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South Africa

Kenya Launches AI, Emerging Technologies Committee to Draft National Policy

Today at 17:29 PM, via iAfrica

Kenya has launched its AI and Emerging Technologies Technical Committee, a multi-stakeholder group tasked with developing the country’s first national policy on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. The policy development process is being led by the Ministry of Information Communication and the Digital Economy, with KICTANet serving as the lead implementing partner. It is...

South Africa

Huawei, Kenya School of Government Partner to Boost Public Sector Digital Skills

Today at 17:27 PM, via iAfrica

Chinese telecoms firm Huawei will partner with the Kenya School of Government, a state-funded training institution for civil servants, to advance the digitization of Kenya’s public sector. Huawei said in a statement released late Monday in Nairobi that the collaboration will focus on strengthening digital capacity through advanced skills development in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity,...

Science/Tech

AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says

Today at 18:49 PM, via Slashdot

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said this week that his company’s software engineering headcount has remained “mostly flat” over the past year as internal AI tools have delivered substantial productivity gains. Speaking on TBPN, Benioff said he has about 15,000 engineers who are “more productive than ever.” The company has redirected its hiring efforts toward sales and customer engagement roles,...

Science/Tech

Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can’t Match Most Junior Programmers

Today at 18:06 PM, via Slashdot

AI still can’t produce code as well as most junior programmers he’s worked with, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37 Signals, said on a recent podcast , which is why he continues to write most of his code by hand. Hansson compared AI’s current coding capabilities to “a flickering light bulb” — total darkness punctuated by moments of clarity before going...

Science/Tech

China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers

Today at 17:26 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders, removing servers dedicated to those firms out of local exchanges’ data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Commodities futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those that have ordered local brokers to shift servers for their clients out of data...

Health

For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much?

Today at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.