Bismark Tyobeka says municipalities must be held accountable for refusing to adopt innovations that could improve service delivery.
Hollywood films now portray tech billionaires as villains instead of heroes, with new documentaries and dramas exposing the dark side of Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures.
Standard Bank partners with Stellenbosch University to create a framework as guardrails and guidelines for AI in business.
Anthropic has banned users from treating its Claude chatbot with needless cruelty as debate grows over AI consciousness and rights.
OpenAI cancelled the release of its Astra 6.1 model after internal tests showed it failed to meet safety standards.
Anthropic reveals its Claude chatbot leads over a quarter of research work as concerns grow about autonomous AI development.
UN human rights chief warns artificial intelligence poses existential threat to humanity, demands urgent action to regulate powerful technology companies.
South Africa accounts for 92% of ransomware detections in Africa and 70% of business email compromise attacks, with AI now powering 55% of cybercrimes.