Author: Nola Jones

It began with a discussion. There was no formal paperwork or signed contract, just conversations between two people who seemed to leave with quite different interpretations of what had been agreed upon. Spur Corporation has spent over R129 million in provisions and counting as a result of that gap, which, despite its apparent smallness at the time, has now developed into one of the most costly legal disputes in South Africa’s restaurant industry. The lawsuit against Spur GPS Food Group began in 2019 when GPS Food Group served a summons alleging that it and Spur entities had an oral agreement…

No one needs an explanation from Jenna Ortega. The longer you follow her career, her interviews, and the incessant low hum of tabloid rumors that seem to follow every actress the moment she becomes too well-known to ignore, the more obvious this is. For years, the question of whether Jenna Ortega has a husband or even a committed boyfriend has circulated in the world of celebrity rumors. As of 2026, the answer is still the same as it has always been: there isn’t one, and she has come to terms with the fact that it is more of the public’s…

Lying on your back in a pitch-black field and watching streaks of light tear across the sky has a subtly humble quality. You don’t need an app. Not a ticket. All you need are your eyes, a little tolerance, and the courage to go outside after midnight. The Perseid meteor shower reaches its yearly peak tonight, August 12, and into the early hours of August 13. This year’s conditions are as favorable as they get. The Perseids are not an uncommon cosmic mishap. They consistently occur each year as Earth travels thru the debris trail left by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, a…

The wedding took place. The cameras continued to roll. In reality, Amber Mozo, a 30-year-old travel photographer from O’ahu, Hawaii, and Harry Jowsey, the enduringly endearing and unmarried star of Netflix’s Let’s Marry Harry, walked down the aisle and exchanged vows. The show had been building toward this kind of moment throughout the entire season. Amanda Kloots is officiating, along with friends and family. the entire production. However, the question of whether Harry and Amber were still together was already being asked aloud by everyone just one day after the August 12, 2026, finale. It’s worth stopping to consider how…

What you see when you watch a group of eighth graders argue with an AI tool during lunch is very telling. One student asks for a new version. Another person scans an X-ray into an app to see if the machine agrees with what his doctor says. A third is figuring out how to use it to make plans for her henna business. These kids aren’t waiting for a unit on AI to be added to their curriculum. It’s already inside them, where they build things, ask questions, and sometimes yell at the screen when it gives them something wrong.…

In schools across the country over the last two years, there has been a strange pattern. Administrators met to talk about rules for a technology that most of them had only used briefly. Updates to syllabi were made quickly by teachers. Parents asked things that no one could quite answer. In the middle of it all, there wasn’t much information about what ChatGPT was doing to students’ learning, habits, or ability to think through problems. The SCALE Initiative at Stanford and OpenAI are working together on new research to try to close that gap. The project, which is based at…

When something is wrong in the classroom but no one knows how to say it, there is a certain kind of quiet anger that builds. An 11th-grade U.S. history teacher in Bensenville, Illinois, saw that frustration play out slowly as a group of her students spent almost two weeks following a ChatGPT-directed research thread that led them to a yellow fever outbreak that happened many years before the time period they were supposed to be studying. The students were sure of themselves. The AI seemed sure of itself. Everyone moved forward. After that, everything broke down. The mistake is not…

There is something slightly silly about how AI is used in higher education right now. Policies have been written, consultants have been hired, and all-staff meetings have been held. They have changed the academic integrity handbooks, put disclaimers in assignment briefs, and put in detection software that most students already know how to get around. A proper, structured, and open pilot is something that almost none of them have done, but it might be the one thing that tells them what works. The Wonkhe and Kortext research team brought this up in their project called “Educating the AI Generation.” It’s…

In order to help AI learn, Thought Industries has just released AI Wave. Why it might have a bigger effect on business education than on higher education People who have had to go through a required corporate training module will understand a certain kind of frustration. It’s a forty-minute course. The writing was done three product cycles ago. After going through some slides and taking a quiz that doesn’t test anything, you close the browser. It doesn’t stick. Nobody expected it to. For decades, that experience—boring, impersonal, and having nothing to do with the work being done—has been the standard…

When a child flinches at a loud noise or freezes up near a stranger on the street, every parent knows what’s going on. Mostly, that’s just being careful as a child. But what happens when those times don’t just happen once in a while? What happens when the sound of sirens, loud voices, or worse is played over and over again in a child’s head? That question has been bothering researchers for years. Scientists are now beginning to understand what many families who live in areas with a lot of violence have known for a long time. A study in…