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Sam Altman

After the Bell: In the meantime, before the end of the world, can’t we just laugh at AI?

Business Maverick, Maverick News

After the Bell: In the meantime, before the end of the world, can’t we just laugh at AI?

by: Tim Cohen

Crossed Wires: ‘The coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen’

Business Maverick, Sci-Tech, Op-eds

Crossed Wires: ‘The coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen’

by: Steven Boykey Sidley

Crossed Wires: DeepSeek, hand-wringing, hysteria and the changing geopolitics of technology

Sci-Tech

Crossed Wires: DeepSeek, hand-wringing, hysteria and the changing geopolitics of technology

by: Steven Boykey Sidley

AI is becoming firmly entrenched, but questions are being asked over its future development

Business Maverick, South Africa, World, Maverick Life, DM168

AI is becoming firmly entrenched, but questions are being asked over its future development

by: Don Bayley

After the Bell: Money for nothing and your BIG cheques for free

Business Maverick, South Africa, World

After the Bell: Money for nothing and your BIG cheques for free

by: Georgina Crouth

Why is the media selling their prized content to OpenAI?

Op-eds

Why is the media selling their prized content to OpenAI?

by: Paul McNally

AI shaping up to become the greatest geopolitical weapon in history

World, Op-eds

AI shaping up to become the greatest geopolitical weapon in history

by: Steven Boykey Sidley

Why are so many brilliant Big Tech pioneers such arseholes?

Business Maverick, World, DM168

Why are so many brilliant Big Tech pioneers such arseholes?

by: Tim Richman

After the Bell: A subtext to the OpenAI debacle — Sam Altman’s kooky economics

Business Maverick, South Africa, World

After the Bell: A subtext to the OpenAI debacle — Sam Altman’s kooky economics

by: Tim Cohen

It’s time to stop giving AI a free pass and bring structure to a chaotic world

South Africa, World, Maverick News

It’s time to stop giving AI a free pass and bring structure to a chaotic world

by: Lisa Esterhuyzen

Marriage of Sam Altman and Microsoft — how (we suspect) the astonishing transaction went down

World, Op-eds

Marriage of Sam Altman and Microsoft — how (we suspect) the astonishing transaction went down

by: Steven Boykey Sidley

AI – the beginning of the end of the cellphone?

Business Maverick, World, Maverick News

AI – the beginning of the end of the cellphone?

by: Steven Boykey Sidley