South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting inve • The Register

South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot. The country’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies confirmed over the weekend that the draft, which had already cleared Cabinet and was out for public comment, included “various fictitious…

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Trump World launches ballroom blitz in wake of WHCA dinner shooting

President Trump and his political allies are pointing to Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner as providing urgent proof of the need for his planned ballroom on White House grounds, touting its security strengths for large events.  Trump highlighted the ballroom’s potential security benefits shortly after the shooting on Saturday, telling……

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