Technology

President Emmanuel Macron is urging France to follow Australia's world-first ban on young teenagers and children being on social media platforms.

THE ECONOMIST: The Apple-Android duopoly is under attack from OpenAI, Meta and Amazon.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Disturbing new data reveals that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has created and publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualised images of women in recent days.

NASA’s Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.

Britain's ministers are consulting on implementing an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s in the UK.

Australia’s internet regulator has launched a second investigation into Elon Musk’s X and AI chatbot Grok after a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding the social media site. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The latest AI technology has solved an equation no human mathematician has been able to do. But some experts say the AI’s solution was not very different from earlier work done by humans.

X has tightened controls on its Grok chatbot after backlash over claims it generated sexualised and non-consensual images of real people, including minors.

Cashed-up tourists looking for an out-of-this-world adventure are set have a whole new destination to add to their bucket list.

SpaceX, along with NASA, is returning a crew of four astronauts from the International Space Station after one of them experienced an unspecified medical issue. 

As algorithms are programmed to feed us content, being fully present in your day-to-day while having to engage with all this tech can be tricky.

Apple has struck a deal to use Google's AI technology to power its new-look Siri and future artificial intelligence features on its iPhones.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok due to its misuse in generating explicit images.

Social media giant Meta has criticised the federal government's world-first social media ban as it releases data into how many accounts it wiped in one week.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says she’s ‘deeply concerned’ by a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding Elon Musk’s platform X.