Technology

THE ECONOMIST: The future of driverless taxis is Waymo complicated than it looks.

The food giant’s little-known tech consultancy Quantium is thriving as corporate Australia seeks help to understand artificial intelligence

AI will take over 37 occupations that require little judgment, empathy or interpersonal skills, a top economics firm predicts.

Proposed laws would ban the use of digitally altered or AI-generated audio or visual content that depicts a person's face or voice without their consent.

Australia’s remote Christmas Island territory is soon expected to host a new ‘connectivity hub’ for subsea cables that stretch across the Indian Ocean.

Livestreaming gaming app Twitch has been the latest platform put on warning ahead of Australia’s impending under-16s social media ban. 

Investors are backing Google-owner Alphabet as an winner in the AI race and shrugging off worries its search business is vulnerable to disruption from the technology.

Meta has announced it will begin notifying teenagers they will lose access to their social media platforms three weeks out from the world-leading ban.

THE WASHINGTON POST: We analysed real ChatGPT health chats and asked a top doctor to score them and the gap between confidence and accuracy was startling.

An outage linked to Cloudflare, which provides network and security services for many online businesses, has caused problems for platforms like X and ChatGPT.

Controversial gaming platform Roblox is rolling out major changes as it seeks to escape Australia’s impending under-16s social media ban.

‘They’re lying to us.’ An expert reveals how to get through to someone you believe has fallen down an internet rabbit hole of misinformation.

DAVE LEE: Discovering you’ve been listening to an AI artist is a deeply violating experience that a good streaming platform should help me, a valued customer, avoid.

Ticketek has rolled out a new AI chatbot built with Google Cloud, raising questions about how the tool learns, searches and handles customer data.

Chipmakers and analysts are warning of a memory chip shortage that could hit the consumer electronics and automotive industries next year.