UN experts sound alarm over slow progress on global biodiversity targets ahead of COP17 Secretary-General of the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, expected to attend the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17). By PATRICK MAYOYO United Nations human rights experts have urged governments to accelerate action…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anthropic’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic’s road to an IPO just got a lot bumpier. While the Claude creator meets with prospective…
The CEOs of two of the world’s leading AI companies are publicly agreeing that the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems needs to be slowed, continuing this week’s cascade of warnings from researchers working on the technology. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said in essay published Saturday that…
In his essay, called We Must Pace the Frontier, Amodei pointed out that AI had advanced “drastically faster” including its “ability to build the next generation of AI” – and mentioned an incident involving rival OpenAI which has revealed that agents conducted cybersecurity attacks, external on targets they were not asked to attack in July….
Discovery’s group CIO, Derek Wilcocks Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks has pushed back on the idea that AI is about to make software developers obsolete, saying the productivity gains his teams are measuring from AI coding tools are real but a fraction of what the industry’s loudest voices are promising – so far. Speaking on…
I’ve watched more deals than I care to remember get won on a promise rather than a product. A slide that looks great. A demo held together with tape the night before. A road map sold as if it were already shipping. The purchase order lands this quarter. The bill lands later – and it’s…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. By January 2027 – when the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies hopes to maybe start taking public comment on a national AI policy – a United Nations approach to AI will already be the subject of lobbying. At the beginning of last week, we got a solid indicator that…
Sibusiso Ngubeni, head of the data office for strategy enablement at Standard Bank Group’s CIB division. Corporate attempts to slow down artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in the name of governance may be backfiring, with employees increasingly turning to unsanctioned tools, exposing companies to data leaks, compliance failures and cyber risk. This was the warning from Sibusiso…
Imagine it’s 2036. Unemployment has been halved, business confidence is robust, and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises are powering sustainable growth. South Africa finally looks like a country realising its potential. At the heart of this shift is a simple but transformative change: the widespread adoption of PayShap, a low-cost instant payment system that…
London — The war in Iran has highlighted the threat relatively cheap drones pose to both human life and crucial infrastructure. It has also highlighted a seeming unreadiness to counter the weapons among the militaries of the U.S. and some of its major allies in the Middle East. As President Trump sharply criticizes America’s longtime NATO…
