Super funds like to think of themselves as Australia’s moral arbiters, using their near $4 trillion clout to inflict their woke agenda and what they say is good governance on companies. If only they had a mirror.
Shopify employees are now required to integrate artificial intelligence into teamwork, according to a new memo from boss Tobi Lutke.
Women comprise just 30 per cent of the Australian technology workforce. Reskilling more women into technology occupations is good for women and good for business.
An energy software start-up backed by Airtree has raised $7.5m to launch new software that can double what homeowners feed back to the grid. But can it help solve the nation’s solar tax?
As both sides of politics vow to limit overseas arrivals, two of Australia’s biggest tech companies say we need more, not fewer immigrants to make the nation smarter and wealthier.
Medibank will be forced to hand investigative reports probing Australia’s worst cyber attack to its customers, who are suing the private health giant after their data was leaked on the dark web.
Airbus and Qantas have backed a new climate VC to prime early-stage sustainable aviation fuel start-ups for their own later direct investment.
The Federal Court has heard TechnologyOne founder Adrian di Marco denied knowing an employee was suffering from mental health issues prior to dismissing him.
Australia’s corporate watchdog told superannuation funds to bolster their online security, warning ‘weak’ protection exposed members’ retirement savings to fraud. But it received a shocking response from the sector’s lobby group.
Andrew Forrest says whoever wins the election must force Meta to run its Australian operations via a local entity to stop it bypassing local laws and facilitating organised crime.
A coordinated cyber attack has rocked Australia’s biggest superannuation funds, revealing major security lapses and igniting fresh criticism over industry governance and risk oversight.
Mike Cannon-Brookes says Australian tech companies need governments to ‘just get out of the way’, after the industry was left empty-handed in the federal budget.
Jeff Bezos has taken over the James Bond film franchise for $1.6bn. Some say it’s the beginning of the end. Bezos may have more in common with Bond’s creator than most realise.
Representatives from ByteDance, the social media platform’s Chinese parent company, said approval for the transaction has been withdrawn.
Microsoft is leading the AI race via a series of savvy investments and a dramatic change of leadership under chief executive Satya Nadella. Here’s what’s next.
Meta says it doesn’t have to ask permission or pay writers for sampling their works to train AI. They disagree.
Some AustralianSuper customers have lost $500,000 and others are seeing a zero balance on their super savings after hackers hit some of the nation’s biggest funds.
More than $470bn has been blasted off Apple’s market value – the largest one-day wipeout ever; Aussies risk potentially paying more for iPhones.
Temporary CEO Andrew Cartledge now earns a base salary that’s $200,000 more per year than Richard White did in the top role at WiseTech, as a search for a replacement drags on.
As humanity pushes the boundaries of science and artificial intelligence, God is waiting in the wings.
Nasdaq-listed Datadog has a struck a partnership with AWS, taking out halls in its local data, as it seeks to nab a slice of the nation’s $147bn IT market.
The boss of one of Australia’s largest digital payments providers, which just acquired SecurePay, has backed a crackdown on ‘manipulative’ card surcharges.
The speed of AI adoption will be set by organisations’ speed of change. Businesses with the most organisational flexibility and readiness to adapt will be positioned to realise the most value.
Scandal-plagued WiseTech has acquired its fourth business in Latin America in as many months as founder Richard White reasserts his control of the company.
As more developers miss out on prized transmission access, some are exploring the idea of supporting prospective data centres in a tactical reinvention of their business models.
The Tesla multi-billionaire claims the buyout of the social media platform values the new tech company at more than US$100bn.
Australia can catapult itself towards the front of the global AI race if industry and government collaborate on ‘four key opportunities’, says the country’s most value group of data centres.
I hadn’t had my hearing checked in 20 years, so was keen to give Apple’s new at-home test a go. The results were surprising. Here is what I found and what audiologists say.
The US and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries.
Simon Molnar has raised $5.9m to expand his retail start-up into the US after nabbing major retailers including R.M. Williams as a customer.
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