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Rohan Silva

January

Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady: “I think people think it’s magic, and you just click your fingers and it magically works. It doesn’t.”

2025 feels like a vibe shift on AI

Telstra’s $700m roll-out is in line with changing attitudes towards a technology that will expand the boundaries of human outcomes.

November 2024

Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco can now travel on the city’s freeways.

Is Australia regulating itself out of the tech-driven future?

The Brits have been better than us at confronting the choice between two worthy goals of public safety and innovative growth.

August 2024

Mike Lynch, photographed in 2014, was one of Britain’s best-known and most controversial technology entrepreneurs.

The late Mike Lynch had big lessons for Australian business

If Australia wants to get the most out of AUKUS, then it must adopt the kind of SME-based procurement rules the controversial entrepreneur pushed for.

July 2024

The world is far more ready for AI than it was for the internet.

What should Australia do about AI regulation? Nothing

Australia should avoid the temptation to rush in like Europe with half-baked rules on AI. We can become a honeypot for talent.

June 2024

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang keeps delighting the market.

It’s bubbles like AI that make the tech world go around

From telegraph fever to the first internet bust, irrational over-investment creates profitable technology businesses that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/rohan-silva-p537im