AI agents are about to make managers of us all. The job that won’t scale is the one they can’t teach us: knowing what to keep and what to kill.
Artificial intelligence
A year ago they bemoaned AI wrappers. Now Australia’s three biggest VCs are betting on the workflows AI can kill, the work it can sell outright, and the machines it can finally set loose in the physical world.
Our music is not free training data. We have to protect the right of artists and rightsholders to be paid for their work.
We’re moving into “uncharted territory” as OpenAI joins its peers in looking to raise unprecedented amounts of capital from sharemarket investors.
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Anthropic has finally granted Australia access to its most powerful AI model, but none of the nearly 40 companies and government agencies contacted by Capital Brief would confirm they had got it.
The tech giant says its data centre investments are more than simple compute plays, pointing to the infrastructure and AI technology that come with them.
Anthropic has filed for an IPO, putting the Claude maker, investor FOMO and the costly reality of the AI boom on a collision course with public markets.
The ASX-bound startup is building a $2.1 billion AI factory in Tasmania with the support of the state government. But political opposition is mounting.
A cache of emails released this week to the Tasmanian parliament detail the AI factory’s sustained lobbying efforts in the state. But questions over its energy and water supply remain.
CBA’s inaugural AI summit put OpenAI’s Sam Altman centre stage as Matt Comyn argued Australia must build capability now or risk being left behind.
After interviewing OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the CBA chief urged Canberra to find a fair copyright mechanism and seize Australia’s data centre opportunity.
The AI factory builder was expected to list on the ASX in June. Then September. Now, early investors are resigned to the risk it is pushed back even further.
The retail bank’s Anthropic punt has given it a front-row seat in AI, and an investment record to make the Silver Donut envious.
Telstra’s longest serving CEO has arrived as Sharon AI’s chair with a stamp of approval, shrugging off criticisms about the firm in an interview with Capital Brief.
A jury said Elon Musk was too late to challenge OpenAI’s for-profit turn, clearing a legal cloud as the AI boom prepares to sell itself to public investors.
