Once a lucrative lifeline for university graduates in Nairobi, Kenya’s shadow-scholar economy vanished in under two years. For over a decade, Mr. Bandi ran a thriving digital business out of Nairobi. Holding a degree in public health, Bandi chose to write academic essays, research papers, and dissertations for university students in the United States, the […]
Elon Musk has spent years warning that artificial intelligence could eventually become vastly more intelligent than humans. His answer is not simply to slow AI down. Through Neuralink, he is pursuing a radically different idea: connect the human brain directly to computers and, eventually, to artificial intelligence. What if the greatest threat to humanity is […]
Turing Award-winning computer scientist Professor Yoshua Bengio, widely regarded alongside Geoffrey Hinton as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has issued a grave warning that the existential threat artificial intelligence poses to humanity has worsened significantly over the past three years. As AI systems rapidly advance toward superintelligence, leading computer scientists caution that technological capabilities […]
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York City. Surprisingly, the company did not start as a machine learning platform; it began as a conversational AI chatbot app targeted at teenagers, complete with an energetic, empathetic persona. The company took its name from the […]
The $852 billion startup launches its most powerful reasoning model yet, triggering renewed debate over safety, multi-agent containment, and calls for a federal moratorium SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI has officially unveiled GPT-6 Astra, declaring it the world’s most intelligent and aligned artificial intelligence model to date. The launch comes amid intense global scrutiny regarding the […]
Imagine lying in bed and needing to use the toilet. For most people, the solution is simple: get up and walk to the bathroom. But for an elderly person with weak legs, a patient recovering from surgery, or someone with severe mobility problems, that short journey can be difficult, exhausting—and sometimes dangerous. Now imagine that […]
This is arguably the defining economic question of the 21st century. The debate is often framed incorrectly as “Will AI take our jobs?” The more accurate question is: Which jobs will AI transform, which will disappear, and who will benefit from the enormous wealth AI creates? Using Kenya as a case study makes the discussion […]
As the race for artificial intelligence supremacy accelerates, Meta is spending big on AI talent, aggressively recruiting top minds from rivals like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Backed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision, the tech giant has deployed lavish compensation packages and massive infrastructure investments to secure its place as a future AI powerhouse. But with […]
