AI and interest rates could kill the sharemarket bubble. Blame Donald Trump, Elon Musk and South Korea
After Wall Street’s nasty fall on Friday night, it’s no bad thing the ASX is closed on Monday…
Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel
A few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion…
Exclusive | Nobel laureate James Heckman on the value of risk-taking, and China’s ‘common goal’
James Heckman is the Henry Schultz distinguished service professor of economics and public policy and director of the…
Firmus AI factory: Will AI data centres break Tasmania’s green power grid?
Jun 8, 2026 – 9.39am “Tell me Ollie, why Tasmania?” asks Jeremy Rockliff in a social media post…
Anthropic sounds the alarm as the AI bubble takes off
The latest news from the Western AI Front is that Anthropic Inc, the US-based creator of Claude, has…
Federal government accused of AI policy retreat as US tech giants plan Australian investments
A former Labor minister says the federal government “blinked” on AI regulation, shelving plans to make it safer…
OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks
OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious…
AI’s Black Friday – by Gary Marcus
The GenAI industry may be in worse shape than people realize. Posted Thursday night, before all the news…
Meta’s smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone disclosed that it already contained three AI models capable of detecting a face, generating a biometric fingerprint, and firing a notification that read ‘Person Recognized’
On 4 June 2026, a security researcher publishing under the name Buchodi released a technical analysis of Stella,…
ChatGPT Is No Longer OpenAI’s Endgame. This Is Why.
The next battle in AI will have less to do with model quality and more to do with…
‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism | AI (artificial intelligence)
When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI’s…
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI
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