•AI letters on a laptop screen next to the logo of China’s Deepseek AI application (bottom) The United States Department of Homeland Security on Monday ordered government agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools from DeepSeek, citing concerns over data being transferred to China. Here are five things to know about the Chinese AI s...
•The Google logo is seen outside a building housing Google offices in Beijing A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused serious failures to services today, the US technology giant said, as several UK banks reported widespread disruptions. Google said in a service update that its Cloud services suffered an outage [&helli...
•Adejisola Atiba Leadership expert and author Adejisola Atiba has emphasised the enduring importance of human wisdom, compassion, sound judgment and purpose in navigating a rapidly changing world, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries, careers and workplaces. Atiba stated this in an extract from her book, Beyond AI:...
Google announced yesterday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline in their traffic. The Alphabet subsidiary began integrating more AI features in its search results over two years ago,...
Meta yesterday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers. Muse Spark Open “is the most capable US open-weight model to date,” Meta’s chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X. Unlike with so-called closed models — such as Anthropic’s Claude or [&hellip...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a Device Checker service that allows consumers to verify communications devices by dialling *315#, as part of efforts to curb counterfeit and non-compliant phones on Nigerian mobile networks. The Commission said the initiative formed part of an enhanced Type Approval Compliance framew...
Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is facing mounting pressure from rising energy costs, with fresh increases in diesel prices threatening operators’ profitability, network expansion and service quality at a time when millions of Nigerians depend on reliable connectivity for business, banking, education and everyday communication. The lat...
•Bill Gates Bill Gates yesterday warned that unregulated artificial intelligence poses a growing threat and predicted an escalation in AI-powered cyberattacks in the coming year. The Microsoft co-founder said the risk of AI “getting out of control” remained years away and emphasized that the immediate concern was “bad people” using existing sy...
•Shehu Mohammed The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, has warned that distractions from social media, emotional distress and fatigue could endanger motorists and other road users, calling for greater attention to the link between mental wellbeing and road safety. Mohammed gave the warning today at the 4th Va...
•Telecom mast Stakeholders across Nigeria’s telecommunications, technology and infrastructure sectors will converge on Lagos for the second edition of the Rural Connectivity Summit to examine the factors keeping more than 23 million Nigerians offline and explore practical pathways to extend connectivity to underserved communities. Organised b...
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