This Month
ASX gains $112b; Why Trump backed down; Did he manipulate market?
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Ex-Facebook executive says Zuckerberg undermined US security
Sarah Wynn-Williams testified to Congress that the social media giant threatened national interests while cozying up to China, accusations Meta denies.
March
Facebook’s biggest enemy was on Twiggy’s payroll
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, worked for Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo as he sued Meta over 230,000 scam ads.
Under fire Facebook returns to its roots: Showing posts from friends
After years of pushing suggested content to users, Facebook has now added a separate news feed featuring posts shared only by people’s friends and family.
The Careless People won
A controversial new book about Facebook serves as a window into our current moment, a field guide to tech autocracy.
The Republican lobbyist who became Zuckerberg’s most trusted adviser
Meta’s newly promoted head of global affairs has masterminded the social media giant’s pivot towards Donald Trump.
How to spot a low performer at work
Good performance management requires the time and attention of managers, but cost-conscious companies are increasingly thinning them out.
Zuckerberg ‘lied’ to Senate, Sandberg asked me to bed, says author
A former Facebook executive has written an insider account of a company that she says was run by status-hungry and self-absorbed leaders.
Palantir’s Alex Karp vaults to top of best-paid US tech executives
The data intelligence group’s chief cashed in on surging shares to make $3 billion, behind only Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta begins testing its first AI training chip to challenge Nvidia
The Facebook owner is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems, a key milestone as it moves to reduce reliance on external suppliers.
Biggest losers from Trump slump are the billionaires who backed him
Companies owned by the moguls lining up to support the US president have lost $US1.43 trillion in market value since his inauguration.
WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void
Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.
January
Is big tech’s AI future really what we’re looking for?
The race is on to build the fastest, most efficient AI models and hopefully tech companies will start developing the products we want to use.
AI war highlights need to work with both superpowers
Readers’ letters on the artificial intelligence race between the US and China, road tax for electric vehicles and life with limited mobility.
DeepSeek, Trump, smart glasses: why Zuckerberg thinks he can win in AI
Everyone wanted to hear what the Meta boss thinks about the arrival of DeepSeek and the future of AI – this morning he told us.
Meta posts sharply higher profit, topping Wall Street’s expectations
Meta’s shares rose in after-hours trading even as it forecast increasing expenses on its artificial intelligence efforts.
The sweet irony of OpenAI’s DeepSeek beef
OpenAI thinks DeepSeek took its private data to train its models; the hearts of writers, artists, musicians and journalists around the world must bleed for it.
Frank Lowy trades up to private jet favoured by Bezos, Zuckerberg
The Westfield patriarch’s tail number was recently spotted on a top-of-line Gulfstream G700.
Australia must face down US tech bosses and Trump
Global tech giants will still be powerful when Trump is not. Policy settings made today by Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton need to keep that future in mind.
Meta to spend more than $100b on AI efforts in 2025
The company plans to build a data centre “so large that it would cover a significant part of Manhattan”, Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.