Innovation

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has become vocal about the “Dead Internet Theory,” suggesting much of the content posted online is AI-generated, not human-created.

Artificial intelligence products are launching at a rapid pace as the sector’s largest companies battle for supremacy and secure increasingly large valuations worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Australia ranks below Botswana for economic complexity, writes Greg Miller. Our only hope for remaining internationally competitive is to grow the things we invent to a size that matters on the world stage.

When Sundance vaulted indie filmmakers into the spotlight in the late 1980s, it reshaped cinema and the business around it.

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

Elon Musk hypes the AI-enabled system, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored some street signs and squashed a mannequin child.

The investment comes as OpenAI prepares for a share selloff that will value the AI darling at roughly $500 billion.

India, France, the UK and the UAE are already building sovereign AI. An Aussie LLM needs 30 billion parameters, and can protect against offshore policy shifts, price shocks, and opaque black-box systems.

Atlassian has made its second billion-dollar AI acquisition in less than a month, announcing a US$1 billion (AU$1.54bn) deal to acquire DX, a Salt Lake City-based startup that helps engineering teams measure the real-world impact of AI on productivity. The acquisition, expected to close in Q2 FY26, is being paid for with a mix of cash and restricted stock.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the company’s new Meta Ray-Ban Display are “ideal form factor for personal superintelligence.”