Technology

Digital infrastructure is currently Australia’s defence blindspot, according to a former senior army officer turned academic. There’s only one way to fix it.

CAMERON MILNER: AI tech bros are attempting a brazen case of daylight robbery across oceans, but Australia must turn its head, see past FOMO and defend intellectual property rights.

As Artificial Intelligence continues to develop at a rapid pace, OpenAI has released a ‘significant’ upgrade with the newest GPT-5 model. 

Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes says he is determined to stick around at the software giant while sharing an upbeat view of artificial intelligence, which one analyst said was at odds with the market.

A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

Anthony Albanese has dismissed calls to water down copyright laws to benefit artificial intelligence as a key government adviser in the field calls for urgent regulation to deal with problems already arising.

MARK RILEY: It’s clunky, flawed and late. But this law might be the best chance we have to protect kids before the next algorithm finds them.

KATE EMERY: How dare the Productivity Commission float reducing the value of Australia’s creative industries to power big tech’s multi-billion-dollar plagiarism machines.

Almost 15 years after launching, social media giant Instagram has taken pages out of other app’s books and added three new features to their app. 

British lawmaker Mark Sewards released an artificial intelligence prototype of himself to help deal with a backlog of queries from constituents. Some weren’t impressed.

New research has revealed that a worrying amount of Australian children are turning to AI for emotional support.

The findings were contained in a Productivity Commission research paper, which also found that new technology could inject $116 billion into the economy. 

The offer also reportedly included ‘top bonuses’ and ‘extraordinary stock performance’.

From a micro-managing CEO to a powerful HR department, the world’s most notorious ransomware gang operated like a regular software business.

MARK RILEY: The families of three teens lost to online abuse stood with the PM as the government launched a ban on under-16s using social media — but is it enough?