This Month
More US cleantech companies close as fundraising challenges emerge
Start-up cleantech businesses that easily raised money from venture firms just two or three years ago are now finding it harder to get hold of fresh cash.
- Patrick Temple-West, Amelia Pollard and George Hammond
August
Joy for ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ and lawyers ends in superyacht tragedy
Just weeks after a huge courtroom victory, UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people, including a Morgan Stanley executive, missing off Palermo’s coast.
- Matthew Field and James Titcomb
July
- Analysis
- Government Observed
Tech meltdown revealed a fundamental flaw in plain sight
The global CrowdStrike breakdown revealed just how much of the global IT system is built on inherently unsafe code.
- Tom Burton
Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding
A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
- George Johnson
June
Warren Buffett donates record $8b in shares to charity
Warren Buffett has made his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.
- Jonathan Stempel
May
Melinda French Gates exits philanthropic foundation with $18.9b
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -– to be known as the Gates Foundation once she departs – is one of the biggest private foundations on the planet.
- Updated
- Sophie Alexander
April
‘Country mile ahead’: How PsiQuantum won a $1b investment
Chief scientist Cathy Foley said US-based PsiQuantum showed it was a “country mile” ahead of other Aussie companies in trying to build a world-first quantum computer.
- Paul Smith, John Davidson and Tess Bennett
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
‘AI honeymoon is over’, Canva co-founder declares
Just two years after the last technology bubble burst, investors shouldn’t mistake AI tools that look like magic for a business model that is.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque said the company would apply for a construction permit from US regulators this month for its reactor, cooled with liquid sodium.
- Jamie Smyth
Gates, Zuckerberg join billionaire’s lavish Indian wedding party
Tycoons from around the world descended on a small Indian city where billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani kick-started wedding celebrations for his son.
- Suhasini Raj
Gates, Fink, Zuckerberg set to party with Asia’s richest man
The lavish pre-wedding celebrations for Mukesh Ambani’s son include chartered jets and a performance by Rihanna. Wall Street and Silicon Valley titans are coming.
- Anto Antony and Bhuma Shrivastava
February
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has become a Steve Jobs-like tech giant
Now a Wall Street hero, Nadella initially faced scepticism that he could change Microsoft’s combative culture after 22 years inside the company.
- Matt O'Brien
January
How your kids can succeed – when they have no natural talent
Not every sub-par drawing or tuneless recital is a potential masterpiece, but if your child is the next Van Gogh, you’re worst placed to spot it anyway.
- Charlotte Lytton
December 2023
The most memorable tech stories from 2023
Take a look back at the biggest tech stories of the year – as well as our reporters’ favourites.
November 2023
OpenAI board taps former Twitch CEO to succeed Altman
Emmett Shear won over directors because he appeared to recognise the existential threats that AI presented.
- Ashlee Vance, Emily Chang and Ed Ludlow
September 2023
Musk, Gates, Pichai meet behind closed doors on AI
Silicon Valley titans gathered with Congress leaders in Washington to grapple with the risks of Artificial Intelligence.
- Updated
- Cecilia Kang
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Why the tech bros are turning to nuclear
The enormous energy demands of AI are one reason why rich technology entrepreneurs are drawn to factory-built modular nukes.
- Gillian Tett
August 2023
Trump joins Bill Gates and Al Capone in famous mugshots gallery
Donald Trump surrendered to a courthouse in Atlanta, becoming the first former US president to join those with a police photograph.
- Roland Oliphant
June 2023
Forrest mega-gift to cajole other billionaires to give more
The $5 billion donation from Andrew and Nicola Forrest to their Minderoo Foundation will likely serve as a powerful exemplar for Australia’s peer-conscious billionaires.
- Michael Bailey
Xi wants tech ties with ‘old friend’ Bill Gates
China’s President said he hoped they could carry out activities together to benefit China and the US, in his first meeting with a foreign entrepreneur in years.