Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games with artificial intelligence
San Francisco | Elon Musk’s xAI is pushing to build so-called world models, joining rivals such as Meta…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Tops SWE-Bench Verified, Extends Coding Focus Beyond 30 Hours
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, its most advanced coding model to date, featuring major improvements in agentic…
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in AI. Its ability…
The Australian AI startup ahead of Perplexity in global spend report
Over the last couple of years, Canva has pushed hard into generative AI. Over the last 10 years,…
George Miller on AI filmmaking, Omni 1.0 film festival
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size George Miller has some advice for anyone concerned about the…
As AI bubble warnings mount, a 23-year-old’s $1.5 billion hedge fund shows how prophecy turns into profits
Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition…the rise of Leopold Aschenbrenner, a…
Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations
Deloitte’s member firm in Australia will pay the government a partial refund for a $290,000 report that contained…
I’ve seen the future of shopping – and I’m sold on AI agents
Shopping migrated from stores to computer screens and smartphones some time ago. But is conversation set to be…
Heidi Health’s $98m raise skyrockets its valuation to $704m
Melbourne scaleup Heidi Health has raised $98 million (US$65 million) in a Series B funding round, just seven…
‘AI scammers stole my business name to scam customers’
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I found the perfect seaside town for my summer trip
Alan Smith Alan Smith with his wife and their daughter’s boyfriend on the pier at Castro Urdiales The…
Somerset spending £1.56m on AI for ‘radical rethink’
Spending more than £1m on artificial intelligence (AI) could stop up to 256 families being made homeless each…