Technology

Rogue agents are creating a gold rush for firms promising to make AI safer, smarter and more trustworthy

JENI O’DOWD: New smart glasses which allow the user to quietly record what’s going on around them are creepy and invasive. And the demand for them is enormous.

Mark Zuckerberg, who controls the most powerful social media in the world, argued against that the extreme concentration of power in the AI industry was "inherently problematic“.

Defence experts warn the suspicious severing of two vital undersea cables off the WA coast over the weekend highlights the country’s high vulnerability to being cut off from global internet communication.

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas made the announcement on Monday after a recent visit to the United States and meetings with AI companies.

Fears that the growing popularity of smartglasses is leading to ‘pervasive secret surveillance’ has prompted the Federal Government to order an investigation into the technology.

‘The increasing availability of these devices could have significant implications.’

THE ECONOMIST: Who let the bots out? Developers should be held accountable for wild AI behaviour.

A Meta AI model reportedly accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company.

The Federal Energy Minister says he’ll take responsibility if the Government doesn’t reach its 82 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 and refused to answer if the deadline could shift as far back to 2050.

Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Anthropic have again breached testing boundaries, the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute says.

RAFF CICCONE: The US has demonstrated it has the ability and the will to shut off access to AI systems. Should that happen again, Australia needs to be inside the tent with our ally.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: SpaceX employees and early investors can now cash in on millions of dollars in gains from their company stock but end of the lockup comes at a delicate time.

Australians’ ability to have well-informed debates is vital to our democracy and relies heavily on this country’s journalists and media organisations providing the news and views that allow our system to work.

Big tech companies are being incentivised to hash out agreements with news publishers to pay for their content in order to reduce a government-imposed levy.

Anthropic has revealed details after its AI model accessed real-world systems during a safety test after a mistake allowed it to connect to the internet.

AI chatbots are revealing they know far more about us than we ever told them, from our finances to our personality flaws.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has defended claims in an Australian parliamentary inquiry that ‘racism is profitable’ to its Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatApp platforms.