South Africa’s highest court revives impeachment proceedings against the president Cyril Ramaphosa

South Africa has had its first draft national artificial intelligence policy removed following the discovery of fictitious citations in the document that appeared to be AI generated. The recall, which has emerged after the draft policy’s phony references were exposed, is more than a bureaucratic blip; it’s precisely the sort of gaffe that might cause a person to drop their mug halfway to their lips. You have to ask yourself: Wait, the policy that is meant to regulate AI just got undermined by AI? That’s embarrassing, to be sure, but also instructive in that it’s a cautionary tale. South African […]

On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with "2,500 in Canadian travelers' checks and a bag of clothes and books," then spent an unusually long time talking about his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, more familiar slate of companies he now runs. Why is Musk giving the jury so much of his origin story? Though he may be, depending on the day, the world's wealthiest individual, Musk suggested … Read the full story at The Verge.