Anthropic says its AI will not be used to spy on customers, even in government contracts. Here is what that means for AI governance, enterprise trust and defence partnerships.
Who’s running the show at newspapers?
Blogging the African Leadership Conference in Kenya, Nairobi
Dr Peter Mwesige, Acting Head, Mass Communication Department, Makerere University and Former Executive Editor Monitor Publications in Uganda delivered an interesting speech on “African quality journalism”. He emphasised that if we treat the media “like any other business”, we distort the principles of journalism. He noted that there obviously needs to be a healthy mix with regards to the drive for profitability and good journalism, but that the drive for profitability seems to be affecting the craft of journalism. He’s right.
Shuttleworth returns to the source
Mark Shuttleworth speaks to Matthew Buckland about getting to the source of it all
Open source in SA
Something pretty revolutionary is going down in a dusty patch of Limpopo province. It involves billionaire and Africa’s first Astronaut Mark Shuttleworth, a multi-national technology company and the government.
The internet goes from free to fee
If only the internet had been invented by a businessman. It’s a common lament of internet publishers who are buckling and wheezing under the financial strain of running unprofitable websites
