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Google continues to be a top competitor in the search for AI talent as it seeks to shore up its offerings.

‘Dark horse’ Google is now giving Nvidia a run for its money in the AI race

The internet giant is on track to hit a $US4 trillion market capitalisation after a report said Meta will buy billions worth of Google AI chips, sending Nvidia shares tanking.

  • Mark Bergen and Newley Purnell

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Iren co-CEO Dan Roberts, who has founded and runs the company with his brother Will Roberts.

From the brink to billionaires: Sydney brothers land $14.8 billion Microsoft deal

Four years ago, the ASX rejected Iren when it tried to list. Now, it’s signed one of the largest contracts ever awarded to an Australian technology firm.​

  • David Swan
An AWS outage has crippled the global internet.

Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet

When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. It’s time we stopped accepting that as normal.

  • David Swan
An AWS outage has affected websites globally.

Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage

Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

  • David Swan and Daniel Lo Surdo
Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person thanks to the AI-powered growth of his company, Oracle.

The college dropout who just became the world’s richest person

Larry Ellison’s success was boosted by a close relationship with Donald Trump and has been accompanied by a well-documented history of lavish living.

  • Diana Li, Brody Ford and Anders Melin
This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… OD6 Metals Limited.

Runners of the Week: OD6 Metals, Mount Ridley Mines, ActivePort & ETM

Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… OD6 Metals, after it unveiled a low capex, lower-cost product from its mammoth Splinter Rock rare earth project in WA.

  • Andrew Todd
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OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, believes Australian economic activity could lift by $115 billion a year with more adoption of AI>

The $115 billion a year boost to Australia at the touch of a button

AI is championed by some as the biggest technological advance since electricity. New research shows it could boost Australia’s economy by $115 billion annually.

  • Shane Wright
Swimming Australia general manager Jess Corones.

Swimming Australia hopeful AI can deliver Olympic gold

Artificial intelligence is being rolled out at training pools nationally as part of Australia’s bid to top the swimming medal table at the next Olympics.

  • David Swan
Google’s Cloud has been blamed for UniSuper’s outage.

Data deleted: UniSuper outage raises lockout fears

Members of one of the nation’s largest superannuation funds have regained access to their funds, but there are new questions about the Australia’s reliance on three US tech giants.

  • David Swan
Samsung TVs can stream games direct from the Xbox cloud, but other cloud providers and TV-makers are spinning up offerings too.

Why are streamers getting excited about video games?

With Netflix, Sony and others soon to join Microsoft with coherent streaming offerings, here’s how playing from the cloud works today.

  • Tim Biggs

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