This Month
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
When Atlassian buying your start-up for $1.5b is a mixed bag
The Aussie software giant paid a fortune for a video-messaging tech firm on Friday. But what was behind the deal, and was it a good idea?
- Nick Bonyhady
EU extends disinformation warning to Zuckerberg after Hamas attack
Companies that fail to comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act could face fines as high as 6 per cent of annual revenue or even be banned from the bloc.
- Jillian Deutsch
EU threatens Musk with fines over Israel-Hamas disinformation on X
The EU has warned Elon Musk that there will be consequences if X doesn’t do more to moderate illegal content and disinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war.
- Graham Starr
September
Meta brings chatbots, image editing to social media apps
It’s a critical announcement for the tech giant, showing it too can build AI-based technology that generates text and images based on simple prompts from users.
- Alex Barinka
The power of data: Forget Twitter, the party’s moved to WhatsApp
As Australians lose interest in sharing their opinions on social media platforms, they are instead jumping into group chats.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Review
The new Musk bio is more love letter than personal history
The entrepreneur’s much-anticipated biography has interesting anecdotes but is too uncritical of its flawed subject.
- Mark Di Stefano
Musk, Gates, Pichai meet behind closed doors on AI
Silicon Valley titans gathered with Congress leaders in Washington to grapple with the risks of Artificial Intelligence.
- Updated
- Cecilia Kang
- Exclusive
- Social media
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ stalls after launch
Despite a hugely successful launch in July, new data shows only one per cent of Australian phone users are using Instagram’s Threads app each day.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Tech Observed
Gig economy stoush shows government’s trouble fixing tech ‘disruption’
There is a lack of logic on both sides of the debate about planned changes to workplace rules for online service marketplaces.
- Paul Smith
August
Italy stands ready to host as Musk talks up Zuckerberg rumble
Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano says he has spoken to Elon Musk about hosting a “large charitable and historically evocative event”.
- Reuters
July
Meta’s revenue surges as AI tools pay off
Meta shares rose after it reported its first double-digit revenue growth since 2021, as the company said a costly bet on AI was already improving its business.
- Mike Isaac
- Opinion
- Social media
What the hell is Elon Musk doing with X (Twitter)?
The billionaire didn’t want the micro-blogging platform’s employees, code, brand or its most dedicated users. So why did he spend $65 billion on it?
- Matt Levine
- Analysis
- Tech Observed
Why bosses will pay a premium for Microsoft’s ChatGPT tools
The premium price for Microsoft’s AI-based Copilot product looks cheap, if it can deliver on its productivity promises, bosses say.
- Tess Bennett
Meta wages war with ‘low value’ news industry
Facebook’s parent company has downgraded current affairs on the Threads app and refuses to engage with Canadian law designed to fund media groups.
- Hannah Murphy and Cristina Criddle
- Opinion
- Workplace
Elon Musk and the peril of the workplace joke
Humour is one of the most profound forms of human expression. In modern workplaces, it is too dangerous to use with colleagues.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Cathie Wood’s unlisted asset lesson in Twitter’s ‘historic’ implosion
The tech investor has taken a massive writedown on the platform, but even that might not be enough given one tech expert’s Galloway’s ugly prognosis for the platform.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- AI
Watch out for the fake Tom Cruise
Be careful what you wish for, Hollywood studios, as you mess with the primal force of AI.
- Maureen Dowd
- Opinion
- Social media
For Musk and Zuck size matters, but it’s what you do with it that counts
As Threads battles Twitter with record breaking user sign-ups the stoush between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is getting ever more puerile and bizarre.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Billionaires
Please make the Musk-Zuck cage fight real – CEOs are too boring
The real story of the supposed stoush between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is just how unusual white-collar rumbles now are.
- Stuart Kirk
Tech party is over as Canva and Atlassian get tough, and perks dry up
After years of their firms topping best places to work lists with enviable perks, Canva, Atlassian and their tech peers are using tough rankings and jettisoning the niceties.
- Mark Di Stefano, Jessica Sier and Nick Bonyhady
