Musk says OpenAI betrayed its mission. But as the trial enters its final stretch, prediction markets are turning against him.
Artificial intelligence
The data centre company has confirmed plans to invest billions back into Australia.
Executives spent most of the conference denying, defending and deflecting. But the week’s most revealing moments came when they talked about their plans for humans in an AI world.
On one side of Sydney, the government confirmed plan to reduce gas shortfalls. On the other, CEOs were figuring out how to cope with a quadrupling of power demand caused by data centres.
Chief executive James Manning laughed off questions about a recent short report that shot holes in his business. But a bigger question posed by a key partner may be harder to push aside.
AI’s biggest productivity gains may come not from moonshots, but from helping small businesses save time, cut waste and compete.
The USD11 billion AI startup, whose voice cloning tools have raised deepfake concerns, is expanding its enterprise presence in Australia and NZ.
Across corporate Australia, the oven-ready AI anecdote has become the new CEO flex — and investors are certainly hearing plenty of them.
The founders of AI companies have repeatedly told the public their product could replace them or worse. Now they seem baffled when people take them at their word.
The same AI capital surge that has rewritten the rules for software companies is now testing the asset class that funded the rewrite.
The Australian software giant’s earnings beat was driven by a pull forward in data centre revenue and strong cloud demand, but analysts and investors see strong AI signals.
At Blackbird’s Sunrise event the Canva COO said growth in headcount would slow to 5% from 50% in earlier years as he unveiled a new AI competency framework for staff.
Australia is racing to build the data centre infrastructure for AI as the boom rolls on, but some suggest we should be aiming for a bigger prize.
Now the dust has settled on the Claude Mythos announcement, legal cyber experts say there is no need to panic — just yet.
He can’t hide his enthusiasm about AI, but says he has more work to do with states on guidelines about construction of data centres.
The US President has long chafed against foreign efforts to regulate the American tech sector, which is deeply intertwined with his administration.
A wild online claim about Anthropic acquiring Atlassian shows how anonymous forums can turn takeover speculation into something like a prayer.
The neocloud’s chief executive James Manning flew to New York last week for catch-ups with his US investors. He came back with $487m.
The big four bank has turned to Nuno Matos’ former employer HSBC yet again for another senior hire.
