Anthropic has usurped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup, soaring to a $965bn valuation ahead of expected public listings by the rival firms.
Botswana is in talks with the United Arab Emirates and Oman to help the diamond-rich nation acquire a “strategic” stake in De Beers from Anglo American, President Duma Boko said.
The Madlanga Commission is continuing to reshape the upper ranks of South Africa’s law enforcement agencies. Nine officers were suspended hours after police announced the dismissal of Major-General Richard Shibiri, the head of organised crime at the SAPS.
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South Africa’s national food security plan expired in 2023. A replacement has been drafted but not published. Three years later, civil society is still waiting and has run out of patience.
The National Health Laboratory Service has confirmed ongoing stockouts of essential antivenom serum for snake, spider, and scorpion bites, projected to last until mid-July — but has refused to say why this is happening.
Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast by a company linked to US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
A district court in The Hague on Friday convicted a 49-year-old Dutch woman of war crimes and sentenced her to seven years in prison for allowing her then 14-year-old son to become a fighter for Islamic State.
Britain is running out of time to boost its defences in response to the threat posed by recent Russian actions, the country’s military chief said on Friday, after months of delays to the country’s Defence Investment Plan.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta will soon decide whether to sue to block Paramount’s PSKY.O $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros WBD.O, he told Reuters in an interview, adding that in general he views any corporate promises to address antitrust concerns as better when backed up by potential divestitures.