Corrections

We checked every story we have published against its sources. In 42 stories we found statements the sources do not support, or got wrong. We have corrected them. Where a claim could not be supported, we removed it. Where a web address carried a wrong claim, the story has a new address and the old one leads to it.

109 corrections in 42 stories. Corrections dated 10 November 2026. To report an error, write to editor@infercline.com.

Story	What was wrong	What it says now
83% of South African firms have moved some AI off public cloud, Cloudera survey finds	The headline said South African firms were moving AI off public cloud because token costs were rising. The token-cost finding was about EMEA firms in a different survey.	83% of South African firms have moved some AI off public cloud, Cloudera survey finds.
A US founder with no staff expects up to $3 million from 12 brands run with AI tools	The headline said US solopreneurs generate millions. CNBC named one founder, Alex Willen, who expects $2.5 million to $3 million this year.	A US founder with no staff expects up to $3 million from 12 brands run with AI tools.
Absa cuts debt review turnaround from four days to one with AI	A slide said debt review is one of four places Absa uses AI, counted staff training as a use, and said one document-reading tool powers fraud detection and training.	Debt review is one of several places Absa uses AI; fraud detection and phishing email scanning use other AI tools.
AI ‘godfather’ warns UK of dangerous reliance on US tech giants	The story said Hinton told the Guardian the UK risks becoming a “vassal state”, and quoted him calling for an “FDA-style” process.	The vassal state warning came from UKAI, as City AM reported. Hinton said he wants something like the American FDA for drugs; the quotation marks are gone.
AI sell‑off wipes trillions from markets, UK investors feel the shock	The story said the sell-off erased trillions of pounds, and its numbers chart listed a global market loss of £0. City AM gives no currency.	It says trillions were wiped off global markets, as City AM does, and the £0 entry is removed.
AI‑driven heating controls tested in a UK home	The story called the hardware cost modest and the house a typical British home. The Guardian says the system, at about £930, is not cheap, and describes only the tester's own 1930s brick house.	It gives the cost as about £930, which the tester said was not cheap, and no longer calls the house typical.
AIQ launches AI‑native operating system for energy, eyes global expansion	The story said AIQ is piloting a computer-vision project in India and has activities in North America.	AIQ has a large, multi-year commercial computer-vision engagement in India and sees opportunities in North America.
Airbnb to launch AI travel agent in first half of 2027	The story had three quotes. One was not word for word ("new interface built specifically for travel"), one was credited to TechCrunch when Brian Chesky said it, and one was stored with no speaker.	Two quotes remain, both credited to Brian Chesky: it will feel “a little bit like generative UI”, and an interface “much richer than a chatbot.”
Anthropic’s AI development has doubled in speed despite slowdown calls	The summary said Anthropic's chief executive was urging a pause in AI progress. He called for the industry to slow the pace of improvement, not to pause.	It says he urges the industry to slow down.
Aramco buys 49% of HUMAIN for $2.6 billion as Abu Dhabi signs OpenAI deals	The story said the Abu Dhabi government launched the AED 9 million AI challenge.	It says the UAE launched an AED 9 million government AI challenge.
AURÄI launches AI governance platform at ISACA Lagos conference	The story said only 38% of organisations have an AI strategy or comprehensive policy. The source gives two separate figures.	It says 38% of audit teams have a strategy for AI, and 38% of organisations have a comprehensive policy for the AI tools their staff use.
Australian firms warned on narrow AI view by executive	The story said many Australian firms leave AI to the IT team. IT Brief reported the opposite: responsibility for AI is moving beyond IT into the executive suite.	The story says Whitewater warned that many Australian firms take too narrow a view of AI, as responsibility moves beyond IT.
AWS launches Kiro Crew bots to add persistent agents to its dev environment	The story expanded MCP as model-control-plane, which no source says.	It says MCP only, as The Register does.
Box adds Nvidia Nemotron to speed up agent content retrieval	The story said Nvidia expects AI usage, or the AI bill, to fall by 90%.	Nvidia expects 90% fewer tokens used, meaning less text sent per query.
BY Venture Partners raises $60m fund to back AI startups	The story gave the 15 investments and the planned 40-company portfolio to the whole firm, and wrote the 50% carried interest pledge as "half".	Fund III has made 15 investments so far, out of a planned 40, and the pledge reads 50% of its carried interest.
CambriLearn adds AI assistant to parent portal	The example question was quoted as “Did Emma attend all her live lessons this week?”.	It is quoted as the sources give it: “Did Emma go to all her live lessons this week?”
China allegedly recruited an executive at an Nvidia customer to spy on Nvidia's boss	The headline stated as fact that China recruited a Megaspeed executive to spy on Nvidia's chief executive. The sources report it as a claim in a memo.	China allegedly recruited an executive at an Nvidia customer to spy on Nvidia's boss.
Cloudflare says AI agents are a bane for website operators	The story put "security misery" in quotation marks as Prince's words. It is The Register's phrase, not his.	It quotes what Prince did say, that Cloudflare is “among the first to receive quiet disclosure of new vulnerabilities”, and credits the security misery point to The Register.
Digify Africa launches WhatsApp‑based Didi Mobile Academy for youth	The story said the Trevor Noah Foundation was giving this course R50 million. R50 million is the size of the foundation's whole Kulaninati Innovation Fund, not the course's share.	It says the foundation funds the course through its Kulaninati Innovation Fund, a R50 million fund for education and youth projects.
Firms can unlock AI value in forgotten back‑office tasks	The story said South African firms in particular run old, forgotten back-office processes. The source makes no claim about South Africa; it says every business has them. It also gave the wrong reason companies put AI into customer service.	It no longer names South Africa, and says companies tend to put AI where the complaints are.
Gulf firms urged to close AI security gaps to boost cyber resilience	The story said Gulf firms adopt AI faster than they can secure it, and claimed lower insurance premiums, higher recruitment costs, regulatory penalties, training in AI-driven threat hunting, and that not knowing what is deployed is the most common gap.	Baltagi said security and governance are not always keeping pace; the cost and penalty claims are removed; the training is in using AI in security operations; limited visibility is one common gap.
Hackers used an internal AI tool in a Binance breach affecting $6.34bn	The story said hackers stole $6.34bn, called Nigeria the second-largest crypto market and said Binance disclosed the attack on 29 October.	It says $6.34bn in digital assets was affected, Nigeria ranked second for crypto adoption in Chainalysis' 2024 index, and the breach happened on 29 October.
Heidi cuts headcount by 18% and co‑founders leave after $475 million raise	The story said the cuts reach teams worldwide, not just in Australia, and called the cuts part of a broader trend of tech firms cutting after big raises.	Heidi did not outline how many staff are leaving or from where; the Canva cut on the same day is reported without a trend claim.
Hugging Face's Irene Solaiman tells Equity what startups need to know about open models	The story reported advice from Irene Solaiman on total cost of ownership, platforms, monitoring non-US models and reviewing the AI stack, and said she warned about Chinese models. The source only lists the episode's topics.	It says she spoke to TechCrunch's Equity podcast about what startups need to know before building on open models, and credits the point about Chinese models to TechCrunch.
Khalifa University launches RFGPT trial for telecom operators at MWC Doha	The timeline said AMD reported record revenue of $13.4 billion in 2026, driven by AI GPU sales, as if for the year.	It says $13.4 billion was AMD's record third-quarter revenue, and that the AI chip and processor sales drove its 97% data centre rise.
Meta expands Muse AI with real‑time voice and video chat in the US	The story said Muse can handle scheduling, drafting emails or retrieving data, and that it could lower training costs, limit privacy risks to voice recordings and give early adopters a productivity edge. No source says any of this.	It says what the sources say: you can ask Muse questions or hand it tasks, and it may pause while it looks things up. The unsupported claims are removed.
Meta launches Spaces, custom collaboration hubs for Muse agents	The story said Spaces needs no extra licence and could cut licence costs, and that rival assistants prompted Meta to expand its features.	The reports give no price; TechCrunch says only that Meta competes with OpenAI's and SpaceXAI's agents.
Microsoft declines extra capacity in Nscale Texas data centre	The story dated Microsoft's Ward County agreement with Nscale to October 2023.	It says October 2025, which City AM describes as October last year.
Midterm elections deal a blow to data centre expansion in the US	The story said anti data centre messages helped Democrats win governor races, that the midterms halted most new data centre projects, and that analysts warned of higher costs for cloud users. Fast Company says none of this; an expert it quotes says it is probably too early to say the issue swung a race.	The story says Democrats who campaigned against data centres also won, that it is probably too early to say the issue swung a race, and that the warning is about slower AI infrastructure. Our take now says the price of computing power may rise, as our reading.
NAB rolls out AI assistant Ruby to 40,000 staff, eyes further use cases	The story said NAB showed AI can be rolled out at scale without massive upfront cost, and that Ruby runs on a platform the bank did not have to build. No source says anything about cost. It also called one of NAB's priorities home-loan portfolios.	The cost claim is removed, our take says Ruby is built on an Anthropic platform, and the priority reads proprietary home lending.
NightsBridge breach exposed no payment details, but booking references can fuel WhatsApp scams	The story said NightsBridge is used by 10,000 South African hotels, and that it warned clients on 2 November.	NightsBridge has said it serves a client base of 10,000 across 41 countries. The unusual activity was on 2 November; the warning came after it.
Nuix launches AI agent for forensic investigations	The story called Nuix an Australian firm. None of our sources says where Nuix is based.	It calls Nuix an investigation software firm.
Nvidia faces US scrutiny over China chip sales and CEO ties	The story said Huang may have had a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and that Nvidia sold to entities that face trade restrictions.	Axios reports Congress will investigate Huang over alleged spy ties; the Times describes buyers connected to restricted entities being approved.
Nvidia shares tumble as board probes CEO’s alleged spy affair	The story called $500 billion the size of Nvidia's financing web, said Megaspeed bought $2 billion of chips in 2025, and wrote five per cent in words.	$500 billion is what August preliminary agreements aim to mobilise; the New York Times reported the $2 billion in October 2025; the fall is written as about 5%.
Old Mutual executive urges South African firms to view AI as capacity boost	The story said Ross made her point after speaking at the Singularity Summit, and that treating AI as capacity shifts budgets to training and helps retain talent. TechCentral says neither.	The story says she spoke in a TechCentral interview after the summit; the budget and talent claims are removed.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M	The story said TechCrunch calls 50 times revenue a typical price for software firms. TechCrunch says pricing by a multiple of revenue is standard and calls this high price no anomaly.	It says what TechCrunch says: the method is standard, and the high price is no anomaly in a market focused on securing software against attackers using AI.
Phaze Ventures launches AI funds targeting $75 million in Oman	The story spelt the co-investor Andreessen Horowitz as "a16k".	It is spelt "a16z", as the sources spell it.
Playful launches AI‑driven “vibe coding” platform for non‑technical creators	The story said early testers built an audio transcription app that needed several rewordings. Fast Company's reporter built that app; testers built a finance spreadsheet and a video editing tool. It also said Playful's AI was trained on data storage and AI features.	The transcription app is credited to Fast Company's reporter, and the story says Playful's AI has more specific training on creating apps, with built-in tools for data storage and summarisation.
Seagate survey finds only 38% of firms ready for AI's long-term data demands	The story presented the survey figures as Gulf and Middle East findings. The survey covered the US, China, India, the UK, Germany, France and Japan.	Every figure is given as a result of Seagate's seven-country survey; 77% have delayed or restructured AI infrastructure expansion.
South African firms face hidden AI risks as agents act beyond their instructions	The story said 10 agents took unsanctioned actions in 19 separate incidents, and labelled the 10 as autonomous runs.	In 10 of 122 test runs an agent took unsanctioned action on the live internet, 19 actions in all. Figures are now written as digits.
South African firms must prioritise data and security as AI use surges	The story said 93% of firms in the study, or South African firms, go over their AI budgets.	Dell said 93% of organisations worldwide exceed their AI budgets because of token consumption.
UK warned of AI‑driven ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure by 2028	The story said malicious cyber activity costs UK organisations about £14.7 billion a year and that the NCSC recorded 1,830 attack reports, 80 of them nationally significant. No source we can read states these figures.	The figures are removed.