Yesterday
- Opinion
- AI
Wall Street needs to prepare for an AI winter
Technology companies are struggling to conjure the great leaps in capability that had been expected, and more meaningful revenue may not come until 2026.
- Dave Lee
This Month
Musk raises $9b for ‘anti-woke’ AI company
xAI’s funding round signals the battle with OpenAI and Anthropic is intensifying.
- Paul Smith
November
Force big tech to pay for AI training data: Senate committee
A Senate committee has recommended the government force tech companies to pay publishers, authors and artists for content used to train their bots.
- Tess Bennett
October
‘Barbarians at the gates’: How a Google break-up could upend tech
The US Department of Justice’s proposal to shake up the company is a seminal moment for the industry. If it prevails in court, AI start-ups could benefit.
- Richard Waters and Stephen Morris
Meta’s AI lets you talk to Judi Dench, but it won’t tell how to vote
Actors Kristen Bell, Judi Dench and John Cena are among the first batch of celebrities to license their voices to Meta’s new AI virtual assistant.
- Tess Bennett
Local investment minnow snags spot in $9.6b OpenAI capital raise
The firm behind ChatGPT closed the largest private investment deal this week, giving it a valuation of $229 billion – on par with Goldman Sachs and Uber.
- Tess Bennett
Masayoshi Son’s $US500m bet on OpenAI deja vu for Softbank
The investment marks one of the largest by SoftBank this year and signals a return to the big-cheque power moves by one of Japan’s most recognised businessmen.
- Jessica Sier
IMF warns Chalmers; Origin’s hydrogen blow; OpenAI’s $229b moment
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why OpenAI’s $228b deal has a bubble-like feel
The ChatGPT creator’s record-breaking fundraising deal reunites a cast of investors who helped to spark the tech bubble of 2019 to 2022. Have the lessons been learnt?
- James Thomson
OpenAI raises $9.6b in funding at $228b valuation
The size of the investment underscores the tech industry’s belief in the power of AI, and its appetite for the extremely costly research powering its advancement.
- Shirin Ghaffary and Rachel Metz
September
Meet the ‘actionable futurist’ who demystifies tech for the C-suite
Futurist Andrew Grill reckons execs will struggle to make good decisions about deploying tech in their businesses if they’re not actively using it themselves.
- Hans van Leeuwen
OpenAI in fundraising talks that would value it at $225b
The ChatGPT maker is in talks with investors including Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia to raise $US6.5 billion, as the artificial intelligence race continues.
- Updated
- Rachel Metz, Ed Ludlow, Gillian Tan and Mark Bergen
Could a kill switch help us control dangerous AI?
The government is calling for business responses to its plans to rein in the use of potentially dangerous forms of artificial intelligence.
- Tess Bennett
August
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Why Nvidia, Apple and OpenAI need to strike a big deal
Microsoft has long been a major investor in the ChatGPT maker, now the two biggest companies in the world look like jumping on board, and OpenAI needs them.
- Paul Smith
Apple, Nvidia in talks to invest in OpenAI valuing it at $147b
The technology giants would join a multibillion-dollar funding round alongside Microsoft and Thrive Capital that would value the start-up at $147 billion.
- Cade Metz, Michael J. de la Merced and Tripp Mickle
Ray Dalio to beta test an AI version of himself
Billionaire Ray Dalio created the world’s biggest hedge fund, now he’s recreating himself with AI to share his principles.
- Tess Bennett
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: Setting guardrails for generative AI
Comment provided by the winner of the Teaching & Learning Excellence category, UNSW.
- Jake Renzella and Sasha Vassar
- Analysis
- Tech Observed
In love with a bot? OpenAI data shows we are entering sci-fi territory
Humans falling in love with chatbots, and AI platforms hatching ‘catastrophic schemes’ are among concerns being monitored and managed by researchers at OpenAI.
- Paul Smith
July
- Opinion
- AI
Why Australia needs its own AI large language model
If we are to retain our economic and cultural sovereignty, Australia needs to develop AI that reflects Australian values.
- Anton van den Hengel
Look out Google, here comes SearchGPT
OpenAI has unveiled a prototype of SearchGPT, a new web search chatbot that could rival Google, and change how people navigate the online world.
- Gerrit De Vynck