Technology

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.

Its stock price finished the day up more than 1 per cent, leading to a market valuation of $US4.9 trillion.

Nvidia’s fresh round of AI infrastructure deals are accelerating a streak of investments that sceptics warn is artificially inflating demand and valuations across the industry.

The 120m-tall Starship rocket system blasted off from SpaceX’s Starbase company town, with the Super Heavy first stage booster sending its Starship upper stage on a suborbital trajectory.

The founding chief of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who advised a prime minister has explained why paying hackers can be a bad idea, after an alleged hacker boasted about reaching a deal with Origin.

More than 4.8 million Australians are being warned they must do this one thing in the wake of the Origin Energy scam.

Believe it or not, when Elon Musk makes a prediction about the future — from civil war to an artificial intelligence utopia — it is worth listening. The world’s richest man sits down with The Economist.

It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing.

Origin Energy has revealed details of a data breach after an alleged hacker claimed to have stolen personal details from millions of customers on Wednesday. 

OpenAI said two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and displayed the kind of science-fiction potential that AI companies warned would soon become a reality.

Smartphones that open and close like books could finally enter the mainstream after the world’s two biggest phone makers throw their full weight behind the trend.

The incident follows recent concerns in Silicon Valley and at the White House that AI models are becoming dangerously good at identifying security flaws in software.