News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?
When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a…
AI and the 6 things directors must do to stop dabbling and start winning
Feb 5, 2026 – 5.00am Ask artificial intelligence consultant Dawid Naude to describe most Australian companies’ use of…
Bunnings wins fight to use AI facial recognition tech to combat store crime, opening door for other retailers
Australian hardware giant Bunnings has won its fight to monitor its customers with artificial intelligence facial recognition technology…
Real estate startup Agentsy closes $700,000 pre-seed raise
Australian proptech startup Agentsy has closed a $700,000 pre-seed funding round led by Empress Capital. The raise was…
China tech stocks enters bear market as tax, AI fears take hold
UBTech humanoid robot is on display during the 27th China Beijing International High-tech Expo at China National Convention…
Strauss Zelnick: “Generative AI has zero part in what Rockstar Games is building” with GTA 6
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is making extensive use of AI and…
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound.
Today, we’re releasing Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models with state-of-the-art transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency.…
Banks including CBA and Westpac are racing to scale AI
A dramatic improvement in the power of artificial intelligence models over the summer has lifted confidence inside the…
‘Ironic’ and ‘lazy’ AI-generated images shared on Queensland government department social media accounts
A Queensland government department’s decision not to disclose its use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create social media…
Xero shares charge higher on big AI and US update
Image source: Getty Images Xero Ltd (ASX: XRO) shares are rising on Tuesday morning. At the time of…
GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A…
Bill Gates says most AI companies will fail, job markets will change
Feb 4, 2026 – 4.00pm Bill Gates is an optimist by nature. He was optimistic in 1975, when…