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Australians are turning to artificial intelligence tools in the kitchen as well as the office, as use of the technology weighs in on more activities.

THE ECONOMIST: The Apple-Android duopoly is under attack from OpenAI, Meta and Amazon.

Fees are rising well beyond inflation and a big price tag doesn’t necessarily equal superior academic results but parents are still willing to pay up. Here’s why private schools are popular.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Disturbing new data reveals that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has created and publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualised images of women in recent days.

Menopause isn’t the only culprit for middle-aged spread.

As people slim down with the help of weight-loss drugs, airlines could be among the surprise beneficiaries, a new report suggests.

Forget anti-ageing creams and miracle cures, scientists have discovered the real secret to turning back time.

NASA’s Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.

Britain's ministers are consulting on implementing an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s in the UK.

‘I’ve seen many of my relatives lose their lives to this terrible disease. I want that to stop with us.’

After years of calling out ‘Karens’, internet culture has decided it’s time for a new name to label entitled or dramatic behaviour.

2016 is a maximalist state of mind the internet is desperately trying to manifest back into existence, but why?

Australia’s internet regulator has launched a second investigation into Elon Musk’s X and AI chatbot Grok after a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding the social media site. 

Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, has raised $US252 million ($367m).

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The latest AI technology has solved an equation no human mathematician has been able to do. But some experts say the AI’s solution was not very different from earlier work done by humans.