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Ex-ante competition rules for cloud services sees pushback from 60% stakeholders: CUTS study

23 WIRED-Approved Gifts for Frequent Travelers (2026)

For the frequent flier who treats the Delta Sky Club like their second home.

Sam Altman on Meta's AI Mark Zuckerberg: People don't want AI running companies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated people want human accountability in company leadership. Meta is reportedly developing an AI version of CEO Mark Zuckerberg for employee assistance. This AI character will mimic Zuckerberg's mannerisms and…

Google makes Gemini Spark AI agent available to Hongkongers as it lowers geofences

Google on Wednesday launched its artificial intelligence agent Gemini Spark in the Hong Kong market, giving local users direct access to a smart assistant to manage complex digital workflows. The launch came months after the American tech…

Liberia: Ghana Moved for Its People in Abidjan. Where Is Liberia?

[FrontPageAfrica] More than 400 Liberians are sleeping in schoolrooms outside Abidjan, three weeks after bulldozers took their homes. Ghana already brought 228 of its own citizens back from the same demolition. Liberia has yet to answer.

Liberia: Lawyer for Ex-NSA Deputy Rejects Attempts Linking Weah-Era Into Ongoing Probe

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The lawyer for Gerald Smith, a former deputy at the National Security Agency, has come to the defense of his client, declaring that none of the allegations against Smith have resulted in charges and that he is…

Liberia: Liberia Formally Indicts 12 in Record $317.68m Cocaine Case, Alleging a Smuggling Scheme That Reaches Back to…

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia's record US$317.68 million cocaine case has moved from allegation to formal charge. A writ of arrest and police charge sheet filed at the Paynesville City Magisterial Court, before Stipendiary…

South Africa: Govt Pursues Compensation Over South Africa Attacks

[Vanguard] The federal government says it is pursuing compensation for Nigerians affected by recent attacks in South Africa while strengthening diplomatic efforts to prevent further violence.

Modus Raises $10M Seed Led by Insight Partners to Build the Context Warehouse for Enterprise AI

The enterprise AI market has spent much of its early development focused on making models more capable and connecting them to more information. But as companies begin deploying AI agents in production, a different challenge is becoming…

Africa: HIV Science Races Ahead As Funding Crisis Threatens to Widen Access Gap

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- For more than two decades, scientific innovation and international financing have worked together to transform HIV from a deadly disease into a manageable chronic condition for millions of people.

The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.

Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The tools that do the undressing do not need to be apps at all. They are sitting on Hugging Face. The European nonprofit AI…

Liberia: Retired Court Marshal Demands Probe After Violent Eviction

[New Dawn] MONROVIA -- Retired Marshal of the Supreme Court of Liberia, Brig. Gen. Amos B.K. Dickson, has described the execution of a court-ordered eviction along the Jamaica Road-Japan Freeway corridor as poorly coordinated and…