Microsoft, ex-Google CEO back AI alignment startup Synth Labs

Artificial intelligence software doesn’t always do what the people building it want it to do — a potentially dangerous issue that has consumed some of the largest companies working on the technology. Big companies like OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are increasingly directing workers, money…

New Transnet boss is a mover and shaker

Transnet’s road to recovery will depend on newly appointed CEO Michelle Phillips – a mover and shaker who has saved the state-owned enterprise more than R1 billion over the past 18 months. And she’ll have Nosipho Maphumulo as group chief…