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Nature the next frontier but boards lack skills
Biodiversity is critical for maintaining a liveable planet, but a deficit of skills at the board level is proving a roadblock in accounting for its value.
- Lucy Dean
Australia is ‘cherry-picking’ sustainability reporting standards
It is one of few jurisdictions that has agreed to apply new reporting standards only partially, says former super fund chief David Atkin.
- Sally Patten
Companies undeterred by failure of the Voice referendum
Big companies such as Westpac say the failure of the Voice referendum will not dissuade them from campaigning on social issues.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
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Investors ought to show fossil fuel companies ‘understanding’: TCorp
The journey to net zero is ‘riddled with uncertainty’ and investors need to have some sympathy for companies, ESG executive Alexis Cheang says.
- Ronald Mizen and Joanna Mather
Super funds target fast food giants over antibiotic use
Superannuation funds have opened a new ESG front by demanding companies such as McDonald’s provide more information about their use of antibiotics.
- Ronald Mizen
Honesty and action key to limiting ‘real’ greenwashing
The risk of regulatory crackdowns should not turn companies off making climate change commitments, provided they manage them well.
- Hannah Wootton
Climate targets ‘challenged’ as energy transition stumbles
The energy transition is proving much more costly and difficult than anticipated.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
In the ESG debate, this is what’s really torching shareholder value
For all the talk about the “E” in “ESG”, what gets CEOs sacked and costs investors money are old-fashioned social licence and governance issues.
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- Anthony Macdonald
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The Asia Summit provides fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth, technological innovation and social change.
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How Australia can grab an AI advantage
We need an equal sense of hunger, optimism, and opportunism for Australia to realise the advantage of AI, write the BCA’s CEO and Australia’s Google boss.
- Bran Black and Melanie Silva
NAB plots major AI strategy to roll out in three key areas
National Australia Bank said generative AI is identifying systemic risks from customer complaints and helping bankers assess documents used to support lending.
- James Eyers
Why Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi could be AI winners
Microsoft is making big bets on faster, more sophisticated computers. Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi and Officeworks could be unexpected beneficiaries.
- Jemima Whyte
- Opinion
- AI
Don’t believe the artificial intelligence hype
Economic theory and the available data justify a more modest, realistic outlook for productivity gains from AI.
- Daron Acemoglu
‘Asleep at the wheel’: Appen shareholders vent frustrations
Long-suffering shareholders of the data service company have delivered a 19 per cent vote against the company’s remuneration report at its AGM on Friday.
- Tess Bennett
American chatbots: oversexed, overhyped and over here
In just two weeks, Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have each previewed AI chatbots that critics say are as dangerous as they are impressive.
- John Davidson
Tech industry pushed to shut down market for sexual AI deepfakes
Joe Biden is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a market of sexual images, many of celebrities, made with AI technology.
- Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay
The truth behind the dead internet theory
Up to half of all internet traffic could be driven by bots, where computer programs generate posts that are liked or reposted by other programs.
- Jake Renzella and Vlada Rozova
Ausbil is using this underrated stock to play the AI boom
Nicholas Condoleon talks AI, explains why he is avoiding Westpac and BHP, and reveals his stock picks to capitalise on the run in gold and copper prices.
- Alex Gluyas
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The ASX tech giant surging without jumping on gen AI bandwagon
ASX companies are scrambling to show they too have a generative artificial intelligence halo. But one of our hottest tech stocks is being far more measured.
- James Thomson
News Corp strikes lucrative content deal with OpenAI
The Wall Street Journal said the deal could be worth more than $377 million as the rise of generative AI tools is poised to transform the publishing business.
- Gerrit De Vynck
Nvidia forecast shatters estimates as AI boom stays strong
The chipmaker at the centre of the artificial intelligence boom also says it will lift its quarterly dividend by 150pc and will split its stock 10-for-1.
- Ian King
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