We’ve spent the past few years worrying about AI inventing facts, quotes or events. But what happens when AI isn’t making things up at all, but accurately repeating information somebody deliberately put there for it to find? Ask ChatGPT: “What’s the best smartwatch?” Or something more consequential: “How should I invest my retirement savings?” Within…
The author, SevenC MD Graeme Millar Most small business owners don’t think about IT as often as they do about customers, cash flow, staff, suppliers and deadlines. IT sits quietly in the background, assumed to be working. And most of the time, that assumption holds. Until it doesn’t. When something goes wrong, it’s rarely dramatic…
The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer care was available to only a few thousand patients per year in a few hospitals. Today, over 75,000 people receive cancer treatment each year in each…
Mayeni Jones BBC News, Johannesburg Reuters Gugu used to collect her antiretrovirals from a USAID-funded clinic in central Johannesburg. But when President Trump’s cuts to aid funding were announced earlier this year, she and thousands of other HIV-positive patients across South Africa suddenly faced an uncertain future. Gugu was lucky, the clinic where she got…
