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In this November 6, 2023 photo, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, appears on stage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s first developer conference, in San Francisco.
December 9, 2025

OpenAI, Microsoft reach new agreement to change corporate structure

OpenAI has reached a new tentative agreement with Microsoft and said its non-profit, which technically controls its business, will now be given a US$100 billion equity stake in its for-profit…
A student types a prompt into ChatGPT on a Chromebook during class on August 27, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Rise of AI tools forcing schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat. “The cheating…
Science-loving highschooler Kayla Kerr aspires to establish her own Jamaican-based bioengineering firm within the next 20 years.
December 9, 2025

GoodHeart | Alums help Kayla Kerr attend robotics championship in Texas

As she begins her final year at Campion College, upper-sixth former Kayla Kerr is focused on what lies ahead. “Career-wise, I would want to go into bioengineering, but I also have a great deal of…
Mohamed El-Erian
December 9, 2025

Mohamed El-Erian | Powell’s last chance to protect the Fed

As Jerome Powell approaches the end of his term as chair of the US Federal Reserve in May 2026, the central bank’s standing is lower – and its vulnerability greater – than it has been in decades. This…
This cover image released by Capitol Records shows ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’ by Calum Scott and Whitney Houston.
December 9, 2025

A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made a song with late star

NEW YORK (AP): It sounds impossible, but that’s the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death. English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a…
Ed Sheeran arrives at the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4, 2024, in Los Angeles.
December 9, 2025

Music Review: Ed Sheeran returns to his roots on ‘Play’

NEW YORK (AP): Ed Sheeran has long sought to bring people together with his music, whether it be his emotionally resonant acoustic ballads or unproblematic, danceable pop hits. Play, his eighth studio…
Isat Buchanan
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Vazland breached!

Post election, the loudest public kerfuffle surrounded the query “how cum ‘Action Ann’ lose to ‘Little Youth’ in East Portland?” I was among those pre-election pundits who carelessly placed Portland…
Ngwiza Khumbulani Moyo, a vintage collector, shows a young boy some of his old radio sets outside his home in Bulawayo.
December 9, 2025

Zimbabwean homeowners face land sales and demolitions dilemma

THE EDITOR, Madam: It’s sad and painful that ZANU-PF has historically used land as a means of consolidating political loyalty. Stands are sometimes handed out at rallies or through party-linked…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Discrimination against Trinidad and Tobago travellers

THE EDITOR, Madam: There is a troubling inconsistency in Jamaica’s travel health policies that deserves urgent attention. Passengers arriving from Trinidad and Tobago are currently required to…