Technology

A tech boss developing Australia’s answer to WhatsApp and Slack is warning start-ups will leave Australia for New Zealand because of Labor’s new minimum 30 per cent capital gains tax. 

Australia already has laws governing discrimination, consumer protection, privacy, workplace safety and unfair dismissal. The task is ensuring those laws remain effective when AI becomes the instrument.

The federal jury made a unanimous decision on Elon Musk’s legal battle against OpenAI after less than two hours deliberation.

AI generated porn is creating a depraved new platform for offenders to cause immense psychological harm against women.

There is concern that the ephemeral nature of the app will lend itself to sending spicy images and thirst traps. 

Your Instagram DMs just got a lot less secure.

A major cybersecurity breach has compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of Australian students across schools and universities – leaving institutions scrambling.

Consumers can expect to pay more for smartphones and laptops, JB Hi-Fi boss Nick Wells warns, as the artificial intelligence-led boom in data centres squeezes technology supply chains.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman told a California jury Tuesday that Elon Musk physically threatened him during a 2017 confrontation.

Aussies have been urged to stop using a popular portable charger immediately over concerns it could catch on fire. 

AI never needs to sleep, never tries to form a union and often outperforms real people on real tasks; of course companies will want to replace human beings with this human-being-replacement machine. 

Elon Musk has sparred with a lawyer for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in a trial over the firm's pivot away from its non-profit status.

Australia’s banks, insurers and super funds have been warned by their regulator they are unprepared for the threat of AI-related fraud.

OpenAI's lawyers argue Elon Musk's lawsuit aims to undermine the company for his competing venture xAI.

On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, two notably different tales were offered of how OpenAI evolved.

Facebook has been overrun with low-effort AI fakes inventing biographical details and celebrity connections for the man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump at a Washington press gala Saturday. 

THE ECONOMIST: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ techies may need to take a hiatus as the demand for artificial intelligence increases.

Tensions between the US and China have escalated after the White House accused Beijing of stealing intellectual property from American AI labs.