South Africa Delays AI Policy to 2027 After Fake References Scandal
South Africa has delayed its national AI policy to 2027 after officials withdrew a draft found to contain fabricated academic ...
South Africa has delayed its national AI policy to 2027 after officials withdrew a draft found to contain fabricated academic ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica has taken OpenAI to court, alleging that its content was copied to train ChatGPT
Regulators call for stronger safeguards, transparency and strict compliance with data protection laws in the use of artificial intelligence tools.
The company says the feature works in the background, scanning account-level and behavioural signals to judge whether an account is ...
Nigeria’s digital economy is now projected to generate $18.3 billion in revenue by 2026, up from around $5.1 billion in 2019 and nearly ...
The company says it is working to quickly close those gaps, calling the content illegal and unacceptable.
OpenAI hits back at Google. GPT-5.2 is here; faster, sharper and aimed squarely at Gemini 3.
OpenAI and Anthropic may use investor funds to settle multibillion-dollar copyright lawsuits — a sign of the growing legal pressure ...
The company disclosed these findings in its August 2025 Threat Intelligence Report, raising fresh alarms over the fast-growing misuse of ...
The company’s new product, Pay Per Crawl, lets publishers charge AI firms a fee every time they crawl their content

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