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eSafety drops case against Musk’s X over bishop stabbing video
The online safety watchdog has abandoned its court case against X after suffering a legal setback.
- Tess Bennett
Seek ends decades-long Latin American foray with $128m sale
The ASX-listed employment platform said it would use the proceeds of the sale of its Mexican and Brazilian businesses to Spain’s Redarbor to pay down debt.
- Tess Bennett
Medibank faces maximum $21.5 trillion fine in new cyber hack case
The privacy watchdog alleges the private health insurer failed to protect the details of 9.7 million customers, under a law that provides for a penalty of $2.2 million for each breach.
- Paul Smith
Tough jail terms for deepfake porn peddlers under new laws
The creators and sharers of non-consensual sexually explicit material will face up to seven years’ jail under the new rules, which also put pressure on tech firms.
- Paul Smith
Rare earths miner hacked after Chinese investors ordered out
A ransomware group has posted CEO emails and sensitive commercial data from miner Northern Minerals on the dark web after Chinese investors were ordered to sell.
- Paul Smith, Elouise Fowler and Andrew Tillett
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Building resilience for the nation’s businesses
In an era defined by digital transformation and unprecedented challenges, the resilience of business systems stands as a critical load-bearing pillar of stability of the Australian economy.
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Opinion & Analysis
The right way to regulate AI to reap benefits and avoid harm
Rather than a pause, we should engage in more small-scale experiments with AI to identify potential harms when it is still possible to limit their damage.
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Nice headphones, Sonos. Shame about the app
Sonos has overhauled its app to add headphones to its legendary multi-room audio system. It shouldn’t have.
Columnist
This robot knows how to corner
Roborock’s latest robot vacuum cleaner has an extension arm that sweeps 100 per cent into corners. Just don’t expect its mop to do the same
Columnist
Apple’s Siri to get its shot at AI redemption
Once the best (and only) AI assistant on phones and other devices, Siri has fallen into disrepair. Next week, Apple is expected to announce a host of improvements.
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Nice headphones, Sonos. Shame about the app
Sonos has overhauled its app to add headphones to its legendary multi-room audio system. It shouldn’t have.
- John Davidson
This robot knows how to corner
Roborock’s latest robot vacuum cleaner has an extension arm that sweeps 100 per cent into corners. Just don’t expect its mop to do the same
- John Davidson
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- AI
The right way to regulate AI to reap benefits and avoid harm
Rather than a pause, we should engage in more small-scale experiments with AI to identify potential harms when it is still possible to limit their damage.
- Joshua Gans
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Why businesses must ride the real-time payments wave
As the pace of change in Australia’s payments system speeds up, businesses that are embracing emerging real-time payment capabilities are gaining competitive advantage.
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Super funds, CSL pour $270m into venture capital fund
Australia’s largest life science investment fund, Brandon Capital, has banked $270 million of a planned $350 million raise for its sixth VC fund.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Nice headphones, Sonos. Shame about the app
Sonos has overhauled its app to add headphones to its legendary multi-room audio system. It shouldn’t have.
- John Davidson
This robot knows how to corner
Roborock’s latest robot vacuum cleaner has an extension arm that sweeps 100 per cent into corners. Just don’t expect its mop to do the same
- John Davidson
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- Venture capital
VC firms lured to Qld by government funding
Early Tritium investors who sold out of the Brisbane-based company close to the peak of its valuation are among four VC firms to receive government backing.
- Tess Bennett
Aussie experts can stop your smart-device cameras spying on you
When photos snapped by a robot vacuum cleaner of a woman on the toilet went viral, the smart home sector knew it had a problem; Aussie academics claim to have solved it.
- Alana Piper
- Analysis
- AI
Apple’s Siri to get its shot at AI redemption
Once the best (and only) AI assistant on phones and other devices, Siri has fallen into disrepair. Next week, Apple is expected to announce a host of improvements.
- John Davidson
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Providoor scraps hot food to concentrate on frozen meals
Online celebrity chef meal provider Providoor will target a growing market for pre-prepared meals, after struggling with delivery services for its hot meals.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- AI
Key workers left as invisible bystanders to the AI revolution
A hype-driven, tech-led approach to AI adoption will harm workers, disappoint investors and damage the economy, we must listen and learn from workers at the coalface.
- Nicholas Davis
Ticketek customers’ details ‘stolen’ in cyber incident
The ticketing company assured Australian account holders that passwords and credit card information were not compromised, Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil said.
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Things you can do with AI that are actually useful
One of them could save you $1 million and a lifetime of misery.
- John Davidson
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The real power – and potential – of industrial AI
The nation could face an opportunity cost of $35.7 billion in gross domestic product (GDP) per year should it fail “to introduce AI systems to world standards in key industries”.
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Why CBA’s AI future needs more reimagining
A US trip left CBA chief executive Matt Comyn with questions to which he doesn’t have all the answers. It’s a common theme across the Australian business world.
- Paul Smith
Why age restrictions on social media ‘won’t happen overnight’
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says it is difficult to judge the correct age to ban kids from social media.
- Tess Bennett
ChatPwC v KPMG KymChat: Consultants race is on after ‘world’s biggest’ AI deal
The US and UK arms of consulting giant PwC have become the biggest direct corporate client of OpenAI, announcing a deal to use and resell the AI firm’s tools.
- Paul Smith and Edmund Tadros
The ASX business so good ‘you can’t put a sell on it’
Analysts say Pro Medicus is one of the world’s most expensive stocks, but also one of the best.
- Yolanda Redrup
Companies ‘must take responsibility for not breaking laws with AI’
The competition and corporate regulators say businesses have all the information they need to experiment with AI, after being accused of providing a lack of guidance.
- Paul Smith
Tesla slams Glass Lewis after report on Musk mega pay deal
The electric vehicle maker has hit back at the proxy adviser and is urging investors to back Musk’s mega pay deal.
- Nick Bonyhady
Why fake women are a popular use of our powerful new tech
The author of a new book about artificial intelligence says AI is not evil, but has no moral compass.
- Marina Wheeler
