1+ week, 5+ day ago   (874+ words) Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it. As the world struggles with the impact of another new high-tech medium – generative artificial intelligence (AI) – two thinkers from that era have acquired…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (431+ words) Cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang announced the annual initiative – Latitude 37 is a reference to Melbourne, where Airwallex began -in April and received 100s of applications from local startups before a panel of VCs and company execs selected the top 10. Alongside the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (373+ words) Firmus Technologies’ 288MW factory at Bell Bay on the island’s north was on Tuesday given planning approval by the local council. It comes as the federal government is soon expected to finalise rules on how data centres use energy, while South…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (472+ words) How many jobs will go and how many will be created? Will the singularity arrive in 2030, beyond or never? What role will humans play once it does? Are we in an AI bubble or the early stages of the largest…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (254+ words) And locals couldn’t get enough of the US tech giant’s ‘Kangaroo’ bonds, which mature in 3, 5, 10 and 20 years, with the yield at 6.98% if you have two decades of patience, or 5.24% at 3 years. Astonishingly, orders were around 4x of the end borrowing at…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (610+ words) In a lecture to be delivered at the ANU Crawford School Tuesday titled “Why Australia Needs to Turn Compute into Sovereign AI”, Charlton argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth for…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (405+ words) With the improvements, the search giant hopes to give users a reason to buy new models and expand the number of people using its AI tools. “Google continues to tout new software features, primarily around AI, as the reason to…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (317+ words) The Sydney-headquartered tech unicorn, once again helmed by Anear, a former workplace accident detective, will now be known as Mitti. He flagged as moving beyond traditional safety management to an all-in-one operations system for frontline workers, with a strong focus…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (364+ words) While touring the US, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas visited OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco where he signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its co-founder and president Greg Brockman. OpenAI is the developer of ChatGPT, the world’s most popular…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (433+ words) The round was led by Purpose Ventures, with support from existing backers Antler, AfterWork Ventures and Skalata. As an education comparison platform, it previously raised $800,000 in a pre-Seed round in late 2024, having initially launched as part of the Antler program....