The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, has called for a new global approach to financing nuclear energy, warning that current funding models are slowing down the development of critical energy infrastructure, particularly in Africa. He said this on Tuesday, May 19, during the opening of the second Nuclear…
Michaela Voller, Executive for the People Solutions division at Change Logic. Change Logic CS has strengthened its People Solutions division as businesses increasingly look for practical support to navigate workforce transformation, organisational redesign and operational change. Businesses are under pressure from every angle right now – from AI and shifting workforce expectations to tighter operational…
Addis Ababa — Leading African social media influencers attending the African Social Media Influencers Summit (ASMIS) 2026 in Addis Ababa said Ethiopia’s progress in infrastructure, technology, and cultural preservation offers valuable lessons for the rest of the continent. The summit has brought together prominent digital creators, media personalities, communication experts, and content producers from across…
Apple appears to be finalizing a generative AI strategy centred on user choice rather than exclusive reliance on in-house development. According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to allow users to select from a variety of third-party AI models to power generative tasks within its ecosystem. This new flexibility is slated to…
Joshua Harvey, CEO at Specno. Cape Town-based digital innovation agency Specno has repositioned its business from digital agency services to a product consultancy model, citing changing market conditions in software development and growing demand for strategic delivery support. The company said the move is aimed at scale-up businesses facing major product, platform and architecture decisions,…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up whose low-cost model stunned the world last year, launched a preview of its highly anticipated new model, the V4, on Friday. The pro version of V4 outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing only Google’s Gemini Pro 3.1 which is a closed-source model, DeepSeek said. The V4 also comes…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a media tour of a Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5, which the company says is better at coding, using computers and pursuing deeper research capabilities. The launch comes less…
The emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos is setting up a scramble from the banking industry to gain access and test the technology as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity risks the new AI model raises and how prepared financial firms are to tackle them. Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as posing significant challenges to the…
SENIOR BUREAU OFFICIAL CHECKER: Good morning, it’s really a pleasure to be here with all of you. Thank you so much to CSIS for the invitation–and for convening this conversation at such a consequential moment. My objective here is really just to clearly and unambiguously talk about the Trump administration’s very new and different approach…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable”…
