•OpenAI CEO Sam Altman OpenAI will not release its newest artificial intelligence model, known as Astra 6.1, after internal testing by the ChatGPT-maker revealed it did not meet safety standards, the company confirmed yesterday. The news comes one day before the AI giant hosts an annual developer conference known as OpenAI DevDay in San Franci...
•Enori A Nigerian X user, Enori, has apologised after admitting that she used artificial intelligence to create and circulate a fake image claiming that an itel Power Tank had exploded. Enori, who shared the image on X earlier in the week, deleted the post after it attracted significant attention and later acknowledged that the incident [&hell...
•Abia State University ICT lecturer and software developer, Juliet Chinenye Duru An Information and Communication Technology lecturer at the Abia State University and software developer, Juliet Chinenye Duru, has developed two artificial intelligence platforms aimed at improving agricultural productivity and expanding access to education in Ni...
•Giant Google logo at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California Ireland’s data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the European Union, said today that it had fined Google 403 million euros ($462 million) for breaching users’ location data. The technology giant infringed the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation on the matte...
•Trump US President Donald Trump yesterday lashed out at critics of artificial intelligence and data centers, saying he would not allow the “destruction” of the industry and announcing the creation of a new government “AI Force.” Trump — who finds himself out of step with growing public skepticism over AI and dire safety warnings from [&hellip...
•A large Google logo is seen at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California Google’s consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems by guessing login credentials, the company told our correspondent yesterday, the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions, which have generated safety concerns. The hacks, first reported by...
•Britain’s King Charles III King Charles III will urge tech giants to ensure that artificial intelligence is geared to serve humanity and that mankind does “not lose control”, during a conference in Scotland today. The gathering at Dumfries House will include senior representatives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Britain’s...
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump yesterday dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity, calling them a hoax and rejecting global calls to put guardrails around the fast-moving technology. Trump’s pushback comes amid growing international alarm about AI, with even some tech bosses saying development of computer s...
•Smartphones International Data Corporation (IDC), a technology market research and intelligence firm, has said that the days of cheap smartphones are rapidly ending and will not return. “The smartphone market has changed character this year. Units are dropping while prices are climbing sharply, with consumers expected to absorb the cost,” IDC...
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has commenced the implementation of a technology-enabled framework to strengthen monitoring and enforcement of Type Approval requirements for SIM-enabled communications devices in Nigeria. The Commission said the initiative would enable it to electronically determine the Type Approval compliance sta...
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