Technology

Whether this will work as intended will take time to emerge. But for the moment, good on the Albanese Government for having a crack.

Artificial intelligence firms must reduce risks that include potential disruptions to services, communications and democracy, the UN's human right chief says.

An advocate has renewed calls for the government to tackle social media algorithms after leaders met to discuss a spike in sexual violence against girls.

The Persian Gulf’s richest states are pushing forward with plans for a massive build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure, even though data centers have become repeated targets in the US war with Iran.

TikTok is changing the way users interact in comments, with a major new feature allowing people to respond to videos using their voice.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Microsoft co-founder said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

Just days away, the foldable iPhone launch will be the first major test for John Ternus.

An investigation into an outage that left millions of Telstra customers without mobile services reveals two engineers primarily involved in the bungled upgrade were on ‘mandatory standdown’ at the time.

Almost 6000 users were impacted in the US and now Aussies are being hit, too.

Millennials are sharing unhinged habits, and Gen Z would probably think they were completely feral.

AI needs trillions in revenue to justify the boom. But getting ordinary workers to embrace it is proving difficult.

SpaceX is a hot topic of conversation in this part of the world, after the upper stage of one of the company’s Starship rockets was recovered in a dramatic operation off Christmas Island.

In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating child privacy and consumer protection laws

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to a settlement in a US lawsuit concerning the use of its platforms by children, according to a court document.

Meta and a coalition of 47 US states settled the major federal trial centring on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms caused by its platforms.

A tech startup worked with three giants of artificial intelligence — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta —to test the safety and security of their AI models. Then the tests went off the rails.

On Saturday, a humanoid robot developed by Chinese company X-Humanoid beat Usain Bolt’s 2009 record by 0.19 seconds.

It has been decades since the heyday of the Voyagers but scientists want them to continue collecting unique observations about what lies between stars for as long as possible.