Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is investigating Uber’s abrupt exit, particularly unfulfilled services to customers, after the company shut down without warning as part of a global review that cut 3,300 jobs. The main b…
In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin…
Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes…
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but th…
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macron’s Paris space summit…
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business Week. Organisers describe the event as behind schedule…
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm…
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in AP…
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report ex…
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any…