Opinion – OpenAI’s rogue ‘sandbox’ escape could be America’s final AI warning
Last week, something straight out of sci-fi happened: An AI from OpenAI went rogue. OpenAI had tried but failed to build a secure sandbox to contain it. It got …
New Report Reveals Just How Risky AI Coding Still Is
AI models have become highly reliable at writing code that compiles, but they are still failing basic security tests in nearly half of cases, according to Verac…
Huawei Connect 2026: taking South African AI beyond pilots
More than 2 900 leaders from government and industry gathered for Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 to explore what it will take for South African organisations …
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.
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Fiverr cuts guidance as AI bites
The changes in the market due to the emergence of AI are reflected in the second quarter 2026 financial results of software company Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR). The res…
Radical rethink for South Africa’s national AI policy
South Africa’s redrafted national AI policy will not prescribe rules to industry. Instead, individual sectors will be left to write their own AI strategies of…
PwC’s US CEO Says Companies Are Getting 2 Things Wrong About AI
There are two major misconceptions about AI, according to PwC’s senior partner and US CEO Paul Griggs.
The first: AI isn’t fundamentally a technology transform…
Why Are Tech Giants Destroying Millions of Books to Train AI?
AI companies are reportedly buying millions of secondhand books through intermediaries, scanning them for training data, and systematically destroying the physi…
Microsoft Launches MAI-Cyber-1 and Perception AI
Microsoft entered the AI cybersecurity arena on July 27 with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a specialized model designed to uncover vulnerabilities in complex codebases.
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