Daily Maverick journalist Caryn Dolley delivered her Summer School lecture at UCT this week, detailing how crime has evolved ...

On December 11, 2025, the same day the Trump Administration unveiled its Executive Order aimed at preempting state AI regulations, New York ...

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Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

The recurring problems with AI Overviews stem from a design flaw in how the system works. As we reported in May 2024, Google ...

AI slop refers to low-quality content generated at scale by AI. Learn what it is, why it’s spreading, and why it matters.

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As the Trump administration looks to create a federal definition of ultra-processed foods, the question of the best way to ...

At CES this year, the concept was bandied around a lot in different contexts. Is it a literal factory? A data center? A ...

This was the question posed to me last summer by an English professor at a top research university, at a backyard barbecue.

Many enterprise AI initiatives continue to struggle — with 95% failing to deliver ROI due to inadequate data infrastructure ...