CBA rolls out AI agent for business customers
Commonwealth Bank is introducing an AI agent for tens of thousands of business customers that will handle queries and provide ChatGPT-style responses.
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Meet ‘Matilda’ – Australia’s chance to ride the DeepSeek wave
China has shown the world artificial intelligence can be done on the cheap, opening the door for Australia to catapult itself into a new digital Cold War.
More expensive for a reason: Telstra hits back in price wars
Rivals claim Telstra is ‘taxing’ Australians with expensive mobile phone plans. But Telstra has hit back, saying there is a reason why it charges so much to access its network.
When it comes to TVs, is bigger always better?
As technology evolves, the majority of things have gotten smaller or at least more compact. But TVs have grown in the opposite direction, now as big as the walls in your home.
AI to drive new generation of winners and losers
New York-based analyst Viktor Shvets says the next decade promises to be the most critical in terms of the transition from today’s capitalism to a yet-to-be-defined alternative system.
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DeepSeek won’t crush AirTrunk’s $100bn dream: Blackstone
Blackstone says its multibillion-dollar bet on data centres – including its $24bn investment in AirTrunk – still stacks up despite China’s low-cost model DeepSeek rattling global markets.
New cold war? America fights back over DeepSeek
China outmanoeuvred the US with the launch of DeepSeek. But the US’s biggest tech companies are fighting back to maintain dominance in the AI race.
Atlassian founders add $4bn to their personal fortunes
The personal fortunes of two of the nation’s richest businessmen rocketed by a massive $4bn on paper Friday when investors responded to their tech company beating revenue expectations.
How DeepSeek has exposed the short lifespan of monopolies
The top investors will tell you that monopolies are the best investments money can buy but as the emergence of China’s DeepSeek shows, assumptions about sectors can be short lived.
How big tech is recalibrating around the DeepSeek threat
Silicon Valley owes its longevity to its ability to pivot and China’s new AI start-up could set it moving in a new direction.
How Musk is making Tesla investors rich
Elon Musk says ‘there is a path for Tesla to becoming the most valuable company in the world’ as it ramps up production on self-driving cars and humanoid robots.
Meta launches ‘Manhattan project’ to counter DeepSeek threat
DeepSeek will not derail Microsoft and Meta spending a combined $US145bn on AI this year, with Mark Zuckerberg steaming ahead to build a data centre almost the size of Manhattan.
China’s DeepSeek kicks off AI arms race
The US and China are now in a global AI race. The revolution is coming a lot faster than many executives have anticipated.
Vodafone, Optus vow to end Telstra’s ‘tax’
Vodafone says Australians have been paying too much for mobile phone plans but its $1.6bn network sharing deal with Optus will change that and challenge Telstra.
Ban likely if new app is found to be unsafe
The Australian government would follow a TikTok-style ban on Chinese AI app DeepSeek should government security agencies find the app unsafe for use.
Consumers win as tech innovation moves to next stage
Taken at its word, DeepSeek is delivering the breakthrough AI technology at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption from US-based companies. What’s not to like about that?
DeepSeek threat: ‘Act now or be obliterated’
DeepSeek risks becoming a greater threat to national security than Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, a former innovation minister warns.
What DeepSeek says about Tiananmen Square, Xi and human rights
China’s answer to ChatGPT has plenty to say about Australia – labelling its human rights record a ‘mixed picture’ – but draws blanks when asked about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Xi Jinping, or China’s own record on human rights.
Deep end: Chinese AI chatbot disrupts global big tech
Labor has signalled potential national security issues with Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek amid fears the US’s AI dominance could be under threat.
DeepSeek’s unveiling reveals the depth of China’s AI tech sector
The arrival of a Chinese challenger to the dominance of AI pioneer ChatGPT and its chip suppliers is the wake-up call the US tech titans needed.
Magnis gigafactory goes bankrupt
The ASX-listed former market darling may lose the $99.5m invested in its gigafactory IM3NY.
Trump may be best bet to take on China’s DeepSeek
China has shown the world that it’s now game on in the artificial intelligence race, sending markets into a massive tailspin.
DeepSeek threatens an AI revolution outside of US
Experts say China’s answer to ChatGPT has taught the world the US isn’t the only country capable of developing AI at scale and may pave the way for an AI revolution.
Australian tech stocks plunge as DeepSeek rattles market
Local tech stocks with exposure to AI and data centres have fallen as much as 20 per cent as China’s answer to ChatGPT causes deep unease across the market.
What to know about China’s DeepSeek AI
The Chinese artificial-intelligence upstart has taken the business world by storm by training high-performing AI models cheaply, without the most advanced chips.
Why DeepSeek won’t sink US AI titans
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown.
Energy operator granted power to step in if grid hacked
Australia’s energy grid is increasingly driven by foreign-manufactured components and that has prompted new powers for the Australian Energy Market Operator.
Start-ups warned against ‘excessive’ capital raising
Start-ups need to be in less of a hurry to raise massive sums of money which leaves them answerable to multiple investors, says TechnologyOne founder Adrian Di Marco.
Stargate is good, but where are the engineers?
A proliferation of data centres is going to create an explosion of new jobs — we just need to find the workers, says a new data centre boss.
Is the AI ‘bubble’ about to burst or just getting started?
AI is a shiny new toy which has energised almost everyone but some are starting to tune out from what sounds like an over-hyped buzzword. Does this mean the bubble is about to burst?
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