A claim that AI models are far easier to understand than researchers assumed has drawn wide attention in the AI safety field, though South African academics caution that the findings are unverified and not yet peer reviewed. Nick Cammarata, a researcher at AI start-up Goodfire who previously worked at OpenAI, makes the case in Neural…
Rory Bosman, executive for sales and marketing at Ecentric Payment Systems. Since Black Friday-Cyber Monday started in South Africa in 2012, retailers and shoppers have seen a remarkable change in payment solutions and platforms. Over the past 12 years, payment methods have evolved to include virtual cards, QR codes, digital wallets and mobile banking applications….
Black Axe is a shadowy criminal network known for its extreme violence and operates across Africa, Europe and North America. A BBC Eye investigation in 2021 suggested the syndicate had become one of the most far-reaching and dangerous organised crime groups in the world. Nigeria is its main recruitment ground and many of its members…
Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography. Arday, who joined Cambridge in 2023 at the age of 37, became one of Britain’s most high-profile academics after sharing an extraordinary life story. He…
Oil tankers are increasingly coming under fire on several fronts as economic warfare is deployed as a weapon in the escalating conflicts in the Middle East and Europe. Iran has stepped up its attacks on tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz this month as it tries to impose its control over the crucial…
Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black, in prepared testimony for a House committee on Friday, said notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein duped him out of more than $60 million in financial advisory fees by falsely claiming that they were tax-deductible. Black says he had no involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation and did not pay…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered groundbreaking evidence of a primordial supermassive black hole that challenges foundational astronomical models. Located 13 billion light-years away, this cosmic titan existed a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang. Traditionally, astrophysicists believed it required at least a billion years of stellar evolution and cosmic feeding…
President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has urged the Black Starlets to remain confident in their abilities ahead of their crucial final Group D clash against South Africa at the 2026 U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. The President spoke to the players and technical team via Zoom on Tuesday evening shortly after the team’s final…
Southern Russia is facing one of the largest environmental disasters in its modern history. In April, repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in Tuapse triggered massive refinery fires and oil spills along the Black Sea coast, including near Sochi. Residents described “black rain” falling from the sky as smoke and petroleum residue spread across…
London – More than 125 years of black music in Britain is being celebrated in the inaugural exhibition at the new V&A East museum in Stratford, London. RFI was at the opening to explore how music from Africa, the Caribbean and North America merged to make a distinctly British sound. V&A East, the latest offshoot…
