AI’s value compounds with use. A few years ago, artificial intelligence in the office meant a chatbot on the company website. Today it sits inside our e-mail, our spreadsheets and our code editors, often without much ceremony. The question for business leaders is no longer whether staff are using AI, but how well. Mweb, which…
Chevron does not report a comparable, standalone refining-margin figure, but it reported Friday that its downstream earnings more than quadrupled from a year earlier to $4.9 billion, with the company citing higher margins on refined-product sales. That’s amid tight supplies of refined fuels and pressure on refinery output globally, despite oil firms reporting this week…
Tel Aviv — After three years with their country at war on multiple fronts, Israelis are casting ballots in a hotly contested election that will shape their next government. Polls show it is an incredibly tight race, and as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights to hold onto his job, there’s no guarantee of a quick, definitive…
Maputo and London — “Trust in the process is evaporating among humanitarians and even some donors.” The humanitarian system has experienced the financial equivalent of the Great Depression. Since peak aid was reached in 2022, humanitarian funding has fallen 30% to $33 billion last year. The answer to this seismic shock has been the humanitarian…
World leaders have been asked to support a proposed International Panel on Inequality. Brazil, Norway, South Africa and Spain, together with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, made the call on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York in September 2026. The panel would be modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change….
Natalie Borcherds, Security Services Manager and Nikishca Moolman, Information Security Consultant at Galix. Cyber security training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don’t invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a once-off exercise. Ticking a compliance box and moving on. The result? Employees…
For me, very few workouts feel as fulfilling as a heated one. But as a beauty editor, I’m constantly worrying about how the excess heat and sweat affects my skin and hair (including the slicked-back buns I wear to keep hair out of my face). Will my scalp be a wreck after a few weeks…
Two weeks after a total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers in southern Europe, a near-total lunar eclipse is set to put on a show Thursday night for people across North and South America. Lunar eclipses occur when Earth slips between the sun and the moon and casts a shadow on the lunar surface. During this week’s…
Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021. Source: NYSE Shares of medical platform Doximity more than doubled at one point in overnight trading Friday after some bold comments on the margin for its new AI search tool. CEO Jeffrey Tangney said the product brings in 10…
Two different reads on the housing market released Thursday point to the same problem, one that appears to be getting worse. Housing is just too expensive — to own and to build. Pending home sales in June, a measure of signed contracts on existing homes, fell 5.4% from May, according to the National Association of…
