myFirst expands kid-safe tech ecosystem with Circle app
Children’s technology brand myFirst has expanded its range of connected devices and updated its myFirst Circle family app,…
Office workers driven batty by relentless computer updates
You’re back from holidays, turning on a laptop for the first time in days, and, before you know…
2025, the year we took the red pill
A quarter of a century ago, the blockbuster action film The Matrix presented its messiah-like protagonist, Neo (played…
Included Health Launches Its Own AI Personal Health Assistant
Included Health is rolling out a new AI tool that could pit it against Big Tech’s latest health…
A New Mental Health Challenge: AI – Jonathan Gibson
When Don Grant, a California-based psychologist and fellow at the American Psychological Association, told a young patient to…
Australia’s under-16 social media ban begins: Can it set example?
Australia is set to become the first country in the world to implement a minimum age for social…
Australia’s AI plan criticised for business focus over safety & rights
Electronic Frontiers Australia has criticised the federal government’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence, stating that the forthcoming National…
AI bailouts are an inadequate response to economic crisis
This week, journalist Derek Thompson posted two contrasting graphs about the nature of the economy right now. On…
How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification”
The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and…
How should the government regulate AI?
The federal government continues to drift along on AI regulation, betwixt and between, with different stakeholders attempting to…
Artificial intelligence drive’s Meta’s fight against climate reality
Part 1 of this series explored Meta’s existing climate footprint and data centres plans. Read it here The…
AI’s $600 Billion Blind Spot
Welcome to Big Ideas, a Prospect survey of next-generation solutions for pressing policy problems. Our writers scour the policy landscape to…