
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026, 05:32

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.

The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

Zoom Fibre has launched the Get Flex ISP, with prepaid fibre to redefine customer-first connectivity.

Africa Tech Builders Lab rolls out a programme to bridge the gap between technical education and market-ready execution.

The AI factory is central to growth, as it accelerates the shift to platform-based digital businesses, says Altron’s CEO.
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As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Binance co-CEO Richard Teng on why Africa leads the world in real-world crypto adoption.

Instead of positioning individuals as students, Projectized Management places them in structured, outcomes-driven environments where they are expected to contribute.

ISO 27001 provides an auditable framework for protecting information, covering everything from access control to how systems and communications are secured, says Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix.

As SA’s ICT skills shortage doubles in two years, sustained level one B-BBEE status signals a long-term commitment to building the talent pipeline the sector needs, the company says.

A silver sponsor of the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, Rubrik says SA’s rapid AI adoption is not being matched by cyber security readiness, particularly among SMEs.

Cyber criminals attempted to infiltrate a global recruitment firm’s systems, but Cortex XDR detected the unusual activity and automatically blocked the remote IP address.
In his rethinking of Jean Genet’s classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders “a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself.”

For companies using Kyocera devices, documents flow directly into the Square9 environment, triggering automated processes without disrupting existing workflows.

Cearvol’s Wave Lite hearing aids take on the stigma of aging with tech-inspired design, but they lack the nuance to be truly useful.