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Nigerian military contracts private company backed by US investors to develop weaponised AI-guided drones

Backed by US investors, a Nigerian company has won a contract with the Nigerian military to supply weaponised drones to defend the country from terrorist attacks. The company had previously stopped supplying the Nigerian military for geopol

AI expert: We don’t know how AI works

In an interview last year, AI expert Professor Stuart Russell exposed the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how artificial general intelligence (“AGI”) could replace humans by 2030 and why only a nuclear-level AI cata

Davos 2026 Unpacked: What Was It Really About?

Davos presents itself as a forum for shared solutions to global problems. But this year was not about cooperation – it was about leverage. The public agenda focused on technology, climate, and “global risks”. Beneath that language, the real

Musk-Grok Controversy: Where’s the Line Between Censorship and Safety?

What began as reports of the Grok AI chatbot generating explicit deepfake images has quickly turned into lawsuits, regulatory demands, and international investigations. Meanwhile, Musk insists the outrage is being used as an excuse to tight

Patrick Wood: 2026 will be a rocky year; keep your wits about you

By the end of 2026, AI is expected to have advanced 128 times since Trump’s inauguration and improvements in deep fakes will turn society on its head. This year will also see the rise of the robots, the risk of the food chain collapsing wi

AI will be the demise of the climate alarmists

Decades of consensus around the so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological and geopolitical realities. Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global c

AI industry’s circular financing: Is it boom or bust

The recent AI boom is being propelled by circular financing, where a few large companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD, finance each other’s expansions and lock in future demand. These few companies are signing multibillion-dollar co

Wikipedia vs Grokipedia: How do they compare?

On Monday, Elon Musk launched a challenge to Wikipedia. Called Grokipedia, it is an AI-powered online encyclopaedia developed by xAI. It has so far, around 900,000 AI-generated pages. Only a few days into its launch, we take a look at how

AI Industry’s Illegal $1 Trillion Funding Loop: Here’s What’s Really Happening

AI is the new gold rush, but the money isn’t moving how most people think. In 2025 alone, OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) and its partners have signed over $1 trillion worth of deals. The twist here is that OpenAI only actually made $4.3 billio

Major Red Sea undersea cables have been cut

Two major undersea cable systems in the Red Sea were reportedly severed, causing widespread internet disruptions across parts of Asia and the Middle East, including India, Pakistan, the UAE and Kuwait. The cause of the damage remains unknow

AI Is The Final Human Invention: Will It Bring Peril or Prosperity?

Economist William Nordhaus once calculated that our ancestors spent approximately 58 hours of labour to generate the same amount of light that’s now produced by a modern lightbulb in an instant. By the 1700s, oil lamps cut that figure to fi

12 New AI Billionaires

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace. The AI boom is becoming the largest wealth creation spree in recent history, according to CNBC. Last month, CNBC said that “AI is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the past two

Energy and water-hungry AI is bad for the environment

AI giants, including OpenAI, are accused of hiding their environmental footprint. The growth of artificial intelligence is leading to increased energy consumption; data centres’ power consumption is expected to double by 2030. And by 2027,

Rates of sickness in New Zealand have gone up by 17-30% since 2019

In some New Zealand public sectors, rates of sickness have tripled among working-age people since 2019. Additionally, a health and medical insurance company, which covers 20% of the population, reported an increase of 17% in claims for sick