Marché Arends

Hype Studies • 1st April 2026

Why Sam Altman really called for urgent regulation of AI at the AI Impact Summit

The fourth annual AI Impact Summit took place in India from February 16-20 this year and was a star-studded event hosting Big Tech heavyweights including OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic, Google and various Heads of State. Deals were made and buzzwords were thrown around liberally but one thing that stood out was OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s calls for “urgent” regulation in the AI industry.

Tech Policy Press • 25th March 2026

How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers

What Silicon Valley markets as “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labour hierarchies, a plunder of African skills, and a commodification of African knowledge.

GIJN • 19th March 2026

How They Did It: Analyzing Job Posting Data to Investigate the African Labor Behind AGI Hype

In the AI economy, hundreds of thousands of digital workers — or “gig workers” — from around the world are tasked with refining the answers of models like ChatGPT.

This investigation was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Network

Africa Uncensored • 26th August 2025

Fuelling the AGI hype: The Recruitment Playbook to land Big Tech contracts - Africa Uncensored

An investigation into the mass recruitment of "AI Tutors" and "AI Trainers" by micro-tasking companies reveals the deceptive and exploitative practices that these companies use, with false promises of work creating the illusion of a booming, high-skilled job market that does not exist.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels

The Continent • 30th November 2024

Give us our data back, says AU

Tech companies are hoarding African data. The African Union wants them to hand it over.

The Continent • 24th August 2024

Serving Putin – without even knowing it

By signing up to Toloka and
completing available tasks, gig workers
were – without their knowledge or explicit
consent – bolstering an authoritarian
regime’s efforts to repress dissent.

Semafor • 11th August 2024

The beauty queen and the xenophobes

The wave of vitriol directed at Adetshina highlights a very particular type of bigotry in South Africa: Afrophobia.

The Continent • 3rd August 2024

Zuma-ANC divorce sealed with a hiss

After spending months campaigning for another party, former president Jacob Zuma has officially been expelled from the ruling(ish) party.

The Continent • 20th July 2024

Is anyone paying any attention?

The world is ignoring the conflict in Africa’s most resource-rich country.

The Continent • 20th July 2024

Lawyers down tools over military repression

Lawyers in Guinea began a two-week strike on Tuesday to protest against arbitrary arrests and secret detentions allegedly carried out by the military junta.

The Continent • 13th July 2024

Mayor blames poor for storm destruction

Cape Town is being battered by extreme storms. But its mayor is blaming poor people instead of climate change.

The Africa Report • 11th December 2023

ANC ‘on verge of losing power’ as new party is launched

African National Congress (ANC) cadre Mavuso Msimang cut ties with the party after 60 years of membership.

The Africa Report • 8th December 2023

Mining sector ‘sitting on a ticking time bomb’, says analyst

South Africa’s mining industry has made headlines recently with warring unions, hostage situations, deadly incidents, and illegal mining gangs.

The Africa Report • 1st December 2023

Starlink is illegal warns industry regulator

Telecommunications industry regulator ICASA released an official notice on Tuesday that the usage or provision of Starlink’s services in the country is illegal.

The Africa Report • 27th November 2023

Uprising the work of ‘dissidents who plotted failed August coup’

Most leaders of the armed group that attacked a military base and broke into prisons in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have been apprehended.

The Africa Report • 23rd November 2023

BRICS leaders decry war in Gaza but fail to reach agreement

The day before a four-day humanitarian truce was agreed upon in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, leaders of the BRICS nations held an extraordinary virtual summit.

TheAfricaReport.com • 9th November 2023

Divided continent: Where Africa stands on the Israel-Hamas war

Few African leaders have spoken openly about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Those who have, maintain a firm stance on their divergent positions.

The Africa Report • 8th November 2023

Ramaphosa ‘Farmgate’ saga resurfaces as burglary suspects arrested

Cyril Ramaphosa is back in the spotlight after two suspects connected to the February 2020 burglary of his Phala Phala farm were arrested on Tuesday.

The Africa Report • 7th November 2023

Could rifts in local coalitions bode ill for ANC 2024 election prospects?

A proposal by the ruling ANC to terminate all local government coalition agreements with the EFF will soon be reviewed by the National Task Team on Coalitions.

The Africa Report • 6th November 2023

South Africa and Chad recall ambassadors from Israel

South Africa is recalling its ambassadors from Tel Aviv, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Monday, stopping short of calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to South Africa.

The Africa Report • 2nd November 2023

Opinion polls spell trouble for the ANC

Support for the ANC has dropped below the 50% mark again, according to a recent survey by the Social Research Foundation

The Africa Report • 30th October 2023

With RSF backers UAE absent at peace talks, hope is dim

Just days after the Sudanese army accepted an invitation to resume talks aimed at ending over six months of fighting with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the RSF captured Nyala.

The Africa Report • 26th October 2023

Fight for the Zulu nation throne in court…again

Zulu Prince Simakade is attempting to unseat his half-brother and current monarch, King Misuzulu, who was officially recognised by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2022 as the heir to the highly contested Zulu throne.

The Africa Report • 25th October 2023

Labour dispute keeps 500 miners trapped underground

More than 500 National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members were allegedly “held hostage” by rival union the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at the mine just outside of Johannesburg.