•INEC chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, has said only Nigerians and not AI will decide the direction of next year’s general election and the next crop of leaders across the country. Amupitan, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at the Artificial Intelligence and D...
Artificial intelligence may have been used in a string of cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector, the president said today, as police announced the launch of an investigation. More than seven financial institutions, including some of South Korea’s biggest banks, have reported customer data breaches in the past week, reports AFP....
Kwara State Chief Judge Abiodun Adebara has urged lawyers and judges in Nigeria to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in judicial administration responsibly and cautiously. Justice Adebara admitted that AI had come to stay, but added that “in judicial administration, AI should be used with caution, as an aid to and not a substitute for human [&h...
•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...
•US President Donald Trump addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly, yesterday President Donald Trump yesterday announced that the US government would rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence” in official communications, as world leaders jostled over how to address the dangers of the fast-advancing technology. AI has becom...
•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...
•People gather for a New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani look-alike contest at Washington Square Park on August 30, 2026 New York is banning student use of artificial intelligence until high school, the city’s mayor announced yesterday, in a move designed to protect children’s education and mental health. The one-year restriction, which impact...
•Prof. Enikuomehin (middle) and LASU VC, Prof. Olatunji-Bello A Professor of Computer Science at Lagos State University, Prof. Oluwatoyin Enikuomehin, has warned that Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping how people think, remember, and make decisions, urging Nigeria to urgently enact a National AI Act before the technology outpac...
The World Bank today called on developing countries to embrace artificial intelligence technology tools to deliver better governance outcomes, warning that they risked being left behind if they failed to do so. “AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and they should seize it,” Indermit Gill, chief economist of the World Bank Group, sai...
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