Australia’s decade-long productivity slump could get a shot in the arm with new modelling on AI uptake forecasting a boost to the economy.
Blair Jackson
A Meta AI model reportedly accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company.
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A team of international scientists have used cutting-edge technology, including a radio telescope in rural Australia, to open a new "cosmic window".
Stephanie Gardiner
Amazon Australia is upgrading its Alexa chatbot with the same technology that underpins ChatGPT, and says it has been trained to understand Australian culture.
Derek Rose
A Melbourne grandmother has been left permanently disfigured after a major hospital mixed her up with another patient.
Emma Kirk
The Federal Energy Minister says he’ll take responsibility if the Government doesn’t reach its 82 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 and refused to answer if the deadline could shift as far back to 2050.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The consumer watchdog is probing a key concern about mobile coverage across the country.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
A telehealth platform has warned customers their personal information may have been stolen after hackers accessed vital systems.
Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Anthropic have again breached testing boundaries, the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute says.
Kenrick Cai
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has unveiled a plan to “immediately begin lowering” businesses’ power costs by up to $175,000 a year.
One Aussie state’s lengthy dry spell is finally set to break, with back-to-back cold fronts, heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast over the week.
Josephine Quattrocchi
Two teenagers have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly videoing themselves forcing vape fumes into a swan’s mouth.
The Bureau of Meteorology has made a major announcement less than a year after the disastrous launch of its $96m new website.
Nathan Schmidt
Australians’ ability to have well-informed debates is vital to our democracy and relies heavily on this country’s journalists and media organisations providing the news and views that allow our system to work.
Labor says changes to Australian media laws will force big tech to pay up – industry leaders warn it would “gut” the scheme instead.
Twenty million Pentanet shares changed hands as investors chased a 74 per cent earnings jump amid growing demand for the Perth telco’s Nvidia-powered gaming service.
Ryan Johnson
The world’s biggest tech companies including Google and Meta will “pay substantially more” if they do not cough up for Australian news.
A farmer is offering a $20,000 reward after his dog Daisy was shot in a suspected drive-by shooting at his Victorian nursery.
Australians are changing the way they work, with Gen Z leading a growing shift away from the traditional 9-to-5 work day.
Cameron Micallef
The families of four army aviators killed when their MRH90 Taipan helicopter crashed during a training exercise have lodged a Federal Court class action against the Commonwealth.
Blake Antrobus
Anthropic has launched a cybersecurity review after its AI models escaped their testing environment, days after OpenAi said one of its models had gone rogue.
Chan Ho-him
Anthropic has revealed details after its AI model accessed real-world systems during a safety test after a mistake allowed it to connect to the internet.
Kimberley Braddish
Australia’s bird flu outbreak has taken a troubling new turn, with a common bird now infected and warnings the virus is “here to stay”.
Andrew Hedgman
El Nino is turning up the heat on Australia, and the next three months are shaping as drier and warmer for much of the country.
