Tickets to the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup may be scarce and very expensive, but there are several ways soccer fans can watch all 104 matches scheduled across the United States, Mexico and Canada, starting Thursday, June 11. “Imagine, with this World Cup, a Super Bowl every single day for five weeks,” U.S. team captain…
When South Africa’s government suddenly withdrew its newly gazetted national AI policy framework, the document itself was flagged with fictitious sources. Ironically, these sources were likely hallucinated by the very technology the policy sought to govern. This was a very uncomfortable AI moment for us, but also a teaching one. This isn’t just a case…
Africa has secured a historic place on marathon running’s biggest stage, with the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon officially confirmed as the first Abbott World Marathon Major to be hosted on the continent. Following the successful staging of the 2026 race on 24 May, the event passed the second and final phase of the Abbott World…
The African Union (AU) Commission expresses its deep concern over the renewed escalation of hostilities between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite ongoing diplomatic efforts aimed at reducing tensions and advancing a peaceful resolution. The Commission believes that these developments risk further destabilising an already fragile situation and threaten…
Four activists from the Palestine Action group face sentencing in the United Kingdom as “terrorists” on Friday, despite only being convicted by a jury of other criminal charges. Palestine Action was formally proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation in the UK last July. Last month, four of six activists on trial were convicted at Woolwich Crown…
A number of workloads moved to the cloud years ago, but the security thinking needed to protect them is still catching up. According to Red Hat’s ‘The State of Cloud-Native Security 2026’ report, 97% of organisations had at least one cloud-native security incident in the past year, and 74% slowed or delayed application deployments because…
Travel bans, visa denials, safety fears, and record-high ticket prices are suppressing World Cup attendance–and threatening both FIFA’s promised $40 billion windfall and a U.S. tourism industry that was already struggling before the opening whistle. Ahead of kickoff, the 2026 men’s World Cup is beset with a slew of travel restrictions affecting entry to the…
The eighth edition of the YouthConnekt Africa Summit will take place in Kigali from November 25 to 27 under the theme “Shape the Generational Mission.” The event will bring together young people, policymakers, business leaders, investors and innovators from across the continent to discuss Africa’s future in a rapidly changing global economy. ALSO READ: Over…
A slew of U.S. Big Tech and AI companies are racing to expand in London as they look to take advantage of the city’s deep talent pools amid a push to develop and commercialize frontier tech. Anthropic and OpenAI both announced they’d taken up larger office spaces in the U.K. capital in recent months. Vibe…
At war … Dario Amodei and Sam Altman If not for the intense rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI, the generative AI boom might not have arrived so quickly. In late 2022, OpenAI caught wind that Anthropic was working on an AI-powered chatbot. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman immediately directed employees to fast-track a competing product, four…
