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It comes as the company behind ChatGPT also reached the same valuation.

Academic standards are regarded as being under threat at Australia’s most prestigious universities that are increasingly reliant on fee-paying overseas students.

The world’s first passenger aircraft without windows would cut down on fuel costs, making travel cheaper and better for the environment.

At least seven children have died and many others have fallen ill after a suspected drug poisoning that may be linked to cough syrup. 

The latest layoffs come as Google accelerates job cuts to focus spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild broke new ground and were hailed as ‘one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: While artificial intelligence chatbots promise detailed, personalised answers, they also offer validation on demand.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: An energetic mayor was sick of being surrounded by children addicted to their screens. He pushed for the government to step in.

JENI O’DOWD: Millennials introduced gentle parenting, where discipline is a distant dream, while others hand over iPads so they can watch Netflix in peace. You are to blame for a classroom crisis.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Our aim was to depict a spectrum. You don’t have to end up being rail thin to qualify as having an eating disorder.’

The federal government has been urged to deploy independent experts to embattled telco Optus after a further emergency call outage on its network.

NICK BRUINING: Most don’t properly understand the risks and tricks used by some in the industry to effectively fool people into thinking an investment is completely safe. Here’s what you really need to know.

NICK BRUINING: With news that the corporate watchdog had placed an interim stop order on one of Australia’s most popular alternative income funds, many investors are now worried about the safety of their money.

Australians facing alcohol addiction can now log into anonymous meetings day or night, after pandemic-era online support was made permanent.

SARAH WELLS: If you’re a grandparent, you’ve got a superpower. It’s the power of your stories, your wisdom and a little bit of old-school know-how when it comes to something we all deal with daily — money.