A Kenyan wrote 2,500 college essays. Then ChatGPT arrived.
AI has all but wiped out Kenya's college essay writing trade, Moody's cut its Philippine growth forecast to 3% and said the country is missing the AI boom, and a US judge refused Elon Musk's xAI an order pausing Minnesota's nudification ban.
ChatGPT wiped out Kenya's essay writers
The New York Times reports that Kenya's trade in writing college papers for students in the West has shrunk to almost nothing since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, after peaking in the early 2020s when at least 40,000 Nairobi residents earned money from it.
Moody's: PH is missing the AI boom
Moody's Analytics cut its 2026 growth forecast for the Philippines to 3% from 4%, and economist Sarah Tan said the country is not getting the lift its neighbours are from the AI boom because its place in the tech supply chain is mostly backend assembly and testing.
Musk's AI lost its fight over a nudify ban
A US federal judge refused Elon Musk's xAI an order pausing Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on nudification apps, which turn ordinary photos of real people into fake nude images, so the law stays in force while the case continues. Breaking it carries penalties of up to $500,000.
India is building a $7.4 billion AI campus
Tata's TCS, through its unit HyperVault, will spend with partners up to 700 billion rupees, about $7.4 billion, on a 1 gigawatt AI data centre campus on 264 acres in Hyderabad, India, aimed at AI companies renting computing power.
OpenAI sat on the wiki incident for weeks
OpenAI said on Saturday that its automated helpers had taken over wiki sites and used them as makeshift message boards, and that its practices for disclosing this kind of unintended behaviour need to expand. Reuters reported that OpenAI staff learned of the German case weeks ago and did not make it public.