This Month
The world’s AI giants are racing to lock in Australia’s big banks
From OpenAI to Anthropic, the country’s top financial institutions are trying to work out how to engage with them, and where to spend their sizeable budgets.
OpenAI becomes major tenant in $7b data centre deal
The ChatGPT maker has made its first big commitment to AI infrastructure in Australia with an agreement to occupy the biggest in the southern hemisphere.
November
One of the AI giants will lose (huge). But investors don’t need to
As long as you’re not betting on one particular company or one particular debt offering, relax and enjoy the ride.
What happens when OpenAI tweaks ChatGPT’s personality
In making its chatbot appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
October
AI investment bankers show the threat to your business model
Having trained a chatbot to do the work of junior bankers, could OpenAI, with some assistance and deep pockets, potentially start its own investment bank?
OpenAI courts Australia in its $771b global infrastructure push
The deal whisperer for Sam Altman’s OpenAI has arrived down under as the tech giant looks to strike deals, but there may be some hoops to jump through along the way.
Is Sam Altman at the centre of an AI building bubble?
The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world.
ChatGPT maker’s $2.3trn spending spree is genius – or a house of cards
Sam Altman has convinced Broadcom, AMD and Nvidia to agree to give him the world’s most valuable computer chips without knowing where the money will come from.
OpenAI, Broadcom sign 10-gigawatt pact for chips, networking
OpenAI will design the hardware and work with Broadcom to develop it, with racks of servers containing the gear to be deployed in the second half of 2026.
Two Melbourne AI companies become one in $15 million buyout
Artificial intelligence software company Affinda Group is buying out AI training firm Pathfindr in its first acquisition.
OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar deal with chipmaker AMD
Deal marks the second big chipmaking partnership for OpenAI after a previous $US100 billion deal with Nvidia, as the AI startup builds out more computing capacity.
OpenAI’s new video app is jaw-dropping (and alarming)
Sure, using Sora to create a “Matrix”-style duel against Ronald McDonald is fun. But the ability to quickly generate video likenesses of people could turbocharge misinformation.
September
Will AI usher in a new era for humanity or extinction?
Tech leaders agree AI super-intelligence will transform our lives. But their visions range from enhanced human consciousness to AI-built bioweapons wiping us out.
AI’s prophet of doom wants to shut it all down
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning artificial intelligence insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
ChatGPT is like a puppy dog. It’s reared to please you – but beware
The human-like qualities of artificial intelligence tools are what make the technology transformative, but their flattery will get you nowhere say experts.
Can a toothbrush really be powered by AI? How about a washing machine?
The corporate world is going mad for AI agents, but there are growing concerns about AI washing, where vendor promises of bot capabilities don’t match reality.
August
OpenAI agrees to change ChatGPT after teenager’s suicide
The artificial intelligence company said that it will update its popular chatbot to better respond to people with mental distress following a lawsuit.
AI doubters are having a moment. Even Sam Altman agrees
Critics are questioning if the artificial intelligence bubble is about to pop and why on earth we are allowing it to do what it’s doing to us.
The question suddenly sweeping through Silicon Valley
OpenAI’s underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing – and competition is changing. Everyone is asking: what if this is as good as it gets?
OpenAI inks deal with Commonwealth Bank
OpenAI and CBA will work together on artificial intelligence-backed services around fraud detection, customers and employees.