Today
- Opinion
- Opinion
How to regulate AI risk without killing innovation
Australia must join the rush to develop a dynamic AI industry, with appropriate guardrails – especially in education.
- 1 hr ago
- Zoe McKenzie
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Microsoft
New data centres mean surging power needs
The rush is on build new data centres, but their massive energy requirements are adding to strain on the power grid.
- Jennifer Hewett
Microsoft and Google’s quarterly results reveal contrasting fortunes
The performance of the two tech arch-rivals underlines the early lead Microsoft has taken in the AI race while Google struggles to catch up in the cloud.
- Richard Waters and Camilla Hodgson
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Why Microsoft jumped and Google slumped when both beat expectations
A modest gap in cloud computing performance pushed the tech giants’ share prices billions in different directions, showing investors care about one thing: AI.
- Nick Bonyhady
Microsoft sales jump in AI arms race against Google
The technology company has invested in ChatGPT developer OpenAI and launched a series of AI-powered tools for its Office and Word products recently.
- Matthew Field
This Month
PM unveils $5b big tech spend as he arrives in US
Microsoft will invest billions of dollars as it partners with Australia’s cyber spy agency and provides digital skills training for 300,000 people.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Cloud
Microsoft’s new $5b Aussie deal is a massive tech land grab
The tech giant’s Australian investment is a significant move to commandeer two of the biggest and most lucrative global technology bandwagons.
- Paul Smith
NAB says AI will cut the drudgery for its bankers
The bank is working with Microsoft to embed AI into its 365 software, which bankers use for emails and presentations. It is also using AWS and Databricks.
- James Eyers
Nvidia dip-buyers burned by US chip battle with China
What looked like a prescient bet in mid-September – the stock surged 14 per cent over 15 trading days – has turned sour.
- Carmen Reinicke
OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at $136b valuation
The artificial intelligence start-up behind ChatGPT is negotiating the transaction, known as a tender offer, with potential investors, say sources.
- Gillian Tan
These scrolls were illegible for 2000 years. A uni student read one with AI
The ancient scrolls were buried in the ash at Herculaneum, near Pompeii. Luke Farritor became the first person to read from them in thousands of years.
- Kyle Melnick
AI healthcare company eyes $160m from cleaning up radiologists’ data
ASX hopeful Enlitic says it is signing up new healthcare clients to its artificial intelligence technology every month, and has a pipeline of more potential customers.
- Tess Bennett
Macquarie’s $59b number-crunchers embrace AI to beat the market
Benjamin Leung and Scot Thompson are using advances in artificial intelligence to pick stocks and drive returns that outperform the index.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Here’s what this $1b fund is buying to offset AI
Fairlight’s Will Dowd shares why it’s an ideal time to invest in global small caps and names the stocks he thinks are cheap and resilient to artificial intelligence.
- Joanne Tran
How these six CEOs are using AI in their businesses
It is clear that corporate Australia is only at the beginning of its journey with the technology, amid an era defined by low productivity.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
How Clearview AI unleashed a global dystopia
A young Australian tech entrepreneur is among the shadowy figures in a new book on the creeping privacy threat of facial recognition by artificial intelligence.
- Sophie McBain
Canva’s AI products power revenue jump to $2.7b
Canva will also launch a $200 million fund to pay users whose content is used to train the company’s image-generating bots.
- Jessica Sier
Microsoft boss says Google default makes search choice ‘bogus’
Satya Nadella said Google’s power in online search was so dominant because of contracts that make the tech giant the default search engine on mobile devices.
- David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
- Opinion
- USA
Workers, not tech companies, should write AI rules
As digital titans and legislators argue, the Hollywood writers’ strike has shown how employees can set the limits.
- Rana Foroohar
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
‘Get liquid’: Early backers of start-up disaster Metigy had concerns
An investor at Cygnet Capital, one of Metigy’s backers and advisers, repeatedly texted his business partner with his worries.
- Nick Bonyhady
