This Month
MinterEllison sets target of 80pc using AI by March
The majority of lawyers and partners at the big six Australian law firm will be required to use the new technology in their daily work next year.
- Edmund Tadros
November
US regulators seek to break up Google, force Chrome sale
The US government wants to break up the tech behemoth and make it sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser, to stop an abusive monopoly.
- Michael Liedtke
Short courses offer an alternative for time-poor students
Students are choosing shorter higher education courses such as microcredentials from non-traditional providers.
- Sian Powell
The top five billionaire tech bros who are on the Trump train
From fawning phone calls to huge donations, here’s how the historically progressive bosses of Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI are preparing.
- Amelia McGuire
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Digital Life
Ignore the AI ‘bloatware’. This HP laptop is flipping good
HP’s latest ultraportable laptop has a lot of things going for it. AI isn’t yet one of them.
- John Davidson
October
The strategy that can turn $10,000 to $102,000 in two decades
An investing strategy popularised by Peter Lynch is finding favour again.
- Lucy Dean
How Intel got left behind in the AI chip boom
For decades it was Silicon Valley’s dominant chip company but missed opportunities and poor execution have left it on the sidelines in tech’s latest gold rush.
- Steve Lohr and Don Clark
Angry members brand Tech Council a ‘billionaires lunch club’
The industry association for some of the country’s largest technology firms failed to act on allegations against WiseTech founder Richard White, they say.
- Tess Bennett and Amelia McGuire
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
These new ‘AI agents’ could change white-collar workforce
A “groundbreaking” development means bots can now work computers like a human, leading people to question whether office workers could be replaced.
- Paul Smith
Appen CEO apologises as tech failure leaves workers unpaid
Contractors paid by the ASX-listed company to train artificial intelligence models for technology giants have not been paid in more than a week after their money was due.
- Tess Bennett
Big banks fund Macquarie Technology bid to cash in on AirTrunk effect
The funding agreement came as new research showed investment in data centres was expected to hit $26 billion by 2030 amid booming demand from technology giants.
- Paul Smith
Google targeted for break-up in landmark US case
The US Department of Justice could seek “structural remedies” such as forced product sales after a judge’s ruling of illegal monopoly in searches.
- Stefania Palma and Stephen Morris
SoftBank to invest $721m in OpenAI
The move is part of a funding round that would value the artificial intelligence start-up at an eye-watering $US150 billion.
- Seth Fiegerman
September
US climate change targets threatened by tech energy surge from AI
The latest assessment puts the US trajectory even further from its national target to cut its emissions by 50-52 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels.
- Amanda Chu, Jamie Smyth and Aime Williams
Fast-growing OpenAI is burning through truck loads of cash
As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reveal consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more money.
- Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith
How CrowdStrike’s outage became Australia’s big cyberattack rehearsal
Qantas chairman John Mullen got the “blue screen of death” while Telstra’s cyber chief Narelle Devine was in the pool sipping cocktails when she got the call that something was seriously wrong.
- Tess Bennett and Paul Smith
Microsoft’s climate hypocrisy on AI
The tech giant has marketed AI technology to ExxonMobil and Chevron as a powerful tool for finding and developing new oil and gas reserves.
- Karen Hao
Amazon orders staff back to the office five days a week
The new rule appears to be the most stringent return-to-office decision among big tech companies and could be a harbinger of more to come.
- Karen Weise and Emma Goldberg
Investors have forgotten the lessons of the dotcom crash
MSCI’s head of research Ashley Lester has some thoughts on what many analysts have warned is the next bubble: the rapid rise in US tech valuations.
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What we missed in the AirTrunk frenzy
AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda is thinking bigger than his own company. He says the staggering growth prospects for data centres can change the Australian economy.
- James Thomson