This Month
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
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
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
October
Rinehart’s $1b MinRes deal; ‘Garbage’ row erupts; Coles’ big squeeze
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Reality check: The VR dream costing Meta tens of billions of dollars
Mark Zuckerberg is deep in his mission to convince people he’s cool. But his company’s earnings call showed it is not just him in the midst of an identity crisis.
- Amelia McGuire
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Why interest rates will not fall soon – or by much when they do
Rising demand for investment capital to fund things like the green revolution will keep the price of money higher than it was.
- Richard Holden
Rock stars and Wiggles: Google takes on big tech rules
The search giant is bankrolling parties and events that are an unsubtle reminder to the government of its huge power.
- Paul Smith and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Meta sacks staff for abusing $37 meal credits
Some workers had been pooling their money together, while others were getting meals sent home even though the credits are intended for the office.
- Hannah Murphy and Stephen Morris
Inside the bro-ification of Mark Zuckerberg
The Meta founder has quietly remade his public image, attracting the same generation of start-up guys who once idolised Elon Musk.
- Nitasha Tiku and Naomi Nix
Once the future of the internet, the metaverse is largely empty
Two years ago, the world’s biggest brands couldn’t get enough of virtual worlds. Now, only the most hardcore users are left.
- Tess Bennett and Rachael Bolton
September
Meta stock bulls look for next rally catalyst
Meta’s annual Connect conference kicks off this week, with industry buzz around the latest technology reveal and updated by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
- Carmen Reinicke
- Analysis
- Tech crackdown
‘Daylight robbery:’ Canberra needs EU muscle to land big tech blow
The government wants to work cooperatively with tech moguls such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, but that seems like wishful thinking, and tougher laws are coming.
- Paul Smith
August
Why a Russian tech billionaire who stood up to Putin is now a target
Pavel Durov, who founded secret, successful messaging app Telegram in 2013, has been arrested in France, sparking outrage from free speech campaigners.
- Updated
- Abigail Buchanan
Mark Zuckerberg’s wife statue joins bad art of the rich and famous
The sculpture is utterly arbitrary and that’s what makes it bad. It’s also what makes the vast majority of AI-generated art so bad.
- Sebastian Smee
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
The AI delusion says ‘we’re all going to get rich quick’
That sum is the staggering gap between what tech companies are making from selling artificial intelligence and the likely costs of running it.
- Nick Bonyhady
July
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
Left scores shock French win; Rex Minerals soars; Airport train deal
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Mark Zuckerberg shows he is, like a teen, desperate to be cool
The man who has everything is still stung by criticism and anxious for validation online, proving his critics right about Meta’s effects on mental health.
- Nick Bonyhady
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
How the tech elite went from disruptors to disrupted
Some of the world’s most powerful business executives allowed themselves to be seduced by Donald Trump.
- Kara Swisher