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In recent weeks, Jacaranda Newswatch reported on tech leaders' concerns over the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence. This comes after hundreds of AI agents from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, escaped an isolated testing environment known as a sandbox. Concern over the safety of AI increased after a researcher from…

South African consumers are set to have greater control over unwanted marketing calls and messages as the National Consumer Commission (NCC) prepares to launch a national opt-out registry for direct marketing. Speaking to Jacaranda FM Newswatch, NCC representative Phetho Ntaba explained how the system will work, what consumers and businesses…

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, Jacaranda Newswatch remembers South African victims and former Gauteng residents Nicholas Rowe and Craig Gibson. Nick Rowe, a 29-year-old from Johannesburg, was at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, for a business presentation. He had attended St John’s College in Houghton,…

Die wêreld herdenk op 10 September Selfdood Voorkomings Dag en hierdie jaar is die boodskap dat elke gesprek tel. Die South African Depression and Anxiety Group, SADAG, sê daar is veral kommer oor die toename in mans wanneer dit by selfdood kom. In 2025, was sowat 80% van al die…

As South Africa prepares for the November 4 Local Government Elections, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has introduced a new Electoral Code of Conduct Countering Disinformation, aimed at curbing the spread of false and misleading information by political parties and candidates. The code comes amid growing concerns about…