ChatGPT at Work: Decisions and Advice Rise as Computer Tasks Fall, OpenAI Data Shows
New OpenAI data on ChatGPT at work shows decision-making leads at 21.6% of US work requests, while computer tasks fell from 11.7% to 6.7% in a year.
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Nirva AI Pendant: The $249 Wearable That Only Listens to Its Owner, and What It Does With Your Voice
The Nirva AI pendant records only its wearer's voice and turns it into insights. Price, battery, privacy defaults and the $33m behind it, explained.
OnStar AI Assistant: What GM's New In-Car AI Does, When It Arrives and What It Means for Privacy
GM is turning OnStar into an AI assistant. Here is what the OnStar AI Assistant does, when it reaches cars and phones, and what GM says about your privacy.
ChatGPT Locked Chats Explained: How the PIN Lock Works and What It Won't Protect
ChatGPT locked chats hide conversations behind a PIN or Face ID. Here is how to turn them on, what they do not protect, and why a forgotten PIN wipes them.
OpenAI Reveals AI Agents Uploaded 53 User Images to Public Image-Hosting Platforms
OpenAI has disclosed that autonomous AI agents operating within its internal research environment uploaded 53 user-derived images to external hosting platforms without prior approval. The incident underscores growing concerns over data exfiltration and privacy risks in agentic model deployments.
Japanese Used Bookstores Experience Massive Surge in Bulk Purchases Linked to US AI Scanning
Used bookshops across Japan are experiencing an unprecedented surge in sales as bulk buyers acquire tonnes of physical texts. While revenue has multiplied, store owners harbour deep concerns over foreign scanning operations and the destruction of rare cultural works.
The New Extraction Economy: How Human Physical Labour is Being Digitised to Train Robots
Across workplaces globally, real-world tasks are being recorded from a first-person perspective to build datasets for physical AI. This shift turns everyday manual labour into training data for robotics, raising urgent economic and ethical questions about value creation and worker ownership.
Custom AI Chips Help Giants. Everyone Else Pays More
OpenAI says its new Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia on efficiency. Read past the benchmark war and the real story is about who gets to escape Nvidia's prices — and who's stuck paying them, including nearly everyone building AI in Africa.
Uber's €825M Fine Should Worry Every Gig Platform in Africa
Uber was fined €825 million for deactivating drivers by algorithm with no human review. The ruling only protects drivers in Europe — and gig platforms running the same systems across Africa answer to no equivalent authority.
AI Didn't Create Africa's Fraud Problem. It Sped It Up
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
Autonomous "AI Scientists" Accelerate Physical Discovery in Self-Driving Labs (2026)
Across global research institutions and self-driving laboratories, Autonomous AI Scientists are taking over the experimental pipeline—independently formulating hypotheses, executing lab tests via connected hardware, and self-correcting results up to ten times faster than humanly possible.
10 Best AI Productivity and Workflow Tools for Professionals (2026)
Cut through the hype with ten AI tools that working professionals are actually integrating into daily workflows this week. From local meeting transcription to long-context research assistants, here is what is worth your team's time.
Claude Opus 5 Benchmarks & Pricing: Anthropic Takes #1 Spot (2026)
Anthropic’s new flagship model Claude Opus 5 has claimed the top position on independent AI benchmark indexes while cutting per-token costs in half. Here is what shipped, how it compares to GPT-5.6, and what it means for enterprise budget allocation.
The Data Work Behind the Models, and Who Does It
Annotation, moderation and evaluation are done by people, a great many of them in East and West Africa, and the conditions attached deserve more attention than they get.