Yesterday
Managing the S in ESG is crucial to energy transition success
This isn’t about virtue-signalling or a box-ticking exercise. It is fundamental to ensuring long-term resilience and retaining a social licence.
Big super warned that AI is a carbon ‘time bomb’
Corporate Australia has taken to artificial intelligence with zeal but not enough attention is given to the emissions it creates, says the Australia Institute.
Australia must revisit the AUKUS deal
Readers’ letters on the need to review AUKUS, why Australia needs to mimic Scandinavian nations, and the perils of allowing market theory to shape social policy.
An accountant asked ChatGPT questions. The answers nearly killed him
For some, conversations with AI chatbots can deeply distort reality, sending them down conspiratorial rabbit holes and reinforcing wild belief systems.
How Trump’s tariffs may halve cost of Synertec’s low-carbon generator
The Melbourne-based engineering company wins the Sustainability Leaders award in the professional services, engineering, advisory and health category.
This Month
Union push for workers to have right to refuse to use AI
Unions want a right to refuse to use AI if it’s not in the public interest in measures that may clash with the Labor’s light-touch approach at its productivity roundtable.
Is Google facing its own Kodak moment with the rise of AI?
A new age of search is dawning on us, but the sharemarket can’t work out if the dominant player can maintain its status as the internet’s front door.
Amazon lifts Australian data centre spend to $20b as AI demand grows
Anthony Albanese has used a visit to the tech giant’s headquarters to talk up Australia’s investment links and talk down Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
Chalmers pushes back on union demands to regulate AI at work
The treasurer’s stance, which aligns more with business than the unions, precedes the productivity roundtable he will convene in August.
AI exec buys trader’s resort-style mansion in Palm Beach
In Sydney’s weekend hotspots of Palm Beach and Whale Beach, two contemporary mansions have traded ahead of the winter slowdown.
One unmentionable word sums up Apple’s battle with Google
At its developers conference the week, Apple refused to talk about its delayed updates to Siri. But it did reveal other changes that will help it catch its rivals.
How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
The daring operation this month against four air bases in Russia highlighted the devastating effects of a technological race being shaped by AI.
‘No Plan B’ on AUKUS; Monash CEO quits; Wall Street bubble fears
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
‘You would have to anoint me’: JPMorgan’s Dimon would love to be president
In a wide-ranging discussion, the Wall Street executive also said significant job losses from the AI revolution are unavoidable and necessary.
Business aims for the ‘achievable’ at productivity summit
Business groups accept wholesale tax reform is too much to expect from the August productivity conference.
AI disruption: Will the kids be alright?
This week on The Fin podcast, technology editor Paul Smith on the AI future and whether the doomers or the boomers will win.
Victoria claims a land advantage in the data centre race
Even as states try to balance the needs of computing with other purposes, they see a big prize in hosting artificial intelligence-supporting infrastructure.
StrongRoom deal sideswiped by ‘potential misappropriation’ query
The entrepreneur who struck an agreement to buy the software start-up’s assets is in dispute with his business partner, and denies any wrongdoing.
Unions will push AI regulation and pay at productivity summit
White-collar groups want protections for workers disrupted by artificial intelligence while blue-collar ones are seeking wage rises through productivity boosts.
Runaway energy build-out costs threaten data centre opportunity
Australia’s hopes of an outsized share of the data centre market will come to nothing unless it can rein in the cost of the clean energy expansion.